19″ newing wheels, custom powdercoated gloss black and fitted with Toyo T1R rubber.

Perfect offset.

The annual NRMA CareFlight Woodford to Glenbrook Classic was on yesterday and the BikesMoveUs (BMU) crew were there to represent!

We managed to raise $675 to keep the NRMA CareFlight Helicopters in the air, and what’s more, as a team we managed to come 2nd overall out of 29 teams only being beaten by the fully sponsored Rockstar Racing team who came first. How fucking awesome is that?! We’re so happy. I’m so proud :)

I’ve not pedalled a bicycle in over a month and what’s worse I’ve been drinking a lot, and generally being a slob. Despite not training I killed last years time by 20 minutes and it felt good to dig deep!

Some photos from the great day:

Start times.

Matt and Richie pre-race.

Brandon and Felix pre-race.

The start line!

Matthew Willis post race. He blitzed it with a time of 46:56!!!

Adam at the finish.

Brad and Kirky at the finish.

More photos and discussion here.

A wild night was had on Friday night. It was Charles Kha’s 28th B’day at Wagaya (my fave Japanese piss up joint).

It didn’t take too long for the Autosalon guys to start their Jackass’esque daring which had everyone gagging. Willy grabbing sushi with his toes and forcing said sushi into Papz’s mouth scored Papz $200, Andy downing a ping pong ball of Wasabi, delivered once again by foot scored him $200 and then the mother of all dares, Willy squishing cake into Papz’s hairy mangina armpit, Papz doing armpit farts to compact the cake, then of all people, Suga eating the cake off Papz’s armpit and licking the cream off!!! (vomit!) scored her $300.

Shoes off! We scored the private room.

Garthy and Valy Bear.

Wagaya, beer and deep friend Japanaese food = so many kinds of win.

Sushi roullette, where one of the pieces in every round has a shitload of wasabi in it.

Zi got a piece with the wasabi and came so close to vomitting.

Charles the B’day boy also got a piece.

Suga, $300 richer after her shocking dare.

The bill.

!!!

You can view Charles’ blog entry here.

The first 37 seconds is all you need to watch, what an intro. Made me teary last night watching it. I’m so glad I got to see him live in 8y (the Bad tour). I only wish I could remember more of it.

Whoo hoo we’ve just been plugged on Sideburn magazine’s crazy blog. The magazine’s so good it hurts. I can’t put it down. I’m obsessed, yes I am.

RIP MJ. Pretty shocking news.

I was hanging out at MC Cyclery today and already the Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett jokes were surfacing via SMS. Sad!

I grew up on Thriller (vinyl of-course!), and I played my Bad cassette until the sound quality degraded. I even ran out and bought some expensive suede pointy boots with heaps of buckles on the side.

Kitchen is on the way.

We sanded back the painted roofing out on the deck, turns out it’s lovely timber underneath.

The small guest bathroom. It’s bright and a lot more spacious than the old bathroom. The mosaic wall had to be re-done as we were’nt happy with it, it’s looking much better now.

Shelf built into the wall to hold shampoo and stuff.

Sexy drain.

PS: Transformers was AOK. Heaps of action, but even more cheese (totally expected of-course). I really want to say that it was awesome, but cheese really hurts my tummy.

I did however get a gift for registering tickets online. Initially I thought it was just a crappy maglite style thing but turns out it’s a laser pointer which projects the autobot symbol onto surfaces. AWESOME!

1:1 scale Gundam in Odaiba, Tokyo:

I used to imagine a 1:1 scale gundam at the War Memorial in Canberra when I was a kid whilst carrying my toy Gundam, which I still have, it’s a heavy die-cast Gundam, shame he’s missing his hands:

In other robot news… Zi and I are off to see Transformers tonight. I almost cried in the last one during one of the action scenes. You know that shakey tremble you get in your chest? Yeah I got that feeling. I was just so… happy!

Monday again. Still in limbo with the house renovations, sleeping in a lot lately, pretty much in hibernation.

On Saturday Christina and I were invited to Toby and Belinda’s wedding (friends of Christina’s family). The MC turned out to be a guy off the JDMST forums, and Howie and Jane were there also, such a small world (I’m just glad I don’t go out there doing embarassing shit as I’d hate to be caught making a fool of myself all the time). The wedding was at a lovely little church, with a very long and traditional service, the reception was at a Chinese restaurant in the city, a traditional affair with lion dancing, Chinese costumes too (the bride got changed 4 times!).

Christina and I couldn’t help but take it all in as research, with a view to what we should and shouldn’t do at our own wedding. We think we’ve got some pretty awesome ideas :)

Christ the King church.

Little red riding hood.

Peppa.