{"id":6191,"date":"2019-10-10T16:33:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T23:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=6191"},"modified":"2019-10-10T16:37:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T23:37:57","slug":"catching-up-and-whats-coming-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/10\/10\/catching-up-and-whats-coming-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up and what’s coming up!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Snacks at an engineering seminar in Singapore. Those are hard-boiled quail eggs and they were good!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m back after a 3-day hop over to Singapore, and it’s good to be home.\u00a0 I thought I’d do sort of a catchall blog to mention a bunch of things.\u00a0 For starters, Singapore was fun (it always is), but that 15-hour time change is a bear.\u00a0 I was over there to teach a class, something I do two or three times a year.\u00a0 They treat me well in Singapore and I love traveling to Asia.\u00a0 I think I’m back on California time already, thanks to keeping an altered sleep schedule while I was in Asia and a good sleeping pill that let me sleep through the night last night.\u00a0 If you’ve never been to Singapore, you might want to add it to your bucket list.\u00a0 It’s one of the world’s great places.<\/p>\n

I kept up (as many of you did) with Joe Gresh’s Endurofest fun in Flagstaff, and it looks like the only downside to that adventure was his good buddy Hunter crashed and cracked a bunch of ribs.\u00a0 Hunter, we’re thinking of you.\u00a0 Get well soon.<\/p>\n

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At the spot where Joe’s buddy Hunter crashed. He got through it with six broken ribs. Ouch!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And speaking of cracking things, you’ll remember the story on my .257 Weatherby Ruger No. 1 cracking its Circassian walnut stock and me shipping it back to the factory.\u00a0 I called Ruger, but I still don’t have an update on the fix.\u00a0 They were supposed to get back to me later today, but it’s already later today so I expect I won’t hear anything until tomorrow or Monday.\u00a0 I’ve got a bunch of .257 Weatherby brass polished and primed, and I’ve got the Barnes monolithic copper bullets my good buddy Mississippi Dave recommended.\u00a0 I’m eager to get that rifle back and continue the load development for it.<\/p>\n

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A 200th year Ruger 77 in 7×57. You’d think with all those 7s I’d get lucky, but I haven’t found a way to get tight groups yet. I’m working the problem.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the meantime, I’ve been playing with a beautiful 43-year-old Ruger Model 77.\u00a0 It’s a 200th year Ruger in a very classy chambering, the 7×57, which is the old Spanish Mauser cartridge.\u00a0 I bought it used in 1977 and it is in pristine condition, and I think I know why the previous owner sold it. \u00a0 It doesn’t group worth a damn.\u00a0 But that makes it more fun (half the fun with these things is searching for a good load). \u00a0 Stay tuned, because if I ever find a decent load, you can be sure there will be a blog on this one.<\/p>\n

The carb on my TT250 is gummed up and it won’t idle.\u00a0 That’s not the bike’s fault.\u00a0 It’s mine.\u00a0 I sometimes go months between rides on that bike, and that’s what happened here.\u00a0 I’ll take the carb apart to clean out the passageways, and when I do, I’ll photodocument the approach so you can see how I go about it. \u00a0 I’ll have to re-read the tutorial I did for CSC Motorcycles<\/a> on the TT250 carb first.\u00a0 These bikes are super easy to maintain, and they have to be one of the best deals ever on a new motorcycle.<\/p>\n

Hey, another cool motorcycle deal…my good buddy Ben recently published a book titled 21 Tips For Your First Ride South Of The Border<\/em> (and it’s free).\u00a0 You can download it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Let’s see…what else?\u00a0 Oh yeah, we have a bunch of stuff in the blog pipeline for you.\u00a0 There’s the Yoo-Hoo product review (we haven’t forgotten about that one). \u00a0 There’s a very cool watch company (Gear’d Hardware<\/a>) that follows the ExNotes blog, and they recently sent two watches to us for review.\u00a0 The review will appear here in the near future.\u00a0 That’s good; we’ve been meaning to start a watch review series and this will get the ball rolling.<\/p>\n

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A Gear’d Hardware watch, one of two Gresh and I will review for you here on the ExhaustNotes blog.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More good stuff:\u00a0 I’ve been playing with another Ruger No. 1 chambered in yet another Weatherby cartridge (the mighty .300 Weatherby), and I’ll be posting a blog about that soon. \u00a0 Another product review that’s coming up is one on turmeric, the dietary supplement that’s supposed to work wonders for arthritis.\u00a0 I don’t have arthritis, but that crash I had on my Speed Triple 10 years ago has bothered me mightily for the last decade, and taking turmeric is getting it done for me.\u00a0 I don’t normally believe in these supplement wonder pills, but folks, it’s working.\u00a0 Watch for the blog on this stuff.\u00a0 And we haven’t forgotten about a near-term ride up the Pacific Coast Highway (good buddy TK and I have been talking about that one).<\/p>\n

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California’s Pacific Coast Highway: It doesn’t get any better than this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stay tuned; there’s always good stuff coming your way here on the ExNotes blog!<\/p>\n

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I’m back after a 3-day hop over to Singapore, and it’s good to be home.\u00a0 I thought I’d do sort of a catchall blog to mention a bunch of things.\u00a0 For starters, Singapore was fun (it always is), but that 15-hour time change is a bear.\u00a0 I was over there to teach a class, something … Continue reading “Catching up and what’s coming up!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[654,64,84,89],"tags":[897,895,6,478,896,397],"class_list":["post-6191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure-motorcycle-books","category-gear","category-guns","category-motorcycle-adventure-ride","tag-200th-year-ruger","tag-geard-hardware","tag-motorcycle-mexico","tag-pacific-coast-highway","tag-ruger-model-77","tag-ruger-no-1"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6191"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6207,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191\/revisions\/6207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}