Feb 7, 2010

I probably won't get an aftermarket exhaust

I had recently been contemplating replacing the stock muffler on my motorcycle with an aftermarket unit. There are several reasons for it, which do include how it looks, but realistically the main driver has always been “so it’s louder.” No point in pretending.

An experience yesterday has pretty much turned me off on that idea though. I was leaving the mall after giving a bunch of money to Nordstrom. I packed my new shirts away into my tank bag then got on the bike and started it up. Before backing out I let a family walk past behind me.

Coincidentally they were getting in the car next to me, and this tiny little girl, maybe 2 or 3 years old, is holding her hands tightly to her ears and looks like she is going to cry. She’s staring at the bike like it’s a monster that’s going to eat her. I felt so bad I apologized to her mom. Then as I was backing out, I heard her yell “mommy what is that?”

So, the stock exhaust is not all that loud to me, but it is still loud enough to scare children. Since that’s really the only reason to get an aftermarket exhaust it no longer seems like such a good idea. Sorry kid!

Jan 29, 2010
Low visibility

Low visibility

Jan 22, 2010
Jan 22, 2010

Beautiful Friday afternoon.

Jan 22, 2010
Riding

Riding

Jan 22, 2010
Friday afternoon

Friday afternoon

Jan 18, 2010

Testing motorcycle camera mount.

Jan 17, 2010

Afternoon from Daniels Park

Dec 17, 2009
Cedar Creek wind project at dawn

Cedar Creek wind project at dawn

Dec 17, 2009

Geotagging on a Mac

GPSPhotoLinker appears to work very well, easily, and embed the geography data into the files directly. Just tried it with a set of ORF/JPEG photos off my Olympus E-410, GPS gets carried smoothly into Lightroom when I import the files after that.

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