Baby is in bed. Time for a little fire time.
Great Sunday.
Almost done. Just have to finish the rear window. Luckily the top can come half way down.
Fourth vehicle I’ve had done at Tint King in MA with LLumar Pinacle tint. 3rd car I’ve had their Air 80 product (all of my cars have been blue). I think it’ll look great. BMW’s factory tent is 10% so should bring it down to 70% (maximum in New Hampshire) and contrast well …
Once front 2 tires are installed, I drop it off Tuesday morning to have the body shop install 2 new front wheel wells I damaged while towing. I’ll do an oil change Wednesday then drop it off at a mechanic to replace all of the other fluids and cooling system. Then it’ll be ready to …
Long process to get the car sorted. Flat tire so just decided to replace all four 7-year old tires. They could only get 2 in so I did that on the rears plus inspection and alignment. Then 114 mile drive south to get the windows tinted and then I drop the car back off tomorrow for the front 2 tires.
Never owned a car with a staggered setup before which means you can’t rotate the tires. I went with Michelin Pilot Sport 4S (my favorites) which are not directional so at least I can swap left to right every 10K miles but front to back won’t be possible. $1200 for tires, mount, balance, …
Guess I’m buying new tires. These are 8 years old so it’s time.
Ugh.
Bike Lineup for Summer: Beta 390 Race - 281 pounds, 44 HP Husky 701 LR - 391 pounds, 74 HP BMW F750GS - 493 pounds, 77 HP BMW R1250GSA - 625 pounds, 136 HP
As promised, new bike. It’s very used but I needed a new trail bike and this fits the bill. It does need some work. 6K miles and needs new fork seals and suspension setup for my weight.
First ride in the new convertible. Went out for ice cream. She loves it.
It’s going to be really hot this week. The lake water is 67F. I’m looking forward to heating up that water a bit more. Back in Boston and time for my 2 hour drive home.
Leaving Nashville and heading back north.
I never thought about this but my wife is getting car sunscreen for the convertible. I guess that does make sense.
With the open web dying and everyone using Medium, Instagram, TikTok, X.com to publish, it requires having accounts at all of these companies to read content. Like needing Facebook to buy a used car (marketplace) since Craigslist is dead. It’s really disappointing.
Here’s the post on X.com
This shit is hostile and I’m sick of it. @gruber@mastodon.social linked to an x.com post about the Shining photo which links to an Instagram page but when I click the Plus button to read the comments, I have to create an instagram account. The web is fucking broken. I’d love to read the …
Good morning from Lebanon, TN. Here for the BMW MOA rally and it’ll be a busy few days. I blogged on the flight about my new car - adamchandler.me/blog/2025…
This is an Apple Services advertisement on a desktop app that I own fully. Not cool, Apple.
So exciting. But I am now in Nashville, so time to get to work. i’ll have a blog post up in a day or two.
I started my YouTube channel 20 years ago and I finally just hit 15,000 subscribers
I shot 90 minutes of combined 4K video on my insta360, GoPro, DJI Drone and iPhone yesterday. Video is here - www.youtube.com/watch This lead to a 950gb FCP file which filled up my 2TB SSD. I regret not doing 4TB when I bought this. Next MBP will be 4 TB for sure!
Theme of June & July - More hiking, less drinking.