The Last Ten Percent
A milestone, literally. 1001 miles on the Aurora’s odo!
After nearly finishing up a local solar project, it’s time to try to get back in development mode with the Evelo Aurora e-bike. The title of this post relates to the design maxim, “the last 10% of a product’s development takes 90% of the total project time”. In other words, there’s a big difference in the time it takes to make something work, and the time to make it work really well. I decided to take an impromptu bike ride, motivated by a local fifth wheel packed with yapping mutts having an anxiety disorder. I wanted to keep an eye out for an alternative campsite just in case the noise became intolerable. Well, while I was wandering about, I decided to tour the north shore of Senator Wash Reservoir beside the Laguna Dam LTVA.
This is merely an approach to the north shore area, well outside it. Easy going down, but not so much coming back up!
The goal of this trip was two-fold. One, evaluate the Read more…
Strolling Amok 