Last week I got a chance to try out my new bicycle as a commuting implement. [I told you I got a new bicycle, didn't I?.. woops] It was a total blast. There is a very active [but poorly attended] cycling club here at work that is always planning rides around the area on the weekends. They arranged for a 'commute' to work complete with Police escort from close to my house and I thought, "Why not"
Wow, what a great weekend!
This memorial day I took off Friday and spent all day getting myself prepared for a full weekend of racing and boy was I excited. Jenn and Vadim were on their way back from work, and I had the car all loaded with about 2 cubic feet to fit Vadim into. [poor guy]. Not only was this weekend a chance for me to get to the track, but it was my first CCS race weekend. [Checkered flags, trophies, the whole 9 yards]
Well Bob, you wanted a challenge, so here it goes.
It is a well known fact that starting in the early 70s, NHL players would stop shaving during the playoffs as good luck charm. This quickly grew into a fad that the fans started partaking in, to wish their team good luck.
I have begun to cheer on the Philadelphia Flyers as they tackle Washington in the first round of the playoffs. It's been about 4 years since I attempted to grow out a beard... little did I know what I was getting myself into when I decided not to shave.
[This is after 5 days of playoffs]
Well here you have it, the finished product.
As you can see there is the addition of the Zelda Hyrullian shield on the top tank of the bike, which Jenn and I painted on last night, in addition to the twilight princess wolf from before on the side. It looks AWESOME.
Jenn has started the next/last phase of painting the racing SV this weekend. This includes created the stencil cutouts to sponge paint the Hyrulian crest on the top of the tank.
Painting is in full swing and continuing on my race bike. Jenn broke out the paints last night and started the first coat and first color of the Twilight Princess pattern for the upper fairing.
Well we're starting, a little late, progress on getting the final touches of paint added to the bike. The first step of that is a "Twilight Princess" wolf.
As with any of my track days, there are always tons of stories to go along with this one. It was the first track day of the year and of course that adds a whole lot more of uncertainty.
So lets start off with getting the bike running. It wasn't. Thankfully my wonderful neighbor happened to hear my bike cranking over without any response and came to my rescue. 4 hours later after tearing most of the bike apart, shooting some ether into the cylinders, carbs, and airbox and replacing a few critical parts we finally got it running.
:: Standard GTalk conversation ::
Me: so do you think the term "baby maker" should be plural? or is the singular entity representative of the pair
James: they do not work independently
its a solitary baby maker
Well this weekend marks the start of another great motorcycle season. My bodywork is back from the shop and the work is amazing. The body work has returned to it's original if not better condition. There isn't any real paint on the bike yet, as it has only be painted with a primer.
