I joined my brothers for a dirt bike ride up into the forest. We had to wait for a rain shower to pass before we took off. It came down hard for a few minutes, then mostly stopped. We are getting ready to take off.
We rode around for an hour or so. We had a few real light drizzles once in awhile but not enough to get wet. We looked around to see if any new edible wild mushrooms came out from the rain, but not much yet.
Break spot
We eventually made it up to the hill top where we take a break for a spell.
Smoke
We noticed what looked like some smoke out in front of us.
It was smoke all right, but it was rather brief, like they tried to start some wet brush on fire but it was too wet. I think this house did a lot of cutting for fire prevention last summer and they were trying to burn the brush piles without much success.
We left there and rode around some more and then headed back to my house.
Bike problem
Once I rested up, I went on YouTube to find out how to adjust spokes on the wheels as my rear tire was a bit wobbly and was hitting my chain causing it to make slamming noises as I rode around. So, I needed to try to adjust it to take the wobble out of it.
I set the bike up on it’s jack stand and used this old chair bottom as a pointer to check the tire run out as I turned it to find the spots that needed to be adjusted.
I used the tip of the chair mount as a pointer which I placed by the rim as I turned it.
This worked pretty good and I was able to take out most of the wobble. I then went around the spokes a few times to tighten them all up as they were pretty loose.
I got most of the wobble out. I need a new chain as it’s about worn out and it’s loose which is part of the problem the tire hits it.
I ordered up the chain and some better tools to do this job, like a much better spoke wrench then the adjustable one that was starting to round off the spoke nuts.
Crab
Both brothers were out crabbing on Saturday, opening day, so Barry brought me over another crab for dinner tonight. Yum.
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
