Mutterings

The weather and riding were fantastic. The pictures are a bit disappointing though - they photographed us mostly from the outside of the turn and so you don’t really get a good view of us leaned over.
http://elitetrackdays.smugmug.com/Motorcycles/October-18th-Trackday/10053580_WCYuj#689253629_VeMK6
http://elitetrackdays.smugmug.com/Motorcycles/October-18th-Trackday/10053580_WCYuj#689244089_tUoCr
http://elitetrackdays.smugmug.com/Motorcycles/October-18th-Trackday/10053580_WCYuj#689244468_rXxHT
http://elitetrackdays.smugmug.com/Motorcycles/October-18th-Trackday/10053580_WCYuj#689238907_kCUMn

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I had the worst e-commerce experience of my life and wanted to document it. This whole situation boils down to the first rule of Internet commerce: charge the customer and then ship the goods quickly.
Shannon Nelson runs Panther City Leather. I contracted her to add some additional perforation to my leather jacket based [...]

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I did another track day Monday at Harris Hill Road and had a great time. The problem is that I feel like I’m going really fast but then I look like this:

Meh.

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Our tax dollars are not paying for safer helmets, but safer stickers on helmets. Wow.
U.S. DOT Proposing New Rules To Improve Motorcycle Helmet Safety

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I was cringing and laughing at the same time at this video. I suppose this is how the English aristocracy enjoy trials riding.
Goodwood - Festival of Speed - Dougie Lampkin Video

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Here’s a few track day pictures I got. I guess my left side is my good side.

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Did my first track day at the new track 25 miles south of Austin called Harris Hill Road. The track is awesome, not really tight but no real fast straights either - a nice, flowing, technical layout. Tammy met me there later in the morning and spent the day shooting pictures and video. [...]

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MotoGP will be racing at Indy for the first time ever this year. They made heavy modifications to the road course to make it suitable for the bikes. The first motorcycle race at Indy was held 100 years ago and in honor of the anniversary, Nicky Hayden (2006 MotoGP champion) rode the first [...]

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So my latest project is a community site dedicated to race tracks. The idea is to have a searchable, browsable database of all tracks worldwide along with forums to discuss anything related to those tracks.
Off the top of my head, several things need to be built:

track database with track submission page
backend admin interface for [...]

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I’ve started a new project which combines several of my hobbies: rails, building websites and motorcycles. Coming soon: tracknowledge.org

Buy domain
Buy VPS hosting for website (thanks mr yin!)
Build initial beta site (in progress…)
Install nginx, mysql, rails, php and site
Announce beta to world

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