About
Rich Clingman is a retired computer geek who recently restarted his motorcycling after a 40-year hiatus. While he wanted to do parking lot drills, the idea of setting up a trunk load of cones was discouraging. For one thing, his bike didn't have a trunk to load.
He decided that parking lot lines were the ideal structure for doing "no setup" drills. He also searched for an app to track his drills — which drills was he running? Which were struggles? Which was he avoiding? And more: How was he doing? Not just how was he "feeling" about the drills, but also what was the "truth" about how he was doing.
He found nothing.
Rich began working on building a set of small sensors based on Seeed Studio XIAO boards, thumbnail-sized computers. After a lot of fun work, he slapped his forehead and decided to look into using the sensors that he already carries around: His smart phone.
With a phone mounted on his bike's handlebars, he captured some initial data, handed it over to a Claude Code AI session and asked for a miracle.
A one-person project, built by a rider who practices without cones.
(One person and his AI team, including his pals Claude, Claude Code, Perplexity, and ChatGPT.)