This morning I took a drive out to a town about ten miles northwest of Durham.  Along with me went a friend by the name of David and a wad of cash.  On the return trip we were light the cash, but heavier by 500 pounds of Japanese liter bike.  It’s a 1997 Suzuki Bandit 1200, originally equipped with a front fairing that was removed by the original owner to give a naked street fighter look.  It’s in pretty good shape for its age and mileage, and it’s an outstandingly fun ride, with sufficient torque that I rarely need to down-shift unless I am coming to a full stop.

In fact, so much fun is the Bandit that I rode about 80 miles of country roads on it this afternoon!  Here’s the route I took along some nice, scenic, low-traffic highway not too far from where I live.

It’s been some time since I’ve posted, but I have been busy with life and such.  However, here I am again with some cool site updates!  First off, I’ve finally finished my series on the GT Theremin with the remaining circuit details, lots of information and photos about construction, and some results and final comments.  This series of pages basically represents how I would have written the final reports for the project if I had the time and were granted total creative discretion.  Please let me know if I have made any errors or omissions or if any of my explanations are unclear.  Or you may just contact me to say hello; that’s fine too.

In the process of writing all these pages on the GT Theremin, I realized that my site layout afforded horizontal insufficient space for text given my penchant for verbosity.  Therefore I’ve updated the style sheets to give me some breathing room and hopefully make longer pages less tedious for you to read.

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