The Ride Report

I took Topanga Canyon over to PCH during my ride up to Camarillo yesterday, and along the way I came across a “biker” broken down on the side of the road. “Biker” because he was on a scooter, but two wheels are two wheels so technically he’s a biker. But whatever, the point [...]

I went for a putt along the coast yesterday. I was heading up to Camarillo to go to a party and decided to take the scenic route through Malibu instead of the freeway.

As I rode along, enjoying the sun and the sea air and the ocean view and the bikini-clad hotties dodging traffic on [...]

I learned a valuable lesson today: When riding in parking lots, take care when cutting across the empty spaces.
I was riding through a nearly empty parking lot this morning, riding diagonally across several rows of empty spaces, and I started leaning/turning to the left to set up my entry into my intended parking space. [...]

Me and some of the guys went for a little putt up to the Poppy Preserve up in Antelope Valley yesterday to see the flowers since they’re in full bloom now. My wife thought this was hilarious and got a lot of mileage out of it at my expense (”Look at the big tough [...]

Spring has sprung here in SoCal, with all its attendant bug guts.

My odometer clicked over to all 4s while I was out riding last weekend. Because I’m a big geek, I pulled over to take a picture.

This is what’s called a “filler entry.”

The phone rang at 10:30 Sunday morning. It was one of the guys from my club with a revolutionary and ground-breaking question: Did I want to go riding? Lately we’ve been joking that our MC stands for Meeting Club because we haven’t been doing much riding, so hell yes I wanted to [...]

I rode over the hill into Hollywood for lunch yesterday, to a little hole in the wall hamburger joint on Santa Monica called Irv’s. Irv’s has been around just about forever (check out this LA Weekly feature on it for details) and the food is pretty good too. But the reason I’m posting [...]

This is the goofiest thing I have ever seen. A cage on a motorcycle to protect the passenger — with seatbelts, fer fux sake. WTF? Just take the damned car if you’re such a puss — and sell your bike, because you don’t deserve it.

As promised in an earlier entry, I finally got around to taking pictures of my camera mount. Inspired by this how-to on making a smaller camera mount here, I made a heavier duty one for my Sony TRV22 video camera.
I used a T section of PVC pipe cut in half and mounted [...]