J's Rantspace

Blacker Than Black

stoffle — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:12:45 +0000

I finally got around to installing a tinted screen on the bike, helping to black it out a bit further. I ended up with a “HotBodies” brand (never heard of them before), and I have to say I regret it, the fit was terrible. I eventually wrangled it in there though and here are the results.

I think it’s actually too dark, it almost looks opaque.

Incidentally, while I was down in the garage I couldn’t help take a picture of the ol’ gal… she’s getting a bit lonely these days. Still off the road with an electrical fault, right after I upgraded suspension and brakes

Blargs…

stoffle — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:55:27 +0000

Hey, my blog thing came back.

Industrial Strength Gixxer

stoffle — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:13:03 +0000

Here are some of the pics from the “photoshoot” at Warwick’s father’s workshop – Coplyn Engineering. Unfortunately many of them were too blurry to be of use, but we’ll try again no doubt

Thieves

stoffle — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:09:56 +0000

Some fucker has stolen a bunch of tools out of my (locked) garage:

Full set of ratcheting ring-spanners
Dremel and accessories
Crimping tool (and 100s of spade/ring lugs)
2 multimeters
Large set of screw/hex/torx bits
1/4″ socket wrench
Laser straight-edge
$5 vice grips (why?)

They also nicked a 5th Gen iPod from my car, and god knows what else. I have no idea when this happened as I haven’t used my tools in a couple of weeks. The garage door shows no signs of tampering, and has only been left unlocked once… so either somebody with very good timing got lucky, or else they have a key…

More. Furious. Anger.

On the bright-side, I gave the bike a wash today and Warwick has taken a bunch of photos of it at his father’s workshop… I’m yet to see the result but I’ll post them as soon as I have a copy.

Nokia 6210 Navigator

stoffle — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:35:49 +0000

I received my new cellphone today, a Nokia 6210 Navigator. My old phone (a 6110 Navigator) was involved in an unfortunate accident involving several litres of water and a certain Fisher and Paykel laundry appliance.

The new phone, while otherwise very slick and appealing, does not allow me to:

sync calendar and contact entries from my Mac
use turn-by-turn navigation (without a yearly subscription, paid to Nokia)

For the privilege of losing these features, I need only pay $175!

Vodafone (actually Marsh & McLennan, the insurance provider) did not give me the option of choosing another phone (yes, I asked).

My old phone performed both these duties flawlessly, so if you have a 6110 Navigator but you don’t sync to a Mac and you don’t use the voice navigation, I’d love to discuss the possibility of a swap.

Additionally, my MacBook Pro’s battery has swolen up to twice its original size but is not covered under the battery replacement scheme. Furious. Anger.

Ok I’m done

Update: I have finally found an iSync plug-in that actually works with the 6210 Navigator. Its a commercial product that cost around $20.00 AU, but a small price to pay to make the phone half useful to me.

Fibrous Carbon Thingy

stoffle — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:46:14 +0000

This weekend Warwick cleaned up some of the scratches on my tank for me and we fit a Geelong Carbon Craft tank protector. The fit wasn’t perfect but it’s very close and despite my history of hatred towards carbon fibre accessories on cars, I actually quite like the look.

Making a cameo in these pictures is some random glove that somebody placed on my bike while I was at work.

Basic Clean Up

stoffle — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:02:10 +0000

A few pics of the bike after a bit of a tidy up, the ugly warning stickers and the “750″ labels have been deleted, along with the front parking reflectors. A set of Oggy Knobbs have also been installed… black of course

Gallery Powah

stoffle — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:17:18 +0000

Redwyre has kindly installed the NextGEN Gallery plug-in, so naturally I made use of this to upload some higher resolution (and other additional) pics of the gixxer on day one. More pics soon, showing the basic tidy up (thanks to Warwick) and a few simple mods

GSX-R750 – Day One

stoffle — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:52:52 +0000

A few pictures of the new bike on the day I picked it up, something needs to be done about that hideous exhaust!