Operation "El Superbeasto"

It's that time of the year again when people start dreaming of summer vacation, blue water, cool drinks, sandy beaches... So while the world goes into slumber Hellraiser is planning his next lift to one of his beasts, rising from utter darkness clad in mat black the 2000 Nightrain is gonna go under the knife or more or less under the grinder. Operation Fat Train consists of a 200 fat ass rear, 95" engine upgrades aiming to hit 110 ft/lb of raw torque at 3500 RPM, gold flakes over matt paint job, X-Pipes and the list goes on.


BTW the Fat Train is my wive's Harley I guess it would be the meanest female driven bike in town. Watch this space for updates on project Fat Train throughout this summer.

New King in Town release date August

For me to say WOW for a bike its gotta be impressive, innovative, sleek, sexy revolutionary and BOY does the new Suzuki B- King delivers on all the above and much much more. Eye popping 250HP, supercharged Hayabusa engine, electronics directly from an Apache Helicopter. Unfortunately that was the prototype which had a 1300 cc, turbo charged 250 hp machine. Now, it's a 1500 cc with a normal engine and a reputed 175 bhp. Not too shabby.

But gone are also all the prototype special features, such as Heads Up Display (HUD) built-in to the special helmet, fingerprint technology, remote diagnostics, etc. Still, a killer motorcycle. But I still like the proto better than the real things which lost its agressiveness.

The Land Down Under

As the sun comes up I realize I'm on the other side of the globe, just about to arrive in Sydney:



Although Australian culture is very close to Canadian there are definatly subtle differences. Notice the little blue symbol on the sign? That's used to denote surfing, not skiing. As if! That's a skier if I ever saw one, of course the weather doesn't really lend itself to snow bunnies eh ;-)



Driving through Sydney on route to the suburb of Manly: (click for video)



That's Sydney in the background, if I could take a decent night pic with my crappy camera you'd see the amazing lights from downtown. What a view! This is home base for my travels around Oz over the next 5 weeks:



The beach in Manly (Sydney), click pic below for a video:



Time to hit the beach, my surf nickname is "Goggle-Google-Boy" relating to my geek and swimmer background, just great. They couldn't have just called me "Spikey" or something?!? ;-)