The past week has been such a blur, I can't even recall if I blogged about this. Don't think so, and due to the pinheads who control our access to the interwebs, I can't check right now. But I'm pretty sure my last post was about riding in Texas. Which was awesome, especially when I scoffed at the Tesla guy at the Maker faire. He told me the top ( Read more... )

So one of my big dreams about coming to school in Barcelona involved riding from Barcelona to Italy, since it's such a short ride (by US standards). Nice is only 6 hours from Barcelona, so I figured it'd as good a place as any on the Cote D'Azur to rest my head. The problem is, I INSISTED on going by motorcycle, in spite of the fact that the ( Read more... )

Wow! So I'm catching up on my horoscopes, and this is amazing. I actually followed Brezny's advice without even realizing it. The dogma was that I am too cool to ride a scooter. I finally relented and rented one (with a nudge from Britt, if she hadn't suggested it, I might not have done it). And what's changed about my worldview is that I can ( Read more... )

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Now that I'm on Zina's blog roll, and I'm done with all the difficult finals, I guess I shouldn't be such a slacker. As a member of the Pirate Monkey Cult, I feel lame because I spend about ten times as much time on my sofa as Zina does picking her bike out of some random rock pile in SoCal. I don't understand dirt riding. Sure, it's a challenge, ( Read more... )

So in the past month, I've ridden three other bikes. A 2000ish Suzuki Katana, a 2000+ish Ducati 750SS and a 2008 Suzuki GSXR600. My sister in law's Ducati, I swear, has imbued a little piece of Hunter S Thompson's eternal soul. It felt scary and dangerous the whole time. That bike was trouble looking to happen. Plus it's been 6 years since I owned ( Read more... )

I saw this as I left the office today, down in the Arts District. It's proud papa is Marcus from ZVO, they make these gorgeous HYBRID!!! bikes! It's gas/electric, not gas/pushbike, so cool!!! He said it's rumored to be capable of 60 mph, which on those tires (assuming the front tire is as skinny as that back one) must be crazy!!! I so want one. It' ( Read more... )