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Hi all. I'm still here. Ashleigh and I got engaged in January. No major changes in garage land. Lack of storage is continuing to make life difficult. I've made a lot of improvements to the Holden Rodeo Ashleigh bought at the beginning of 2024. My own cars have been having incremental...

Is this still available? What's your best price? $1500 cash this afternoon.

Hello everyone. I am not dead. Lately I've been attending track days and Motorkhanas semi-regularly. I've somewhat absent-mindedly gone on a sabbatical from sword fighting. I haven't been attending training, or many events at all. I will however be going to Rowany Festival next weekend...

I got my provisional licence in May, which involved riding to Queanbeyan to take the test. My riding is at a fun stage - it feels like I "level up" with every ride. There are a couple of hilly, winding sections of Taralga Road, particularly near where it crosses Tarlo River. I've been riding up...

Hello mate. Essentially, everything's going swimmingly. Potential update soon as I've just spent part of the school holidays rearranging the garage after spending time getting to know how the space works and what it needs.

Had a fantastic weekend. Ashleigh has been doing gardening work for my colleague's wife at the same place my motorbike is kept at the moment. She and I both went there on Saturday and she did three hours in the garden while I rode around the surrounding roads. I rode all the way back to town...

I went to a Motorkhana with the Mx-5 Club on Sunday. It was my first time at a Motorkhana and I had lots of fun. I only got a photo of the car standing still because I was too busy driving the rest of the day. 🤣 I'm going to a Track Day at Pheasant Wood this Sunday too, which includes a...

Anyone in NSW, please sign this petition. Share it, save the racetrack. https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/la/Pages/ePetition-details.aspx?q=JEhjemCnHmr7OpIXen8-4w&fbclid=IwAR1prpcIKg0_EBUbYHVi9oOVp7inEVECzdSDFO1IiH8mqEf86A2nB1hTEy4

Hello mate As it happens, my Dad, who is a professional Historian, took it upon himself to write a history of the house I've bought and he's put together a fascinating 40 page booklet which chronicles the whole War Service Homes Commission, then zooms in to the Goulburn area, the street, then...

A teacher I work with in the Industrial Tech faculty at the school has ridden motorbikes for 40 years and he suggested I leave my motorbike at his property out of town and drive there to ride it until I've built more confidence. Yesterday after work, we arranged for him to ride the bike out...

Hey mate! If the alleged government of NSW don't start listening to the Teachers' Union soon, I might move to ****** Queensland too! The Blacktown Medieval Fayre was initially rescheduled and then completely cancelled this year, due to prevailing wetness making the ground too soft and...

This weekend I picked up a sword for the first time since moving here - I attended an event in Wollongong called "Cold War." 🤣 Judging by how the battles went, I've still got it. ⚔ The intention is to start going to the fighter practices in Canberra, 1 hour away, but so far I've been too busy...

This morning I opened the back door of the garage, moved the cars out and rode the motorbike the length of the carport and garage, waddled it back and did it again a number of times and I feel much better about this than yesterday's exploits. Here are some pictures of the bike with proper lighting:

Adjusting the 3rd to 4th gear throw seems to have eliminated issues with the MX-5 missing or slipping out of third gear. I ended up buying a 2021 KTM 390 Duke after all, with 600km (600, not 6000). It wasn't a blisteringly good deal, but still a good deal. I got it from a dealership and I...

I've finished a brake job, including steel braided lines, on the MX-5 and painted the calipers red and the rear dust shields (which were rusty) black at the same time. Lowered onto the coilovers and it looks heqtik. I also installed a brass shifter bushing. At my last track day, I started...

Evening mate. Good to hear from you. Thus far, moving to Goulburn has been a very good decision. Hello mate. The SS is an Australian designed and built Holden Commodore ute. These are some of the best cars in the world and they were killed off by stupid decisions made by Australia's...

I've been riding to and from work on a pushbike too, which I'm quite enjoying. That looks fantastic mate. If you read my old thread, you might have seen that the school where I used to work had an automotive program and I was teaching auto, plus we had a drag car that students had built about...

Hey mate. Not quite a Maloo. This is an SSV Commodore ute. With tuning though, it's making more power from the 6 litre than the stock Maloo with the 6.2. At the time I bought it, the cheapest VE Maloo I could find was double the price I paid for this car. Almost triple now.

Hello mate. I think I'm going to get a Suzuki DRZ400SM. I was previously looking at the KTM 390 Duke and RC390, but I'm keen on the ability to go offroad, but still have fun on paved surfaces too.

I've been adding coilovers and swaybars to the MX-5 over the past week, being the second week of the school holidays. Annoyingly, I've had to adjust the front swaybar endlinks to full soft and the rear to full hard just because of the geometry of how things fit. together. Unsure whether this is...