Shoe Shine

MotoGP, F1 Canada and Lemans meant all I did over the weekend was sit in front of the telly. The F1 was prob the most entertaining race in a long time, more than made up for the 2hour odd wait for the restart. Even the qualifying was pretty exciting.



Anyway rather than write the whole long weekend off, I decided to swap wheels and effectively wheelclamp the brown Cef with my old Model 5s. Even with every slip-on spacer I could find and borrow, the stupid things still foul on the calipers. Ugliest anti-theft device ever.
The old shields were lookin pretty ugly...



After a few hours I was pretty much done with the first one. Looks heaps better.




Though my arm is aching and I've really started to hate those stupid little bolts. I'm sure if I took em out to make things easier, then I'd bust the seal and I'd need to completely reassemble the things so I'm not doing that. So my home will remain looking rather ghetto while I finish off the set in the lounge room. Too cold to be done in the garage.

Elusive Exclusive

Earlier this year, my 4wding skills came into question when i had to negotiate a water crossing trying to get home during the brisbane floods. It was apparent I didnt have any skills at all when I blew apart my front bar into pieces and mangled the associated ducting on some submerged flood debris. I collected all the bits, bar one large corner piece, which meant home repairing wasnt a possibility.

I couldnt replace it, cause no-one makes that White aero anymore, so I decided on a Wonder Shadow front bar from Japan. However Wonder I guess is kinda low volume so I had to wait an unspecified time before they'd even make any. Heart broken. Then a few days later, I got a line on some 2nd hand ex-demo Wonder aero. Put the money on that, and over the next week or so it avoided the earthquakes and a tsunami and unfortunately a boatride home. Finally its arrived and clinging to my car with a double ziptie embrace.

Its in great condition, and somehow pretty much matches my paint? What are the odds? If I'm being picky theres probably a shade more silver in it, but I'm not. The long wait made me doubt my decision many times, but now that its on the car, Im glad I got it. So aggressive I love it. The clear indicators that came with it are a nice touch too. Totally gunna clown the speedbumps at work.

I measured up the front opening for the new ducting which I'll make up (looks gross without ducting), and as much as Im bored of those wheels, I should really polish them up again, they need a new lease of life. I still have to get new coilpacks for this thing too. Why do splitfires still cost the same since forever?

As a sidenote, I took these photos on my phone, whilst I had Matt's old DSLR in my bag beside me. Pretty much confirmed to myself that I shouldn't bother getting a fancy camera, they're just too annoying to use.