AluPoni

After a few months of slowly gathering parts, grinding down the alu frame etc, my new bike is finally ready to roll:

In the beginning it probably looked something
like this. Ebu bought it in Oz around 2000

And now it looks more like this. I completely
overhauled the drivetrain, to make it a single-
gear all-weather drive (not a fixie, but a
free-wheeled single)

The said single-speed, 42/16 drivetrain

The Surly flip-flop hub. Which means I can
'flop' the hub over so that the fixie cog you can
see behind the spokes will become the back
cog, making the drive-train a fixie. It's OK,
I know how to handle one, and this one's got
two brakes, anyway

The front chainwheel and the chain are
specifically for single-gear use. Multi-speed
chainwheels have asymmetrical teeth for
lifting and lowering the chains, but here
there was no need for none of that.

I happened to have some bling laying about,
so I pimped my ride with some bad-ass
skulls

And here's the bike with all the bells, blinks
and fenders, ready for some year-round action.
C'mon, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...

ready, set, aim!

A mutual friend of Wille and I is a member of the shooting club just around the corner (literally). So come W's birthday, I got him an introductory session at the range. And got me one too. And Travis Bickle here, well he wasn't too hard to convince.
We got 1-hr introduction, incl. basics of shooting & safety, and then shooting at the range. We fired about 25 shots on basic .22s. Some of them apparently had more malfunctions than others. I consistantly kept shooting too low and too left. Joonas was a bit more scattered, but we both got some in the black. Wille was the best shot, but then again, he was the only mf with some army background. He was damn slow too ;) And it wasn't a competition, so no-one was counting, heh...
Overall it was fun, and we're thinking of going again before xmas :)

Cheers!