The hoff found in the gutter again!

Strange what you stumble upon when out for a walk!

At last :)

Mayhem course

Mayhem course motionbased

Total Time (h:m:s)	1:08:26	7:53 pace
Moving Time (h:m:s)	1:07:18	7:45 pace
Distance (mi )	8.67
Moving Speed (mph)	7.7 avg.	22.8 max.
Elevation Gain (ft)	+1,351 / -1,334
Temperature (°F)	61.7°F avg.	62.6°F high
Wind Speed ( mph)	WSW 3.3 avg.	WSW 4.6 max.

The big crash in action!

Mountain Mayhem 2009

Excellent result this year from Team gears for beers, our second time entering the madness that is called mountain mayhem. (First attempt was unfortunately cut short by weather, course conditions, injury, and camp implosion!)

Our camp was secured on Thursday by Dunc from team mud sweat and beers, a roomy pitch which would accommodate both teams very generously leaving lots of play area!
Both teams and team mates made their acquaintances on Friday and started the vital preparations for the race ahead. Food, beer, cider, food, beer, cider, more cider and regrettably for me a small bike and some ply wood jumps! Should have taken heed of the warnings, ‘it’ll end in tears!’ The cider had defiantly clouded my judgement, and after a few successful attempts gaining air and landing smoothly I decided to go for the ‘no footer’ this ended in the over the bars slam to the shoulder. Bad move!
A visit to the nurse and a few painkillers later it was obvious I would not be putting in my best performance this year, although my two laps were quite respectable I was very disappointed.

Team gears for beers finished 49 out of 129 in the Mixed Category.
Team mud sweat and beers finished 129 out of 229 in the Men’s Sport Category.

Marin aftermath

Marin aftermath
Originally uploaded by nunuboogie

After a hard days ride, nothing better than some nipple twisting!

Marin Rough Ride 2009

Motion Based

Great day riding with good mates, excellent weather and huge climbs.

mountain mayhem shirt image, what you think? any changes must be made before sun eve.

Cats life

archie the office cat. what a cutie!

Special friends

big up mark & john

HONC 2009

medal time! Great weather a good day out, less off road than last year but also less mud.

Custom paint job

Dunc blue

Lovely pink cable

Last few stages of the build it has been a challenge doing the gear cable.

Head tube sticker

Not sure how long this will last may need to cover with some helicopter tape?

mock up Rock lobster head badge

now just need to find a vinyl printer.

Mock decals

using my wizard skills in photoshop have mocked up some replacement decals. After umming and arrhing decided white would look better than pink.

First decals

Reynolds 853

rock lobster re-spray

Cheers dunc :) now the end stage of the build can begin!

Happy christmas

and a happy new year

Rock lobster

New project :)

Closer view

lots of cable ties!

New helmet light

Adapting hope led 1 helmet mount yet to test but seems quite stable.

first clean

looking a lot better now. Clean tank = happy fish

Dirty fish tank

cheers pete :) new fish tank arrived wednesday or should i say second hand fish tank. Excellent size project cleaning to commence.

Bunny

Some more examples of sewing. This one was experiment that worked out for the better.

Burly the sock monster

looking back over old photos i found this photo of burly got me thinking i must get sewing soon!

R2D2

cool sticker art in Worcester

Dining room

Soon

Camp gears for beers

the night before the mud!

Gears for beers

New design team tops

Home grown

first carrot

Early harvest

first garlic crop :)

Mountain mayhem

1st lap

mountain mayhem lap times

more charts :)

Mountain mayhem lap speeds

charts :)

Mountain Mayhem 2008

Setting off for my first lap cruising just before the steep climb.

Elder flower champagne mix

25 litres fermenting nicely still a little worried about the storage of such a volatile liquid especially 25 litres!

mountain mayhem team logo

Team logo designed based on Ju's original idea, awaiting approval from the rest of the team.

jamie_hewlett_monkey.jpg

i personally prefer this art work.

Jamie hewlett at the olympics

damon albarn and jamie hewlett at it again. They have created the opening sequence for the Bbc's olympic coverage based on journey to the west. Monkey, Pigsy and Sandy stand by the birds nest stadium in beijing.

Wild flower.jpg

bored at work again! Pat kindly brought me some wild flowers to print :)

Cow parsley print

series of 10 blue prints

lino printing 1st prints

one o clock two o clock. First batch of lino cuts set of 8.

animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.