Author: paschmann
Eastern Dirt Article: Braking Technique
In this months EDM technique article we are going to talk about braking. Braking when used correctly can save you a considerable amount of time. Consider this – on my local MX track we have 19 turns where you would need to apply your brakes. Brake ¼ a second (What’s that right?) later on all those corners and you would be cutting your lap times down nearly 5 seconds! Fundamentally, braking is one of the most important techniques in dirt bike riding because majority of it is not performance/machine related but rather the riders’ skill and technique.
Today we will be looking at braking after a jump. In our case it was a left hand turn onto a short straight into small table top leading into a sharp right hand turn.
List: Eastern Dirt Articles
As a motocross racer, I had the unique and wonderful experience of contributing to an innovative online digital magazine by a friend, called Eastern Dirt. I wrote and photographed product reviews, technique articles, and bike tests.
2007 Request for Motocross Sponsorship
Racing is expensive, so I put together a marketing/sponsorship request to send out and get some product and monetary support from various brands in the industry. Sponsorhouse.com was a popular and easy way to get this done in prior years but sometimes you needed to reach out to local companies directly. Here is the presentation I used in 2007.
Sponsorship-emailAC Gear Test at Trick Tank and Top Gun
Web App: RSSza
RSSza was a website I developed in 2007, it was essentially a content/link aggregator which periodically ran pulling in news and information from RSS feeds. It was probably the first web app I had developed which got some traction and I received some good, and constructive comments from folks on various areas of improvement. After some feedback the site was considered “information overload”, I let users create a profile and customize their feeds.
I shut the site down in around 2011.
List: My Websites
A list of web sites I have designed and built over the years. Majority were full-stack projects and a couple are still online and going strong.
List: Print Projects
While I am not a designer, I have always loved the concept, process and experimentation aspects of print projects. I grew up with Dot Matrix printers and the allure of bringing digital to reality grasped my attention early in life. These are some of the projects I have created digitally and subsequently printed for personal, marketing or informational needs.
Paul & Kates 2007 Calendar
List: My Open Source Projects
As a huge believer and consumer of open source software, tools or frameworks, I have enjoyed giving back to the community through a variety of projects.
You must be logged in to post a comment.