Sushi Tengoku

Posted on 21 January, 2011 by Justin Fox


This picture needed a sense of scale, they’re bigger than they look!


Aburi Scallops, one of our fave sushi dishes.

There’s a tiny Sushi Restaurant in Kensington, on Anzac Parade called Sushi Tengoku. It’s been there for ages and I’ve eaten there a few times in the past and I’ve always over ordered because they serve up the hugest sushi I’ve ever seen. The salmon slices are so large that they literally wrap the rice when you pick them up, and the tradition of putting an entire piece of sushi in your mouth in one go is no longer possible no matter how big your mouth is!

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Reflect Effect

Posted on 20 January, 2011 by Justin Fox


Sap over every single panel of the car!


After a high pressure wash.


Clean again.


Car hasn’t been this clean, well, since Dave was last here!!! HAHA.

Christina got the entire car covered in sap a few weeks ago parking under a large tree in Eastwood, despite a wash the sap stayed on so we thought we’d leave it up to the experts and today Dave from Reflect Effect came over today to work his magic (he’s awesome and I highly recommend his services).

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Honda Zoomer

Posted on 19 January, 2011 by Justin Fox


I’ve got my Zoomer! More pics soon :)

PS: I’ve dug up some old threads where I’ve expressed my want for one of these things, memory lane! 2006 Sydney Motor Show thread here, 2009 Deus thread here.

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Open face

Posted on 19 January, 2011 by Justin Fox


Helmet head!

I couldn’t ride a scooter in my Stig helmet (people would surely point and laugh!) and I didn’t want to look too tough in an all black full face so I thought this was a good compromise!

Yeah I know open face helmets are not as safe as full faces, but when I saw and tried this one on at the helmet warehouse I just had to have it. It’s super cool old school as the sides come down a lot lower than the usual crappy open face retro styled helmets on offer (I tried others, super mushroom head!). The fit feels very very good too.

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Eye spy

Posted on 19 January, 2011 by Justin Fox


CCW bling blang. Have seen these over the years on JDM rides in the US but I’ve never seen some in Aus before.


Jing’s still unfinished DC5R track monster. I love it, lots. Kinda wish Jing would get back into it and finish it off but he’s too busy in bicycle land haha.

There’s always something worth taking a photo of at JDMyard! :)

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Sachs Madass

Posted on 19 January, 2011 by Justin Fox


So I drove over to JDMyard to test ride Zi’s Sachs Madass today.


Kick start my heart (gotta love kick start over pressing a button!).


Brand new 160cc engine to replace the original 120cc. Check the oil cooler…so cute!

It’s been on the cards, and I tried to keep it a secret, but I’ve been meaning to get back on a moto again. An opportunity to get a Sachs Madass came up. Long story short I’ve been busy designing Zi’s new web site and as part payment I was going to take his newly acquired bike.

The Madass was designed by Sachs in Germany but oh noes it’s made in China. Apparently there’s good China and bad China and after much research it turns out the Madass is built by the later. People have suggested basically dipping the entire bike in loctite because at some point everything will fall off the bike!

I wasn’t so deterred though. I built my super dodgey death trap which I absolutely love riding, the only thing I don’t like about riding it is that it’s 100% illegal whereas the Madass is completely legal…well, in stock form at least…

This particular Madass has had $2k thrown at it. It’s old 120cc engine was thrown out when the gearbox blew up and a new 160cc engine was shoved in.

I was a little nervous about riding it as I’ve not ridden a motorbike since uni days (1994/5?!). The bike’s pretty tall for such a small looking thing (I couldn’t get both feet flat on the ground when sitting on it). I got going without stalling though and found it pretty easy to change gears up and down (albeit quite jerky!). The Madass feels fast (most likely a lot faster than it really is due to the vibrations and loud exhaust!) and I don’t doubt that I could hit 100km/hr on this thing but I wasn’t game enough to go anywhere over 60km/hr on my maiden ride.

I was left feeling very naughty, very much like riding my deathtrap. It’s fun, heaps of fun but then a spanner was thrown into the works.

Paul rocked up and suggested he was broke, in need of cash (sounds like where I’m at!) and that he’s thinking about selling his Honda Zoomer. HOLY SHIT. Yeah I’m pretty sure I’ve blogged about the Zoomer, it’s a “naked” scooter that I’ve always been into from a visual perspective, and one I’ve even written to Honda Australia about (to beg them to bring it in!). I am perhaps the only guy that takes a photo of the Zoomer at Deus every single time I go in there (they are the only guys in Australia compliancing them) but at $3500-4k ride away I couldn’t justify it, until now.

Paul’s “for me” price was too good to refuse considering he paid top dollar for one from Deus, then spent another $3-4k modifying it to go faster and look nicer (he even went as far as extending the wheelbase with a long frame kit). I didn’t even try to low ball him (ok, well I did a little only to realise that it wasn’t fair) so his Zoomer is all mine once I cough up the cash.

Yeah its no motorbike. No gears and you don’t “straddle” the bike (instead you kinda sit on it like a lounge chair), but it’s not going to explode as it’s got that Honda reliability (unlike the China made Sachs) and it looks cool (to me that is!) and it fits in nicely with JDMST, not to mention I’m most likely going to have a lot of fun modifying it and being a part of the large International Zoomer/Ruckus community (as for how it rides, well, we’ll see).

Enough spamming from me. I’m excited (but nervous about this new potential money pit). More Zoomer updates as they come! :)

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We have babies!

Posted on 18 January, 2011 by Justin Fox


Katinka with her babies.

Christina’s found a new breeder who has just (last night) had a new litter of Russian Blue’s. One of these little guys (we want a boy) is going to cost us almost twice the price as the last little guy we saw, but we’re going for it this time. The babies in the photo above are just 2 hours old, the next 3 weeks is crucial apparently and we’ll be update on them as time goes by.

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Status: Malfunction!

Posted on 18 January, 2011 by Justin Fox


VAG-COM Diagnostic System readout on Suga’s car yesterday at Top One.

Our Volkswagen Golfs are pretty computerised. The VAG-COM Diagnostic System (VCDS) is a Microsoft Windows-based software package used for diagnostics and adjustments and yesterday at Top One I realised how freaky it all is. A laptop is plugged directly into a diagnostic port under the steering wheel and your service guy can see everything you’ve done to the car (for people who like to modify cars without the dealer knowing, that makes potential warranty claims pretty tough!).

The software had to first of all be updated to the latest version, once this was done (took seconds) the readout spotted the time we installed the larger DSG gear paddles on the steering wheel, and the time and duration the alarm went off the other day, but what was more interesting was that it came up with some small random errors, all of which were electronic ones and what caused them is a mystery. Hitting the “clear” button fixed these errors and everything was back to normal again.

It’s like doing a disk diagnostic on your PC and finding errors, not caring what caused them and just clicking “fix errors” and then getting on with it, but in this case one of the errors stopped the passenger side door from unlocking when the key fob was clicked. Pretty freaky. Speaking of PC’s…my mac mouse batteries died last week so I replaced them, then a few days later the mouse started losing bluetooth connection, super fucking frustrating as you’re working and all of a sudden your mouse freezes on the screen and there’s nothing you can do but keep violently clicking the mouse button until the mouse re-connects. It kept doing this for a few days, by the end of it I was swearing out loud and smashing the fucking mouse (mighty mouse my ass).

I did some research, seems like heaps of people are having the same problem, but like most mac issues, Apple refuse to officially acknowledge the problem. /vent.

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Weddings!

Posted on 18 January, 2011 by Justin Fox

Suga and I went for the cycle in the park the other day and noticed that they were setting up a huge marquee at the restaurant (which we’re using for our Wedding reception later this year). The restaurant fits about 180 people comfortably but we’ve got the ability to add a marquee to fit twice as many people (or use it for a dance floor etc). The restaurant doors open right up straight into the marquee which is pretty impressive.

We’ve realised we really have to try to nail numbers down in order to figure these things out and that means creating invite lists (ergh…). We’ve got the parents onto it and the numbers are looking overwhelming so some culling has got to be done…we’re hoping that’s not going to be too painful.

The ball is rolling though. Photographer is booked, reception and church too. Christina’s found a dress she really likes, her bridal party dresses are sorted as well. We’re way ahead in regards to the usual wedding planning and schedule advice we’ve read (but we’re sure time will still fly).

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Tony’s tank

Posted on 18 January, 2011 by Justin Fox


Tony’s tank is finally wet.


We’ll get onto planting once the fog clears :)

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