The "A day in the life" Picture Thread.

[Obi..]

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Vintage rally cars. Turbo'd Renault S-4's for Group B.
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Almost brought back to life fully.
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[4x4mike]

So people don't steal everything thinking we're all dead I thought I'd post up some pictures. I uploaded a bunch from the phone of my daily randomness.

We have a small patio and a metric-shiz ton of kids toys so I'm expanding a flat play area I had made when we moved in. I wanted stuff off the patio and off the grass because it kills it and makes me sad.






Baby Max seemed to like the hammock. I had to stand guard because we have some vicious squirrels and blue jays.


I'm on a sponsored race team so if you show up you better race. At the start it started raining then all heck broke loose. This was after the race. It took a good 6 hours to fully disassemble the bike, repack bearings, overhaul parts, etc. My muddy carcass and bike made a mess of the 4runner inside and out.


Somethings had some accelerated wear but for the most part it just needed fresh grease and a lot of water. The POS raceface crank bit the dust along with the BB so I found an excuse to get this.


Went to Wallyworld for something and got side tracked. Walked out with this instead. Once I got home realized I had to go back for what I had originally gone for.

[4x4mike]

We got some new furniture so I was cleaning out a drawer and found a bottle opener I made out of a brake arm. I used to work in a shop and would make stuff out of old bike parts.


My 15 year old Timbuk2 bag had a blow out. I sent them a pic and part of the bag and they sent me a credit for a new bag. $110 in my email within 24 hours. I will buy from them again.


I built a sandbox. Mostly for the kids so they stop digging in my DG and the garden. The cats seem to like it as well.


Took our midget fishing.


Might have this for the rest of the local race season. Still figuring particulars. New 10 speed XT/XTR.




Found what I need for the pantry.

[Obi..]

^Nice little bottle of Frank's ya got there, let me know if ya want some Chapala Sauce. I miss making bottle openers out of carbon fork blades.

My D.I.T.L. pics from this weekend are in the "Paging Everyone" thread, but here's a couple from the 9th as I was coming home from my injury arbitration meeting. (Windshield's bend distorted the heck out of the tower.)
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[Obi..]

Got my stupid new body mount's done.

I had to use the shop's 150gal tank and the air turned all the way up with my shiny new Snap-On HD Impact to break the welded nut loose. Way better method than struggling to try to get around the topside. Took only an hour on the left side today versus the 3+ hours yesterday.

Pics of course.

What's left of the PITA bolt and the welded nut we broke loose from the mount.
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Pair of the mounts, you can see not just where they failed at the top of the "volcano", but actually had separated entirely from the outer shell.
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Closeup on the driver's #3 mount.
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Closeup on the passenger's #3 mount.
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[Obi..]

Maybe I'll make some wind chimes out of them and some old singlespeed chainrings I got.

[Obi..]

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[Obi..]

*I know some of my pics are dead, give me time to work through them b/c I lost an e-folder and can't recover it yet.

In the meantime, enjoy!

Introduced Lil'One to Surfing. Didn''t go out b/c I've been fighting a bad bug.
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'NufSaid.


Me likey!
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WallyWorld run to get SweetTea. Even with 31's I love the stance.
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[Obi..]

One of my best clients almost lost their storefront to some idiot racer wannabe on HWY880 S/B today. Car blew through the retaining fence and took out the water main across the street from their front doors. (I'll get a better perspective shot later on.) What really sucked was the main Hetch-Hetchy Power lines are right there also.
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[stormtaco]

when i was picking her up