Recent content by Ash

The central ridge is the harder portion of their multi-compound rubber designed to provide more highway miles. I have Bridgestone S21s on one of my bikes, and the front has the same type of noticeable ridge in the middle. The softer rubber beside the ridge starts to become concave as it wears. I...

Yes, you definitely don't want to swap a grinder into that stand thing just to make a couple of cuts. I semi-permanently mounted my worst grinder in the stand, and then went and bought a nicer grinder for handheld use. In terms of control, I always used the handle on the old grinder, but the...

I need to get some machine tools. My reaction to the first 30 seconds of that video was "I would rather buy a new bike than drill through the length of a stainless steel bolt with my hand drill to make a drill guide". :ROFLMAO: The abrasive hole saw is an interesting idea though. Confession...

The most I will do is signal folks that are driving at night without their headlights on. I pull the parking brake a notch in the car so the DRL will go off, then turn the low beams on and off a couple of times. Cutting the DRL and turning the low beams on is more noticeable as a deliberate...

That's a good point. I will file this away and hope that I remember it when it inevitably comes time that I need to use it.

Is your first picture from before or after the extractor broke and stuck in it? I can't really see much, if any, of the extractor stuck in there. I've shattered rotary cutoff discs trying to cut slots in similar recessed things, so dig out your safety glasses. Pretty sure I was trying to cut...

This would be easy if they knew whether the audio clips started at the start/finish line. Much harder if the clips started at some random point in the lap. The Mugello one definitely isn't starting on the front straight, but you can't tell if that's just from the video editing or not...

It looks like Oliveira has managed to transfer his curse of getting taken out by other riders onto Mir.

I have no personal experience with the ZX10R fitment, but I've seen a few of these around the pits and they seem pretty solid: https://419racing.com/lap-timer-mounts/

I picked up one of these on sale a while back and it reduces a lot of the angle-grinder trepidation. It turns an angle grinder into a mini-chopsaw. I couldn't justify the shop space for a real chopsaw, and this thing just lives on a shelf above my workbench. There's a cheaper version that's...

Absolutely wild Moto2 race.

I'm up to 6 or 8 tire changes a season now (track), so doing it myself provides the convenience of being able to swap tires any time that I need. Mounting tires isn't exactly pleasant, but it's pretty easy when you figure out the technique. The cost of the gear isn't really a factor: less than...

It's a weird thing to complain about, but I think that I haven't been commenting much this season because of event saturation. Everything starts to blur together between the sprints and the increased number of race weekends. I've always watched Moto2, Moto3 and MotoE as well, so that's a lot of...

Large safety pins or bulldog paper clips to close the annoying bright gap in the motel curtains. A small damp microfiber cloth attached to a retractable badge reel to wipe the bugs off the helmet visor on the fly.

New challenge: take a shot every time that article says "Pando Moto Arnie Slim jeans"