2010-06-02

Chain of thoughts...

Last post made me think of my mx-bike which is all lonely (kind of... sometimes Andi tries to kickstart it...) in a garage outside Munich, I miss that bike.
Remembering the bike made me think of a awesome trip to Hungary some years back, which reminded me that I lost my kickstarter somewhere in the forest or on the applefields down there (oooh, those applefields, throttle pinned in between these mega-looong corridors of trees, so sweet!). That created a bit of drama since I had to be kind of careful not to stall the bike at a shitty place for push-starting... but good stuff nonetheless.

Thinking of the mx-bike then made me think of my other neglected bike, the Kawasaki...

A fair bit of money went into that bike to make it run and quite a few drunk hours on Andis balcony sanding and spraypainting stuff, loved every minute of it though!

That led to thinking of the trip to Paris which was the main reason for all that (hard? incompetent?) work. That trip was le brilliant!!

The moment pictured above on Champs Elysees in the pissing rain was kind of crap though..
But this was just perfect, red wine and friends in the warm evening next to the Seine.
So that made me think of the trip the year before that, Germany-Denmark-Sweden-Finland-Balticum-Poland-Chech Republic-back to Germany, also great trip! Somehow strange to be a tourist in your own country!

Yep, sweet sweet stuff, thanks again Peter for letting us have the bikes for a week (sorry about the wheelies...). Anyway, I then remembered the second part of that trip, on the other side of the Baltic ocean...

It started good enough...

But soon turned into exactly what you could expect from the Fins!!! ;) What the fuck!!

It'd be a shame to end this post like this, so I'll add some good memories pics for the end...
(We actually watched WRC Finland, but those pics deserves a post for themselves)

Good times, miss it a lot lately and miss all you guys, hope to see all of you soon again! Martin the sentimental crybaby signing off... :.(

2010-06-01

Erzberg Rodeo


Tomorrow or the day after is the start of the Erzberg Rodeo 2010, it's an awesome event, I wish I could be there to see it again this year. The pictures above are from 2008 when I went there with some friends, loved it, a bit difficult to follow the race because you have to move a lot yourself, but compared to the effort put in by the riders it's hard to complain... The guy in the last picture just fell asleep, completely out of it, I'm not sure but I think he's not even halfway through the track...

2010-05-30

Wet weekend...

As I said in the last post we made a little trip this weekend, been to a very nice onsen in Nikko, it was raining a lot on the way there but my bike put up a good fight with a little help from gaffertape and 7eleven ice-cups to avoid rain from going straight into the carbs... I expected some drama from my italian lady, like "vaffanculo, why in the padres name are we out riding in this shit weather, can't you see I'm almost naked?! that's it, screw you stronzo -I'm gonna misfire all the way from here to la mia casa!" but to my great surprise we had none of that -awesome! :) Also proper drinking yesterday night and looots of time spent in the outside baths -good stuff!

2010-05-28

Duc 900

Been spending a lot of time in the garage, sorry -parking space, in my building lately, bought a bike-stand which meant I could finally take off the front forks to mount new head light holders and a new front fender and lowering the rev counter+speedo. Dropped the forks through an extra 10mm to get a bit better stance as well. Also mounted a mini-mirror that I found at the local Ducati dealer, ridiculously expensive but looks great I think :) And you can even see things in it!! Like what's happening behind you and stuff like that! Now I'm looking for different rear shocks to lift the tail of the bike a bit, feels too low right now. People tend to look at me in a kind of strange way when they come home and park their bicycles and see my lying on the floor, dirty and sweaty with tools and parts all over the place, but I reckon that's their problem... Another thing is that the parking area is video monitored... so the old security-boys in the building might be wondering why i've been taking-off-putting-back-taking-off-putting-back-taking-off-putting-back the front forks, head-light and front fender a million times... well it's because I can't measure things properly and have to re-do and re-drill things over and over ok!! Anyway, been good fun lately, tomorrow we are going for a weekend trip with some people from work, very much looking forward to get up on some bendy roads again!

2010-05-24

Maximes TW

Very clean, nice work Maxime!

India trip in moving pictures!