Saturday, August 30, 2014

A New Adventure!

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 Copper Canyon Tour 2014  The Route The Bike The Dates: Leaving 3 Sept for San Francisco to pick up the bike.Returning sometime in...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

How does a digital camera work - Part 4

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Note: Please forgive the long hiatus between blog posts. Much has transpired, including a bout of Lyme Disease that took me off the grid for...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Car vs Bike Oil

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Here is a reprint from the May 2014 Sport Rider magazine (p70). An excellent discussion of why motorcycle oil is better than automotive oil...
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Sorry about that!

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Don't know where the weird post came from but it wasn't me! I've changed my password and hopefully it won't happen again. ...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

How does a digital camera work - Part 3

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In Part 1 we saw how millions of tiny bits of silver can make up an image. In Part 2 we explored color filters and their role in seeing so...
Monday, December 2, 2013

How does a digital camera work - Part 2

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In the last post I talked about how a film image is composed of millions of bits of silver blocking the light so that what could be seen co...
Friday, November 29, 2013

How does a digital camera work - Part 1

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My dad asked me how a digital camera works the other day. He's a pretty smart guy and was once one of the leading industrial engineers i...
Monday, October 7, 2013

2013.1005.BerkshireRide

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11 photos in this album View or comment on J. Braun's album » Google+ makes sharing on the web more like sharing in real life. Learn mo...
Thursday, August 8, 2013

Mississippi River Trail

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The route north was pretty relaxed since I had neither plans nor timetable. I was traveling north on Rt 1 in Illinois when I passed a sign t...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Swimming in Tennessee

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This is the camera shot from my handlebars on my first attempt at crossing creek #4. Obviously it did not go well. The bike with luggag...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

TAT By The Numbers

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While I'm trying to sort through the photos to pick out the best I thought I'd review some of the numbers from the trip ...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

The last two days

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Another picture of a train and the Transalp I admit that I've been tardy in updating my trip info. The last two days after my previo...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Unsafe at any speed

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Today started off great. Sunshine and mild temperatures as I cruised to the east on US 20. At Cleveland I switched over to Interstate 80. ...
Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Planes Instead Of Pains

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Took a day off today to get some feeling back in my backside and some circulation in my legs. The USAF National Museum has virtually ever...

Heading East

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Yesterday was just a delightful day of riding on the road. There were wide easy curves through the rolling hills of southern Illinois and In...
Monday, July 8, 2013

MRT for TAT

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The disappointment of leaving the TAT has been balanced against finding the MRT( Mississippi River Trail). This is a bicycle path from the v...
Saturday, July 6, 2013

Plan X

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I went to Memphis and got new sneakers for the bike. Unfortunately, they are more suited to street and trail. I tried about 15 miles of the ...
Friday, July 5, 2013

Losing My Grip

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These tires are just about gone. However with amazingly bad planning, getting new tires on the 4th of July weekend is impossible. Getting ...
Thursday, July 4, 2013

Mississippi Blues

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Only 180 miles yesterday. Mississippi has proven to be a most irritating state. Many of the back roads are graded clay with a layer of crush...
Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Overnight

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I was misinformed about the reservations I had made on the Internet. I ended up sleeping next to some farmers cornfield. Who needs fireworks...