Weird bike day.

Yesterday was the day for seeing strange bikes during my commute. I'm not talking about people riding fixies or different paint jobs. We're talking some whacked out shit here!

First was nice trike guy.... not to be confused with Napoleon on a Trike (a guy who rides a recumbant trike and yells at everyone to get out of his way. I figure he's got a Napoleon complex about being so close to the ground and he thinks he can boss everyone around.) Nice Trike Guy (also rides a recumbant three wheeler) is different. He's actually nice (as his name implies). Seeing him isn't so odd. I just hadn't seen him pulling a trailer before. Every few weeks he needs to bring his dirty laundry home, so he hauls it in a trailer. Again... not such an odd thing. Escept that the way the trailer attaches to the trike, it sits off to the side. It looks more like a side car than a trailer. It was weird and cool. I slowed a little and chatted with him.

The second weird bike had a set of PowerCranks on it. I'd read about these, but had never seen them before. They are FREAKISH. Basically the idea is that you develop a lot more leg strength and learn to pedal circles if your left and right crank arm are not connected. Each turn independently of each other, yet they both have the ability to drive the chainring. It looks pretty normal when riding, but coasting is a strange thing to see. When you coast, both crank arms go to the bottom.

When I first saw this from a distance, it looked like every time the guy coasted, he clicked out of his right pedal and dragged his foot on the ground. That isn't the case. He just had both pedals at the 6 o'clock position. Bizarre.

He said he loves the cranks and they really help with leg strength. He uses them through the winter and has for the last two years. He said when he gets on normal cranks that he just flies.

That might be something to look into. I may have to give them a try.

Later!

Pete

Road frame Search -- Not this again!!!

My deal with myself last year. If I met my weight loss and cycling goals for 2008, I get to buy a new road bike. I thought about a Ti frame, or custom steel. I decided on CF. I'd like something really light. That is all fine and dandy, except that few high-end carbon fiber frames come in Jolly Green Giant size. That SUCKS!

Frames that I won't be getting this year. Anything made by Cervello, Isaac, Kuota, Eddy Merckx, the Ibis Silk, Trek Madone 6.9 and Specialized Tarmac SL are all too short in the top tube. The Cannondale Super6 HiMod might be good, but doesn't really jazz me. I don't really know why. The geometry and close, but not perfect.

First on the list is the Ridley Helium. It is insanely light and EXACTLY the right proportions. I'd really like a bike that I can ride anywhere, but weight is a big issue for me. I'd like something that minimizes weight without being whippy. I rode a Helium that was one size too small and it felt great and scary light. For 2008 I went from a 21 pound bike to a 17 pound bike. It took me two weeks to get used to it. Going from a 17 pound bike to a 15 pound bike will likely have a similar adjustment. The color is perfect. It is black/carbon with really subdued graphics. The other cool thing is that my local bike shop JUST started selling Ridleys. Thanks The Bike Lane.

Ridley Noah is also in the ballpark. Sizing is the same. Weight is a little heavier. But DAMN is it aero. The colors are also not near as nice as the Helium. Red, Blue or Green are dandy, but not to my taste. Helium still wins.

The DeRosa King3 is quite possibly the best bike I've ever seen. I've always liked the ride of a classic Italian road bike. You don't get more classic or Italian than DeRosa. The flat black is stunning. It is imposibly light. It is perfect. The owner of a shop I worked in as a kid used to love to tell me that the only bike for me was a classic Italian road frame. He sold DeRosas and Colnagos. I drooled over them for years. The only problem is the price. DAMN is that frame expensive. At $5500 for frame/fork, it is about $2000 over my price range. This is, by far, the closest I've been to owning a dream bike. I don't really need 2 kidneys, do I? There are two local shops that sell the DeRosa.

The Felt F1SL makes me want to sing "God Bless America". The fit is right on par with the Ridleys and the DeRosa. The basic black and white colors are great. The ride is great. It is a good balance between power transfer, light weight and all-day comfort. It is a hair heavier than the others by virtue of the seat post setup. A few hundred grams is the difference. That shouldn't matter to me... I should be big enough to know that I should just eat a little less, drink a little less, work a little harder and lose the extra weight. I'm not going to completely discount it.... it isn't perfect though. There are quite a few Felt dealers in the area. They are some really good shops that I like.

Can I spend $3000 on a Giant? I remember working in a shop that sold Giant Iguana mountain bikes. I loved it when people would call and ask if I had a green giant iguana. Can I spend tons of money on a TCR Advanced SL? Size is perfect. Geometry is perfect. Graphics and look are Perfect. It is the only one of these bikes that I've actually ridden in my size and it was brilliant. I may be too much of a snob to spend that much on a Giant. The Giant is available locally... though the local shop isn't my first choice for a place to shop.

Last but not least is the bike that doesn't fit my original description, but must be added for texture. The Moots Compact Custom. It is similar in weight to the Ridley Noah... about 100 grams heavier. That makes it a hair heavier than the Felt also. It is beautiful. Has a great ride. It also will likely be the last road bike that I'll ever have to buy. What it lacks in super sexy carbon fiber goodness, it more than makes up for in its amazing ride and durability. It the second most expensive bike on the list at around $4000 (including custom geometry and fork). I've always loved Moots frames. I looked at Seven and IF and they're both great bikes... but they don't jazz me like the Moots. I can't explain why. The Moots would come from my friends at Speedgoat. I know they're not a local shop, but the owners are good friends and that makes them almost local for me.

Honorable mentions: Calfee Design Dragonfly, Cannondale SuperSix HiMod, KirkLee custom, Colnago C50, and a few others.

Now I need to see how things play out. I might be able to scrimp and save and go easy on things and get the DeRosa. I could go easy on the wheels and put that money into the frame.

I have until the end of February to decide. That is when I really need to make a choice in order to be riding the bike in a reasonable amount of time.

Did I miss anything? I think I covered all of the bases with my search.

Thanks for reading.

Pete

New way to commute...

Oy oy.

Doc says I need to spend a little time off the bike. I kinda agree with her. I need a break.

Today I started running part way to work and then taking Metro the rest of the way. The run is a hair under 5 miles. That is a dang brutal way to get to work. I have a lot of respect for the guys that I see every day running to work.

Talk to y'all soon.

Pete

The Carrot and the Stick

Great commute this morning. It was surprisingly warm and the trails were wet and covered in leaves. That made it a bit more adventurous.

My original plan was to take it easy and ride mellow on the way to work. I've got a big ride planned for Sunday and my legs are somewhat toasted after a fairly challenging week of cycling.

That plan went out the window when I rolled onto the W&OD trail and I saw the very familiar sight pattern of Cadex Guy 100 meters ahead of me. This guy is seriously fast. He's also a really nice guy and we ride well together. He talks a little and does his best to make me feel like I'm not entirely lame as we roll along... him relaxed and mellow... me gasping for air and honking out snot rockets.

Riding the W&OD every day can get a little tiring. I tend to make up games to have the ride go a little quicker and to help me keep my pace up. The Carrot and the Stick is quite possibly the best at keeping my legs spinning fast. Anyone out in front of me is a carrot. My job is to catch up to them. Their flashing lights or reflective gear act as short-range radar. On wet mornings, the wet tire tracks left on dry pavement under bridges acts as long-range radar. I can see how many carrots are ahead.

Once I catch and pass a carrot, they become a stick. A stick that hangs on my wheel becomes the best motivation to keep pace high. I'm not trying to drop him/her. I am big enough that I make a good draft. I like being able to motivate people to go fast.

2 or more sticks in relatively close proximety makes a convoy. That is something entirely different. We tend to crash the gate doing 98 and let them truckers roll, 10-4. ;) Sorry.... Had to say that.

Back to this morning.....

I had about a mile to catch up to Cadex Guy before the new "cyclocross" section of the W&OD. They're doing utility work and have 300 meters of trail blocked. You have to jump off onto the gravel section. It isn't tough, though this morning it was seriously slippery in spots. Cadex Guy went from carrot to stick at this point. He wasn't familiar with the section and had 23mm tires, so he took it easy. I've got 35mm soul suckers for tires and just blew by him.

I got a pretty good lead on him and that lasted for about another mile. That's when I came up on Stompy Jamis Dude. CRAP! Meeting this guy is bad enough when conditions are good. When it is wet and leaves are down, it is really bad. He's like me... doesn't always go fast, but can really step on it when he's got someone to ride with. Problem is he's a lot faster than me when he really gets going.

I flew past him in hopes that he wouldn't take the bait.... it was on the short climb right after East Falls Church Metro. Cadex Guy was still about 30 meters back. Stompy Jamis Dude might have been able to ignore me flying by... but he couldn't ingore both me and Cadex Guy... especially when adding him to the mix would make a convoy.

The downhill heading toward the Custis Trail was where I changed from a carrot into a stick bigtime. Both Cadex Guy and SJD came flying past me. I went into the drops to try and hold their wheels, but had no luck at all on the downhill. I just don't have that kind of horsepower or spin.

I was a bit more brave in the turns and kept a good head of steam up the first climb on Custis. I was close enough to start catching a face full of carrot rear wheel spooge off of the wet trails. This is the one part where I had a chance to pass these guys. I was travelling light today... they both had big packs. That was my saving grace. I finally got around them at the base of the rise near Glebe Rd. I held them off on the two steep downhills that go down next to 66.

We rode as a group down "Little Gavia" at Lee Hwy. It was insanely slick. I had the back end step out on me 4 times in about 50 meters. We took it easy through Rosslyn because there was a lot of foot traffic heading past the Marriott. We arrived at the light at Lynn St. together. All out of breath after a really nice commute. SJD heads over Key Bridge. Cadex Guy and I rolled together for about another half mile until he headed down Mt. Vernon Trail while I head across Roosevelt Bridge into DC.

I'm dead meat the next time I meet up with them when I've got a pack on. The worked me over really well today. I won't fare so well tomorrow.

I totally know that playing games like that qualifies me as a MUT Wonder. It is fun and a good way to goof off with the folks that I ride in with. We each get a laugh out of it. Trash talk is encouraged.

Sorry for blathering on. I guess it is my blog, so I'm entitled. :D

Later!

Pete

Doing our part for the economic recovery...

We've had an interesting summer. As the economy tanks, we've had a bunch of things happen that need fixing around the house. Consequently Laura and I are a two person economic recovery team.

• Parts to overhaul the suspension and replace the brakes on the GTI: $1400
• New Microwave oven: $300
• New dishwasher: $700
• Insulation in the attic: ???
• Beer for my ride chauffeur: $20

Now we get to spend the day installing our new home items. I'm gonna have to take a day of leave to work on the GTI. I'm still waiting on some parts. Hopefully next Friday I can take the day off and get greasy. I've missed wrenching on cars. It'll be nice to pay back Sean for all the driving he's done going to bike rides. Honestly that's the only thing I really use the GTI for. I'll even play music that he won't hate on the stereo. That's how thankful that I am that he's been a help. I prolly owe him some beer too.

That won't help GM or Ford, but it is doing our part to help.

Pete

Is beer a clear, liquid food?

I'm having dietary problems. I'm having some kind of surgical procedure Wednesday and it requires that I can't have anything solid or non-clear to eat for 30 hours before my procedure. Oddly enough, I also can't eat anything red or purple. Starting tomorrow morning, I have a 30 hour gauntlet to run. Yuck.

Oh well. At least I don't have to eat anything red or purple. :D

Pete

Great ride at Fountainhead.

Drew and I headed to Fountainhead for a lap today. I've been sick lately, so I haven't been really riding hard. One lap on a very hot day was a good chance to get out and work my legs a bit.

It was a hot day today... 96 and humid. We'd had rain yesterday morning, so the trails were still wet. I was hoping for tacky, but the roots and rocks were more along the lines of "slimey". The roots and rocks were the problem. When they're wet, it is really easy to get knocked off-line by hitting a wet root or rock. That makes some of the gnarly downhill sections a bit more adventurous.

There were a few things that were cool about this ride:

1. The bike handled really well. Riding the rough sections was awesome. It let me pick any line I wanted through the rocks and roots. Only the slippery nature of the trail moved me to somewhere that I didn't want to be. There were some steep sections where I really had to do some slow cranking to get up... the bike tracked so well that I had no trouble tracking straight and true. I was impressed.
2. My gearing is a hair tall for FH. There are a few climbs that I never make. I didn't clean them today. Some that I usually make were a lot more work today. I made it up, but it wasn't pretty. I'll get used to that.
3. The pedals are great. I really liked the look pedals. I had a few problems clicking in late in the ride, but that was more a factor of me being tired and not feeling great.

Drew and I really had fun. I haven't ridden with him much lately and this was a great chance to go.

Later!

Pete

Mamasita

Bob asked about my new mountain bike. It is pretty simple. I moved most of the components from my SIR9 over to the new frame. The build is something like this:

• 2008 Salsa Mamasita (Scandium frame with carbon seat stays)


• White Bros Rigid carbon fork


• King headset


• Thomson X4 stem


• Jones H-bars


• Avid Juicy 7s


• King sS hubs laced to Salsa Delgado Disc rims


• Thomson laidback post


• Phil Bottom bracket


• Kooka forged cranks


• Sugino chainring


• Surly cog


• WTB Nanoraptor tires


• Specialized Prodigy sadle.


• Connex Whitestar SS chain.
• Look Quartz pedals

The gearing is a magic gear for the Mamasita. I'm running 34x19 for the 29er. It is roughly the same as a 2:1 on a 26er. The gear is good for most of the riding I'm doing now. If I go hammer the shed or something, I might want a little bigger cog.

My guess is that this bike will evolve into a 1x5 or 1x6 so that I can take it out west and start on the Colorado Trail next spring. That's a whole other story.

All in all the build is pretty boring. Nothing blingy or fancy in comparison to most of the rides that others are tossing out on the trails these days. It is relatively light, has a great feel to it and handles all 212 pounds of me.

That last phrase is an important one. Last winter I topped out at 237 pounds. This morning I tipped the scales at 212. Once I get down in the 200lb range I'll start thinking about building a blingle speed.

Ultimately I need a bike that I can take to France with me. There's too much good riding there to ignore it. I love the roadie stuff, but spending many weeks there per year will just beg for something to ride. I need something with S&S couplers. Looking at Tony's black sheep is freaking inspirational. Maybe next year. Gotta lose a little more ponchetta first.

You know you're old when....

I just read that the band Foreigner (not a fave of mine... but one that was popular when I was in high school) is going on tour this year. The tour is being sponsored by AARP. Hahahahahahaha

"Maybe its just the woman in you,
That brings out the man in me."

Hahahaha

Pete

Back on the mountain bike again.

Greetings human type people.

I've been off the mountain bike since last year. I got back on a little bit a few weeks ago and it felt goooood. I built a new single speed and am pretty happy with how it is working.

I have really missed getting sweaty and dirty at the same time.

Catch up with you soon.

Pete

Child of the 70s

Oy.

We went to see Cheap Trick, Heart and Journey last night and it was a blast.

Cheap Trick is just awesome. It isn't music of much artistic merit, but it is great to hear fun music performed by a band that clearly LOVES playing in front of an audience... any audience. I've seen them in concert more than 2 dozen times and they're still fun to see.

Heart is an amazing band to see live. Don't miss them. Their music comes to life in person like no band I've seen. Both of the Wilson sisters' voices seem to have gotten stronger and better over the years. They were spot on and I loved every second of the performance.

Journey was really good. Neil Schon's guitar playing was worth the price of entry for sure. Their keyboard player was great. The new singer is awesome and perfectly appropriate for the music and the band. With the exception of one piano solo and Schon's guitar playing, the performance didn't come close to moving me the way Heart's did.

I'm looking forward to seeing Heart again when they're back in town next summer. If you can catch this show, you won't be sorry.

Pete

Lovely to be back in France again...

Coming to Menton has become a great annual event for us. This year it was much needed for both Laura and I. Laura had been teaching summer school with little time after the school year let out. I had been hammering through a busy time at work and hadn't taken a break for a long time.

I'll try and add in a post or two each day as we go through the trip.

I started using Flickr for posting photos. It is really pretty cool. I'll post up photos using it. Let me know how that works.

Menton 2008 Day 1: Arriving and settling in.

Menton 2008 Day 2: 36th Annual Grand Prix of Menton

Thanks.

Pete

I'm not dead yet!

"You're not fooling anyone!"

Dang that whole "Bring out your dead" skit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail is funny. It is also surprisingly applicable to my life. ;)

Bob asked what the hell is going on with me (in a nice way) on my blog. I thought I'd post a quick response..

I'm working insane hours. I'm also spending lots of time on the road bike training for a ride in the Alps this summer. My car projects are somewhat on hold at this point.

Work: I'm having fun, but it is insanely demanding. I'm trying to maximize time with my wife and friends too. That leaves little time for other stuff.

Training: I've been off the MTB all year recovering from a fractured tailbone. That is really starting to heal and feel good. I got a bee in my bonnet about taking the bike to France again this year. I really wanted to ride in the alps with a bit more form than I've had in the past.

I've been putting in big miles and some good strength and climbing work over the year so far in preparation for this trip. I'm feeling great and showing signs of actually losing a little weight. It has been really hard for me to increase my beer consumption enough to compensate for the number of calories that I'm burning off. I've done my best.

The sad news is that because of a bunch of stuff that is out of my control, it isn't going to be easy or practical for me to take my bike with me on this trip. I'm cool with that. I'm going to switch to trail running while I'm there. That will be fun and different for me. I'll use my fitness on a bumch of road centuries later this summer. I thought about giving the SM100 a try, but the timing is just wrong for me.

Car Projects: I'm still collecting parts for the Bimmer. I need to really start yanking that beast apart and digging into the metal work. When I've had free time, I've either wanted to do stuff with my wife or go for a long-assed bike ride. My guess is that I'll hit these with more vigor this fall. I really miss getting my hands dirty on german car grease. :D

I guess that's the update. I'll catch up with y'all soon. Thanks for your comments and e-mails.

Pete

Here's the starting point of that Locost you've been wanting to build. :D

Okay... the price is a little more than what you'd normally buy for a donor car for a Locost build, but the car is a PERFECT candidate. 

 

HERE it is. 

 

I've been looking for the perfect example of a 318IS to use to possibly graft into the 2002 for a more updated engine that is able to make bigger power with lower emisions.  I can make the 2002 carburated motor put out plenty of horsepower.... as much as I'd ever really want in a light weight car like that.  But when you build big horsepower like that, the cam shaft has enough valve overlap that it spits a fair amount of raw fuel out.  That is super cool when you're power shifting through the gears and 3' flames shoot out, but not so cool if you think about the hydrocarbons that you're releasing into the atmosphere. 

 

Oh well.  This auction will not be won by me.  I thought I'd blog about it though.

 

Pete

Street Car of the Day 3/7/2008

Holy crap!!!

 

You look at this Lotus 23 and you'd swear this is a post for the Race Car of the day.  The only detail putting it in the street category is that THIS THING IS STREET LEGAL!!!!  WHOOHOOO!!!!   I'm all for driving race cars on the street.  I think more people should do that.  Imagine how much faster we'd get our groceries home in something like this?

 

Have a good weekend.

 

Pete

What do we miss by reading Velonews.com?

Hey peeps!

 

Welcome to your daily dose of spam from me. :D 

 

I was marooned in a book store a few days ago and picked up the VeloNudes buyer's guide for the hell of it.  I'd gotten away from reading the print version since I spend a little time reading the .com version almost every day.  I kinda ejoyed the experience, so I bought it.  I really don't spend much time reading buyer's guides.  There just isn't enough space to give a bike its due in the little paragraph snippets.  It is an interesting way to find frame builders that you didn't know existed though.  I kinda liked that. 

 

Primus Mootry is one.  The guy went to school in boulder at a time when big-name bikes were getting stolen a lot.  He put a sticker that said "Primus Mootry" on the lugged steel frame that he'd made himself so that no-one would bother stealing it.  He recently was asked by a messanger to not put stickers on the bike because his name is now well known in the area enough that thieves look for them to steal. 

 

Crisp Titanium is pretty cool too.  The web site is really cool too... though it is so cool that it is FUCKING ANNOYING!!!  Pardon my french. :D

 

The offspring of Faliero Masi is back at it again.  I don't know what Pops would think, but there are some cool bikes in there.  The new 3V looks pretty cool.  I'm not sure how long Masi has been back making frames.   I remember when they stopped.  I think they even gave up the name rights for a while. 

 

The other cool thing about this issue is that there are a number of factory tours of different frame builders.  They tour some small, one-man shops like Primus Mootry and also take a walk through Specialized. 

 

I'm part way through reading the issue, but thought I'd share what I found.

 

Hugs and kisses to you all.

 

Pete

"Street" "Car" of the day 3/4/2008

Okay.  It isn't really made for the street and it definitely isn't a car, but it is worth looking at for sure.

 

1966 Land Rover Defender.

 

Make sure to look at the photo gallery. It has the whole build process documented. 

 

Pete

Spa Sport Leg Warmers Review

Good morning.

This review will hopefully be less sarcastic than the review for my new camera that I did yesterday.

Cold weather cycling necessitates the adding of layers. There are always a few items of clothing that can be added to a cycling ensemble to make it a hair warmer than it otherwise would be. Arm warmers make a short sleeve jersey into a long sleeve one with the option of removing them once you warm up.
Leg warmers provide much of the same functionality, though I haven't ever done a ride where I actually remove leg warmers once they're on. The added benefit of leg warmers is that they give me a place to hide my energy gel packets so that they're easy to access during a ride.
My anceint Sugoi leg warmers are finally ready for retirement. They're pilled enough that they aren't as comfy as they once were and the zippers are really on their way out.
I'd seen ads in VeloNews for SpaSport.com... a NY company selling cycling clothing and accessories (gloves, hats, arm and leg warmers, etc.) for a while. Their prices looked great, so I thought I'd give them a try.
I'm 6'4" and have a 92.5cm inseam and the size Large looked like they should come close to fitting. The ebay store price is $29.99. With shipping it came out to about $34.
Service was amazing. I ordered late on Saturday afternoon. They were in my mailbox Monday when I got home from work. You don't get much better shipping than that!!!.
On first look, the leg warmers were awesome. They are advertised as fleece leg warmers and there really isn't much loft to them. They're basically a very thick lycra... not unlike most of the leg warmers on the market in that price range. They're made in Pakistan and the severything seemed to be really good quality.
They had a really funky smell. It was a combination of the chemicals used in production of the materials and silk screening of logo mied with a fair amount of cigarette smoke. I popped them in the washing machine and sent them through a double cycle to make sure they were really clean. The smell came out immediately and there is no remnant of it.
I put them on this morning for my ride to work and they are great. They're a hair warmer and much more comfortable than my ratty old Sugois. The fit is perfect and the grippers at the top functioned exactly like they should.
This inspires me to try some of their other products. Their cycling jackets look like they might be a great value.
In the end I saved about $8 or 9 by purchasing these over buying Sugoi or Pearl Izumi leg warmers. These will not be mistaken for the $70 Assos leg warmers, but they work well and seem like they'll hold up pretty well.

Spa Sport's ebay store can be found at www.spasport.com.

Pete

New Camera and Facial Recognition Software -- Canon SD1100 IS Reiew

Oy oy. 

 

I purchased a new camera over the weekend.  It just hit the market... it hadn't even been put on the shelf yet at my local camera shop.  It is a Canon SD1100 IS. It has many new features that I really liked. 

 

The facial recognition feature is really cool.  The idea is that when FR is turned on, the camera will autmatically identify, focus and optimize the photo for anything that it thinks is a face.  I tried this out on humans and it worked PERFECTLY on every test subject available (meaning Laura and me). 

 

I also confirmed that it works on different species.  Mao and Gracie (our cats) were the first candidates.  It had NO problem with them.  The red-eye elimination routine is great too.   In the cats, Laura's A570 would actually give them glowing gold eyes instead of the red ones that normally are seen with a flash.  This camera had no trouble with either kind of glowing eyes. 

 

I decided to see how the camera did with inanimate objects and facial recognition.  I then got out a stack of different toys that we have in the sun room to see what it would recognize and what would have problems with.  Mike Wazowski (one-eyed monster from the movie Monsters, INC.) was no problem.  In fact most of the characters of Bug's Life and Lilo and Stitch provided no trouble at all.  All of my toy dinosaurs had faces that were easily identified with the facial recognition software.

 

There were some things that did not work so well.  Barbie and Ken were not recognized as having faces (no big surprise there). They were posed side by side and the camera could only focus on Barbies oddly proportioned boobs and legs. 

 

I found a few plush toys (beanie babies) that also didn't work.    Hello Kitty didn't make the cut. 

 

I then took the camera to work to continue the testing.  After snapping many photos of friends and co-workers, I was surprised to find one individual that was continually out of focus.  I couldn't figure this out, because obviously this guy has a face.  Then I realized it...  It wasn't that the camera couldn't recognize his face.  It was that the camera couldn't figure out which face to focus on.   Once I swithced the FR feature off, the photos of this individual came out perfect. 

 

This concludes my camera review/social commentary for the day.

 

Hugs and Kisses,

 

Pete

 

 

The first 2009 Skyline I've seen on Ebay

You read it here!  THIS is the first 2009 Nissan Skyline that I've seen on ebay.  I guess that makes it the car of the day. :D

 

Pete