2013年10月26日土曜日

On my way to MotoGP

Japanese version of this post

I'm on my way to see MotoGP for the first time!

I left Tokyo a little late so I'm not sure what practice sessions I'll get to see today.  Looking forward to the finals tomorrow though!

There was a typhoon this weekend, lots of rain, so yesterday they stopped the practices.  Which means....today and tomorrow they'll get getting a lot of track time, which means more fun for us spectators as well.




MotoGPへ

英語のポストはこっち

初めて、MotoGPは実際に見に行ってきます!
ちょっと遅く出たから、今日は何見えるかわからないけど、明日のファイナルを楽しみにしてる。
今週末は台風でいっぱい雨降ってて、昨日中止したそうだ。今日も明日も走るといいね。


2013年10月20日日曜日

Picking up the NSR

Going to Yamanashi to pick up the NSR and at the same time decided to sell the D-tracker to get a better bike for riding two up.  It was a long ride, probably like 1.5 hours on the highway, since I was speeding a bit.

Packed up the D-tracker to take to Yamanashi to sell 




Got to Apexmoto, which is who I got both the D-tracker and NSR through, and took a look at all the bikes they have lined up for sale, holding for customers, and working on as project bikes.










Got the NSR into the van by myself and went over to Autobacs to register my ETC reader and then to my buddy Pete's house to try and install my ETC.  While installing it we watched the MotoGP race at Phillip Island, where Lorenzo got a bird stuck on his bike while doing the fastest lap in practice.




 When I started up the bike I was pleasantly surprised to hear the dry clutch of an MC28 for the first time.  Can't wait to race this sweet bike!
Stoked to ride this beast





On a secondary exciting note, I took Pete's Kei-truck down to the pharmacy to grab him something and got to use manual transmission in Japan for the first time.  I'm pretty used to driving on the left side of the road but using your left hand to switch gears is just weird~












On my departure I backed into a tiny wall at Pete's house, first day riding in the Kei-van and I've hit something for the very first time with a car.  Still not a real accident, which I've also never been in, in a car.

2013年10月13日日曜日

GoPro fail


My friend let me test out his KTM Duke 690 and obviously in exchange he rode my D-tracker.  I attached the GoPro to my front fork thinking I would get some solid footage of me on the 690 beast but instead all I got was a lot of trees, feet, and asphalt....


Thanks Pete

2013年10月8日火曜日

ドレッドロックが大変だね

今日は三回目、ドレッドロックを洗った。今度結構時間たったから超痒かった。それにちょっとにおいが強いと思う (>_<)







写真を取るのはマコのアイデアだった。

ドレッドロックがすごく長くなるときにこういう写真がある方がいいよね。

僕はそんなに写真取らないから、マコがいつも助かる〜





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