Moving along

Yep, still riding the IHTD (In Home Torture Device or Trainer. Whichever terminology you prefer). The really exciting stuff for me is going on at the shop. Both quarter panels are on, the decklid is ready to go and it's about ready to go on the rotiserrie so I can remove the undercoating from the floors. My suspension stuff shuould be here this week and the brakes here the following week. I ended up getting a kit that will let me run the 94-04 Cobra Mustang brakes. Should be sweet. I'll have to do a braking test and compare the stopping distances between the 13" front and 11.5" rear disks to the 4 wheel drum brakes the car came with in 1965.

Here's a picture of the car with the drivers side quarter panel cut off. I thought I had a pic of the new one on but I don't. Stay tuned.

New Year

Same start. Another New Years Day Ride down. It was a little on the cool side but nothing like 2 years ago. At least the roads were clear. Spending a lot of time with the Wii Fit +. Better watch out this year, I'm gonna' be so ripped you could get cut!

Not slowing down

I thought maybe since we aren't racing every weekend life would slow down a bit. Nope, it keeps going faster! I'm still trying to figure out what all I'm going to do with my car. Lots of nights at the shop and then home to get on the trainer. Add in the normal Christmas activities and the weeks really fly by. Kylie was the star in her school Christmas program, appearing as The Littlest Christmas tree. She enjoyed the spotlight. I would have done all I could to be in the back row hiding when I was in those programs. Anyway, I'm anxious to get up to the Peariso's and get my brand spankin' new Epic!
Is it March yet?

So much goin' on

So I delivered my car to The Ring Brothers shop in Spring Green.

Those guys are so awesome. I told Mike I had never ridden in a '65 or '66 Mustang before. So he had his brother Jim give me a ride in their shop car. It's a '66, full frame, fully caged, 650 hp Fastback built for autocrossing. I was in it for all of about 5 minutes but I'm pretty sure we topped 100 mph in their industrial park road twice in that time. Jim drives 'em like he stole 'em for sure! Thanks, Jim!

So they're going to start on my car maybe next week already. Things are moving so fast now! I've had the car for 24 years, this new pace is going to take some getting used to. This is what they did to the car whose chassis I'm getting for mine.

So that leads us to last night. It was a full on Redneck event for sure!! We had guns, sweet potato pie, green bean casserole AND a full on roasted pig!!! It was a magical evening. Never one to not go all in our Co-Host went that extra mile for the Team. He got in a drunken brawl (well, kinda')


and ended up with 5 cracked ribs and a partially collapsed lung! Now that is what I'm talkin' about! It's almost enough to bring a tear to this Ol' Boys eye that he thinks enough of us to put forth the extra effort and make it a true Redneck event. My only fear is that we have reached a level we may not be able to achieve again! Only one way to find out I guess, more on that in December of 2011!
Thanks for a great party, Peariso's. Heal up fast Little Buddy!

Ouch!

That's what my stomach said yesterday. I definitely had enough to eat. I rode from home to my Grandparents house in Reedsburg, taking the loooong way. I was in Lime Ridge and decided to see where Hwy G ended up as I had never been that way. Well, it ends up at HWY 58 apparently. I hadn't ever been on Hwy 58 before. My feet were cold and the turkey was going to be on the table soon. Where the heck am I, I remember thinking. Well, soon enough I roll into Ironton. Huh. Where the heck am I ran through my head again. So I eventually hit LaValle and then I knew where I was and in a great turn of events I had the wind on my back. I was really moving down Hwy 33 to The Burg. I arrived and got changed about 5 minutes before it was time to eat! Perfect. 2 huge plates of food and 3 pieces of pie later (pumpkin, pecan and apple) my food baby was screaming and kicking for me to nap. I was wiped out and rode the couch watching football and chatting the rest of the afternoon away. Great day for sure!
On another note, big things are happening with my '65 Mustang Fastback. More on that later. It's gonna' be sweet! These guys do amazing work.

The End is the beginning

I'm sure if you've followed my other 212/Specialized Teammates thoughts on life whilst perusing the Internets you aren't going to read anything not already laid out for you about our year. So, I'll keep it short (relatively?).

Chris and Michelle: AWESOME! Thank you guys so much for letting all of us be part of The Family.

Specialized: Thanks for the sweet hookups! Bikes and gear are flippin' sweet.

The Team: What is there to say? Good times and racing bikes with great friends, it just don't get no better.

The Hostel Shoppe: Thank you for your help in enabling our bike fetish.

Our Families: For girl sitting, dog watching, cheering and helping out during the biking season and even now with the impending (and lingering) house projects.

Melcher: For getting me in the game. Nice work.

Sucks now when we don't get to see our WORS friends for a few months but it's always fun to see everyone again at Iola. I like how we seem to pick up right where we left off at Sheboygan the fall before as if someone hit the fast forward button and skipped over the winter like a bad reocurring commercial.

Yea yea

I know Lisa gets as tired of hearing this as she does when I whine about the fact that they put stop lights in on Hwy. 12 instead of on and off ramps but I've been trying to get stuff finished up outside before it gets really cold. I got all the windows in and the whole summer kitchen ready for siding. I gave Darrin a good laugh when I told him we're pouring the floor in our garage this weekend. He told me to take video but I've watched AFHV enought to know that bad things always happen when the camera's rollin'!
Redneck Christmas is coming fast! That is going to be tongue in the ear hot!