Oh Hi Dere!
Alright so there’s lots of men out there who buy a motorcycle and feel edgy, what makes me so special? Well for starters it’s not just a toy or a vanity project it’s my primary source of transportation, yep even in the winter and when it rains. Why? Primarily because I got into motorcycling after bicycling all over the DMV, I love bicycling and still hop on my bike whenever I can, but I needed to travel farther and farther for work so I tried out a bike I didn’t have to peddle.
The experience I’ve gained is particularly relevant as eBikes start to gain popularity. eBikes are awesome they help fill some pretty ridiculous gaps in our transportation ecosystem, but riders are susceptible to many of the same risks us motorcycle riders are so I want to be a resource to everyone who wants to try out life on two wheels, whatever type of vehicle you may choose I want to help you pilot it safely in any condition.
Additionally after working on Internal Combustion vehicles off and on my whole life I’ve got some ideas for how to design electric vehicles that don’t feel like an appliance, so stay tuned for those too.
This device makes the explosion in a engine happen ever so slightly earlier, however a device like this is only used in older mechanical ignition timing systems, because with a computerized system a line of code can perform the same function.
Cathram, a Kit-Car from the UK
'87 Suzuki GSXR750 [Air-Cooled}
Three cylinder engines are so intriguing. They're perfectly unbalanced.
VW GTI Mk VII Drawing, Colored Pencil on paper
I feel as comfortable operating a Bobcat as writing a blog post. Though my work experiences might not seem like it has much of a common thread, it has all required critical thinking and problem solving.
The Trabant, a 2-Stroke Car from the GDR
Rotary Converter from Electric City Streetcar Muesum Scranton, Pa. Converts Alternating Current into Direct Current with a combination motor/generator before the solid-state rectifier existed.
An instructional graphic I created to teach someone how to use a 12v Test Light to identify if electricity was flowing to a specific component.
My rendering of a 1967 Triumph Bonneville ignition system. These switches control when the spark plug ignites the compressed mixture of gasoline & air in the cylinder. Like WWII era computers these rely on physical switches to process information. These switches called “points” form a Boolean “Not” gate, when the input activates the switch it breaks a path within the ignition circuit giving a direct path to ground forcing the electricity to take a path with far more resistance through the ignition coil and spark plug resulting in a high voltage spark jumping across the gap causing an explosion which the engine then turns into rotational force.
