My Toy

It still looks like a new bike.
Originally uploaded by BadDriver.

This is a picture i took after the trip we took on August 20th. I think the last count i heard was 39 atvs, one dirt bike, and 60 people. It was a great crowd, lots of friendly people and nobody got hurt.

It really was spotless before i left, but after 87kms it had a little bit of mud on it...i must have hit a puddle somewhere along the way.

Welding Is Fun

Ok i tried welding the other day and it's a lot easier then i thought it would be. I did learn really quick that welding in shorts and sandals is a really bad idea. It was about 3 seconds of welding before a piece of molten metal burned a nice little spot in the bottom of my foot. So now my bare minimum attire for welding is pants, shirt and boots...of course i'm wearing the helmet and gloves too.

So now i'm trying to learn a little bit of welding, i said it was easy...but i didn't say i was doing it right. I've got to learn some technique, cause i can melt metal together, but that doesn't mean it's strong or that it's right. I'm thinking i should try to build a gokart, that would make a good project. I can burn myself and then if i survive that i'll be able to crash the gokart on the trial run...i wonder which will be more painful.

Anyone want to mail me some parts to use on the gokart? I'm not too proud to take donations. :-)

Lazy

Have i been on the bike lately? yup. Have the trips been interesting? yup. So why no posts? Cause i'm too freakin lazy to type it all in. I think it's time to create posts by just thinking about what i did since the last post. Okay here goes ..... anything yet? Maybe i have to think harder ..... frig, still nothing. Well that sucks. That means i'll have to type it manually.

Summary:
-went biking
-came home
-went biking another time
-came home again
-went biking
-came home

Okay, i feel better now that i've covered all the important details.

Learned a few lessons since the last posts, if you're gonna use a chainsaw to cut trees in your ditch pay attention to where the chain is relative to your arm. If you're gonna play around on your dirt bike while wearing shorts pay attention to how close your bare leg gets to the exhaust. The last and most important one is to always curse at the engineers who design four wheelers with half-assed fixes to problems. Who puts a thin piece of plastic over a coolant hose to protect it from constant contact with a sharp piece of metal? Come on now, what kind of a stupid sollution is that? Move the hose, put metal over it, or take the edge off the metal.

Okay, that's probably enough venting frustrations for now, i don't want to waste all that anger, i have to save some of it for the drive home.