Category Archives: Bike

Photo by Matthew Mead.

Couldn’t resist re-posting this photo taken by Matt Mead. He brought a little instamatic camera along the other night (using film). Instantly reminded me of my hero Terry Richardson. You want a raw show? Throw that DSLR in the bin and buy yourself a cheap instamatic. Done! More of Matt’s pics from the BMU/MCC bike night here.

Bought a Bell Custom 500 helmet and I love love love it. It’s light, not as huge on my head as my last helmet and it looks super pimp.

Also got myself a Death Spray Custom T-Shirt. The guys were nice enough to send me a bunch of sticker which I’ll gladly rep once I figure out where to stick them!

Also got some gold detail bolts from the crew at Standard Functions, excited and proud to be repping them too on my chest, yew!

Up in lights.

Cool art = culture.

Ash and Matt.

Ash’s toys.

Ash was working on Rockstar Racing’s/World 24hr Solo Champion Gordo’s bike.

A lot of the boys made a b-line directly to the helmet display to try on some funky new Lazer helmets.

What’s a BMU bike night without beers?! Thanks Grant for the cold bevvies :)

Perhaps the only tool that’s allowed to leave Ash’s workshop.

Grant and Tom from Hell on Wheels.

‘Master of Ceremonies Cycling’ Grant busy MCing.

Jing’s BMC at Menya.

Being my first time at Menya I went for the Menya ramen with miso base and damn it was awesome. Best Ramen I’ve had in Sydney to date.

Trieu ordered the dragon, which was so hot it blew his face off. :loling:

Grant’s dream of opening the ultimate bike shop is now a reality. Last night he invited BMU for our own private bike night at his new shop on Clarence Street in the city. Having spent a good part of 6 months working on the plans for this business (the plan was to be a major shareholder but things fell through at crunch time) I’ve got to say it was sweet sweet. Not bitter sweet, just super sweet. I’m so happy for Grant and I’m wishing him the very best.

Despite not actually working on bikes, or building Frankenstein bikes or going for a drunken ride afterwards, last night’s MC Cyclery/BMU bike night was heaps of fun and I’m hoping Grant will be up for more BMU Bike Nights at MCC in future.

PS: I rode the Zoomer in peak hour traffic to get there last night. Have to admit I was a little scared initially, but once I got rolling I had a blast!

Gush….. what a write-up! This guy so knows more about bikes than I do! I’m honored to have my Paino featured up on Cycle EXIF. Visit: http://www.cycleexif.com/paino-strada

After weeks of doing my head in I’ve decided I can’t stand the gold (hey I tried to add a little colour, but I always tend to go back to subtle/less is more). I’ve found myself googling around desperately for an all black ATR shock, but there are none left anywhere. I’ve even considered dropping $200 or so on a new black shock, which would be silly as the ATR shock works so well.

After a little bit of test sanding I realised the anodizing on the shock wasn’t that hard to remove. I headed to the local bunnings and bought some Easy-Off brand heavy duty oven cleaner, as well as some rubber gloves + steel wool. I sprayed heaps of the stuff on and within seconds there was a chemical reaction. I left the stuff on for 45 minutes and after a rinse with water this is what everything looked like.

It cleaned up really nicely on the flat surfaces, but damn the harder to get to edges were a pain in the ass! Never again! Ultimately I’m very happy with the end result though :)

Got my new billet grips in the mail today so I’ve fitted them up with the 2inch CRG Blindsight bar end mirror I bought earlier. Old grips vs. new grip + CRG mirror + bar end kit.

I could have bought a bicycle mirror but I went for top shelf stuff instead. I figure if it’s good enough for Ducati’s it’s good enough for my Zoomer! HAHA.

Throttle side grip.

Really happy with the fatty set-up. Will wrap up the exhaust header soon. Still thinking about tiny old school brake lights and turn signals and shaving off the tabs that used to hold the stock blinkers.

I’ve been riding around without a rear view mirror, it’s pretty freaky. After today’s ride I’ve decided to keep one. If you look at the goodies picture in my previous post you’ll spot a bar-end mounted round mirror which I’ll get on the bike soon (waiting on new grips first). Still tempted to try an HID style headlight to eliminate the round headlights, not sure I’d like it though and also HATE the gold forks and very long brake and speedo cable. Hate the speedo too but I look at it lots so it’s got to stay.

Again, hate the gold forks and rear shock. Love the functionality of the ATR rear shock so I might try to strip the gold anodizing with oven cleaner, or something. Front forks are too high, need to be an inch lower so I’m looking into lower forks (not gold next time) and also a front disc brake set-up and gloss black alloy wheel (front wheel is matte grey and steel) which will brake better, look nicer and also eliminate the long drum brake cable.

The ugly old standard gas cap had to go. I had to grind down the 2 tabs (used a dremel) to mount the new cap on top of it.

New KCP cap mounted up. Made by a guy in Holland who designs makes and sells his own parts.

More goodies came in the mail today, this time from BOWLS LA where I was in fact buying T-Shirts but ended up with a whole lot of Zoomer parts!

New Takegawa radiator cover. Not sure if I like it, kinda like no radiator cover at all to be honest.

K&N filter with shield. Had to shave off some rubber (luckily I’ve got killer sharp blades) to get it to fit right.

Kijima radiator coolant tank replaces the stock plastic tank.

Paino’s all done and I’ve been meaning to shoot her for some time now. Sunny day today so Suga and I went for a ride at Centennial Park. The path was quite wet, so our bikes got a little dirty, didn’t stop me from shooting though, gotta love a bit of dirt!

Plenty more pics here: http://www.bikesmoveus.com.au/showthread.php?t=143