Blip Roasters Hosting NorCal BDR Movie Premier
TL;DR – Myself, Matt, and Brett have been working for the past several weeks with Blip Roasters out of Kansas City, MO to host this movie premier… Facebook Event: https://fb.me/e/1JEHHea05 It…
If Halo Had A Motorcycle
Surely they’d choose the KTM Adventure bike platform. Big enough for a Spartan. Tons of power and range: a 150 horsepower dirt bike with a 6-gallon gas tank. Surely Master…
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A DRZ 400 and a KTM 1190 Adventure R…
In the summer of 2017 a friend and I embarked on a motorcycle adventure from Santa Barbara, CA to Topeka, KS. We allowed ourselves 12 days, and had only one…
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Motorcycling the Great Continental Divide Trail
Oh yes, it’s a thing. It’s a wonderful thing. It’s a difficult thing. It’s something I’ll never forget. I completed the ride back in July of 2016. I planned to…
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Ham Radio On The Great Continental Divide
Soon I will make way for the town of Roosville, BC at the border of Montana and Canada. Myself and Godzilla will make our way along the Great Continental Divide…
Keep readingI shall name it “Godzilla”
If you follow my Instagram account, you’ll notice a lot of the color orange lately. That’s because I’ve added a new KTM motorcycle to the garage. And not just any KTM.…
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BAYCON 2016 in the bag
The future of ham radio is bright, but we have our work cut out for us. There’s a growing conversation happening on the Internet around many aspects of the amateur…
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Ride to Jenkinson Lake, CA
I did end up making it to the Sacramento WordPress Meetup event, but my ride stretched further than I originally planned. At the last minute I decided to go all the…
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Test ride to Sacramento WordPress MeetUp
There’s a Sacramento WordPress MeetUp on August 4th, 2015. It’s the perfect opportunity to ride up and see how the DRZ performs (and how I manage). 250 miles round trip should…
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Gearing up to go the extra mile
My ride along the Great Continental Divide has been plotted and stored in my newly acquired & installed (used) GPS. Now then, let’s talk about distances. The GPS route was plotted by a…
Keep readingAlong comes a speed patrol station
The idea of running against a speed patrol station has intrigued me for years. One magically appeared in my neighborhood this past week. I’m willing to bet this isn’t entirely…
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Navigation acquired
A while back my sister and bro-in-law left me with a Garmin Nuvi. It’s an older device, but successfully loaded Kevin’s plotted maps of the Great Continental Divide Trail, which fortunately…
Keep readingSteady improvement
Practicing controlled throttle-clutch-braking slides to the left and right are a must. What a handful. These motocross kids make it look so easy! https://instagram.com/p/1b-etiHxZ3/
Keep readingMotonomad – the movie
A YouTube’r I subscribe to has recently released a movie that he and a friend filmed when riding through 7 countries in 2013. The worldwide dual-sport and enduro riding community is…
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Fresh rubber
Let’s talk tires for a moment. The used 2008 DRZ-400-S I bought several months ago came fitted with brand new front and back Pirelli MT21 Rallycross tires. They’re a terrific tire for…
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Lane splitting in California
Yesterday I became a little more Californian. I’ve had a motorcycle license for over 20 years. I come from where lane splitting is illegal. There is no law for or…
Keep readingToday’s wheelie brought to you by, derp
https://instagram.com/p/0TvhIKnxXi/ I crashed yesterday, but have nothing to show for it. Though it was a hard fall at slow speed on a very steep (almost vertical) hillside in rocky terrain,…
Keep readingSense motion by using doppler effect
Daniel Rapp has written a blog post about using the doppler effect to sense motion. In his experiments he’s used hand gestures in free space to generate the scroll, tap, and double-tap…
Keep readingThe better Internet moments
“You take a bunch of really skilled, passionate, talented people who don’t have their heads shoved so far up their own asses that they can take the time to learn…
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One less pucker factor moment
Countless videos on YouTube document a piece of factory technology on most makes and models of motorcycles that is the source of some real sphincter-clinching moments for motorcyclists when riding off-road or when…
Keep readingColors of debate
Someone will come along and crack this nut. Here’s my color analysis using Adobe CS6 and its “invert” function. Adobe CS6 interprets the inverse colors of black and blue as white and gold. Here’s an…
Keep readingIn sickness and in health
So I’m a bit sick. So sick I could probably sing back up for the Oakridge Boys bass singer, Richard Sterban. These opportunities come along so rarely. I’m sick around once every 2-3…
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Tire Pull pre-spring routine
I’ve been doing this workout for several weeks. Really liking it. Pull the tire 10 times, jog for about 1/8th mile, and repeat. I do this for between 60-90 minutes. A…
Keep readingFirst Video from Metcalf Motorcycle Park
Aww yeah! I love this place. Perfect training ground for the GDT. (View in HD!) http://youtu.be/1YqqgcLssGk http://youtu.be/KVyLGngwZqY Using a GoPro Hero4 Silver mounted like so…
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15 miles at Metcalf Motorcycle Park
What does a trip to the Metcalf Motorcycle Park look like for me right now? 10a — leave house, pick up lunch to go 10:3a — arrive at park and…
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The DRZ oil system is… busy
Which brings me to my first issue with my DRZ. A little while back I noticed a few ounces of oil coming out of the air box–puking out onto the swing…
Keep readingOpen RF
As I continue to experiment with cheap software defined radios paired with open source software I find myself in awe of the amount of information passing silently all around us. More…
Keep readingBay-Net 4 Repeater for 12 hours
This is an image of a 1 MHz bandwidth slice within the 2-Meter Band of the Radio Frequency spectrum in San Jose, CA. The image is built from logged data…
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The rtl_power Results Are In
Here’s an image based on the results. This area of the RF spectrum in my location is busy with San Jose dispatch, fire, and police. I’ve trimmed this image because…
Keep readingInstalling GNU Radio & rtl_power on Ubuntu 14 LTS
In continuation to my USB SDR post, installing GNU Radio was my first priority. GNU Radio (which I’m still very far from knowledgeable about) appears to allow my computer to…
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My first USB SDR
It’s odd that I’m more excited about a sub-$20 USB Software Defined Radio (SDR) dongle than some of my more advanced (and pricey) radios. Ham radio and ‘home brew’ are…
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Always Overdone 