This week I passed an important milestone for myself and my bike. I have completed 20,000 miles in the saddle of of my BMW R1100RTP, my first bike. I purchased the bike back in October of 2009 and have ridden it a heck of a lot since then. I’ve enjoyed almost every minute of time [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Vehicles category.
Ride Friday: Why motorcyclists don’t honk
If you drive a normal 4 wheeled vehicle (what we motorcyclists like to refer to as a “cager“) then you might not have noticed, but the motorcyclists on the road rarely honk at you – especially when you’re trying to kill us. I only mention this after a conversation I had with a coworker. I [...]
Ride Friday: Adding a Givi E55 top case
The 4th of July is coming up soon, and that means summer is here! I decided that the holiday would be a perfect time for me to take a few extra days off and take a little motorcycle road trip. The thought was to take the motorcycle down someplace nice and scenic like the coast [...]
Beware of Buses Bearing Gifts
The phrase used to be “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts“, but I think the same can be applied to buses… more specifically MUNI buses. Maybe a better (more modern) version should be “Beware of buses bearing gifts” or simply “Screw MUNI”. If you wonder why I say this, obviously you’ve never visited San Francisco and [...]
Arduino Makes Halloween Better!
Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year. It’s a fun holiday where people get to mess around, have a good time… and family isn’t involved. For me, since about middle school, it’s been all about the decorating. I’ve done a lot of different decoration effects over the years, once I went as far as [...]
Limited Edition: Call of Duty: Black Ops Jeep
Saw something very intriguing today. It seems Chrysler is going to be producing a Jeep Wrangler Call of Duty: Black Ops Edition for 2011.
Ride Friday: Unconscious lane splitting is bad
If you look back on the number of Ride Friday posts we’ve had, you’d think there isn’t much motorcycle riding going on. Fortunately, that isn’t true, just not a lot going on that is noteworthy. I ride my motorcycle almost every day now, though, to be fair it isn’t very far. I take it from [...]
Long Way Round and Long Way Down
Recently, I watched Long Way Down, which is the sequel to Long Way Round. Both of these star Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman. You probably recognize the first name, but possibly not the second (unless you are a huge fan of Deliverance). I’m not sure if a documentary about guys riding around the world is [...]
Ride Friday: On Pedestrians and Traffic
Recently, I found myself on my motorcycle enjoying a pleasant ride through Kings Beach, CA. Kings Beach, in case you are unaware, is a high traffic (for Tahoe) touristy area. It features 4 lanes of traffic, and a plethora of crosswalks, so that pedestrians do not have to walk very far to safely cross the [...]
So I bought a pickup
It’s a truck For the last 2 years, I’ve had a Prius. It was a good car, with some nice electronic toys to be sure. It most definitely gets fantastic gas mileage. That being said, it is a bit… meh. Now I didn’t get rid of it because it was “meh” (IE unexciting), I got [...]
