Euro Moto Adventure

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The Author (right) With Good Friend Szabi (left) on the Border of Switzerland and Italy | Photo: L. Drahos

Even a casual observer would likely notice that rag has been taking a pretty solitary back seat, these days, while I have been focusing my energy on the other items that keep me busy in life. The constant maintenance and frequent hacking attempts make me wonder if it is time to just just ‘er down. When I see weeks where the overwhelming majority of traffic is from China, it makes me wonder if I have already waited to long to shut it down, haha.

Philosophical musings aside, I had a big birthday this year and decided to celebrate by taking a two week vacation to ride a motorcycle through Europe with some of my friends. I have started to write about this experience already multiple times unsuccessfully on Jake.News. Thankfully, my friend (the one in the photo above) put together a write up for our moto club blog, and left a section at the end for me to add some notes. We are publishing it in a series over here, in case anyone is interested. There is also a mega-gallery of photos that I published here. I may yet find time to give it a Jake.News angle. But until then, this is what I got!

ADX Moto 2026

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Moon Rising Above the Headwaters of the Hudson River

One of the “good” things that came out of the COVID era for me, personally was connecting with some new people while participating in some of the few permitted activities during that era. Riding motorcycles was one such activity. The guys that I met during that time, and subsequently met through those guys have become friends of my whole family.Continue reading→

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Guys, it’s been a busy summer. I haven’t written much for a few reasons. One is time. When I’m busy doing fun stuff, it’s tough to find bandwidth to sit down and publish all of my super important updates. Another is paranoia. I see that my stuff is constantly being scraped by AI and it really freaks me out. I especially don’t want robots ripping off my kid’s likeness. Since we can all acknowledge that humanity peaked in the 90’s, all we can do is soldier on and try not to make any stupid errors that put our entire situation into jeopardy when the robots take over. There is no perfect answer. For now, I continue to require an outlet for my waning need to create words and photos. That being the case, I figured that I may as well spend a few minutes to make some visual updates to the look and feel of the site. So I threw together this new masthead, added a search bar in the header and mixed up the color palette. Until I can figure out how to make the robots bring back the 90’s, this is all I got.

Summer Golden Hour

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I have been recovering from a pretty bad ankle sprain (more on that some other time, maybe) for the past 3+ weeks. As a result, I have been doing a considerable amount more cycling than usual, to fill the void that my inability to run has created. I love both cycling and running for different reasons. But cycling is so much more fun than running. Being able to travel at those speeds and cover so much ground under human power is just such a cool thing. Also, coasting on the downhill… If only it was as good of a workout as running. Anyway, most of the riding the I have been doing is back-road gravel stuff upstate that is basically straight up and down, evevation-wise. But I took the opportunity this week to log a few miles on the single speed in the ‘boros. Naturally, it was during golden hour. The temp was perfect. The breeze was divine. I brought along the knock around cam with a nifty fifty to boot! I rode G-point to the Manhattan Bridge, then up the LES to the Williamsburg Bridge and back. Stopped along the way to get these snaps. The top one is my favorite, taken right at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge, on the Chinatown side. But I kinda like ’em all. Maybe you will too!