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Hallway linen closet.

Bedroom.

Our wardrobes are finally finished!

Met a great family last night, friends of the Locks since way back. Both of them met whilst gliding and their daughter is double jointed. Haha.

Pre-dinner drinks at the Locks. Great conversation, wine, champagne, all in good taste as always.

Steff’s party trick.

We went to Excellent Chinese Seafood Restaurant where Mr Lock gets to order things not on the menu. These desserts are amazing. In the bowl is some sort of almond soupy stuff, it smells so good. The fried ball is gooey and has red bean inside, so good.

The look on Suga’s face says it all.

Wide much?

Fussy sharp tail lights might take some getting used to but they scream “current model”.

Yes automatic unfortunately. The shifters on the wheel have both up and down gears on both sides, which is totally confusing so I didn’t even bother. There were 2 sports modes though and the 2nd one was damn aggressive and made the car come to life.

Howzers dropped in yesterday afternoon with his new 911 and I got to give it a bit of a fang!

The car feels so solid and firm yet it’s super comfy and handles the bumps so well. The steering is weighted perfectly, the front of the car feels super light which makes it playful when turning into corners.

I mashed the accelerator pedal to the floor my adrenaline levels went through the roof!!! I was laughing out loud, lifting off and hitting it again. Damn this thing accelerates. The response is insane and the noise it makes is meaty and raw.

I loved it! I was on a high for 30 minutes after driving it (and that was only around the block!).

The drivers side HID was blinking (badly) so I got rid of them and have gone back to bulbs (Old Skool FTW!).

I ducked into Super Cheap Auto and bought a whole lot of trim screws + some no logo black floor matts.

Today I visited Peter who has a great DIY build thread (on an ED Civic of-course!) on OzHonda. I drove the Civic out West (freaky shit. I’m rarely outside of the East! Hahaha). He was an old guy, used to race an EG Civic, is now a Web manager by trade but loves playing with cars. His backyard was a workshop/junkyard/pain shop all in one. There were cars and parts absolutely everywhere, most of which had JDMST stickers too (luckily I brought along a JDMST T-Shirt for the guy!).

I had a list of things I needed for my Civic. Fuel cap lever, rear window lever, various plastic covers and panels and Peter had the lot and then some! He gave it all to me super cheap too, what a guy.

One of Peters (many) project cars (his inspiring DIY build thread here).

All the bits I needed. The airbox is a B16A airbox with an HKS panel filter but unfortunately I couldn’t get it to fit as my battery is in the way. Might bother with it some other time.

Speaker covers yay.

I fixed the rear latch which opens and closes the rear window. It was a damn bitch to install but I got there eventually.

New rear floor which goes over the spare wheel.

Peter gave me the panel above the front bumper. Installing it was fiddly work but I got there eventually. I still need to replace the front bumper bar (if I could be bothered).

Our singed Kozyndan prints are now framed, and up on the walls too. So good!

Our HUGE hardwood outdoor setting came, we built it up and oiled it. It seats 10 very comfortably. All we need now is a BBQ!!!

Christina loves the cute Alessi stuff.

Our King couch came in this morning, our old couch was so dark and heavy, this new couch really opens up the room a lot more.

Christina chose the material and it looks great!

Grant had an engagement party to attend so I manned the MCC stall at the Sydney Bicycle Film Festical on Saturday. Frantic work as anyone who had a ticket to a BFF session could go into the draw to win a Giant bike and nearly everyone took advantage of the offer (why some people didn’t bother is beyond me!). It was fun and I met heaps of great people and I got to watch some of the shorts too.

Grant, flocked by people wanting to enter the draw to win at the Chauvel Cinema in Paddington on the Friday.

We gave away loads of Giant tyre puncture repair kits.

Our setup. My poster design is huge huh? We decided to pull the other raunchy poster, and in the end of the day we were glad we did.

The tickets, which went like hot cakes!

Spotted this Paino outside!

If General Pants Co. has models on bicycles in their window then cycling truly must be cool right about now.

Crazy Chopper thing.

The City of Sydney have the ball rolling.

Instead of eating lunch today I got busy on the ED Civic!!!

Last night I got to catch up with my old mate Eugene Kee. We grew up together, in the same apartment and always hung out together until I went to uni where we didn’t see each other so much. He then got a job in Taiwan, married and now he’s a Dad!

Eugene got me into riding bicycles. He always had the best bikes (and apparently still has them stashed away at his parents house somewhere!). He’s pushed the envelope and done a few huge cycling trips, one of note was riding through Cambodia with a tent packed on his bike and lots of 2 minute noodles and more recently he’s ridden across the Saudi desert!

A year or so ago I found him on Facebook and told him all about how I was getting back into riding, funny then that he told me he was running a bike shop in Taiwan! He’s since opened another and last night we got together to talk bikes, business and more bikes.

He’s invited me back to Taiwan in March to go to the main Taiwan bike show with him. Consider it booked in! I’m excited!!!

Accident damage. There was no corner light before but Dedy found the corner light at Honbits for $30. He installed it for me too, what a champ.

Just another angle.

JDM dash and climate control complete with a funky little push to open flip up cover to access the air-con temperature control (lol). Holden passenger side floor matt and speaker surrounds are a ncie touch too.

Engine bay.

Nutter alarm fob. You plug it into the ciggarette lighter to charge it up.

Crazy flashing LED to show the alarm is activated.

Rear view, missing a wiper but that doesn’t bother me.

Excited when I saw the box!

Oh hot daym!

Strictly BMX threw in some free goodies too. Now that’s how you do business, what cool mofos.

I just scored this Limited Edition Replica of the early 80’s Kuwahara KZ-1 Frameset for $399.99 from Strictly BMX (thanks Blayne for the heads up!). Apparently only 250 of these framesets have been produced for the world and since I’ve been told that my Kuwa frame is a fake I’m most likely going to swap everything over to this new frame. Happy times!