June 23rd 2010 - a look back

I do love New York City as a city on the whole. There is probably no better place in terms of accessibility, culture, history, and design. BUT I can see this whole cold thing getting old. I'm not complaining, its just the facts.

I'm looking forward to the spring and summer though and hoping to score some epic rides that can come close to the old stomping grounds, albeit with a change of scenery. Green leafy trees instead of palm trees. Grass instead of sand, hills instead of mountains, and old historic battle fields in place of barren deserts.

Here are some pictures that Chris Collins took after a day of working on his panhead's redux.

note the white/grey sky in the pics right near the beach and the beautiful blueness as you ride 1/2 mile inland. ahhhh.

one last socal rip on the sportster...

...before she was loaded up on the trailer and sent on her way to the NYC

I got the phone call late on Saturday night that there was room in the trailer for my bike so at 8am on Sunday, I mounted up and rode up to Santa Ana to Mike D's place to meet the crew and load 'er up.

The weather was beautiful. I could feel the morning dew burning off and it felt so nice riding up the coast past the breaking waves and weaving through the sunday morning almost desolate traffic. Its odd to think that in moments like these, material inanimate objects seem to be alive and you feel like they will miss these things.......but the bike will be fine. I think it is me that will miss moments like these. and at the same time, I look forward to the new ones to come on the right coast.

summer salads

I definitely love what Joseph Joseph does with kitchen wares. Just great designed stuff. Like their new salad bowl and tong set. Look, a place for the tongs to rest after serving up some salad.....

Great stuff as usual here.