Saturday, June 13, 2009

Quick update

Lots going lately. First, LeAnne and I now own a brand new home. Good times! Nick arrives today and I llok forward to our action packed summer together. I still have some things to get done on the FJR before any major road trips, but that's in the works. I'm typing this on my phone so that's it for now.

Friday, May 8, 2009

FJR Maintenance time

Last night was the beginning of my major maintenance cycle for the FJR. The first few steps were just baby steps, with more to come next week. Last night Desert Cycle Works spooned on a new Dunlop Roadsmart rear tire, changed the final drive oil, and cleaned & oiled my K&N air filter. Next week we'll tackle (and hopefully document with photos) the following items:

Check / adjust valves
Replace valve cover gasket
Replace spark plugs
Replace cam chain
Replace cam chain tensioner & gasket
Replace cam chain cover gasket
Lube steering head bearings
Replace fork seals/bushings & fork oil
Rebuild Wilbers rear shock
Reinstall Wilbers rear shock
Replace engine oil & filter
Flush and replace coolant

And whatever else I've forgotten about...

Thursday, May 7, 2009

World Superbike tickets for sale (Tooele, UT)

I have two sets of FIM World Superbike tickets for sale. The races take place at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah just outside of Salt Lake City. May 29-31, 2009. Two great seats in the Erda grandstands at Club House Corner plus two paddock passes. Tickets and paddock passes are for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Contact me via my blog if you're interested.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Squirrel Head, The Expert of all things.

The audience for this post is pretty narrow, but I promised to share this list. If you don't know what it's about, just know that it was at someone else's expense. There was a single moment last week when I, for just a second, actually felt sorry for Squirrel Head. That feeling faded almost immediately. Turns out that Squirrel Head just wasted everyone's time and tried our patience for no reason whatsoever. Don't pretend to be an expert at everything if you're actually just a spineless puke at heart. We were never impressed. You never made us respect you or your technical prowess. We had nothing but disdain for you then, and especially now. Thanks for putting so much effort into ruining the learning experience for everyone.


And now, the list.

Embassy expert.
Cat expert.
Airline expert.
Door expert.
Lock expert.
Backup expert.
Union expert.
Financial expert.
Geology expert.
Expert at being racially insensitive.
Laundry expert.
Desktop audit expert.
Video teleconference expert.
Parallel testing expert.
Simulation testing expert.
Disaster recovery plan expert.
Backup expert (This one happened twice. Once was presumably for redundancy).
Seismology expert.
Gender expert.
Fire expert.
Fence expert.
Linear measurement expert.
Door expert. (Hmm, this one is a repeat)
US CERT Team expert (claims to have been on the short list for a job w/ CERT but "the background check took too long..." and he "got tired of waiting...". Sure. That's how it went down, I'm sure.)
Art expert.
DCOM expert.
SOAP expert.
File system expert.
Backdoor expert. (No comment...too easy).
Timing and storage expert.
Virus expert.
Zone Alarm expert.
Financial expert. (Another duplicate)
Zero-day exploit expert.
Database expert.
Humor expert.
Wal-Mart expert.
Atomicity expert.
Reading expert.
RAID expert.
Prison expert.
Muslim law expert.
Counting expert.
Data mining expert.
Data mart expert.
Data warhousing expert.
Controlled substance expert.
Wizard of Oz expert.
DaVinci Code expert.
Theological literature expert.
Grammar expert.
Las Vegas law expert.
Ring topology expert.
Air Force finance expert.
Cable expert.
DSL-VOIP expert.
802.11i expert.
Blackberry expert.
Europe expert.
DHCP expert.
Telephone (POTS) expert.
K9 expert.
Dog show expert.
ATM expert.
Tunnel expert.
Home networking expert.
Loopback expert.
Personal firewall expert.
Subnetting expert.
Vista networking expert.
HDTV expert.
Proofreading expert.
Holiday expert.
Flow expert. (I don't even know how this one made the list)
Host file location expert.
HTTPS expert.
Spam expert.
Opt-Out expert.
Spare tire expert.
RAID expert (yet another duplicate entry).
"Whatever" expert. (I'm sure I was tired of keeping track by this time).
Reboot expert.
Counting expert (Hey, I really didn't add duplicates intentionally).
Comprehension expert.
Colombia expert.
State Department expert.
Customer service expert.
Incident response expert.
Cats in Afghanistan expert.

And my favorite direct quote of the week....

"I'm the dumbest one in the whole class."

This is the entire list transcribed just as it was written, excluding the comments in parentheses.

Good times.

Really.

Friday, February 27, 2009

Good Luck Ben Spies

This weekend marks the beginning of the 2009 World Superbike racing season. Sunday's Phillip Island (Australia) race will be the first WSBK event for AMA Superbike Champion Ben Spies. Ben will be riding the new Yamaha R1. Good luck, Ben. All of us on your side of the pond will be rooting for you. Enjoy the ride, be safe, and go fast!

Monday, November 3, 2008

2 WHeeL 12 - Special Thanks

It turns out that even a small rally requires quite a bit of work to put on, and I certainly didn't do it alone.  Special thanks to everyone who contributed to a successful event.


In no particular order:

Tasha, Assistant Rallymaster.  If not for Tasha, everything would have taken three times longer on the day of the event.

George, Rally volunteer and planning assistant.  George's expertise in planning an event like this was invaluable.  Many of the lessons he has learned as a rallymaster were used to make my rally better.  

Desert Cycle Works, official motorcycle shop of the 2 WHeeL 12.  DCW was working right up to the last minute to get tires and batteries for some of the participants and even offered a generous discount to rally riders.  Also, DCW graciously allowed us to use their parking lot for the start / finish and opened their building (after normal business hours) to allow the rally staff to complete the scoring in a nice quiet place (with electricity).  Thanks for all the support Dawn & Sandra, it helped tremendously.

Rocky's Pizza, official post rally food stop.  Thanks for letting us occupy the party room on a busy saturday night.   Thanks for the great pizza, too.

Jim, owner of The Hot Spot, in Big Bear.  Jim offered to provide his kick ass place as a bonus stop by handing out magnets and menus to any of the riders that visited his location.  (Oh, and you could bag just over 3000 points for going there, too).  Great food, great atmosphere.  Thanks Jim.



2 WHeeL 12 Update - Final Scores

The results of the 2008 2 WHeeL 12 Rally are as follows:

(Minimum points to be considered a finisher was 32,088)

1st Place:   DB2 & Dee 52,676 points
2nd Place: DB3  44,539 points
3rd Place:  Rob 34,651 points
4th Place:  Joe 33,519 points
DNF (points) PJ 31,983 points
DNF (points) Moe 12,828 points
DNF (time) Paul
DNF (time) John

Thanks to everyone who participated.  Everyone seemed to have a great time (even the DNFs were smiling).




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