Double Rainbow!! All the way!

Double rainbow all the way!!!

Wish list.

BC Coilovers to get my car lower than this...

Snow 2011

So this is the basic rundown of my snow trips through the eyes of the gopro.

Me and V-man having a run down the short course.

Going down the black run "Kamakazi"

This video just show how bad the weather was in our first few days there. Also shows V-man and Wazz having a small biff. lols.

So our first few days there wasn't too good at all. It was almost a

complete white out, the snow hurts your face. Putting chains on my car was interesting but by the week was over I got pretty darn efficient at getting them on and off. My first experience at snowboarding was terrible, it got to the point where I got terrible anxiety at getting up to go down the mountain cause I would only go a few meters before I fall down hard again. So all it took was one day of snowboarding and I gave up and switch to skis

. Wise decision

that was, I just wasn't having fun on the board and skiing just felt natural.

Monday to Wednesday was terrible weather. The worst can be illustrated with the conditions of our cars at the end of the day.

Iced all over and almost a complete white out!

Snow and ice just blanketed my windows, needed a good scrapping to get that off

Does give for cool frozen mazda badges though. lol

Negative four in the morning!!

Having 6 guys and 1 girl in a room made for 2 was quite interesting and surprising not terrible. The power did short circuit once because I think we did have any electrical appliance on at that time. But other than that it was pretty good. Food was decent, it wasn't just instant noodles every night. Steaks one night and the second, noodles another night, sweet potato somewhere and mash. Good hot English breakkie in the mornings, so nothing to complain about.

It was a pretty good trip, all under a grand i think (still gotta sort out payments will fuel and all). So it was pretty cheap the only thing that hit us hard was the lift tickets $519 for 5 daysat perisher. ARGH!

Cosplaying motorsports.

So whilst on tumblr I spotted this.

Being a super nerdy Neon Genesis Evangelion fan I just had to find out more about that bike!!

Turns out that in Japan's racing circuit there's a lot of manga sponsored teams out there. It works out just the same as any other sponsorship in motorsports but the end product for these sponsorships is cosplaying drivers, cars, bikes and showgirls. Super rad!

It's a Kawasaki Ninja sx-10R (with close to 1000cc !!) underneath, eva unit 1 paintjob and modded for endurance racing. Not too sure how well their team went in the Suzuka 8hr enduro but this bike is so rad!

Much nostalgia had while googling this, I'm so surprised that eva is still going strong despite its finale years ago, almost a decade I think!

SNOW!!! NOW!

So, this blog has loads to catch up on but here is what's happening in the meantime.

With about 450kms to cover it should roughly take about 5-6 hours. I hope for a safe trip. Putting on the chains on my car for the first time should be interesting, 2 cars, 7 people, tunes for the road and lots of laughs should get us though. .

With 5 days ahead of us and about half a meter of snow on the mountains this year I'm stocked! First time snowboarding and to be honest I'm a bit edgy about that but I am getting lessons and if all else fails I can always switch the hired gear to ski's.

Accommodation's been booked, the roads have been mapped out now we just got to wait. Hopefully loads of pictures to come and all I can do now is hope that the school holiday kiddies don't affect me too much.

The Pool - The Full Story.

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Spotted on Andy's blog!

Amazing!

For shits and giggles.

A few weeks ago my callipers looked liked this.

I took it apart, degreased it, roughed it up and sprayed it. That took several hours cause I'm pedantic. But then it ended up like this.Final product.

So doing it took about half a day, 3-4 coats, I also had to do the rears first then take it off the axle stands and then do the fronts because there just wasn't enough axle stands to go around. But it was fun, I got to play with an expensive hair-dryer and I'm pretty sure I've gotten about an extra 20bhp just by doing this.

Why did I bother doing this? Cause I can. Is it possibly the beginnings of me doing stupid shit to my car? I hope not. lol

Took a bit of effort to get this shot.