I’m a perfectionist, so I cut down the steerer tubes on both my bikes this weekend as I wanted to eliminate the need for ugly spacers. A bit of a scary thing to do, especially considering I don’t have the special tools to do it with.
Dodgey tool + patience = no worries.
Before, see the ugly massive spacer above the stem?
After, not a single ugly spacer on there. Looks tight. I love it.
Suga’s new saddle. We both hate the “Ldy” font. Fucking designers, lol.
All done! (yeah right!).
My new Oakley Gascans. I paid $90 for these… that usually gets me 5 pairs of sunnies. I hope not to lose them, or destroy them too quickly.
Suga’s tyres came in today. There’s something wrong with me, for sure, as I think they’re totally porno… who in their right minds could think that of a tyre? Fucking hell. Definitely something wrong with me.
I put them on with love.
Oh my. Is that jealousy I am feeling? Fuck yes that’s it! I am so jealous of these tyres… I want them for the Ti project!
Going down! Old tyres were 700g each, these ones are 492/507g. I put Maxxis fly weight tubes in there too.
I also got her a set, front and rear, of Knog frogs (go Aussie!!!). They’re great!
I’ve just paid my entrance fee to for the NRMA CareFlight Woodford to Glenbrook Classic. Sooo looking forward to it. MWG’s heading up the team (our team name’s “The pixel pushers” who the fuck came up with that shit name Matt?). It’s a 25km ride. Endurance is so not my thing. I am semi-tempted to ride the single speed, but I’m leaning towards riding the Reign, sure it’ll be slow, but it’ll be fun too. My game plan will be to go off the main line and overtake as many people as I can on the downhills and only to let a few of those people overtake me back on the uphills. Should be fun! Got a bike? Why not enter yourself. It’s for a great cause.
I was just going through my sticker collection to look for something odd to stick on my BMX frame and I found these massive stickers.
I’m pretty sure I still have my number somewhere, and my childhood friend Eugene Kee might have pictures and perhaps even a results sheet. I’m trying to contact him through Facebook at the moment. Should be fun!
I’m wondering if there are still trails to be ridden there. I remembered it as being a pretty damn hardcore downhill (DH) course. I loved it. Even though I loved DH back then I went pretty shit and did a lot better in the uphill race. I came 13th (I overtook 3 people walking my Cannondale on my shoulder up a technical section lol).
I also remember a guy stopping me when I was scouting the downhill track and ask if I was the pro Japanese rider. LOL. I blame that on the Cannondale I had at the time which I built frame up using money I made from working the night shift at Woolies.
Ah the memories. I’m off to eBay to go hunt down some vintage 91 Deore XT thumbies now :)
My S2000.
Last night’s JDMST meet was awesome, as always. We met up at Fox Studios this time around, had dinner and drinks at the Fox and Lion downstairs. With about 20-30 cars on the night, the old skool small meet vibe is back and I love it (300 cars at Reading Cinemas was scary).
Suga coming down.
We went to Centennial Park for a few laps today to get some km’s on Suga’s new Talon. We got bored of the path, so went off it for a bit ;)
