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Quite a few things fell on today’s date. Australia day, Chinese New Years, My mothers B’day and it’s the year of the cow too which is my mums Chinese horoscope sign.

As usual, a lot of eating and being lazy too. The day was grey, unusual as Australia Day’s usually sunny. The tennis is on TV (beats being there live, been there, done that, didn’t really like it).

Strangely I’m looking forward to getting stuck into work tomorrow!

Here’s a few pics from the past few days:

Knog much? Rebel Sports were giving away these Knogs for $10 each. I assume people just didn’t know what they were, so they failed to sell at all and so they decided to get rid of them. I pretty much bought the lot!

Black SLR saddle is on the Paino. Looks great huh?!

My sisters bike with new rack and bag which I got her for Christmas :)

Her new Kitten Jasper! He’s a gorgeous Abysinian. His so tiny but his paws are massive.

Kung Hei!

Great beer this one. I’m a fan of crispy beers.

I cleaned up the Apollo I found on the side of the road and she’s now on eBay.

I had all intentions to rest up on my ankle which I hurt ages ago on the huck at Manly, but couldn’t resist the BMU ride at Appin today so I went.

And what an awesome ride it was.

The sand on corners was so bad the 1st lap around, but better the 2nd time around. My ankle felt so good until the very end of the 1st lap, after a rest it was 100% again for the 2nd lap.

1st lap I had pro-pedal on, and I was bouncing around everywhere, so sketchy I had a hard time staying on the trail in parts. 2nd lap was a lot better with propedal off and a bit more air in my rear shock. Perfection! The thin and fast Kenda small block 8 on the rear was just perfect. I loved it and it never slipped even on the tech uphill stuff.

Tai and Cliffy pushed me to the limit for the 2nd half of the 2nd lap where we didn’t stop at all. I was seriously spent by the end of that lap, felt so bad, but so good at the same time.

All in all, great ride! So glad I made it. All the pics and running commentary are up here.

Suga made this salad today, so good. I usually hate salads! I’ve been trying to eat better, for years now (lol). Still nowhere near “there” yet. At least it’s on the forebrain?!

And Suga’s Mum got me this cute bicycle frog bell from Hong Kong, how lovely :) It’ll most likely end up on the pink thing!

Lovely ladies Apollo single speed and an aluminium framed Apollo with 700c wheels.

I see crap Huffy bikes on the road every week.

Peekaboo. Dead Repco roadie.

I picked up everything but the Huffy. The Repco ladies bike will come up nice me thinks!

Suga and I spent the day in the city today.

Hot slammed RS4 in the carpark.

Saw this cool warped car sculpture at the Art Gallery of NSW. Awesome!

Street piano outside of QVB.

Then the boys came around for bike night, worked on Eddie’s bike, but Zi was so hungry that we decided to go to Wagaya instead. Wagaya’s quickly becoming my fave Japanese food and beer haunt.

Clifton ordering.

Since young Cliffy got his P’s and drove us all, we thought we’d drink up.

We found another street piano, part of the Sydney Festival.

Also, the ghost bike’s almost finished! Spend a good part of last night putting it all back together. More pics here.

I designed the BMU T this morning, will go into print shortly. Limited run of 25, maybe 50 at most so if you want one best to register your interest here.

Also hit the rock pool for a swim today with my sweets, she’s back from a trip to Hong Kong. Saw some really bright neon purple and yellow damsel fish, that’s just awesome as we only saw one of them last year.

Also hit Loftus with the boys but I just didn’t have the legs today. I was totally off. Still fun though as always and the gears on my bike are working a treat with the new XT cassette and XTR chain. We also had Sizzler afterwards for too much food and a few laughs.

More pics and commentary on the ride here.

It’s one thing to gain recognition for being a designer, or a car nut, but getting recognition for being into riding bicycles is SO strange and not quite sitting well with me at all (I find it very funny).

I was just on Farkin (yes the forum I was banned on) and someone had brought up an old thread of mine on the 1997 Specialized single speed. I checked the views on that thread and 20,972 people had viewd it! I then clicked on the button which lists the threads on Farkin by order of how many views they’ve had and it turns out that my threads are some of the most viewed threads on Farkin history. The Ti project thread has had 30,955 views! That’s scary as I’ve only been posting there since March last year.

My thread views on Farkin. Out of control. Click for a full sized view.

I’ve also realised that a lot of the hits come from other blogs. 2 blogs worth mentioning (they’re haunts of mine) are Chirosangaku, a tumblr site which linked my Kuwahara the other day. That brought a smile to my face as I love what he posts on his site a lot. HKFixed have also plugged my road bike, that’s amazing as they never plug road bikes with gears (they only plug fixed gears).

Then there’s the really funny stuff. The stuff I hear over the phone, MSN or in real life. I was just finishing up a ride at Manly Dam and I saw a lady with a pink yeti. I’d seen it before at MCC and had a little chat with her and a guy next to us said G’day and said he worked at a bike shop and that I’d contacted him about a Bianchi (I was looking for one for Christina). I had no idea how he knew what I looked like considering I’d talked to him over the phone but then I realised he was wearing a farkin T-Shirt!

Then there’s the call from Zi, laughing his ass off. He’d just finished a ride at Loftus where some young kids on the trail pulled him over and asked him if he was Justin Fox from farkin?! HAHAHAA.

Matt got me on MSN and said that when he was getting fitted up at Blackman Cycles for his Scott carbon road bike the shop keeper said he knew of me as well?! Kelvin also bought a bike from Glebe’s Inner City Cycles and he said the guy in there knows of me as well.

And to top if off I get a mail from this dude Dittmar, He and his partner Ozlem wanted to interview me about bikes for an upcomming magazine they’re working on.

It’s all a bit funny, and a bit scary too. As if my head wasn’t big enough as it is?!

Me on the pink thing.

w00t!

The BMU crew.

Both of Matt’s kids were amazing, and getting big air!

Yesterday’s Bikes Move Us Homebush Monster X day was a hoot. Rhys came over to my place earlier and we car pooled, great to meet new guys through the forum, he was great company.

I ended up taking the pink thing which was a lot of fun, not as fun as my Reign would have been as I’m more comfy on the Reign but fun nonetheless. I also took the Kuwahara Laserlite BMX along too. I only had 2 runs on that thing, it’s so fast and twitchy I came off on the 2nd run and never touched it again!

Some of us headed straight to Loftus after the dirt jump session too, that was also a lot of fun.

James and Tai checking out the steep roll-in.

Rhys hucking the roll-in!

James doing the same. Rolling into it is one thing but these guys hucking it? That’s all balls.

More great action pics of the Homebush Monster X ride day are up HERE, go check them out.

After last nights bike night where Jing donated an XT rear mech and Clifton donated the brakes, the Yeti’s done!

Full bike shot.

More pictures here.

I’ve just been speaking to the head poncho over at Strida Australia about these fun little folding bikes. They’re $1000rrp but I’ve managed to score them at $500! The catch is I need 9 other people to buy one at $500 with me. So if you’re keen please let me know! I’ve already got one guy down, so I need 8 more people!

More info on the bikes here. Colours here.