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If you only rode the Creo around a parking lot or something, it isn't a realistic picture of using assist on a real ride. I thought I could cruise up to Stretch's place on my Turbo Vado SL peddling around the lot around the bike shop but didn't feel a anything like that after going up lesser hills. I don't know what assist level the Creo has but mine is only 2.5 X whereas lots of ebikes are much higher.

That sucks, but I do love the quote in that article that he died "a after a long struggle with life." My friends' band that I managed for a time used to play Sex Bomb as an encore, especially at parties. RIP Mr Loose

Argh, every time I’m back the bike I think “I don’t need the assist.” The point is to suffer, right? I tried the Creo and it was honestly a little overwhelming with the assist. I think i need to try some other stuff before making up my mind. A more dedicated road bike, for starters. Like giant defy/trek domane/cannondale synapse

It was a good year to be born, if I do say so myself. Happy birthday Jimmy! Cheers!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

There was a roast chicken Followed by grilled pineapple, coconut yogurt, coconut and lime ice cream, with toasted coconut

Happy Birthday!

Another trip around the sun. Hope it’s a great one.

Catching up on a series that I should have watched in the first place.

RIP to Bruce Loose, vocalist for the band Flipper. Haven’t listened to them in a long time, but will pull out Generic Flipper and raise a glass…. https://www.nme.com/news/music/flipper-singer-bassist-bruce-loose-dies-aged-66-3890561

E-bike is gonna be it for me. Who am I kidding? I’m like the bare minimum of cardio fitness to do these rides and these are the easiest 25 miles will ever be because flat farm roads. I did 50+ miles on the Diverge and I feel confident this is the right choice. I will say, I am not sure people are on about with these 1x front chain rings. Nice to have a bunch of climbing gears but I never felt like I had exactly the gear I wanted for the public roads. I'm certainly fit enough to ride a road bike around on these farm roads but I get the feel that if I go back to Marin the constant up-and-down will end me. Going faster than my power output would otherwise allow also has some appeal.

I was going to ask who the tiny old guy was.. got it.. Nice attitude shot of Esmé as always.

I’m looking for a way to produce 125 VDC low current. One idea is to use a switching voltage regulator, LT8365 maybe … board size 2.0in x .73in (51mm x 18mm)

Thank you, Shawn. Good to know how Megatron XL behaves.

Alright, here are the quick results. Case 1: Rupper = 1500, Rlower = 3200, G-pot = 10 kΩ (set at ~10%). Va ≈ –1.7 V, Vgk ≈ –85.6 V, Plate Voltage = 362.2 V. Case 2: Rupper = 1200, Rlower = 2600, G-pot = 10 kΩ (set at ~10%). Va ≈ 3.3 V, Vgk ≈ –85.3 V, Plate Voltage = 367.4 V. I didn’t measure at 38 mA, since I wasn’t sure whether the EL34 would be overloaded, and I also don’t have the right resistor configuration at hand (Vishay Dale parts are really not cheap). That said, you can see that in both cases the plate voltage stays in the 400 V max cell, which in theory should not be dangerous, but who really knows.

That depends entirely on which wood is being worked.

Nipple, or otherwise?

Woodworker: An official title that one earns from buying clamps.

Yikes. Beastly!

The Mavericks are annoying. The crocs are truly epic.

A couple of pies for dinner with friends from across the street. One with Mexican chorizo, red onion, corn and jalapeño, over cheddar, mozzarella and topped with grated cotija, which was the clear winner. The other with pepperoni, shaved fennel, mushrooms, and fresh basil grown by the neighbors over mozzarella, which was tasty but more basic. Working with a shitty oven and a pizza stone instead of a pizza steel was a handicap, but it worked out fine.

After the air disaster article linked in the reading thread where Rear Admiral Moffett doesn’t exactly come off well, decided to return today with Esmé to the Moffett Field Museum that’s five minutes from our house. Of course the museum is about the place, not the man the place is named after, and the emphasis is on the USS Macon, once docked here, not its sister ship the USS Akron, where Moffett and nearly the entire crew perished (twice those of Hindenburg), all in the pursuit of military rigid airship supremacy (20/20 of course on what was accomplished there), but sometimes strange how heroes are selected. Bonus: Tom Cruises. Still a great, volunteer-led tiny museum

With temps in the high 50s and storms rolling through after mile 30 we decided that bit over 70 miles was the smart play. Despite 2-1/2hrs in heavy rain still was a great event for an even better cause.

Tungsten heatsink Very exclusive