It wasn’t raining when I left the house. It’s jeans Friday so I didn’t bring ‘work clothes’ to change into. A raging monsoon and windy nastiness cropped up 10 minutes into my ride to work. My ‘Stich leaked, like it always does when I ride my Scrambler. My jeans were soaked upon arrival. I’m now […]
Keep Portland (commuting) Weird
And it was definitely Portland. My commute back from the west side was great, until I got into downtown. Then…. A pickup was pulling out of a parallel spot along the street I was on, and doing it badly. I saw it in plenty of time, but I didn’t anticipate it swinging really wide as […]
Red F Issues
My little BMW is sad again. Now that the water pump is fixed, it’s been having some weirdly intermittent power problems, mostly starting from stops, such as at red lights. It feels rather like I forgot to downshift to first (but I did downshift) and just craaaaawls until it finally picks up speed. But it’s […]