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Drift School, update!

Drift School, update!

Justin Robert, of AirCooled Productions did such an amazing job re-capping our Drift School event for Shaw TV. I'm so excited to share it!!

 You can see a full write up about the event at this link here: Drift School.


SpeedHero, Drift School

SpeedHero, Drift School

If you can't do, teach. Lately I've been unable to 'do'. My anxiety and fears of owning and operating my own drift car have changed since 7 years ago. Before I could have $5 in my pocket, no plan for next week and try to build and drift a car.

These days, I could have $5000 saved up, a retirement plan in place, and I'm more afraid now to make mistakes and fail then ever before. Rather than let my mental health hurdles block me, I decided to work with them. If I can't drift myself, might as well help...


SpeedHero AW2S

SpeedHero AW2S

I have some really awesome articles I want to write lately, but don't have the brain power to write them. There's a few articles about my work, and the recent drift school. Some about projects I've helped out with, and even one about concepts of the distant future. All are halted by some internal problems with my brain. 

A sub-project I've been poking at is more wheels for 2017. This time with more realistic dimensions closer to production use. This is a BBS lipped 15x9" 4x114.3 wheel. The SpeedHero AW2S. 

 


TFB - Design Project

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="683"] Click for a bigger version! :)[/caption] I think this is about as far as I'll go with my bicycle design project.
 
For those that don't know, I was hired by a company many years ago to design a bicycle for use in developing countries. After proving to them that buying $15 bicycles direct form China was actually the most cost effective and strangely enough, most environmentally sound method, they obvious chose that...


School Car: Next Step Game Plan.

Finding a Rack swap is quite important now!
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="625"] Customize all the things! My helmet looked a little blank, so I freshened it up a bit.[/caption]  
 
It's the next step in my school cars progress!!!! The steering box is the next step in making this car feel better to drive. I picked up a steering rack so far, but the subframe, steering column and other parts are still being...