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Sewing Susie . . .

Susie and I are working on a top secret project.

Braaap, brap, brap, braaaaap

That is the sound of the sweet Ford Fiesta in the video (like you didn't know). I don't care if you watch the whole video or not (I care man, I care) but at least watch from the 5:50 mark. I don't want to ruin it if you're reading this first, but it's pretty sweet. Ford should make an all-wheel drive, turbo powered Fiesta for the streets. They cheaped out with the SVT Focus and by not bringing the RS over here. They could compete with the WRX and the Evo. Oh wait, I think I see the problem. The have too many letters in the name. Maybe they could call it the FRS. Maybe not. But still turbo and all-wheel drive in a tiny hatch would rule. And we could do sweet stuff like in the video. Maybe after a few upgrades.

I know there was a nut there this morning

MN Mile Flat Track Racing

If you read the post below, I mentioned Susie and I needed to high tail it back to Shakopee. Here is the reason why. Flat track racing at Canterbury. Sweeeet. A full mile around the track. There are two different classes, singles and twins. The singles is the "entry"level bikes, single cylinder. The other class is the twins. This is the "pro" class. Both were awesome to watch and most of the races were pretty close. But hearing the twins rip around the track was really cool. This class was mostly Harley's and Ducati's. But there were a few Suzuki's and I think one Triumph. I'm not going to try to recap all the racing for you (the ama website has a full rundown) because I can't remember all the names and who passed who. All I know is that when there are 18 riders doing 100+ mph through the corners sideways it is pretty rad. They were doing 140 or so down the straights. On dirt. Usually within touching distance of each other. It's hard to describe how cool it was. Oh maybe these videos will help. The videos are from the D90. So you're only going to get mono sound but it doesn't matter. Just turn the volume up to 11 and check the 720p.

Osceola Car Show

Susie and I went made a little trip to Osceola yesterday. The plan was to meet Susie dad and check out the show and then high tail it back to Shakopee by 4. Mac, Susie's dad, took a little longer than expected to get to Wisconsin. Not a big deal, it gave us time to check out some of the cars and also the book sale. Yes, a book sale. But not just any book sale. They had some that were 50% off. We (and by we, I mean I) could have spent $150 easily. And that is with the 50% off. They had stuff that I've only heard about or seen on the interweb. But I was able to narrow it down to only 3. Partly because I couldn't remember all the books I found that I wanted. Anyway, the car show was pretty good. A wide variety of cars and some motorcycles too. There were the typical 50's Chevy's, MG's, and '32 Fords. But there were also 5 Deloreans, a Ford GT (is it just a GT or GT-40?), a few Lotus' (older and newer), and a couple of jacked up trucks. Pretty neat show overall and it didn't cost anything to get in.

Rode in the rain

Probably shouldn't have rode the motorcycle today. It really wasn't raining too hard but I think the lack of front and rear fender was at fault. Oh well, it's just water. And I just have to let my clothes dry. Yep, soaked to the underwear. You would think the aluminum seat would absorb some water, but no.

Pickin'

These guy's are doin' some serious pickin'. They're called Trampled By Turtles. Cute. And in typical fashion, they were playing at the State Fair today. For free. Damn it.

Shooters Roundup

Our good friend Timmy called Friday night. He was all excited about some gun thing in Morristown on Sunday. Well we rounded up Dave and took a drive to see this gun event. And what an event it was. They had all sorts of guns available to shoot. M16's, AK's, belt-fed behemoths, shotguns, .50-cals, anti-tank, most of the guns from Rambo, and on and on. So we checked things out a little bit and then Timmy stepped up to the plate. I believe he went with an M16 and an AK-47. Nice. While we were standing around watching people shoot shit up, we got to see a pregnant lady shoot two AK's at once. And then she shot one of the belt-fed automatics. I kind of feel bad for the baby. Then Tim and I shot the FAL, a sweet semi-auto rifle. It wasn't too crazy but it was only a $1 a shot. And Dave E. pulled the trigger (literally) on a anti-tank gun from WW2. Sweet stuff. After that, we headed back to the "Police and Military" section. Dave and I got in line for all the cool stuff. We we're a few people back so we had time to decide which of the 15 or 20 guns we wanted to shoot. The simple answer was "all of them," but we weren't rollin' with that much cash. I was torn between a MP5, M16, or one of the belt-fed automatics. Dave was pretty much set on the Browning 1919 belt-fed beast. And after seeing that get shot a few time before it was my turn, I decided on that also. We each only shot 25 rounds, but damn, that was sweet. Then we went for a stroll through the wooded trail to see what was happening because we kept hearing a big gun shooting from that area. And keep in mind this is a 60 acre site we were at. So it was pretty big but small enough where you could hear all kinds of guns shooting off. The wooded trail was mostly shotguns (like guns that fire shots) and different raffle ticket things. But then we saw the .50 cal. Dude. Dave instantly got in line for that. Tim and I stood back about 12 feet and we could still feel it when someone shot it. That was pretty rad. And Dave got to keep the casing. The next stop was the 1800 something gatling gun. Yeah, the one with the crank. We watched one guy shoot it and then no one else stepped up, so I did. The guy gave me the full run down and a welders glove (you know it's good when you get a glove to wear). As you see in the video of me shooting that, you can go through 18 rounds pretty quick for just cranking the thing. Except for the dud that was in there. That slowed me up for a second. I think that's about it. It was a pretty neat deal that we weren't sure if it was going to be cool or not. And actually we weren't too sure about it until we got back in to it. I mean there were people dressed up like Civil War and the Ol' West. And an Indian. Basically it was an America, Fuck Yeah, kind of a day.

See, it runs

Here is the "official" it runs post. Yep, the SR500 is finally running and road ready. I actually rode it to work after lunch today. And I rode around last week with Dave E. Boy too. You might be thinking to yourself "hmm . . . I wonder if it's fast." Well, it's fast enough for me. And you're probably wondering "hmm . . . I bet it's loud." Uh yeah, it's kind of loud but I don't think it's any louder than most of the Harley Davidson® brand motorcycles. Most of the cops I've drove by or past didn't seem to care. Also, the video is from a few days ago. The exhaust pipe (aka right leg warmer) is painted black. Because I saw a red door and I want to paint it black. No colors anymore, I want them to turn black. Or something like that.