I bottled my Golden Bitter last night. My first real attempt at an English pale, pretty much landing perfectly in the middle of the best bit...

I harvested about 15 pounds of ornamental plums today at lunch. I soaked them for an hour in hot water in my mash ton, which softened them. ...

We just had a nice rolling earthquake in Chico. Well we felt it in Chico, no idea where it centered from. Sent from my iPhone

Susan got me a Bluemoon sample pack since I wanted some lighter summer beers to sip on, while I'm planted on the couch resting my wound....

Hard to tell, but the entire top of my foot is bruised. Really easy to see it up by my swollen toes.

While enjoying an evening walk, I tripped on a rock, then landed badly on my right foot, rolling it over. It immediately hurt, and was throb...

As the subject says, I got the taillights mounted, as well as the engine. I was waiting on a shipment from Thailand to arrive containing th...

Tonight it was time to rebuild the carb for Goldie.  I'm using a standard C100 carb, which is a 13mm Keihin.  I have a small box of old...

Side covers designed, painted, glittered, striped, and cleared.  I found some nice little glass drawer pulls to use as securing knobs. ...

More assembly work on Goldie.  I'm not quite sure what the side covers are going to look like when I'm done.  I have plans of doing...

Hello rolling chassis.  8:15pm evening light doesn't let the sparkle through.

All the sparkly goodness has been shot

Today was our homebrew competition awards ceremony. I ended up winning gold for my Strong Scottish, named Chester the Wee Heavy. Then three ...

The base is "Key Lime Green", with a couple coats of "Citrus Blast" sparkle paint.  It has a fair amount of gold sparkl...

I fabbed up a seat for Goldie.  I had an old piece of 1/8" thick aluminum, so I cut that out as the base.  Then I added two pieces of ...

I added an end piece, and I like it.

Simple upswept exhaust, closer to my initial sketch.

I'm sure you're tired of the side view of Goldie at this point, but here is another one. Showing a simple exhaust option with a chop...

Just a bit of tinkering two nights ago. Seeing what a stock sized c100 seat looks like, and a headlight housing from a Bridgestone 90. Also ...

As with most of build projects, I find it useful to do a mockup before paint. In this case I needed to see how the rear tire fit, and what I...