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Track Day Bro, with Scott Redding

“That’s the historicness of Silverstone” “Something about babies” Keep watching he goes on, or whoever wrote the closed captioning did.

Carbon Tube Testing

It’s time to build a fixture to test carbon tubing.  For this project I am testing a 41mm tube with both bending and torsional loads as well as…

Mini Ductor Venom

A long time coming, the Mini Ductor Venom production build is finally assembled.  Fit, function and appearance exceeded many of my expectations and early feedback from users and…

How the seed was planted… 90’s

I still remember the 80’s but its clear to me that the MTB seed wasn’t planted in my life until the 90’s wave of recreational entertainment rolled through my…

Funny Front Ends: Part 2

Last time I promised a history of suspension but i’m more interested in the history of bicycle suspension, and even more interested in some modern history.  This is…

Funny Front Ends: Part 1

The ubiquity of the telescopic fork is something i’ve always thought to be a curious subject.  The absence of  linkage forks in OEM applications, outside of BMW, and a few…

The Standing Desk 1.0

This looks nothing like a standing desk, but place it on another desk and it works perfectly, but so would any end table.  As an end table I…

The new blog.

I’ve decided to start using a blog as a means of documenting my progress on a number of personal projects as well as archiving some from the past….

A Simple Seatpost Extension

Measure twice cut once, in this case I believe we measured 5 times, and cut 6;  in the end things came together nicely.  The customer needed a fit…

Snowmobiling in the Yooper with John T

Fiat/Alfa Hillclimb with Windy City BMW

Visiting The Corvette Museum with Jeremy

Thaipusam 2014

I think Mike did a good job summarizing this experience over at igobyplane.com. *Photos by JGW Thaipusam 2014 – Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia    

Scenes from Vietnam

Kettle Cycles Carbon Rotors

Behind the Scenes… Prototyping and R&D SMC Molding and Pre Production Factory Build Production Development, SMC Molded Stem and Brake Pad Molding/Contract Manufacturing. Complete SMC Stem and Production…

New Years 2014 in Brown County Indiana

Circuit of The Americas – 2012 Formula 1

Trip to Vermont and Upstate NY

The Texas Wedding, visit with Brad and MTB Session at the Ranch.

My Fiat build is published on Bring A Trailer

Andrew Races Endurocross

Happy Birthday and awesome accomplishment.

MotoGP with Andrew, and Dad

Deals Gap – Tail of the Dragon

The Vee: Part 1

Like all great projects it started as  completely unnecessary craigslist search query “scca, racecar, project”.  This yields results and the gem that sparkled from the group was an…

Respraying The E36 318ti Rear End

BMW e34 Meet in Spring Grove, IL 2009

E34 Wagon Rear M5 Subframe Swap

BMW e21 323i

All photos by Michael Minor Flickr @pixelbacon What a silly car, teutonic, meh chaotic. Take the e21, the successor to the 2002, and the first of a series…