…One Less Scene

EPROM software update chip for BMW 325is
A guy named Tim put a new wheel bearing in my car the other day. Tim is a sprightly dude in his 40s who works at a shop called FAME in Redmond, and I’d met him before through some Craigslist parts dealings. He agreed to do the repair while [...]

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Wow, I never knew how much I didn’t know about carburetors before I had taken my Mikuni apart a dozen times. Taking the Dr. Dirt out on its eleventeenth “test” ride today, I think I’ve finally reached that zenith of easy starting, smooth idle, and snappy throttle response. It only took a month of troubleshooting. [...]

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Not Quite Valentines Scavenger Hunt and Roller Race, Funhouse, 2/13/10
There aren’t a lot of opportunities to play Slayer and De La Soul in the same DJ set. An indoor bicycle race is one of those opportunities.
I thought I would be able to play some super amped-up Bad Brains jams while the sprints were actually happening; [...]

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Braided stainless steel brake lines are the thong underwear of a lovely machine like this. I also replaced the brake pads and front caliper for more enjoyable stopping. Here’s a good write up for brake bleeding.

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FS Rd. #5510

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Ron Brown about to set a land speed record on a 1950 BMW single
I rode down to Tacoma at 6:30 this morning to have breakfast with Ron Brown and some of his friends at a grungy little diner called Fergie’s on McKinley Avenue. Sitting in the presence of these five older guys, who were competitive [...]

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Bike Messengers are disappearing quicker than icecaps, and pretty soon all that will be left are those Jimmy Johns delivery dudes, and Mark Pilder’s fantastic cornucopia of photos spanning 10 years of athletic-alcoholics in Seattle. We should all go buy a new Dank Bag right now, not only because you can pick your own colors [...]

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Hoag, circa 1979
“It was only then, after exhausting all other means of demoralizing the public, that he turned seriously to writing. Several years earlier he had given up bikes “because of the stigma.” After a long stint as a motorcycle messenger he stumbled on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and thought it necessary to publish [...]

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Middlefork Road SE off of exit 34, I-90

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My dad just sent me some photos from the island of Mindanao, Philippines. That’s him driving the tractor that is literally held together with some fishing line. Mechanical Husbandry is thriving in this part of the world, and everyone loves a nice spit-roasted pig after a long day of turning wrenches at the Honda [...]

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