Swagger
Putting boot to ass since 1967!
It's been a while since I've been able to do more than peek in now and again. In the intervening months I've moved out of an apartment into a house with a usable garage, lost the shop (meh) and have basically started over.....again. It's been a lesson in streamlining, I've gotten rid of most of the bikes, several cars, a truckload of toys and one time/money sponging anchor around my neck.
I see some familiar faces here, loads of new guys, still one or two wankers stirring up shit (why do the mgnt allow a few trolls to prosper here?) and some pretty nifty builds among a lot of good first tries, missteps and....well, scary bodge jobs but ya give credit where you can.
Let's see what else......I finally got motivated after a long bad spell and have lost 80lbs since December 1, '11. Was a bit sausage like there for a while, depression eating will catch up to you. If your eating and fitness habits are bad, they WILL catch up to you. I'll be 45 in November and should be ~90lbs lighter that the birthday prior. Feels good. Food sucks, 2.5-3 hours a day in the gym is a big chunk of time, but I've only got 25lbs to go and I'll be down to ~220 maybe 225 @ 11-12% body fat depending on how much mass I put back on by then. Next Saturday I'm running in the Warrior Dash here in Portland, should be pretty interesting to see how much payoff this has been other than the lost weight.
I will be updating the build threads sooner than later, especially the 920 as it's my primary transportation for the near future but the Sakura bike will likely get some attention soon, there were some 11th hour updates that occurred just about the time I had to go radio silent.
Hope all you forum 'oldtimers' are doing great, I look forward to chatting with all of you soon!
Later,
El Presidente
I see some familiar faces here, loads of new guys, still one or two wankers stirring up shit (why do the mgnt allow a few trolls to prosper here?) and some pretty nifty builds among a lot of good first tries, missteps and....well, scary bodge jobs but ya give credit where you can.
Let's see what else......I finally got motivated after a long bad spell and have lost 80lbs since December 1, '11. Was a bit sausage like there for a while, depression eating will catch up to you. If your eating and fitness habits are bad, they WILL catch up to you. I'll be 45 in November and should be ~90lbs lighter that the birthday prior. Feels good. Food sucks, 2.5-3 hours a day in the gym is a big chunk of time, but I've only got 25lbs to go and I'll be down to ~220 maybe 225 @ 11-12% body fat depending on how much mass I put back on by then. Next Saturday I'm running in the Warrior Dash here in Portland, should be pretty interesting to see how much payoff this has been other than the lost weight.
I will be updating the build threads sooner than later, especially the 920 as it's my primary transportation for the near future but the Sakura bike will likely get some attention soon, there were some 11th hour updates that occurred just about the time I had to go radio silent.
Hope all you forum 'oldtimers' are doing great, I look forward to chatting with all of you soon!
Later,
El Presidente
