tis the season - already

Posted on November 30, 2006

Gruter and Gut of Motorrad Technik have unveiled their GG Quad. A real head turner at shows. It comes tricked out with these monstrous side bags, surely to make every motorist do a double-take. I think there is one GG dealer in the US and he happens to be in Dallas. Check out the GG site for sure. Something from their site that I thought amusing and wondered if it was a mistake … here’s the excerpt:

For all its beauty and exclusivity, the bodywork in no way detracts from the precise and meticulously executed technical features. On the contrary: it leads the curious eye to the carefully designed details. In the process, it not only meets the needs of high-tech aficionados but transforms this quad into an artwork on four wheels. The GG-Quad is always in the limelight and stirs emotions.

The production is running. Get you a GG Quad and become a proud owner of this exclusive and funny vehicle. (Italics mine … I wonder if they meant fun)

I guess this would be a rich kids toy … it would be the talk of the Sonic.

Two events that are coming up that I wanted to make our local riders aware of. Both are great causes and happen in the next two weekends. Da First is … The City of Lewisville’s annual toy run. These are always fun or funny. Here is the link and the details. Ride starts at American Eagle in Corinth and worms around Lewisville. Entry is a toy of greater value than $10. 

The other event is sponsored by Strokers of Dallas. There goal is to send 20,000 care packages to our troops this holiday season. The "Pack the Package" is on Dec. 9 starting at Ridgmar Mall. The cost is $20 in advance and $25 the day of the ride. Very nice idea.

Of course there are tons of other rides going on this month all over Texas … so button up and get out there and ride. If you guys are not doing anything on Dec. 9 at 4 pm … I am having the guys from Genesis Metro out to the ranch for a Cowboy Cookout … we will have fire, fire. I love to burn stuff. Fajitas, fixins, cobbler. No beer … makes Homer something, something, … GO CRAZY, don’t mind if I do! Sorry, my mind works in mysterious ways.

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pimp my glide

Posted on November 29, 2006

If you are looking for a great deal on a Harley … you might check this one out on Ebay. It’s a ‘77 and probably has every thing you would ever need on a tourer. I found this on Steve Johnson’s Biker News. He has some other good posts there as well. I would say that this Harley is "eye catching" to say the least.

I also caught a great review on webBikeWorld on the new AGV Miglia, modular (flip up), helmet. Since it’s turned a little chilly here in Texas … I was looking at getting a flip up for the wind noise and warmth. Plus, my buddy Ray said that he was going to go with a full face helmet soon as well. The price of this helmet is right and it looks great.

And to wrap up my morning of news and views … I really enjoyed this blog about a recent trip through the Hill Country of Texas. If you haven’t been … you need to go. Here are a couple of North Texans who made a 922 mile trip in three days … I’ll let them fill in the blanks @ moto adrenaline.

Me, it’s another day of screen printing. The weather dudes say that the temp will drop 15 - 30 degrees in about an hour this afternoon. Oh, boy. That means more days … off the bike. Yeah, I’m a wuss … just can’t bring myself to ride in the 40’s or 30’s if I don’t have to. It usually is not the temp so much as the wind blowing 20 miles an hour. It makes my bald head cold. I am hoping that Duff catches the clue from the above Harley and pimps out his wing. I think some nice conchos would look great!

HG — hangin on for dear life

french fry burner

Posted on November 28, 2006

What you are looking at is the first diesel motorcycle available to the public for purchase. This info I found at my new daily jaunt at whybike.com blog. This bike is manufactured by EVA Products BV Holland. This baby carries a 800 cc, 3 cylinder Daimer Chrysler diesel engine. Makers say:

It comes with three pre-programmed ECU settings enabling it to be switched to run on 100% Pure Plant Oil (such as sunflower oil) or into a highly efficient but lower power diesel economy mode. E.V.A. CEO Erik Vegt describes the bike as a “BMW GS killer with KTM LC8 drivability and Suzuki Hayabusa-like torque.” “It’s the ultimate long distance and long life motorcycle that can run on diesel fuel or 100% pure plant oil,” says Vegt.

As reported on the gizmag site. There have been other diesel motorcycles produced … mainly for the military … but this is the first available to the public.

Unbelievable … I can see it now … McDonald’s will have fuel pumps in their drive thrus … "I’ll have a Big Mac, Fries, a Coke and 3 gallons of your recycled french fry grease. That sounds all fine and good … but would you’re bike smell like Taco Bell at a stop light? I could imagine riding behind one of these bikes and instantly getting a craving to bust into Jack in the Box. I think you can see the future in this … Harley makes a "fry burner" … and they call it the "McGlide" … I’m really out there today … huh?

Have a laugh today, on me

HG –

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texas organized closets

Posted on November 27, 2006

This has been an eventful holiday weekend. To fill in my regular readers … we have been talking to a friend in Florida who owns theneatfreaks.com. It’s a company that sells, designs, and installs custom closet systems. So what, you might say. It’s what I said, at first. But then I began to check out the product … an all wood closet organization system … that looks really, really great. Long story short … after a thorough study … Lori and I are going to become dealers of this great product. The Neat Freaks were kind enough to send us a system, a la gratis, to put in ourselves. The rest of my post will cover the install. I must warn you, blood was involved in this install … but most of my projects do involve such gore. It is such a badge of honor.

Here is what we started with … this is one wall of our master closet. I did remove most of the clothes before I decided to make this docu-drama for the blog. So just pretend that you see clothes every where … crammed all together and 10 million hangers with nothing on them. The thing I like about this closet system is that … once you get the lingo down … you can pretty much customize the thing any way you want … we had some unusual obstacles in this closet. If you are not handy, you should just call me … and I will have it installed for you.

I started at 8 am on Saturday morning … I unloaded the system from the box, scanned the instructions, and then began demo on the closet.

This took a little longer than expected because the @#%*! builder glued the existing hanging system to the wall. Most builders don’t do this … so you might not have these steps in your project. But, it could happen this way for you too. This is where I injured myself the first time … so it had nothing to do with the closet system. Just my anger issues. So, you can insert the top picture after this one.

Lori and I have redone so many houses that stuff like this is no biggie for us … we floated out the sheet rock, let it dry and painted. This part of the project took … 2 hours.

Here is the wall … ready for installation. Pretty boring, I know … but, I was so proud of how nice and clean it looked. Since this was on a Saturday … while the mud and paint were drying … I completed some other projects around the house, and we went to the new Alco store to pick up some storage baskets … Lori already had decorating and function ideas for the system.

Here is one of the first steps in the install. Putting up the "L" brackets and the corner brackets as well.

The installation of the tower is probably the slowest part of this deal. But, if you take your time and listen to your wife reading the instructions you should be ok. The cut on my nose occurred while putting in one of the hanger brackets … as I was screwing it in, the screw caught the bracket and spun it into my nose … nice cut huh? … that’s real blood. It bled more. Until I looked like a WWF wrestler. You probably won’t bleed near as much as I while installing this … but if blood does scare you … you might want us to do the install.

And here she is completed. It looks awesome … the pictures just don’t do it justice. Lori did a great job of decorating and arranging the clothes … while I watched the ball game … she was not happy about that part. I wish I could report the actual time it took … but, Casey and Erin came in on Saturday afternoon, and soon after that … all the kids were here. So, we didn’t finish it until Sunday afternoon. I would say that it took about 6-7 hours including the demo and painting. All in all we are pleased with our closet and really excited about getting this part of Red Roof Ventures up and going … texasorganizedclosets.com and organizedclosetsblog.com … will be our websites for this business … it will take us a few weeks to get those sites operational … but the domains are purchased. Sorry about the length of the blog … but I know it does make you want to get your cluttered closets organized … call me … I’m a pro now … I can help. Oh, before you start emailing me … the cost of this deluxe system is a third of the cost of California Closets … it’s all wood … no press board and laminate. This system would cost you about $500, plus shipping and not including installation. Hmmm …. nice huh? Like I said … the coolest part about this is … we can help you totally customize your closet … we did it!

HG –

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cruise control

Posted on November 25, 2006

      

An earlier photo of Tom Cruise this year sporting his new Hellcat F131 from Confederate Motorcycles. You should check out their photo spread released in Sept. 06 of their newest creations. Brad Pitt and other celebs are known to own these unique creations. I first read about these "works of art" on Kneeslider.com. The cost of these bikes range in the 60K range, far less than chromed out choppers, but a really nice looking ride. I wonder is Katie is a bike rider? I mean besides a passenger. We all know that Angelina can hold her own in buying a Agusta Brutale a while back. The Brutale is an Italian made bike … she said so that she could take it off road in visiting the poor and hungry. Maybe I could use that to hurry my recent motorcycle cravings.

Celebs are not strangers to motorcycles. I can still remember being riveted to my seat in the movie theater as a young boy watching Steve McQueen in the Great Escape. I think I went right home and set up ramps to jump my jet-black Huffy. Jay Leno, of course, has a massive collection of vintage bikes as well as few "one offs" that could launch you to the moon. There was a lot of press when Jay purchased his jet powered motorcycle made from recycled helicopter turbines. It really is a cool story and bike. This story was found in popular mechanics. That is always a cool mag.

Neenie and I looked at bikes yesterday afternoon coming home from the Salvation Army on Harry Hines yesterday. Our church helped feed a couple of lunch time shifts. It was cool, we enjoyed ourselves a lot. It would have been cooler to take a new cruiser home too … but alas … we did not. I’m really enjoying the weekend … very laid back, doing very little. It’s nice. Hope you are having a great Saturday as well.

HG —

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