Last Day of Pepsi Refresh Project

Today is the last day to vote on the Pepsi Refresh Project. My votes have gone to The Tommy Foundation and their proposed film, United States of Autism. I encourage all of you to do the same and to be a part of helping to educate millions on how autism affects not just the afflicted individuals, but so many of those around them as well.

On behalf of many other parents of children with autism, thank you in advance!!!

Speedo

Not that kind of speedo...

One thing I've been really wanting to do is clean up my handlebars.  I've seen a few bikes with a bunch of different ways of doing this.  There's all sorts of brackets and plates that you can find all over the internet.  I found one that relocates the speedo down to the left side of the bike but keeps all the readouts on the bars. 
I just received my new handlebar bracket yesterday, so I put it on asap. I'm still waiting on my side mount speedo plate, so for now my speedo is on the shelf.  This turned out to be a very easy job, just a little time consuming as I didn't have the right tool to disassemble the speedo.  After a quick trip to home hardware at 8:30, I got it all done. 

I'm still waiting on a new white biltwell seat and a throttle sleeve to finish off my bike.  I have some white grips that are just dying to get put on.  Hopefully everything gets in this week and I can finish it off. 

Heres some pis of how clean the handlebars look now with the new bracket:

She Always Says Exactly What I'm Thinking...

And I like how she comes right out and says she is not telling people what to do with their own children and vaccines because that is the same thing I tell others.

Vaccinate or don't vaccinate - it is each parent's choice. All I ask is that people do not make the same mistake I did and blindly trust their pediatricians. Educate yourselves, people!

Do not count on your doctor being informed about vaccines. Ask your doctor how much time was spent in medical school learning about vaccines. You will be surprised. My child's doctor actually told me vaccines do not contain any of the toxins that I now know very well are contained in them.

Just last week, I informed the wife of a pharmaceutical company employee about toxins in vaccines that she said she was told were not in them. If a doctor and a pharmaceutical employee - one who works for a company that does manufacture vaccines - don't even know aluminum, thimerosal, and formaldehyde are in vaccines, then I suspect the average person doesn't know it either or simply chooses not to believe it. And in that case, I invite you to visit the CDC's website and see for yourself what kinds of ingredients are indeed in vaccines.

Part 1.....



Part 2.....

Merck, Re: Gardasil - "Safer Than Most Vaccines"

Really?????



If you watch the entire clip above, you will see where Merck (manufacturer of the Gardasil vaccine) and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) are quoted as stating Gardasil "appears safer than most vaccines."

Really? Seriously?

I wonder if these idiots understand how much more they are implicating themselves simply by attempting to defend their position and their (Merck's) product. Because here's what I'm thinking....

Besides Gardasil, Merck also manufactures several other vaccines, including a few different vaccines for Hepatitis A and B and their MMR vaccines, which are some of the world's most widely distributed vaccines. So when Merck states their Gardasil vaccine is "safer than most vaccines" are they also stating that the Gardasil vax is safer than their own vaccines meant to prevent diseases other than HPV?

And who wants a vaccine that is "safer than most vaccines?" I want vaccines that are safe. Period. However, since such a thing does not exist that is safe for everyone, quit trying to defend yourself, Merck. Admit that you could possibly be at fault in vaccine injuries.

Oh wait, you already admitted it. You did it when you said your Gardasil vaccine is "safer than most vaccines."

(Thank you, You-know-who, for posting this to your facebook page!)

Josh Kurpius Photography

I like taking pictures, pictures of anything.  I take pics when I go skiing, when I'm at a pub with friends and family and I even take pics of our chiuahua.  Recently my photographs have been aimed more towards my bike and anything having to do with my bike.  I've taken pics of my helmets and of my exhaust.  Most people don't really care for pics of my bike, but I like them. 

For my 31st birthday my girlfriend Kristin bought me a month and a half's time at a photography course.  Im absolutely pumped.  Pretty gay to be pumped about about a photo class eh? What excites me the most is that I'll get to learn more about my camera.  Most times while I'm shooting pics it's done so in the 'auto' mode.  I'd like to say goodbye to auto mode sooner rather then later.  I have a Nikon D60.  Its a beginners camera, but I'm hoping that once I get through this course and learn more about my camera that I can upgrade to better Nikon.  Most Nikons have the same features so it wont be a huge jump for me to upgrade.  The only thing stopping me from buying the best Nikon camera is....price.  They can get very expensive.  Along with the body of the camera is the various lenses that can also get expensive.  Currently the Nikon D60 10MP DSLR that I have comes with a 18-55mm VR lens.  I also have a sigma 300mm standard zooms lens as well.  Everything I have does an awesome job for what I need it for.  I've also upgraded my photo editing equipment.  I bought a Mac 6 months ago and have gone from Iphoto to the new aperature photo editing program.  Aperature is also a Mac program but it is a bit advanced, so Im hoping that the photo course will get me more introduced to this as well.

I can say with confidence that I've taken some good photographs in my life.  Not all of them are good but I seem to be getting more picky before snapping pics off like I did a few years ago.  At the same time the more pics you take the more of a chance you have to find that perfect picture.  Editing helps alot, and you can also delete pics you dont want.

Over the past few months I've been taking lots of pics of my bike and anything and everything around it.  Shit, I had a photo shoot with a few of my helmets recently.  One guy who has inspired me for all these bike photos is Josh Kurpius.  He takes amazing pics.  He takes pics of bikes, girls on bikes, guys beside their bikes, he takes pics while he's on his bike.  I've added a few pics of his work. 

Check him out at  http://kemosabeandthelodge.blogspot.com/ or on his website at http://joshkurpius.com/home.html

Smoke Show

I fired up the bike for the first time over the weekend since the exhaust was wrapped.

Here's what happens...

Smoke Show.

Greenster

It's been over a week since my last post, I haven't had anything interesting or significant occur with my bike until yesterday.  I sent it away last week for paint to Jeff and Kevin Fujita at Kustom Auto Body in Coaldale, AB.  As I was out driving around yesterday morning I thought I would call them and check how things were coming.  To my surprise they were finished already.  I didn't expect them to be finished so quickly.  When I arrived at their shop I was nervous to see how the paint turned out, my nerves were smashed when I saw this paint job.  It was amazing. And  to think that I was going to paint my bike gloss black.  The green paint popped and the metalflake was glittering like an old bowling ball. The white decals also created a nice contrast with the green and they go along good with the other white hightlights on my bike such as my exhaust and the whitewalls.  I put the tins back on my bike asap and I had to do some last minute grinding to get my strut covers back on my bike as well.

My bike finally seems to be seeing the light.  I woke up to some snow on the ground today but the forecast for Saturday looks good.  I know it's only March but I really wanna get out and ride this thing now.  I still have a few things to do before this bike is fully operational.  I left my fender down at Lethbridge HD and Im hoping I can get my bike down there on Saturday to get all wired up.  I have no rear signal lights and no brake lights.  Once the rear end is all wired then I can put my new fender on and get it out on the street.  I just ordered a new white biltwell diamond spring seat as well.  The seat won't be in for a few weeks but once it's on that should be the final touch that I need to set the bike off.