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Rain, hail or shine

Posted on 24 April, 2025 by Justin Fox

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MAAP

Posted on 24 April, 2025 by Justin Fox

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fizik Kudo Aero

Posted on 22 April, 2025 by Justin Fox

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Saw it, had to have it.

My new helmet! It looks awesome, comes with a rear light too. Now I just have to go fast enough for air to flow through.

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The Brothers Project Cafe

Posted on 22 April, 2025 by Justin Fox

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Solid catch ups with Shaun and Leslie today at The Brothers Project Cafe. I went for their signature Brûlée french toast and Mocha cream coffee. I’m a cyclist now, it’s OK… I’ll burn it off!

Visit: https://www.thebrothersproject.net

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Broke the internet

Posted on 22 April, 2025 by Justin Fox

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Wasn’t expecting it, but I’ll take it!

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BTS: Easter Sunday shoot with a Nismo R32 GT-R at Road and Track

Posted on 21 April, 2025 by Justin Fox

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The real deal.

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We Produced With Spartan Air. Original wheels, but what’s even more whack, they’re the original tyres from new!

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Coffee table, complete with GT-R coffee table book.

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Curt at Work.

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This looks fun.

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Atom.

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Beers and a burger at High & Dry.

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Paradise found.

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A dirty gin at Archie Rose.

Our Melbourne based ZEN Photographer Curt is in town, and so too my car spotting cousin Anthony. Being Easter Weekend there wasn’t much going on but last minute I thought I’d try to get in touch with Road and Track, a showroom which is directly across the road from my place.

I’ve lived in Rosebery for 2 years now and I’ve spotted many amazing exotics in the area, all of which lead to Road and Track (test drives I assume!). The showroom always has some amazing cars on display, but it’s never open (appointment only), and they’re also closed on Sundays, so getting both Curt and Anthony in to shoot on Easter Sunday was going to be nigh impossible, but hey… the universe has been providing for me lately so I thought, why not, right?!

I sent an email using the online contact form on the Road and Track web site which explained what ZEN was about and that I had Curt and Anthony with me this Easter Sunday, and surprise surprise! I got an email back from Ross who was more than happy to let us in on Sunday!

Turns out Ross has been importing Japanese cars since the late 90’s, and he thought we’d be interested in shooting a very clean (understatement!) original Nismo R32 GT-R with only 800km’s on the clock rocking original tyres from new! Sounded too good to be true, but when we saw it, we became believers.

Day made! Enjoy these Behind The Scenes shots I took, and look out for a future feature with Curt and Anthony’s shots from the day.

Much thanks to Ross, sincerely, for letting us in. For more information on Road and Track; visit: www.roadandtrack.com.au

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The number of the beast

Posted on 19 April, 2025 by Justin Fox

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Risk link cables.

6.66kg’s! Risk link cables saved another 40g. Last time I used a set of these super lightweight link cables was with some KCNC link cables back in the early 2000’s. I remembered that they were a pain to set up right, and yup, these Risk cables were an absolute pain to set up right too (I let go of the cable housing at some point and every single little piece scattered all over my floors lol). They’re also functionally not as good and brakes feel pretty mushy now, but hey the brakes work, saved some weight and the extra flexibility let me route them internally through the handlebars for a cleaner look.

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Hangs with Khoa of Hobby Zen Life

Posted on 18 April, 2025 by Justin Fox

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6.70kg 80’s Paino Neo Retro Build

Posted on 16 April, 2025 by Justin Fox

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6.70kg’s. We did it boys!

Bit silly, but my goal was to shave 3kg’s to get this 80’s steel bike below the UCI 6.8kg weight limit and I’m oddly super satisfied with how it’s all turned out.

Could I get it even lighter? Sure; lighter wheelset, top cap and bolt, link cables, cassette… but I set a weight goal for a reason, otherwise the build would never end!

Bottle Cage: AliExpress + Better Bolts Ti cage bolts (9g)
Bottom Bracket: Shimano BB-6500 (232g)
Brake Calipers: Cane Creek eeBrakes Gen 3 (199g)
Brake Levers: SRAM S900 Carbon Road Brake Lever (246g)
Cables: Jagwire/Shimano (90g)
Cassette: Dura Ace CS-7700 12-23T (190g)
Cassette Lock Ring: Dura Ace (5g)
Chain: KMC X10SL 10-Speed (226g)
Crankset: Shimano Dura Ace 7700 Cranks 53/39 172.5 (604g)
Frame: 49cm ST/52cm TT Columbus SLX Campagnolo dropouts/guides
Fork: Hylix carbon threadless 27mm race 45mm rake (307g)
Fork Compression Plug: J&L (14g)
Front Derailleur: Shimano Dura Ace 7800 (111g)
Front Derailleur Clamp Adapter: Shimano 28.6mm (g)
Handlebar: Kocevlo SL 380mm (141g)
Handlebar Tape: Tesa 51608 (15g)
Handlebar End Plugs: Lucendi (1g)
Headset: J&L threadless ceramic bearing 30.2mm cup (75g)
Headset Spacers: J&L alloy 10mm (4g)
Pedals: Xpedo Thrust SL Titanium (165g)
QR Skewers: Extralite (29g)
Rear Derailleur: Shimano Dura Ace 7800 (183g)
Saddle: AliExpress (54g)
Seatpost: Elita One 27.2 cut (98g)
Shifters: Shimano Dura Ace 7700 9-Speed downtube shifters (78g)
Stem: Extralite Hyperstem Stealth 110mm -18 degree (82g)
Stem Shim: 1″-1-1/8″ (10g)
Stem Cap: God & Famous Ti (15g)
Tubes: RideNow TPU Road Light (71g)
Tyres: Panaracer Agilest Light 25mm (335g)
Wheelset: Wheelsfar Feder 45mm Extralite/Sapim CX-Super (1262g)

Weight: 6700g

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RB26 ZEN GT-R update

Posted on 14 April, 2025 by Justin Fox

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The GT-R Gods are looking down on me.

I got a message today from Chris Grech of CGR who is restoring my GT-R:

“So some cool insight on the R32 GT-R factory Nissan paint.

The paint we use at BMW and the paint company I’ll be using in the RB26 restoration is a German company called Glasurit.

Was speaking with a Galsurit rep today about the build. He sent me this thread on the GTR registry website: https://gtr-registry.com/en-bnr32-vin-table.php

They were done in Glasurit 55 line system from Nissan which is the exact system I’ll be using.

Pretty cool”.

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