Gettin to Work

  I was at a climbing gym last night with a buddy from work, and I wrenched the hell out of my back. Drove to work thinkin that I'd be cool, only to find out I could barely get out of my truck. Told the boss-man and headed to get some chow. So I sat around watched the new episode of 'Parasyte' on crunchyroll, cleaned up the apartment a bit, then decided to go rip all the plastic off my dirt bike so I can repaint it. I had it flat black and metallic bronze, pretty cool; but I think I'm gonna go more Honda colors this time. Maybe a dark, almost blood red, metallic if I can find it. I used the spray enamel from Hobby Lobby that you paint models with. It held up really well, except where it was scratched off by my poor riding skills... I want to eventually get some supermoto Warp 9 wheels for it. You can get them in all kinds of colors, and they'll mount oversized front brakes, and rear brakes and sprockets too. Of course your gonna pay out the ass for it. Apr. $500 for standard colors, and marches up to $700 for custom. For each wheel. Ouch. But they are hard anodized and powdered coated, and guaranteed strait with a decent warranty. I'll post some pictures as I get the plastic painted.


Later

Supermoto

I bought a dirt bike a few years ago, a 2012 Honda CRF250X to be precise. I loved taking it out on the irrigation ditches and the dry river bed and way out in the desert. When I moved to Silver City, NM, I found beautiful forest trails and rolling grassland, and also what it feels like to hit the ground at 20mph... my back's still screwed up. I moved out to Fort Worth last summer and found to my dismay that there is hardly any open land, even in the largest state in the contiguous United States, every bit of land in the area seems to be privately owned. Overrun by cattle and people with more money than sense, every last bit is bought up. I guess I can't blame them, Texas is God's country.


   Anyway, I've been checking out supermoto or motards for a while now, in essence they're dirt bikes with street wheels and tires. What makes them so cool is that while they aren't the fastest they handle like nobody's business. Along with the fact that you can still jump, wheelie, and stoppie them. They're the perfect hooligan bike, when you change the tires your trading dirt trails for anything paved. Every empty parking lot, loading dock, school is now your playground. To top it off you can make them completely street legal by adding all the lights and a horn. Downside being you have to insure them, but hey if it gets stolen that full coverage will be sweet.


   So here's to not wiping out and killing myself (have had a lot of practice). I'll add progress reports as I get the bike and myself ready.

Cigars

I decided to try smoking cigars at some point in the past few months, and found that I like them a hell of a lot. Aside from the occasional nicotine head rush, and bad breath the next morning, I am really enjoying all the flavors that come out as I smoke. I am by no means an expert and I am not going to turn this into a cigar review site, but I may from time to time post about a cigar I especially liked. Also, when I can afford the wood I will post about building my thermo-electrically cooled humidor. I already have the peltier unit built, which was fairly simple and I jacked it from YouTube. I will post about it later. Oh, and sugar for the head rush, haven't tried it yet but will update on it's effectiveness.

Been a While

So, it's been a few years. I read through some of my posts and the thing that's sticks out the most to me is how young and inexperienced I sound. I guess I committed the same sin as any other young person, that is thinking I knew more than I did. It's so obvious to me now, but I guess that's just experience talking; and I realize there's still a ton I don't know. I'm going to try to make an effort to write on a regular basis, but I make no promises.