Turns out I've not written a thing this year, though I haven't been entirely slack. I figured an update would make sense just for my own sanity as much as anything else.
These are the goals I set for myself:
And here's how they're going:
I finished it! You can download it here. I made a pretty solid push to get this done, and I finally got there. Finishing a hobby project is a rare thing for me so this was an nice achivement.
Uhhh, yeah. I got it building again. No other progress.
The engine is out! The studs are still in it. An engine mount is also still in it. Yes, I did hope to make more progress on this, but in the mean time I acquired another motorcycle that's also needed some work, and have managed to sort a few things on that, so kind of a win? More to come there I think.
See #3.
A 1954 Ariel Red Hunter NH 350... this is what distracted me from doing more work on the Honda. Once that bike was stripped down and scattered around a few shelves I had space for the Ariel, and then that subsequently took up time instead.
Moving OS. I've been running a multiboot setup for years, with Windows 10 (then 11), Pop OS! and Haiku. I wanted to try out Arch, and I wanred to try out Hyprland, and that combination is now what I use most of the time on my personal machine. It's taken a fair bit of tinkering and needs a fair bit more, but it's enjoyable, and feels not too dissimilar to when I used to run Slackware 20+ years ago, at least in spirit.
I'll on doubt put a project page up in due course for the Ariel, because something tells me there will always be something in progress with that bike, but that's part of the fun.