MOJO GARAGE
It must be winter, as I’ve been killing non-riding time by perusing the online classified ads (I can hear editor Roberts saying, “Not again!”). It’s a bad habit of mine, I admit, because in the last four years, I have acquired four motorcycles, all of them unplanned purchases made on an impulse after seeing them in ads. Of course, they each mean something important to me, like the 1982 Honda FT500 Ascot, which was my first streetbike (I bought two of them as a package deal, and have since sold one), and the Sportster tracker, a bike I built two decades ago using a frame from a Harley XR750, when I ran a bike shop.
My latest impulse acquisition is a Kawasaki KLR650, the second one now in…
