66 Motor Palace

I saw a guy shooting with a Leica M8 at last month's  Deus Sunday Mass  and since I've had Lust for Leica (get it?) most of my adult life I took advantage of the opportunity to speak to it's owner. The Photographers name is Peter Heck and it turns out he likes it. He spent considerable time teaching me about it and making lens recommendations. He never said so, but over the course of our conversation I got the idea he wasn't just taking snapshots for his Facebook page. As usual our conversation drifted to motorcycles and motorcycle things, (he rides a modified/lightened/hot rodded BMW R90/6). As we wrapped our conversation we exchanged cards confirming my suspicion, Peter's a professional photographer. We've stayed in touch since returned to Germany and he's been kind enough to share more photos of his motorcycle, these taken on a ride through the French Alps. Anyway the point here is you should go to Deus Sunday Mass. "For sure" they...

I rode up to Baldy for a work session (really) Friday afternoon. The weather was perfect and traffic was light. The people and food at the Mt. Baldy Lodge are hard to beat and it's only about twelve miles up the hill from Route 66 (Claremont / Upland). You can take Glendora Mtn. Road back down and pick 66 up in Glendora and make a nice little ride of it. Lori and I rented a cabin a couple years ago and it was pretty fun too. Market research  R&D After carb tweaking and a thread repair on the R100S's left head I rode up to Venice to hang out with the cool kids.  Deus Ex Machina  held their Sunday Mass after the VVMC Third Sunday Ride. Deus took over the old Conroy's building at Venice and Lincoln and transformed it into "The Emporium of Post Modern Activity" with music by Brook and River , grilled sausages, and beers. They also serve the most incredible coffee ever from Handsome Coffee Roasters . If you like coffee you need to go try some. I bought...