Messina

Posted on 26 March, 2011 by Justin Fox


Gelato Messina located in Darlinghurst – www.gelatomessina.com.au


Too many choices!

My sister and Richie took Simone and Maja (who have sadly left Australia now) to Gelato Messina in Darlinghurst and apparently Simone was so blown away at how awesome the icecream was. He was quoted as saying “better than Italy, better than Italy!”. Considering he’s Italian and comes from Italy we just had to try it.

Despite being a rainy day it was packed (full of Asians!). We were stuffed from a meal at Una’s across the road so we decided to only choose one flavour (which was damn hard to do as there were way too many choices!). We tried the salted hazelnut icecream which was pretty damn salty and a bit yuck. Better luck next time I suppose!

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Suga’s Apple Pie

Posted on 26 March, 2011 by Justin Fox


Suga’s first ever home made apple pie! Yum yum!

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GOstralia!

Posted on 25 March, 2011 by Justin Fox

That’s what the F1 global web site looks like this very moment. Oh yes, makes me feel so proud to be an Aussie right about now.

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my… preciousssss

Posted on 25 March, 2011 by Justin Fox

Got another GF1 (with the 20mm pancake lens of-course) today at almost half the RRP thanks to the help of a mate who works at a camera shop (thanks cuz!). It looks and feels so new (because it is?!). Thank you thank you Panasonic, Osaka Japan. I promise to try my best not to lose this baby.

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Guest blog on Speedhunters

Posted on 25 March, 2011 by Justin Fox

I’ve just done my first guest blog post for Speedhunters (thanks to Charles for the invite!). Click here to check it out!

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AK GarageWorks

Posted on 24 March, 2011 by Justin Fox

I love grass roots efforts. Alex, the guy who made and sent me the fatty kit for my Honda Zoomer, runs a business making stuff with his brother in his garage. He’s got some decent equipment which I’m sure he puts all his savings into and he’s developed some pretty awesome fabrication skills (I’m very jealous and I’d love to do a welding course at TAFE next year).

He really looked after me with the kit so I decided I’d help him out with a little graphic design, on the house of-course.

His username on the TotalRuckus forum is “alleykat” and he’s been using a logo with Felix the Cat’s head. Not wanting to change things to much I just re-worked it a little (this is what his old site and logo looked like).

He was quick to give me his hosting details, it turns out that there was one press WordPress install option so I just got that going, a few tweaks later hey presto, another WordPress site. :)

Visit: www.akgarageworks.com

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Zoomer gets a fatty

Posted on 23 March, 2011 by Justin Fox


Post man came with a big box from the USA with a massive rip in it. I assume customs went through the goods but failed to do a good job of re-sealing the box. Luckily nothing fell out and everything inside was in ace condition!


Got dish? Ahahahaha. 10×8 baby!


AK GarageWorks header which is designed so my Yoshi exhaust will clear the new fat wheel.


No instructions but I figured everything out. The kit includes an engine mount which offsets the engine, you can see how much it does so by checking out how far the rear wheel is on the non-drive side.


AK GarageWorks shock mount vs. stock mount.


Check the AK GarageWorks exhaust mount, very nice. Hardest part of the install was taking the rear wheel off! I had to drop into the local auto shop to get a breaker bar to get the damn nut off.


Exhaust installed, stiff pipe!


Hahaha yup.


Stretched out even more now.

A sincere thanks to Alex from AK GarageWorks for bothering to pack and send the kit to me in Sydney AUSTRALIA (first!). All his communications were awesome, he’s a top guy and his gear is top shelf too.

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Camera update

Posted on 22 March, 2011 by Justin Fox

OK I’ll be honest and say that the very next day after losing my GF1 I hopped on Google to do some more solid GF1 vs GF2 reviews. The reason why I bought the GF1 over the Olympus is that the GF1’s 20mm pancake lens rocks my socks off. The Olympus took crap shots until I put the GF1 lens on it and that closed the deal for me. The GF2 is lighter, smaller but what’s really sad about the new GF2 is that it doesn’t come with the 20mm pancake lens.

Deal breaker!

With the help of some of those nasty price comparison sites I found myself a good deal on a GF1 for $700 shipped with an upgraded memory card. I pulled the trigger on it with express shipping, it should have gotten to me today.

BUT.

I got an email today from the overseas shop telling me that they’ve run out of stock on the GF1, would I like to upgrade to a GF2? Bad vibes bad vibes! I replied to their email asking for a refund, also hopped onto their site to live chat with a representative to again confirm my refund. Eventually I got an email confirmation stating that my money has been refunded and it should turn up in my Paypal account soon.

Having sorted that out I took note of Khoa’s Facebook offer of getting me one for $640 and also Saad’s comment about getting his for $650 from Harvey Norman. I called Harvey Norman in Bondi and they didn’t have any GF1’s. I got the guy to check other stores and unfortunately they had none at all in the system. I contacted Khoa who works at Harvey Norman and it turns out there was one left in the stock room at his shop so it’s all mine!

I’ll be picking it up off him (I’m hoping it’s a black one, didn’t even ask…will settle for white if need be though!) next Sunday at the JDMST/TLD EOMM – good times up ahead!

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Zoomer update

Posted on 21 March, 2011 by Justin Fox


Stripped the bike, prepped and painted the front frame black with engine enamel.


Also installed a stainless steel gas tank cover.

Using Christina’s little Canon Ixus…gahhhh so crap! Back on a Lumix GF1 very soon, hopefully any day now.

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Zi’s SR

Posted on 18 March, 2011 by Justin Fox


After.


Before.

Whilst I’ve been going bonkers on my Honda Zoomer, Zi’s been going bonkers on his SR400. It’s looking so good. Fatter tyres, black wheels, smaller headlight… it’s amazing what small differences make! I’ve had a soft spot for the SR for ages and I’d love to do one up tracker style. With Zi pushing me to buy one it might happen sooner rather than later!

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