The Bike is Alive!!

okay so yesterday I got 4 boxes from the post office...and honestly didn't know what was in them. Turns out they were all motorcycle parts! woohoo!

So I sped home as fast as I could and started re-assmlbing the carbs off my 1980 Kawasaki KZ650B. Things were much better with the assistance of a manual! I rebuilt the accelerator pump and the vacuum pump thingy next to it, and reassembled everything with new float bowl gaskets. A little silicon on the intake boots and some new gas line and presto: looked like new! almost.

I wheeled the bike out into the driveway and went full choke and a little throttle. Kick 1; sputter sputter. Kick 2; ZZZZZZZZIIIIPPPP zam! 4000rpm idle!! woot. choke down and close the hand thottle and sure enouigh the idle goes down and it doesn't die. I give the throttle a twist and sure enough a roaring sound comes form the exhuast instead of the usual rattling gasping death! YAY!!!

Now I need an idle screw so the damn thing stops dieing every time I close the throttle. Then new tires and a headlight and I might have a usable bike!

I am like so excited! yay.

-G :D

Poor Jan...

So...in case some of you haven't noticed I follow things Czech whenever I can. And WRC Finland was last month and poor Jan Kopecky(Czech driver) in his Skoda(Czech car) had a rather nasty little bump. As Follows:

and now...The News!

I haven't posted much lately...since my life is in the usual standstill that it ends up in.

I've been spending a lot of time with my girlfriend lately, which does indeed greatly detract from the amount of time spent moping about over my car and dead motorcycle. But I view it as a good thing.

I need to start planning for my move to the twin cities around christmas, and everything else involved in that, as well as clean out the garage of all my shit and figure out what to do with the Bimmer.

I am also still trying to persue Rally. The bmw is on hold but another Suzuki Swift recently came up for sale for a totaly decent $3000 price tag...which is about the cost for a roll cage...so it would be a crime NOT to! We will see.

and on life goes...

-G :)

Appearantly the bottom line is...

...is that if both your parents are educated people who have some money saved up the government wants you to go fuck yerself and pay for your schooling out of your own pocket.

I recently updated my FAFSA since I want to go back to school and guess what it says: EFC-35,000 something. What a farce!! A real joke. That is way more than I make in a year, and neither of my parents are able to put down that kind of money for me (no matter how I beg them it wouldn't happen).

It all makes me sick. I can't afford a car, an apartment and schooling while going to school full time. It actually kind of depresses me...not like thats really surprising.

meh
-G :(

The new website!!

okay so i just noticed that I made no mention of my new website on this here blog!

Bahntechnic

Yes it is the new home to all of my useless webstuff and an attempt at giving my rally dreams some reenforcement during the down moments in the process.

Currently I have just the basics and generals. Who I am, a notice looking for a navigator, and a little blurb about the car. Thats all for now but I am working on a new CSS layout to kind of spice things up a little bit in the cosmetics department. w00t

-G

still nothing.

Well It has certainly been a while since I've posted here. I've been slowly working on the bahntechnic.com website. And not so much working on my car. I recently messed up the wiring system by disassembling one of the "splice boxes". Hopefully I can return that piece to some extent of functionality. Basically after the wiring is out I can begin the roll-cage negotiations with Davenport Racing. I recently gave up on using specialstage.com for useful information after I got flamed badly by some ass from the west coast who obviously enjoyed the lime-lite. *shrug*

Other than the rally car my life is in a general low right now. My coworker Rob is leaving for Green Bay after this week and then another couple weeks Leann is leaving NETI as well. The first a great coworker who cheers me up, the second an attractive young woman that I have basically ignored all summer. Both of them are bettering themselves and I am still here. I hope that their departure will inspire me enough to get the F out of here and on with my life. Why do things have to be so difficult sometimes?

peace out
-G

Oh my...that was too fun.

http://www.hostpaste.com/mlspr_2007/

There is proof that I was there!! woohoo!

This last weekend was my first ever coefficient! I co-drove for Chad E. in his 88 VW GTI, which as some of you may know is the car I usually crew for.

I am waiting for a copy of the in-car and some pictures...but really I am lost for words in how to describe it all. I was absolutely amazed and so excited and it was SOOOOOoo fun. I hope Chad didn't mind my ballast in the car too much, I'm afraid as a first time co-driving I barely knew what was going on, but I tried hard.

The go-karts afterward were an excellent relief device after a long day in the car. Also thanks to Jeff Moyle for have a couple of us over at his house...and for finding my wallet sunday night. (whoops)

thats all for now,
-G :)

The In-car from stage 7 (the best in-car from the day IMHO) http://www.putfile.com/dtmracerx
Bad video from a sectator (very shakey)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7781343220885169424
More Spectator vid