demuire

I have an odd feeling that the areas under the cars (the grey/red area) is probably painted concrete, or some other non-stain surface.

Teddy: You are a straaaange straaange man...

But... It's a garage. Not a spraybooth... For someone who owns a garage like that, I wonder what his spraybooth would look like!!!

No not really. Most of the people I know won't be, as they have Ironman and stuff and/or can't afford to do it.

I have it now, too. Going to give him a call tomorrow maybe and see if I can book the car in for next month or something...

I got scrutineered by John Kingcott, he's pretty cool... and he's a friend of Bruce from Naambor! :)

Yay, I now have mudflaps on the back of the car... Washing the car the other day to get ready for scrutineering, noticed that my paintjob is PEPPERED in stone chips. The back of the front guards is now bare metal, and I even have a hole in one of them... So yes, mudflaps going on the front soon, too :)

Umm... Surely this isn't in the KE20???

That... Is Too Much. I Want. Now.

Hahaha, all this talk of skating is inspiring me to try to kill myself again... ... naaaah, I'm too old :)

Haha, some ridiculously TINY photos from AGES ago... Me and some friends Me doing the good ol soul down a rail A friend of mine on the same rail A friend of mine backsliding on a curb K2 Fatty's - AWESOME skates, and one of the very first soft boot skates. The last pair of skates I had were the Roces Majestic 12, I absolutely loved those skates.

I must say, I've got great respect for a lot of skateboarders (although there's always that rift between skate boarders and inline skaters (and it doesn't help that they both call themselves "skaters")), it's really hard stuff. We had a guy in my high school called Gabriel, he was amazing on his board... MASSIVE kickflips, heelflips, both natural as well as unnatural, MASSIVE air off the ramps, he was awesome to watch :) Although ultimately us inline skaters could always catch bigger air :P

Okay if you're going to go and play on verts and pipes then yeah you'd probably break something if you didn't wear protection... We never did have verts or pipes in Malaysia, but we had a dinky little ramp that was about a meter high that we used to launch over the school van with :) On inline skates that is :P Needless to say the teachers weren't too impressed and the van was removed in a hurry... We were on the way to building a fun box when the teachers started to complain about it, worried that someone was going to kill themselves etc. I suppose they had reason to worry, we had one guy go into spasm and nearly choke on his tongue when he fell down some stairs, the same guy a year later smashed all his front teeth out when he stuffed up a jump and landed on his face, and I broke my wrist, and numerous cuts and bruises that everyone suffered...

Nah I don't think you'd ever break anything messing around on a skateboard unless you try something rather extreme. I mucked around on skateboards for a bit when I was in highschool, and 99% of the time when you mess up your board goes flying somewhere (like through a window) but you can usually regain your balance and stay upright. Inline skates on the other hand... When you mess up you usually end up on your hands and knees / arse / head / other body part. Have broken a wrist inline skating, a pair of wrist guards, a pair of knee guards and 3 helmets... Skateboarding is HARD. Took me like 3 months to be able to do a simple ollie, and was working on doing a kickflip when I gave up... I was a lot more successful on inline skates, within a day I was doing 180's, within 3 months I was doing 360's, then 540's, misty flips, various grabs, riding down stairs, and grinding my way to absolute happiness (although I never really did get comfortable on rails, I much preferred curbs - and my highschool had PLENTY of those) Ah, those were the days. Now I'm old and apparently wiser, and I look back and think "geez I'm surprised I'm still alive..."

Spot on. Jamie actually did the grille removal, and made the mesh for it too, I just cleaned it up a bit, painted it and put it all together...

I prefer the first one. More interesting.

Looks good? These are to suit a silvertop 20V. Guess what the stacks are made of? plastic!!! Guess where they came from originally? Fabric softener bottle cover :) I don't think they'd work remarkably well (because of their shape), but 10/10 for effort I recon :P Hehe...

Umm, I got it cheap because it was made by a mate, I'm not sure how much it would have cost retail... For a normal front spoiler (like the one that used to be on Nikki's Rollie) I think it was $150. Mine was a custom, so it would have been a bit more than that.

... depending on how big your CV's are...

Trent: didn't it roll down a hill into a fence once when the handbrake failed or something?

brad: not sure if you know, fookstar = demuire = fookstar Front spoiler was a custom jobbie, but we might be getting a mold of it sometime soon because I keep breaking it...

Had my car scrutineered today for the khanacross on the weekend, and was talking to the scrutineer (John Kingcott) about ECT as he just scrutineered a car for that yesterday, and he recons (but he did say to check with the organisers first) that if I'm wearing a 2 layer suit I shouldn't need to wear 'jammys at all. Yay :)

Oh Wow. Has that thing even been driven out of your neighbourhood since it left the factory???

Yes I'm after a CAMS approved cage, probably 6 point. But any further details I think I really need to speak to people-who-build-rollcages...

Mel: The sup regs are worded like this: This, I took, to mean driving suit, balaclava, underwear, boots and socks to ISO6940 (which is pretty much FIA), however I didn't understand the T-shirt bit. Do they mean a T-shirt that is also ISO6940 compliant? Did they just mean underwear as in like... briefs? In all the catalogues I looked at "underwear" seemed to mean both top and bottom, with the tops coming in both short (t-shirt?) and long sleeve, and all the sets (which are cheaper) come with a long sleeve so that's what I got. I dunno, maybe I misunderstood it?