New York City November

its almost december, yet the weather is holding in epic-ness for a few more days. I haven't ridden the shovel for a bit so I decided to go for a short ride around Gowanus, Park Slope, Sunset Park, Red Hook and then Soho before heading home.

Keino had a few pans at the shop. One of which is Gentry's with the coffin/prism tank. I really like this bike. Its not a 'pretty pan'. It isn't like every socal pan with the wassel peanut, 18" rear, 21" up front and a chrome springer. Its not flashy. And its not really my style, but every time I see it, I want it.

As with most rides I gave myself one goal, get a firewire 800 to firewire 400 adapter. needless to say after looking in a few local 'small businesses', and having no luck, I have decided to order it for $4.00 from a small internet company called amazon.com.

YC...the new MC

Rode up to Stony Point for lunch on Sunday up to Seaweed Yacht Club. The first picture shows my dad and step mom's clubhouse. It's sorta like the one on that SOA show (that I watch every week). Well, at least its their version. I'm thinking about prospecting.

The Hudson River got hit pretty hard with sewage and general grossness this summer. I grew up along this river and can tell you that I've never had a problem swimming in it, especially up in the Stony Point and West Point / Bear Mountain areas. But there was a sewage spill, the hurricane, and then they opened up all of the locks around the river and it just destroyed the water. It still looks gorgeous though just a few miles outside NYC.

Riding home, we took route 9W all the way to the GWB. Nice riding weather, some twisties, but then the west side highway was crazy, so we decided to take a coffee break outside of the SoHo House on the way. Then headed back to Brooklyn, went to Brad and Viki's ate and watched the Jets game. Yeah, this city is pretty great.

Now, I'll go back to Saturday......this weekend was the annual Di Enda Run out to Montauk. It was a great time last year and I was looking forward to meeting up with the Jersey, Long Island, CT and Massholes for another ride and night of fun at the eastern tip of Long Island.

Instead, what I was met with was yet again, a 500 lb paperweight. Kicker was just spinning through the clutch. No engagement, full slippage. Finally got it started on an off kick and decided to gas up and start heading east. BUT, after getting gas, same issue. So I did what I had to. I stopped.

I stopped and sat down next to the bike and thought about what it could be, and wondering if this was a sign to stay in BK and finally figure this one out. And that's what I did. Went over to Nelson's shop and he told me the simple fix to it. Adjusting the clutch pushrod screw. DUH. then it was on to dialing in the tiny amounts of rotation so that the clutch pedal doesn't release too quickly. Either way, a few hours of huffing and puffing and trying to rush around turned into a Saturday morning and afternoon of satisfaction.

random living in NYC

posts have been too far few in between. It has been a busy busy week at work, but all of this non-posting has given me time to think about things that I want to post. For now though, here are some random pictures I've taken around the city in the last week.

head to head iPad gaming action. No this is not a tricky subway mirror. check the shoes. (also note the dude stuck in the corner behind them. he was probably tweeting the same picture)

picked up some new ground coffee from eataly. My goal is to try all of their drip varieties to figure out which will be my jam...shouldn't be hard at the rate I drink the liquid gold.

I'm hardly religious in the traditional sense, and definitely not a baptist, but I liked this saying. Maybe replace religion with the word LIFE. you gotta love living.

tank badge from walter's shop.

well, the Yankees bats may have been sleeping, but Coors Light definitely made some great new pint glasses at least.

plenty more to come. I should be heading to Montauk this weekend. Weather is looking great. Need to fix the exhaust on the shovel yet again before leaving tomorrow morning, but also need to head to the burbs tonight.

Hoboken Night

decided to take the ferry over the hudson for some Thai food and then a few drinks after. It's pretty hard to beat the views from that side of the river.

Enjoy your weekend. Stare into the sunset. the weather outside is weather...

heat wave(s)

the 5'10" fish has been getting plenty of love here on the east coast. This board loves the quick beach break waves like none other....it's definitely still weird grabbing the boards from inside the apartment, down the stairs and out onto the city streets, but I'm getting used to it. especially without hitting the walls in the stairwells or the spring loaded front door to the building.

While it was a bummer to give up the opportunity to see Daniel Tosh at the Borgata on Saturday night, it just wasn't the right weekend to head to Atlantic City. Especially when this is what awaits a mere 15 miles away from my home in BK.

after spending 3+ hours in the water, Jose and I headed over to Rockaway Taco to enjoy the best thing that you can do after surfing!

great seating arrangements.

first course, fish tacos, baja style. superb.

up next, carne tacos with guacamole. these were just OK. not carne ASADA. not as good as the fish option.

getting down on some tacos.

the weather

today is supposed to be 70 degrees in NYC. sounds glorious. tomorrow back to 53. not terrible, but not 70 on the weekends. While riding around the city is fun, I was thinking about heading across a bridge or two and hitting up some suburban tree-lined hills for a little ride this weekend to visit the parents.

problem is that the sp23 needs some new front brakes as well. So, I SHOULD drive the car out there and change the front brakes at my dad's house, but we'll see about that.

tonight. see you there NYC.

don't miss this. it will be a good time. (plural)

going going back back to....

cali, cali....

this is it, the final packing of the house and the cross-country drive with Rufus back to Brooklyn. If anyone wants to come along for the ride, your return ticket is on me. My goal is to make the 2,800 mile trek in 4 days, and i want to leave on Saturday the 30th. Which means that halloween will be spent in a car, in full costume.

can't wait to see my wife. can't wait to hug and kiss her. can't wait to stress about moving with her. and I can't wait to see the kitties and the dog. and i can't wait to see all of my amazing friends that have made san diego such a special place. (and probably the place that i will spend all of my vacation days from now on when I need to get out of New York....yes, that means that Kim, Frances, Chris, Duke, Annie, Tony, Mike, Em, Jordan, Aaron, Alicia, Julie, Deron, Pat, Brian, John, Carlos, etc, etc, etc, this is my advance thank you for letting us sleep in your guest bedrooms or on floors, sofas in the near future)

oh and I can't wait to see my shovel as well....