Shimano XTR pedals installed...

Installed the Shimano XTR (top of the line for the Shimano mountain bike range) on the mountain bike.

Took off the pedals on the right of this picture (normal pedals for wearing normal shoes)...

Porsche 356 Club Concourse at Central Park (next to the library) in Huntington Beach - Saturday, July 22, 2017

This turned out to be a pretty big event.  Maybe about a hundred cars on display.  about 60% 356, 30% 911/912 & the rest miscellaneous Porsche.  Nice setting and weather for a car show.  This type of event is good for about 30 minutes for me.  Looking at many variations of the same cars is interesting but not as much as looking at a bunch of different cars...

This better than new 912 had a twin spark engine (two plugs per cylinder)...

The early 911 guagues, steering wheel and wood insert in the dash are so much more attractive than the later interiors (like the one in the picture above this one).  

4-cam motor

The parking lot next to the car show was more interesting than the show due to the variety of cars parked...

Ferrari, Jaguar, Porsche, Alfa, Corvette, Mazda & Magnesium Race Wheels being stored on the side of the garage (not enough space inside)...

C2 Corvette RH Pop Up Headlamp Cover - NOS GM Part

Long Beach Model T Club Annual Swap Meet -- Saturday, July 22, 2017

Only bought a few items...  

7.74 is the month and year made.  This is a speedometer for a 1974 911 Carrera...

Cannondale 6/13 Repairs by Freddy

The front Shimano Dura Ace (top of the line) deraileur was extremely corroded.  I asked Freddy (the best local one man bike shop ) to replace it with a new Shimano Ultegra (second to the top of the line) front deraileur that I had bought at the Whittier Bicycle Swap meet about a year ago.   It works great.  Now I can actually shift into the big front ring.

The gears are trying to shift by itself, ever since I replaced the worn chain.  I tried to adjust it by messing with the rear deraileur but I wasn't able to fix it.  I had Freddy rehang the rear deraileur and adjust it.  It still tries to shift by itself.  My best guess is that the chain is not the right one for a Shimano 10 speed setup.  I ordered a Shimano Ultegra 10 speed chain.  It should be here by the end of the week...

The rear brake was also not working.  The problem was somewhere between the RH side brake lever (for the rear brake) and the first cable housing fitting at the front of the bike (the one on the top tube with the gray brake cable housing going into it).  Freddy took it apart and found that the brake cable was coming apart inside the cable housing (could not see it).  He replaced the brake cable & now the rear brake works well.

Freddy trued the rear wheel (after I replaced the broken spoke).  I lent him both of the special spoke tools that I had bought (from Park Tools).  In the process, Freddy said he broke one of the spokes!  He had to drill out the broken part and he happened to have a used spoke that he had saved from a previous repair that fit.  In the process of adjusting the spokes to true the wheel, one of the other spokes' nipple broke (as in the picture above).  I'm not too surprised that it happened, since it happened to me when I tried to turn the nipple from the broken spoke that I replaced.  The spoke and nipple are made of an aluminum alloy which is light but the strength is not particularly high.  Since the threads that maintain the tension on the spoke is below the edge of the rim, even though the nipple is broken above the rim, the strength of the spoke and the tension is OK.  In the salty environment that I ride in by the beach, it's inevitable that all the metal/alloy bits on the bike will eventually rust.  It's just a matter of time...

Hanging from the garage stringers

Mooneyes Open House -- July 8, 2017

Honda - Acura Brochures (some just recently purchased at the Honda charity sale)

Drove one just like the one in this picture in 1988 or so.  It was a test vehicle purchased by Ford.  Drove it on the Dearborn test track (had access anytime...).  It was a very nice car to drive.  The rear quarter windows went down all the way by going down then rotating to be able to go nearly all the way down.  It's a clever mechanism...

The NSX was the first All-Aluminum volume production car.  The castings for the suspension and chassis are works of art.

Clarice's first new car (1991 Integra LS - came standard with a moonroof, which was unusual at the time...).  What a nice car (huge greenhouse, fantastic suspension -- double wishbone, zippy twincam engine, very low cowl...).