Friday night I was invited over to MC Cyclery for an Xmas BBQ. What a great group of guys. Beers were had, a bit of food then some unicycle mayhem and motorkhana style action around the workstands. SUga dropped in too and we both rode home (Ash lent me his awesome SE).

The boys!

Meat yo.

Meat and Tatts.

Grant’s mum’s special sauce.

Bog in don’t wait.

Mel and Ash.

Sam and Jackie.

Barry and Ilona.

Jordi and Vanette.

Nic and May.

Nick.

Ash + beers + unicycle = cowboy.

Suga in mens toilet

Christina upskirt on the way home. Pissed riding is sexy.

We’re still pulling photo albums off the shelf when we have dinner at Mums. It’s hard not to!

GForce toy (yes I still have it!) and check out Dad’s salt water tank in the background. He had quite a few different set-ups over the years.

I loved E.T.

And BMX.

Speaking of BMX (My sister and I).

Christina and I have done all our shopping and wrapping. I’ve never been this organised before (must be love!).

Out with the plunger! Mum treated Suga and I to coffee making goodness for Xmas.

Crazy house in Eastwood.

Even crazier house in Eastwood.

Summer’s still not 100% here yet, the weather’s been damn strange actually. Having said that I went for my 2nd swim down at the pool (it’s MY pool!) and the water was so nice, lots of baby fish inthe rock pools too. Bring on summer!!!

Suga and I.

My rock pool.

Pool cafe’s (my local) trout dish is my fave.

Pool cafe breakfast pizza.

Coogee Bite’s Kenny’s Benny (also a haunt of mine).

Pippies in XO – Suga’s family eats here weekly (Hoho’s in Carlingford).

Mr. Teppan teppanyaki style fast food now at Eastgardens.

JDMST RPRSNT!

Girls on bike.

Still my dream car.

Pretty serious.

NA is best.

Boing.

hohoho.

JDMyard RPRSNT.

Drift it.

Drag it.

I accidentally won this bike off eBay (LOL someone save me please?). Of-course I’d been hunting for NOS/vintage Kuwahara gear for the Kuwa I found at the markets but all of it had been going for sky high prices (a simple pad set went for over $160 last week!).

This as new (I’d even call it brand new) 2007 Laserlite Team BMX came up in the searches and I did a little research on it and found that this was the bike that marked the Kuwahara comeback (they hadn’t made a bike in 20 years!). The RRP for it was $1285AUD and apart from some reviews saying that the bars and fork were heavy, every other review was fantastic (especially this Australian review). I did some math on the Funn parts. The crankset is actually a Funn MTB downhill crankset with hollowtech BB worth $400AUD, the pedals are Funn soljam MTB pedals worth $90AUD so I placed a bid for $500 thinking the bike would go for a lot more than that, well it didn’t and I won it at $457.

2007 Kuwahara Laserlite Team

Chunky much? (Note: internal MTB canecreek headset).

So new that a protective sticker was still covering the headbadge…

… of-course I took it off.

Funn stem.

Avid speed dial SL (super light) brake lever.

S/M grips.

Massive American influence all over the bike, note American spelling “Aluminum”.

Funn seatpost.

Funn saddle.

Check the lightning bolt detail on the rear dropout.

Sunn Rhyno Lite’s.

Maxxis.

Maxxis Exception series tyres are lighter than their standard tyres.

Holy Rollers.

Naf skull caps put on by the previous owner.

Funn Hooka DH crankset.

Hardcore Funn soljam pedals. So massive, so much grip.

Ridiculously light considering it has pedals which weigh half a kilo and a downhill crankset which must be super heavy.

I’ve been haunting eBay for NOS (New Old Stock) bargains for the old Kuwahara project and I’ve been having much success! I’m trying my best to keep it period and JAPANESE!

What a sight!

Japanese Dia-Comp MX120 lever.

SR pedals.

Turbo saddle – Made in Japan.

Under saddle detail.

Don’t you hate it when you miss parcels? Especially at this time of year.

I just got back from the post office, the que at Maroubra Junction’s post office is so bad it goes outside the shop and into the mall at times. I swear it’s a lesson in patience (which I had none of, but since hanging out in the que at the post office all year I’m getting better at!).

I was greeted by this box:

Redline BMX WTF! I got excited for a second. “Did I accidentally buy one of those too?” I thought to myself. Bahahaha. Check out how Strictly BMX tagged my name on the box. Awesome.

My Tuffs + freewheel. At $199 the wheels are going to be the most expensive part of the build (hard to swallow considering the bike was only $45! Strictly BMX chucked in some free stickers + a DVD too.

I got this dodgey cheap stem off eBay. Not sure if I feel good about it, we’ll see.

Oury grips. I’ve always wanted to try some Oury’s. I often read that these are the most comfortable grips in the world. Many people out there (both mountain bikers and fixie riders) swear by them.

More red bits (the gold cable end caps are for my Reign).

KMC chain.

Brake cable outters.

Bike nights are almost a monthly thing these days and they’re getting out of control with sometimes way too many chefs in the kitchen! There’s always a drama (or 3) and it’s always a lot of fun. Since I’m the host I always get trashed too (I even have my own beer bitch, thanks Clifton!).

Some pics from last night where we built up Crazy Dave’s billion dollar Yukon, Felix’s 06 Reign and we even started a ghetto servo bike (the Servo is just too far to walk and too close to drive to) single speed project for Zi.

Felix BYO home cooked Soto Ayam (typical Indo eating with his hands).

Finally Clifton brought over his trucks so I could finish off my new skatey.

Crazy Dave’s new shipment of porn parts. Wellgo Ti’s are nuts.

On goes the XTR gear, so easy to fit, so easy to tune too.

Felix’s 06 Reign frame.

Stralia!

I’m about to hammer OK Andy?! The boys were using both stands so Andy was my human bike stand to build up Zi’s dodgey single speed.

Both bikes built up. Dave’s Yukon feels great actually, the shifting is smoother than my Reign’s (maybe I need to address my cabling and get that XTR chain) brakes are insanely awesome.

Photos from last weekends pong action. My old mates Sean and Liz came over and we had an awesome catch up. Can’t believe it’s been a year since I’ve seen them, ridiculous!

Grrr – have… to… beat… Seany.

Sean’s so animated when he pongs.

Sean doing Michael impression.

Lloyd and Liz.

Oh what a feeling.