Yamaha FZ1

Yamaha FZ1 – The most overlooked, underrated bike

The Yamaha FZ1 is one of the most underrated motorcycles of the modern era. Tremendous comfort, outstanding performance, impeccable reliability. It’s one of the best Jack-of-All bikes on the market today. If you want to commute around town or on the highway and carve through the twisties, all the while experiencing a comfortable ride to…

Motorcycle GPS: Garmin GPSmap 62s

Motorcycle GPS – Garmin GPSmap 62s Slow and steady wins the race This could be said about Garmin’s handheld GPS innovation strategy and also said about the Garmin GPSMAP 62S . More on that later. Garmin has been the leader in personal navigation devices. While the portable car GPS market is now more fragmented the…

Kriega R30 Motorcycle Backpack

If you had asked me a month ago whether I thought it was possible for a company to differentiate itself by creating a motorcycle specific backpack I would have confidently said “no way.” After 1100 miles on a sportbike with the Kriega R30 on my bike I can now confidently say that I am a…

2013 Suzuki GSX-R750

Suzuki has been making the Gixxer 750 since they were cool. I love this middleweight class of bikes and was very excited to ride this new 750. I will skip the most of the specifications as they have been covered well enough since the 2011 refresh. The most notable features are the Big Piston Forks…

McTube Pro for YouTube removes caching

Today Software Line Inc pushed out an update to my favorite YouTube app for the iPhone. This update is apparently removing the coveted caching feature at the request of Apple and YouTube. This is one of the two reasons I use McTube as my primary YouTube client. As for now, I’m not downloading this update.…

A California Road Trip

Bike: 2013 Suzuki GSX-R750 Bag: Kriega R30 Gloves: Cortech Latigo RR GPS: Garmin GPSMAP 62S Days: eight Miles: 1,190 Roads ridden: HWY-2, Tuna Canyon, HWY-33, HWY-58, HWY-101, HWY-17, HWY-1 Number of flooded crossings: two Number of turned-over cars: one Travelogue Taking the early flight from Boston allowed me to grab lunch with the rest of…

UC Berkeley Executive Education : Product Management

Recently I attended a Product Management session put on by the UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education in Santa Clara, California. In this post I am not going to catalogue all that was talked about or even cover the bullet points of each day. In this post I am going to give an overview of…