Boiling Over

This probably goes here
  • Sony α7ʀ II
  • Sony FE 55mm ƒ1.8
  • ISO 100
  • 1⁄200 second
  • ƒ6.3
  • -0.3 compensation
  • ILCE-7RM2 v3.20
This probably goes here

We might care about cosmetic damage if we weren’t focused on more basic things like the engine working. If you’ve read my notes from other trips with the Husky, you may remember it hasn’t been reliable. It never stranded us (my brothers and I) but it added unpleasant hours to our travels.

Before taking it out again, I wanted to put a rebuild kit in the carburetor. While I did that, Nick replaced the spark plug, oil, a weepy stator cover gasket and broken rear fender. It’s nice to have help. The bike doesn’t look much different but I hope it’s happier.

Fresh forks
  • Sony α7ʀ II
  • Sony FE 55mm ƒ1.8
  • ISO 100
  • 1⁄60 second
  • ƒ4.5
  • -0.3 compensation
  • ILCE-7RM2 v3.20
Fresh forks

I am ashamed to say I long neglected to get my forks fixed after blowing a seal last fall when I hit a ditch too hard near Silver City.¹ Getting those back together was another pre-ride task.

  1. Trail Image, “Orange Owyhees”: http://trailimage.com/orange-owyhees#44
By the numbers
  • Sony α7ʀ II
  • Sony FE 35mm ƒ2.8
  • ISO 1250
  • 1⁄30 second
  • ƒ6.3
  • ILCE-7RM2 v3.20
By the numbers

I remember reading an article around 1994 suggesting the brand new Internet thing could eventually constitute a part of the human mind. I remember it because it suddenly seemed obvious even while sounding far-fetched.

The idea wasn’t that we’d have some kind of cybernetic implant but that we’d simply be able to bring to mind information from the Internet, in whatever way, with the same speed and ease with which we recall it from our own brains.

For me and the work I do, the prediction came true a while ago. I’m hardly conscious anymore of the difference between remembering something and doing a search-click to read it in a few seconds. I do both constantly throughout the day.

Garage work isn’t quite that way for me yet (maybe when virtual reality glasses are common) but it’s heading that way. When I went to check valve clearances, I didn’t think twice about “recalling” a video to step me through it.

One thing then another
  • Sony α7ʀ II
  • Sony FE 35mm ƒ2.8
  • ISO 160
  • 1⁄30 second
  • ƒ5
  • ILCE-7RM2 v3.20
One thing then another

It was probably Nick’s fault for encouraging me to start the KTM even before I had everything buttoned up. The KTM objected by spraying fuel on the engine. What the hell? Of course it wasn’t until I’d gone to the trouble of lifting the subframe to remove the throttle body and clean the fuel injector that I found it was just a leak in the easily accessed, inline fuel filter.

At least with programming I can click a button to “revert changes” when I do the wrong work.