We put the space to the test again last week with a Forza 4 industry invite only night. 2 hardcore race sims were set up, fridge was stocked with James Squire and we had about 42 people attend, everyone hung out till very late which was awesome. So happy that people didn’t just come, get bored, and leave! I saw a lot of mingling going on, so great to see people meeting new people, having a Friday night beer and playing games too.
All photos by Matthew Mead, more words and photos on Zen Garage.
Fuji Feather.
Lovely headbadge features mount fuji and feather logo + stamped “Made in Japan”.
Moustache bars!
Alloy Suntour 7-GT rear derailleur.
French made Huret front derailleur.
And shifters.
Last week I found this vintage Fuji Feather on eBay. I put a bid on it, and won it for $56 which I think is a bargain (56 is my house number too!).
I’ve since done some research on it and from my finding’s it’s about as old as I am. From the mid 70’s. It’s got a Suntour 7-GT rear derailleur, one of the first derailleurs to feature alloy bits and it’s also got Huret parts on it, a French brand I’d never heard of before. Unfortunately it’s got 27inch wheels which makes converting it to a single speed a little harder than a new 700c with a rear cassette. I might see how I go keeping them. I have a spare 700c wheelset too so I’ll also test to see if the brake pads will come down enough to make the 700c wheelset work.
She’s heavy but she rides lovely, even with a flat front tyre. Brakes well too. Work on the motorised conversion starts ASAP!
Brought my cheap eBay lightbox set-up to Zen Garage today in preparation for the online shop images.
Test shot.
Call to action banner for the homepage.
I’m using Opencart for the shop. Tried Magento, killed me it’s ridiculously crap, totally unintuitive. You can check out the empty shop here: http://zengarage.com.au/shop
Battleship grey for the poles at Zen Garage.
Me up on a ladder painting the top bits. Not afraid of heights but I am afraid of getting up on a ladder. I once fell off one trying to get up onto the roof when I was a kid, never been comfy with ladders ever since!
More images here.
How cool is this huh? It’s an old school overhead projector which we’ll use to project the Zen Garage logo onto the wall, we’ll then paint in the logo with black paint :)
And so it begins… (insert devil smiley icon here).
Rob brought this in to hang on the wall at Zen Garage today. I almost exploded. I could stare at this piece of art for way longer than the Mona Lisa.
Sean on the left, and Rob, well I can’t see him now the monitor’s in the way haha.
Dropped in to JB HI-FI this morning on the way to work, got the right cables and set the new monitor up. All the comments from the previous post had me a little worried that the monitor wasn’t going to be good enough but it’s JUST FINE. Sure it doesn’t do the same massive resolution that my iMac does at home, but it shits all over working off the laptop screen and considering it cost just over 1/3rd the price of a mac monitor I’m happy for now.
If I ever do feel the need to upgrade I’ll have to buy one of those new Apple TV thingies to turn this monitor into a youtube TV in the bedroom :)
Bought some of these letters on the weekend, couldn’t help myself.
Rob had a set of these horrible “art prints” (top left corner) so we got busy covering them up today with some cool posters (Matt Owens + Toki Doki).
Project FD is now up on stands, tools in the house!
10d dropped in with his crazy hot Scirocco.
SUGA dropped (excuse the pun) in too.
