1600 miles of Lotus-ness The night before the trip, I was reasonably worried. It would be her first road trip and a daunting task. The Lotus would travel over 1100 miles in a straight line to drive a few hundred miles on curvy mountainous roads. The winding roads were eagerly anticipated but getting there in[…]
Did you just do it? Did you just make a decision? Now breathe. Take in that summer air. You will have to toughen up for the consequences. These consequences, they can’t be averted. Not like your teenage days, where the unpleasant outcome could be sorted by dad. This time, you have to bear the grunt.[…]
It is close to an hour now. My attempts to go to bed are failing again. The clock is fast approaching 2330 and I am wide awake. I lay crouched sideways on bed, my comforter warped, my elbow propping my head up, while my right hand is tracking a mouse pad. The mouse is tracking[…]
A negative lean is good “Camber” indicates how much your wheels are inclined with respect to the car’s vertical axis. If the top of the tire is closer towards the car’s chassis compared to the bottom, then that is called negative camber while the opposite arrangement is positive camber. Along with caster and toe, camber[…]
Music has always had a strange hold over me. I can’t sing, even at gun point. I barely understand music and have had no training of the sort. I even struggle to repeat lyrics word to word. But yet, the rising tempos, the rhythmic notes and the metaphoric lyrics make a significant impact on my[…]
Not a curve too many A review by prose seems ridiculousIn a matter describing such excellenceSo instead I return to verse to releaseA description of my Lotus Elise To make her road legal, a few elements were addedBlinkers that blink, horns that honk and an exhaust that filters!Similarities with other cars are semantically possibleBut comparing[…]