Street Racing
This drives the point home quite well.
Time to say goodbye to the Strom
I can no longer make it through the garage without getting a bar end in the rib cage. The Strom must go.
Commercials at the movies
I hereby vow to never buy anything from companies that waste my time at the beginning of a movie.
All Thumbs
Instead of the "Japanese standard" single multi-function turn signal switch the BMW uses three separate switches. There is a button near each handgrip plus the "cancel" switch located just above the right turn signal button. Why the Germans thought this was a good idea I'm not sure. I can say that it is taking some time to retrain my brain to perform the new →
Patriot Guard Riders Run
The rain has ended!
Perhaps it wasn’t an air leak after all
This is what i found after disassembling the fuel pump filter.
In search of a vacuum leak
My ongoing saga of hesitation continues. The latest chapter includes visually inspecting everything.
You might be a Jackass
My apologies to Jeff Foxworthy for the following. If you are driving in the passing lane and the only other vehicle around you is visible in your rearview mirror, you might be a Jackass. If you are one of those people that drives down the closed lane, passing all the people in the open lane, you might be a Jackass. If you have →
Finally! A warm day.
"The Loop" is one of those quick "around the block" type of rides I use often to test gear or to clear the head. Having a 50/50 paved/dirt road mix it also offers a nice 1 mile section of trail that seems to always have some mud filled ruts. Today I was testing the new GoPro Wide video camera. It worked →
Droid app test
Testing out the Wordpress app for the Droid. I'll grab a pic from the sd card -
Throttle Body Sync on the Strom
The following videos show two different sync tools borrowed from Craig. I had originally synced the throttle bodies on the VStrom with a home-made "U-Tube" filled with transmission fluid. I wanted to try actual carb balancers to see if the homemade tool was indeed accurate. Syncronizer with steel sliders in a tube Old school mercury filled tubes The old mercury filled →
Winter Grouchiness
A few of the women in the office have started calling me Oscar. I'm not sure when this started exactly. It could be my "What's so good about it?" responses to the morning greeting ritual we are forced to roll play each and every day. Perhaps it was the exception I took to being told "it's 39 degrees but the feels →
Droid assimilation complete, the Touch stayed home.
Two apps have completed my transition from carrying two devices (the iPod Touch and a cell phone) to having everything I need in the single Motorola Droid. First, I needed to find something that would allow me to continue to use iTunes to manage the music library and playlists. Salling's Media Sync does this perfectly. Installed on the PC that is →
Happiness is …
... a full garage.
WWWWHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Tomorrow 72 51 Sunny Wind: WSW at 10 mph Precip.: 0% Humidity: 39% Sat 25 84 62 Sunny Wind: SSW at 11 mph Precip.: 10% Humidity: 49% Sun 26 87 60 Mostly Sunny Wind: W at 8 mph Precip.: 0% Humidity: 45% Mon 27 87 63 Mostly Sunny Wind: SSW at 8 mph Precip.: 10% Humidity: 49%
Can this weather be too far away?
Campsite #5 at Toroweep - Grand Canyon. Temps were in the low 80s, the sky was crystal clear. Perfect napping conditions under that tree. Early June 2008.