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Short video from last night’s epic Loftus night ride :) More pics and chat here.

Christina bought a Rubiks cube on Sat, she’s been obsessed with it all weekend.

On Sat. night Mum organised a huge traditional Indonesian dinner for my family and Christina’s family. Food was awesome, conversation was great, awesome. I’m pretty sure everyone had a great time! :)

On Sunday I woke up at 7.30AM to my mobile phone alarm, had to get up to go to the Deus Bicycle Swap Meet! Christina got up too and we met Andy there at about 8.15AM.

Here are some pics:

So me, wish she was mine.

Let me in let me in!

Drool frames. I would have bought the lot (especially the immaculate Colnago or Red Bundy track frame) if they were my size! Most were 58+ in size, many frames were going cheap at $200 and under.

This Paino sold in front of my eyes. Yummy!

This Bundy was sooo tiny! A kiddies road racer, so awesome.

Steel City Cycle.

$70 scored me all of this today :)

I just love what Deus is doing, they’re breeding culture. Motorbikes, bicycles, coffee and hot retro cars too. It’s such a buzz to see passionate people hang out around the shop.

We also dropped in to Kingsford markets, nothing but Repco’s and Huffy’s today though so we headed in to vote on the Archibald Prize. Abbey McCulloch is a finalist this year (I’m super happy as I love her work and I own one of her original paintings!).

Bitey sun but otherwise perfect weather.

We also hit the Opera bar for lunch, so good.

PS: All the gear I got today is now on the bike.

Richie’s been after a nice roadie for some time now. Doing up the old Oxford I found on the side of the road got the ball rolling, then we decided to bid on a nice 80’s bike on eBay but we lost it at $405.

I asked Grant at MC Cyclery to help out, and turns out he had an 06 TCR in the store room. Story goes that a customer put a deposit on it, but never paid it off so considering it was so many years ago now Grant was willing to let Richie have it for a steal.

We checked out the bike today, it’s got full 105 componentry on it which really hasn’t changed at all over the years. A full aluminium frame and carbon forks and in Richie’s size too. Richie loved the colours, and just had to have it, pedals and shoes were chucked into the deal and Richie’s one happy camper!

The bike.

One little pedal in the carpark and Richie was in awe at how fast the thing is!

In other news, head mechanic at MCC Ash made this bike for his girlfriend Mel’s B’day. How amazing is it? Click here for more details.

And I found this cracked carbon Scott Ransom frame in the bin at MCC.

Sad, but it’s now up on my wall as art :)

I’m selling off a few bikes (to make room for more?!) and sold the Yeti to Timmy (the pink suits him much better in any case) and the Kuwahara BMX is on eBay. We had a bike night last night and Timmy built up his Yeti using parts off his beater. Pics and words here.

I tried to avoid sprinkling more red bits on the SE Lager, but failed :) More pics here.

Running the Australian INfront, JDM Style Tuning, Bikes Move Us and Sex in Art keeps me pretty busy but I do actually work, as well as play you know! So here’s just a few links to some work I’ve been doing.

The Australian Centre for Photography – I’ve always been a huge fan of the ACP, a photography gallery and school on Oxford St. When they contacted me to come in and act as a designer/consultant for refining their brand and image I was more than happy to get busy. I’ve just finished designing their new DL sized brochure, you can see a larger version of it here.

CAN Collections Australia Network – This was a big job, took a long time, but it’s always fun working with the great people at the Powerhouse Museum.

MeMe Creative – This is my sisters web site. Her and her husband Richie are getting off the ground with their new design business and I’ve been helping out with HTML work.

JDMyard – Zi wanted a face lift, and he wanted to take off a whole lot of stuff off the old site. So here’s the new site, for now.

Diagnostic Medical Co-operative – Corporate work is rarely fun, but it pays for more bike parts!

Pamela Dean – Sometimes you meet really nice people who have no money to make a site, but you help them anyways! I just gave Pamela a simple wordpress driven site so she could go in there and easily edit her own content.

everdure – expensive BBQ’s! Due to too many reasons to mention, this job was a bit of a nightmare, shame as it could have been a really sexy site.

MC Cyclery – I’ve been running the site, blog, print advertising and shop, which a mate of mine Damien designed earlier this year.

I’ve got much more, but they’re either too horrible to show, or not live yet!

Christina and I checked out the Sydney Tattoo expo at Homebush on the weekend and we were both quite shocked at how hardcore the event was (it was meant to be a family friendly event). A whole lot of tiny overly cramped stalls (I even saw a tattoo artist tripping over themselves whilst tattooing someone!), packed with people getting tatt’s done in front of the crowd looked both un-professional and un-inviting.

So what was missing? Well the shows on TV focus on the stories people have behind getting their tattoos, which in my opinion is the most important and interesting part of getting a tattoo. It’s personal and so too is the process of sitting down with your tattoo artist and sharing with them your story whilst getting your tattoo done.

I’m sure many of those who went to the show after being inspired by shows like Miami Ink were shocked enough to not want a tattoo anymore which I think is a shame.

In other news Suga and I travelled far (central coast even!) to visit display homes. The cost of renovating is almost the same cost as pulling down my house to build a new one (albeit a project home which isn’t double brick). Still, we’re looking into all options.

Sketchy ride this afternoon, pics and text up here.

After a few close calls where the Jazz just wouldn’t pull up in time I finally invested in some better brakes.

I got Zi from JDMyard to hunt me down something and he ordered me a set of RDA slotted disc rotors and EBC pads.

The manual Jazz I had before was fine when it came to braking but the CVT just doesn’t use the gears to slow down so you’re left doing a brake burner early every time you want to stop. This has totally eliminated the sloppy braking and the car hauls up a LOT better now. I’d even say it was punchy and the smell of new brakes bedding in rocks. :)

All in all, for just $375 (Slotted disc $185 pads $190) it’s an amazingly radical change. I only wish it was that cheap to make this little slug accelerate faster!!!

Ooooh yeah I finally bit the bullet and bought up on a period correct Rolls saddle for the Paino. Black suede, gold bling details, she’s so yummy for my bummy.