do it in the dirt

Experienced a great pain in the knee on Saturday when Kim's high(ish) compression panhead kicker gear slipped as I was trying to start it. Yes, this is more of my fault than the bikes, as I didn't make sure it was fully engaged before putting 180 lbs of force straight down into an over etended knee, but I'll still blame it on the bike!

Either way we had a good time catching up and working on the pan shape for Maximum Bob's custom seat. check out a few photos over here at Kim's blog.

That night, I had dinner with Leigh Anne and her mom and then went back over to Kim's to watch the 2nd and 3rd motos in the big Million Dollar Supercross race. Wound up staying out late and got a text from Chris that we would be heading out early on Sunday to Barona for some dirtbike action of our own.

all loaded up

Aidan getting the hang of shifting from 1st to 2nd. (crazy iphone HDR processing effect)

Chris hopped on with Riley to get him comfy as well. (same iphone error....i mean...)

self portrait with the pro track in the background. yeah....I'm not quite comfy there yet...

Everyone rode in the morning. We took turns on the 450 and Duke geared up and shared Riley's bike for a few laps as well.

eventually a little after noon, we loaded back up and headed home. This is their Sunday family day....as I told Chris, Duke is a keeper.

xyzal light con't or cont'd

I still don't know if the abbrev. for continued is con't or cont'd. Does anyone know this?

Got some mesh screen today and finished off the lens for the light. After these pics were taken, I found some proper M5 screws to fasten the cover, but I forgot to take pictures of that.

I wound up stacking 3 screens at different angles to get the final look I wanted. The heads of the countersunk screws were too big, so I hit them with the grinder to make them smaller and have a cool little handmade feel. I'll post pics at some point.

Thanks again to Chris for donating the remote float bowl and Kim for donating the LED cluster. (if they weren't meant to be donations, send the invoices)