I’ve been pretty busy over the last week having been in three different countries. Full report to follow but I’ve been tied up with volunteer webmaster work for both the mongolminis and the Mongol Rally to even produce that. Sometimes I think I’m just too nice… So, in the meantime here’s another fun little link: How to perform a reverse barrel roll….
I finally went round to Philippes last night to have a bit of a play with his Honda ZFR 800. Something we’ve been meaning to do since I convinced him to invest in a Haynes manual a few months back. We set about adjusting the chain which had far too much slack. Reasonably simple to do, but it still resulted in a skinned knucle for Philippe. First rule of car/bike maintanence learnt: You will hurt yourself. Having adjusted the chain we decided to take the fairings off the bike and have a good look at all the fun stuff below.…
Congratulations to Jen, one of my work colleagues, who just won her first bike racing trophy. She got 2nd place on one of the races this weekend at Brands Hatch as part of the Bemsee Clubman 400 series. A phenominal feat for someone who only got her bike license 5 years ago, and is in her first race season. She also won Rookie of the day. Read her blog at blogs.sun.com/racerjen Jen mentions another racer, Conrad, in her blog. As it turns out this Conrad chap also works for Sun and he has a rather intersting pic on the internal…
I was welcomed to work this morning by this link: carcloseups.mtv.co.uk Basically you have to name 50 cars from close ups only. Something I used to excel at. Niki managed to get 50 out of 50. Something I thought I could achieve without too much trouble. Unfortunately I couldn’t… I only scored a measly 48/50, all because I couldn’t identify the exotic Ford Focus… Bugger.
I’ve been really busy with work today so not much time to dig out a good link to entertain you, but here is a video that I was shown on my last trip to Poland. I was unable to get a copy at the time, but just recently it has surfaced on video.google.com: Fiat Four Wheel Steering
Its link time again… A while back I had a reputation for smashing keyboards at work (things were pretty stressful). To be fair, things have been good lately, but that didn’t stop Niki pointing out the resemblence between me and this cartoon. Now obviously that won’t keep you entertained for long, so here’s another link. Its a classic, but always worth going back for more (it’s updated regularly), Top Gear’s Carbage demonstrates the worlds worst modified cars…
Anyone interested in a nice little 5 door Seat Ibiza. Economic diesel engine, colour coded err… everything, stereo, immaculate showroom condition. A bargain at €7500: Seat Ibiza And just in case you were wondering, yes, I am taking the piss.
Yesterday evening 12 of us went of to a go karting track in Krakow. One of the Cap engineers organised this and with 14 of us in attendance it was a good crack. (Nik: 25:05 is the time to beat!) Some more photos can be seen hereWe followed this up with a few beers and dinner. This, much like every night here, turned into a lot of beers and a club. Got to bed at 3:30, but thankfully I was on lates today. Seriously flagging right now though. Need to perk up as tonight is my last night here, and…