Stijn!!

[Jim Richards]

Yeah, I read it all too. That helped make my brain what it is today.

[RKDinOKC]

My head is mostly filled with oatmeal as far as i can tell. Not sure if the transformation happened before, after, because of, or caused to be drawn to the Stijn thread.

[RKDinOKC]

This web page is up from when I sold my 90 GT back in 2001.

90 GT web Site

Got an email asking me for more pictures of the car and service records. Does it say anywhere on the site that the car is for sale?

[GH85Carrera]

That does kinda look like a for sale ad.

[RKDinOKC]

It sold the car, but I removed all the buy my car stuff and added the paragraph about the new owner.

[Flieger]

Originally Posted by Outback Porsche

Hey Max I use a program called BadCopy Pro to recover data from bad disks. PM me with an email adresss and I'll send you a copy

Thanks for the offer, but I don't need anything recovered at this point. Looks like I will be getting a new drive and copying over the stuff. I have the solidworks folder on a flash drive.

[Flieger]

Today I climbed Mulholland Highway from the Rock Store then took Latigo Canyon Road to PCH and back. The note at the beach said "Latigo 9.2 mi 2,250 ft" then I can add to that the climb on Mul. Hwy. which is 2 miles and 768 ft according to mapmyride.com. I did Latigo in about 45 minutes since I was just ejoying the ride and spinning rather than standing and pushing a tall gear.

Piuma Road (which I did yesterday) is 8.04 mi and 2,165 ft of climb to the top of Stunt. I am not sure if those numbers are elevation changes or total climbing but it has been a good week of cycling, especially the today and yesterday.

Both rides had dense marine layers such that I could only see about 50 ft. in front of me. That and the wet road made for an interesting descent on Latigo Canyon near the top! It cleared up for the descent on Mul. Hwy. today, though.

There is great scenery on both roads and also fun, twisty turns. I love living so close to the Santa Monica Mountains.

[GH85Carrera]

When I ride a bicycle in the mountains I prefer the Kansas or Florida mountains.

[Flieger]

Lol.

[Flieger]

I am going to take tomorrow off. Just do the Rock Store climb in the morning then back home to watch Le Mans (starts at 6am Pacific time). Sunday will be light too as I have to move all my stuff back up to school since class starts on Monday.

So today I went over to Latigo and was not planning on going all the way to PCH but I was feeling good and I figured if I was going to do it any day, then today is the day to do it. Thursday I did not plan on Piuma, either. I just decided as I was heading to the Rock Store in my car to do a short ride and went the other direction.

[Flieger]

David might like this:

A trip worth writing about - Autoweek

[vas930]

Morning all

[RKDinOKC]

I liked pedaling my 10 speed road bike through the Ozarks. There were a lot of hills, but they were steep but small enough at a time that the going downhill made up for the uphill bits. But hey, I was 15 and knew no pain compared to today.

[GH85Carrera]

My last bike had only three speeds and it weighed a ton. It had horrible brakes and was a POS.

[Noah930]

Originally Posted by slodave

Alarick, as I mentioned a few pages back, my pinky still hurts. I never bothered to put in a splint. I finally have it in one, but man it hurt a bit when I took it off to shower. Hurt like it does when I bend it the wrong way.

Want me to take a look at it sometime this weekend? I'm going to dinner at my parents Saturday night. And I was planning on moseying down to Rodeo Dr to catch the car show on Sunday late morning. Other than that, it's a free weekend. For yardwork. Gotta go get some plants and rocks to fill in the parts I've dug out.

Originally Posted by slodave

Yeah, I'm not sure I want to mess with one of those. Cool technology, I hope there's an escape route.

Escape route = parachute.

[Flieger]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

I liked pedaling my 10 speed road bike through the Ozarks. There were a lot of hills, but they were steep but small enough at a time that the going downhill made up for the uphill bits. But hey, I was 15 and knew no pain compared to today.

On the shorter climbs like Rock Store I would generally stay out of the saddle and push a larger gear. Yes, the downhill does make up for it. In SLO the hills are smaller and much steeper generally. Up to a point I can just stand up and attack them but when they get too long I get tired out and have to go into the granny gears and spin like mad to make it up at a snail's pace. I like the pretty constant, shallow to moderate grades in the Santa Monicas. Plus there are many more paved canyon roads here. In SLO there are more mountainbike and hiking trails.

The pain goes away after a while. If you can ignore it long enough you get sort of numb or else an endorphin high. My lower back muscles are what hurts the most when I am sitting down. Plus my seat is one of the racing kind, wheras my mtb has a cushier one. So I would get out of the saddle for short periods to relieve the pain.

[Flieger]

So how many of you guys (and gals) are keeping up with events at Le Mans?

Auto News - 24 Heures du Mans 2012 - Audi−Oreca−Ferrari−Porsche claim class poles for 24 Hours Le Mans - LeMans.org

[Noah930]

I just wanna see that AAR-built Delta Wing run.

[Flieger]

Yeah, but the organizers decided they want it to turn LMP2 laptimes and not challenge for outright victory. That is a shame since it would be cool to see something so different and with a smaller engine and light weight spank the heavier LMP1 cars. Of course, those cars are "supposed" to turn 3:30 laptimes. At least that is what the ACO wants.

Personally, I would like to see rules sort of like group C.

You would be given a certain amount of energy - fuel or electricity - and you can do whatever you want with it. Just say that the car has to fit inside a box x by y by z and also has to pass safety tests like the F1 crash tests. Then no minimum weight or any other sort of restrictions. Well, no hazardous materials or manufacturing processes.

[porsche4life]

Cool thing about working in a company that has a Large Sports Venues department.... Today we spent some time on the conference call discussing our work at the Circuit of the Americas...