Sand wears you out

Well, wears me out. Beach volleyball last night. Flag football tonight. My legs, and especially my quads, are fried. Suppose to play some tackle football on the beach tomorrow too.

Oh yeah, going up stairs with steel toe boots really lets you know how tired your legs are.

These brakes are easy!

So I had to change out the brake pads on the motorcycle, and it was actually easy to do! That's a nice change.

Two screws to take the caliper off, two screws to take out the brake pads and voila!

Another interesting thing (well, to nerdy engineers). The modern sportbike is about the closest thing you can buy off the showroom floor to being fully race prepped. Looking at the 4-piston brake calipers, the pistons are actually different sizes to provide different clamp loads. The leading one is smaller in diameter so that it doesn't bite as hard. If it did, I think it would cause the leading edge of the pad to dig in leading to uneven pad wear.

Side Specific Socks

Makes sense as your left and right feet are shaped differently.

Rockin Rocks

Went for a hike down in Palos Verdes. There's a path down the side of a cliff to get down to the water. So I was chillin and watching the waves coming in and I heard this sound. I was like.... uh, what's that? Well, basically, as the waves come in, they move all the rocks around, and then when the waves retreat, well, the rocks move around again banging each other along the way. So it makes an interesting, somewhat thunderous noise.

The Electrics are coming!

Last week, I saw an electric Mini at the grocery store and drove next to a Tesla! Granted, I live in LA, so I see electric RAV4s once in a while, and also Honda fuel cell vehicles. I'd rock the Tesla for sure.

Fancy callbox

So up on ACH, I decided to open up the callbox; never looked at one before. Well, this sucker was pretty darn nice. English/Spanish, nice LCD display, and a freakin keyboard?

Angeles Crest Highway just got better

The sign use to say 36 miles, but now it's 55 :) A few years back, there was a land slide that closed down the highway. They finally got around to clearing it and opening it back up. It's really really nice up there! The weather is cooler up there too because the elevation is around 7000ft. Smooth roads are great too.

Friday afternoon

Some volleyball on the beach after work. Not too bad of a way to finish off the week.

Perfect pedals

The S2000 has them. The position of the brake relative to the gas makes it super easy to perform heel-and-toe downshift. Ball of foot on brake, heel on the gas to blip the throttle to make the nice and smooth, rev-matched downshifts. Most cars today have the brake pedal really far from the gas to prevent 'accidental accelerations'. Proper driving cars still have the pedals in the right places.

Bug splatter of another color

So I went for a ride up Angeles Crest Highway last weekend and encountered a few bugs. These suckers splatter a nasty yellow. Back in Florida, the 'love bugs' splatter more like plaster. So, not quite as bright.