So, I made it back from Utah, all in one piece. My bike was waiting for me where I had left it, so I needed not worry about it walking off after all. I had rather more luggage than I had planned, and none of it would fit into my side cases, so it was probably entertaining to follow me with stuff packed on top almost to my neck level. Didn’t seem to hurt the handling too bad coming home over the Jemez.
Getting cold though… I saw as low as 35 degrees coming home at 6PM. I really am going to have to order those heated grips or heated clothing if I want to continue to ride.
I failed to do much of anything useful this weekend, just kind of slept and let it all ride. Sometimes you have to do that. I went out tonight on the bike to get the picture you see to the left there. I was hoping for something more akin to the view I see from the bike at night, but I didn’t set up a tripod and mess with the settings too much. Kind of hard to get out of the way of traffic with a tripod. I’ll give it another shot here at some point and see if I can’t get a better picture.
Back to business as usual this week. Hoping to get the lab all spiffy and clean in the next day or two, as I have about 3 lab based projects right now that will need some working room. We’ll see how that goes.
Regardless, enjoy the blurry pics for now. I promise something more interesting later this week.
So, today we headed into the shop so I could do some research that I had come up here for. We arrived, and noted that Brian’s Dad’s Mustang Cobra was at the shop, which meant he had finally finished the suspension work and it was running. We let that go for the time being, and worked on the project at hand, with great success.
Around 5pm, as I am in the midst of soldering up an adapter board, Brian comes in and says, “Time for a break, let’s go.” He has the keys to the Cobra in his hands. No need to ask me twice. Did I mention that this car is a few steps over a ‘normal’ car? It has a Whipple Charger on it, which is a highly efficient supercharger, and a few other goodies, which push the total power output to over 600 horsepower. Yum.
We head out on the interstate. The latest upgrade is a suspension kit, and Brian was having a lot of fun with how well it could handle. As we went around the long corner from the main interstate to the loop that went past the airport, at 120mph, I thought to myself, “Man, I’ve never been in a car rollover before…” This fear was unfounded, as the car stuck to the ground just fine. But this was just a warm up to what was to come.