Ring My Bell

Here is the damage to my HJC mx helmet from the head first fall I had. What you can’t see in the picture is a crack. Sadly, the helmet is trashed. Guess it doesn’t really matter as I don’t plan on riding anytime soon.

Most Randumb stuff

Can you tell how much work I have got done today?

What’s It Gonna Be?

If you haven’t guessed by now, I spend a lot of time on YouTube and Funnyordie.com. I can’t get enough of these sites and finding hilarious stuff people come up with. I want to share something with you I came across a few months back. I find myself going back to it every now and then just to chuckle.

This video features Dr. Ken who played the hilarious Asian doctor in Knocked Up. If you haven’t seen his outtake from the movie you’re missing out on the best part of the movie. Anyway, Dr. Ken teamed up with Mike O’Connell to make this awesome music video.

What’s It Gonna Be? on FunnyOrDie.com

Just so you don’t miss out on more Dr. Ken awesomeness here is the outtake from Knocked up.

KNOCKED UP – Kuni Gone Wild outtake on FunnyOrDie.com

Grunge

I never got into the “grunge” music of the early 90′s. I was in my transition from Milli Vanilli to Metal. So I devoted all my time to Metallica and Pantera. Anything outside of metal was absolute crap. I refused to listen to the Nirvanas and the Alice in Chains of the world. I told myself “It’s just trendy BS for the masses and it would soon go away”. Even today I tend to fight the trendy stuff, I just have a harder time trying to do it. I like the Justin Timberlakes and Timbalands out there. I just have to draw the line on Fergie and any American Idolist.

In the past couple of years I have been on the search for good music. I’m finding the stuff I listen to gets kind of old…real quick. So I have reached all the back to the 60′s, 70′s, and 90′s (I didn’t even mention the 80′s. I love any music that has a keytar). When I got to the 90′s I gave Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains a listen. Wow! I totally missed out on this great music. Alice in Chains completely blows me away, even more so after reading about Layne Stanley. I really dig this version of Nutshell from their Unplugged session.

So I wonder, in 10-15 years will I be looking back really digging on Fergie and her humps? I seriously hope not.

Is there any new band/performer out today that will stand the test of time? I can’t think of any. But I’m wrong 79% of the time.

Btw, I still think Nirvana is the most overrated band out there. Same goes for Soundgarden.

It Can’t Rain Everyday

I was listening to a bunch of songs trying to find something for an idea I have. I came across this P.O.D. song called ‘It Can’t Rain Everyday’. I was blown away because they don’t say the band name or mention Zion in the song. Aside from that, the song is actually pretty good. It also fits with the idea I’m running with right now.

Check out the song.

This little one tries as hard as she can
Do anything just so she could fit in
She wants a friend so bad she’ll do whatever they tell her
To make them smile she would misbehave
But all the while they would laugh in her face
She begins to cry because she thought that they liked her

Even though you feel all alone
It can’t rain everyday
It don’t rain forever
Your sunshine may be gone but i know
It can’t rain everyday
It don’t rain forever

He works hard everyday of his life
For his son on the way and his beautiful wife
But today he got a call from his job they got something to tell him.
They laid him off now he’s out on the streets
He’s got to do what it takes so his family can eat
He can’t even look at his wife because he feels like he failed them

[chorus]

Reign down! reign down! reign down! so let it reign down!
Reign down! reign down! reign down on me now!

A young lady’s been lost for awhile
But that’s ok now she’s having a child
She finally got what she wants. she’s got someone who loves her
But this morning she woke up in pain.
Nobody had to tell her because she knew right away
So she started to cry because she won’t be a mother.

[chorus]

Reign down! reign down! reign down! reign down on me!
Reign down! reign down! reign down!

The lyrics are pretty simple and the music isn’t complicated. But it pretty much kicks ass. Good Stuff.

Pictures of my 1981 Honda CM400E

Here are some pictures I took of the bike. I wanted to have something to look back to after I start hacking away.

CM400 Build

I’ve been tearing up the interweb looking for what other people are doing with the Honda CM400s. There isn’t a ton of stuff that I’m finding. The ones I do find are pretty freakin’ sweet.

Check some of them out.

Some really great looking bikes. My brain is working overtime coming up with ideas.

Hitting the big time

Our short film Socially premiered yesterday at the Dobie theater. It was a pretty fun experience screening the movie on a big screen. The film was the third of fourth from the last film. Afterwards, All of the directors got up for a Q&A. That was pretty awesome. I just wish there were more questions. Because of the requests from people I went ahead and put the film on YouTube. Andrea wants to adjust some things before putting on YouTube so it looks better. No matter what you do the quality on YouTube is crap. So I went ahead and put the final product up and it looks pretty good. So without further ado, I present Socially.

We may also do a screening over our house for our friends. But it would be after we get back from Virginia. Let me know what you think.

Goodbye to my love

I’ve been so busy researching stuff for my Honda CM400E that I forgot to post about the CRF250R. The bike got sold last Friday. The first person to come look at it took it home.

Since I decided I wouldn’t be riding for a good long while, I thought I should get rid of the temptation. Much like a recovering alcoholic might throw out all the liquor in their house. I had to get rid of the thing that would be the death of me. So far so good. I haven’t had a craving or anything.

Hi! My name is Rob and I’m addicted to dirt bikes. I have been sober for 12 days and still going strong.

Goodbye to my beautiful Honda CRF250R. We only had a short time with each other. But it was magical…when you weren’t trying to kill me.

1981 Honda CM400E

I don’t think I’ve ever blogged about this.

Last September I bought a 1981 Honda CM400E to act as my beginner street motorcycle. I bought the bike on the cheap(which means it’s not in the best running condition) and quickly sent it off to a shop to rebuild the carbs. Since I got the bike back in October it has been an awesome ride. The only problems I have with it are that it’s ugly and I’ve outgrown the power. In January I started thinking about restoring or doing some custom stuff tot he bike. I was looking around on YouTube to see what other CM400 owners might be doing. In my search I came across this sweet looking thing.

I immediately messaged the guy and asked him a ton of questions. After a few back and forths he sent me a breakdown of his build and some more pictures.

Rob,

Basically i started off with a $250 dollar 81 CM400 and started goofing around with it as a joke. It obviously turned alittle more serious as parts started to actually look cool. What you see is still pretty close to a stock frame, tank, tires, and engine. The tank is the stock tank, i just molded the outside with bondo to make it look custom, then painted it with high gloss rust oleum (waxed it like 30 times, it looks like real automotive paint now). The frame was cut right behind the shocks, then the shocks were removed and replaced with 10 inch peices of steal makeing it a hard tail. I cut the stock rear fender and tucked it farther in the frame, and removed the front all together. Got the solo seat off ebay for 25 bucks, its got 3 inch springs that level it pretty well. The bars are Z-bars off a triumph, but can be purchased at www.jcwhitney.com for cheap and look great on these bikes. All the stock cabes matched right up with the higher bars. The exhaust is just 2 shorty pipes from jcwhitney and i have them wraped with black header tape for a v-8 muscle car (nice old school look). As for the electrical, i took the iginition and rewired it to be down by the carbs where modern bikes have it, and took the whole spedo and tack assembly off. I replaced the spedo with a small one from jcwhitney for about 40 bucks. The headlight is stock, but i got new brackets again from jcwhitney for 10 bucks that look much better. I made the rear plate holder with 2 pieces of steal and a license plate frame, then hooked up the maltese light. Also replaced the signals with vintage looking marker lights, not bad looking for 7 dollars a piece. I tried to keep it cheap, but looking good. It gets lots of looks and total price in parts is about $250 making it a $500 dollar bike! Anyway, these 400s are great bikes and they run forever if they are well taken care of. I have 18,000 miles and it runs strong. Here is the list again in short of what i did.

* Chopped rear frame
* Cut rear fender
* Solo Seat w/3 inch Springs
* Hard-tail Struts
* Smaller Speedometer (no tach)
* Re-routed ignition from handle-bars to the side (more modern)
* 12’ shorty exhaust pipes
* Wrapped Header pipes
* Side Mount License plate with Maltese cross taillight
* 4 vintage style turn signals
* 10” Z-style handle bars
* Maltese Side Mirror
* Stock gas tank, molded to look more custom
* Red Under-body lights
* New Grips
* New pegs
* New rear tire

Good luck with your build, and again if you have any ?s i can try to help. Ive attached some pictures, hopefully they can help give you some ideas. Also Id like to see pics when you are done, its always cool to see what other people do with vintage bikes.

The thing looks so sweet. I will be definitely using it for inspiration.

I plan on doing something with my CM400 but not entirely sure. I’m going to start putting more thought into it and should have some ideas soon.