Saturday, November 15, 2008

Yes, got me hobby grade 6ch Heli



I'm very happy last week after received a good bargain on R/C stuff. What'a more if someone offer a 2nd hand heli for 1/3 of its original price. So i received an overseas parcel, got me an "E-SKY BELT CP" helicopter complete with 6 channel system, brushless motor and esc combo set, inverted 3d flying feature, LIPO battery packs, 2x charger and balancer plus other high end professional hobby level feature. Thanks to the internet i've found a man trash which is a treasure for me. Like once said "A man trash is another man treasure"

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Hello! Rock Shox Revelation.


After serving for 3 year finally i sold my old 130mm MANITOU MINUTE due to inefficient performance and trade with latest new front shox for my mountain bike with all new damping and suspension adjustment technology. The "ROCK SHOX REVELATION", 130mm travel, U-TURN suspension tuning. bigger stachion legs, lightweight and smooth rebound compression really make my ride a more smoother and less bumpy ride. I've tried riding it around the places down the stairs, up the hills, high speed downhills, some jumps and rough bashing, The forks works superbly well and handle like pros. All i have to do and sit down and no need to worry about standing up when encounter big butts. It really save my butt. Also made me a mood for some ride.

Hello Rock Shox Revelation.

After serving for 3 year finally i sold my old 130mm MANITOU MINUTE due to inefficient performance and trade with latest new front shox for my mountain bike with all new damping and suspension adjustment technology. The "ROCK SHOX REVELATION", 130mm travel, U-TURN suspension tuning. bigger stachion legs, lightweight and smooth rebound compression really make my ride a more smoother and less bumpy ride. I've tried riding it around the places down the stairs, up the hills, high speed downhills, some jumps and rough bashing, The forks works superbly well and handle like pros. All i have to do and sit down and no need to worry about standing up when encounter big butts. It really save my butt. Also made me a mood for some ride.

Sunday, November 09, 2008

Goodbye old buddy!


Today i bid farewell to my old friend who serve me during my college days. Yup my first car now sold to someone this afternoon and the buyer was happy with the car condition since it has a powerful engine even at 660cc. The car model: KANCIL GX 660 or very know as re-badge version of original DAIHATSU MIRA have been running since my college days where i used to move around in KUCHING city. Because i already have a black sedan car and also another spare the house garage become very crampy and this red oldies should go.
Months before this car was used to carry my mountain bike to outskirt city for outdoor activity every sunday very known as my sunday car. Well lots great of memories me with this car since i always relates me to my young and youthfull days. Yeah yeah i got funny moment when i work with first company in kuching where this car often as car pool to carry friends around. Sometimes the car move around with side load sunk down like clown car around the city due to overweight factory worker. Sometimes used for drag race and sometimes as an experimental social car. Well today is the day. Farewell buddy. I hope your new owner will groom you with cool body kits and take care you very well.

Saturday, November 08, 2008

World Most Dangerous Battery


I manage to grab some r/c parts upgrade sure to rise some hair rising speed and performance to the max. Got me two most crucial and missing link in my NRX-18 1:18 touring r/c car.
-YEAH RACING Lithium Polymer 1700mah 7.2 with discharge rate 25C to 40C burst battery
-CASTLE LINK CM2068 6800KV brushless motor.
First day of testing already causes major damages to the tyre, drive shaft, differential gear and body shell. So what? Mission accomplished! 89KMH! fuuu yeahh!!!! Its a competition performance car. I'm so damn happy about it.
My concern now is about the Lithium Polymer battery. Need to be take care with extreme caution. They are dangerous than nitro fuel, explosive if overcharge and discharge and very fragile. That thing is equivalent to hand grenade. lol. I hope it doesn't put my pocket burner r/c car in flames.

Thursday, November 06, 2008

Youtube: 1/10 vs 1/18 race.


Another wonderfull evening to waste my time before heading home from work. Not much people around only me and my radio control companion Eru on the track enjoying racing among ourself. Sorry for the lousy youtube quality. Looks like the video conversion looks a bit crappy after transfer to youtube.
Anyways here'a a video clip of Eru and me runing around the car park circuit. I put my video cam on ERU 1/10 car and infront is me (the green yellow car). ERU on EZRUN brushless system while i'm on CASTLE CREATION: SIDEWINDER MICRO brusless system. Both on very power saving mode which is a bit slower setting but good enough to race since we need to save up the battery. Here's the recorded on board cam video.

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

God bless our happy evening.

Thank goodnesss no rain happened in that particular area, it does rain heavily a few kilometers away from the office but not at our racing circuit, maybe god bless us with luck and protect us from unlucky disaster...well it is raining seasons. Its just partially wet and we almost drift all the way. Not many people turn up for the race only me and Aki since the rain just drizzle around some unluck area. Another happy evening. Got me 3 packs of battery to last me almost 2 hours of play. It was nice evening with bring orange sunset. Really enjoy the scene and felt relaxed after being stuck in the office for hours.

Monday, November 03, 2008

Adventure under blue twilight moon.


I didn't expect to happen to be the most hard core ride every which left me cold as dead due to excessive exhaustion. But anyways it was an experience worth jumping into it.

That morning all our mountain biker buddy gather around the cafe table behind the bike shop to plan for our bike trip for this noon. I order some beef noodles, a few cans of coke drinks in the morning and plates of heavy salad chiken rices to fuel up for later ride. So we decided to venture into lonely trails at Marudi cross over jungle trails.

By 3.30pm we reached there and start riding at normal pace. Not much of fast rider around because the hot legs left exhausted at home due to last Saturday lag of competition so not much or rivalry race throughout the journey. By 4.30pm we already deep deep into the jungle already passed the oil palm plantation district. We came across hilly trails and the off-road path become much narrower and more steep as further we go in but expect a loop trails going out exit back to our finishing point by few kilo distance. 5.30pm its getting dark so we choose the nearest trails to exit the open forest and into the path where we begin the most terrifiying up and down the hill ride. We began to decent up and down at high speed hitting lot of dangerous bumps holes and deep ravine. We haven't finished 40% of the trails and one of the rider accidently hit the huge gap of pot holes down the hil and tumble 180 degree fly shoulder first hit a near by boulder beside the hardpacked soild and fracture his shoulder bone wit two bone twigs pike out buldging the skins. The accident happens few centimetre away from me as i'm just right behind him. Luck him i manage to grab his bike which flown direct infront of me quickly grabbed and avoid his bike from pounced againt him. Everyone stopped and helped him to assist medical aid. Being way deep inside the jungle with limited access via normal transportation to reach the injured and the days getting dark we were lucky enough to have a cellphone signal coverage still roaming high and manage to turn our mobile phone to contact several near by rider who are closest to the finishing point to grab a 4 wheeler and drive to the emergency spot. Its 6.pm, days getting darker, several rider have to depart from the location leaving several riders behind to accompany the injured till the 4 wheeler arrive to pick them up but it will take few hours to reached there.
I'd expect it going to be short duration to reach the finishing point making assumption were just going to pass 3 to 4 steep off-road hills in just 1 hours at fast pace. But we were wrong. Heck it was more bizzare ride then ever, after passing several long steep hill climb then going down, the up, down up , down the hill i felt this journey getting endless as if the forest cursing us leading to bogey path, i also spot one of the Miri most highest hill climb ever...seeing the hill stertching way up like 200 storey high was like "holy crap!!! my legs going to explode!"". But nothing much we can do but to continue ride all the way up to exist the hellish forest...using the smallest high torque gear we paced like snail climbing up the hill. I hardly see the path as the sun already sunked behind the horizon...all is blue gloomy light lit well by bright moon and stars. My body was very very cold and stomach getting pretty empty. The sweat getting lest at the muscle almost at cramp level a sign that i'm all 100% heavily exhausted, critically low energey level, food and water. Event we just reached the peak of the hill i can see over the top horizon we have to passed at least 7 more hills climbs to exit to the main dirt road were it exited out from the oil plantation district. Guided by instict and gloomy blue rays of light shines the murky white path i speed though the trails cautionly avoiding the side which i couldn't figure out if its a bush or drak deep ravine. I was behind a guy named William but when i look back behind me there no one follow us except we were both on our own reaching to the finishing point. Others probably left behind clueless or slow down due exhaustion.
i felt time went stand still as we haven't exited the path yet. It was soo dark but the trails still can be seen through naked eyes except i can't differentiate between holes, huge rocks bumps or even huge crack of holes in the middle of the path so i just push my luck speeding down and just follow the guy infront hoping he don't get and bad accident else we;re the one ended stranded in the dark forest.
As we got the feeling geting nearer to the finishing point the sky was getting very clearer, the moon and the star are much brighter like white blue illuminating like diamond something you rarely seen from the city except at country side. Firefly start to blinks its bright lite body like spark of fire or christmas light bulb blinking around the forest flying gently like faries of the forest. Even though i'm tired but i was happy to experience those beautiful sights not many city slickers going to watch it once in a blue moon. Wow!
Few minutes later we reached a huge path that looks like rough open roads judging from the gloomy bright color of the soil under the night sky. Ah! we've reached the main truck road that leads to the exit point. At ETA 35 minutes through long flat and going all the way down the rocky road cautionly we reached our destination as we manage to see bright lights at near by car park just beside the hut. Home!! We reached there and shocked to see its just around 5 people including us hit the finishing spot while it'll take another hours to wait a dozen rider to return in the dark nights. Anyways after long wait everyone gathered completely at almost 8pm greeted with nice cold sweet isotonic drinks to comfort our tired body. Well not everyone in a good shape, another guy just also caught in accident under the dark night as he feel from his bike on the bridge and rip his buttock flesh out...eeeewwww...not going to tell much about it but that's one heck of a Sunday ride.
When i reached home, i took bath, grab my sedan car keys and drive all the way to KFC restaurant and much aways huge packs of dinner plate size fried chicken to flush out my frustration and hunger after the activity drain off my energy, Yaahhhhh, what a meal!

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Happy weather



Yesterday was a great day, weeks of heavy rain finally cease.. i got back home by 5.00pm early from the office to grab my bicycle and off i go wondering through various places distance away from home. Down the stairs, up the hills, through the garden, sped through the side walks, along the coastal beaches and into remote places far away from the city.....far...far ...go further....go...my heart tells me...alone in a big big world..... I pedal freely, my heart guide my steering and navigate to places where beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. They sky is pure blue mixed with thick lines of golden streams of cloud mixed with pale pink and fantasy color of the sunset. The wind was soft and breeze as it pounced all over my body as i cycle faster along the trails. People from various age and races join together going outdoor to play kites. As i look up in the sky crowds of kite flew gently and harmony with the wind. Its was very high so freely. Family and friend get together to watch outside their shops. Everyone was happy...Its was very beautiful sight. I was happy to enjoy the view as i sped across the houses and sidewalk below green trees. Being out there spawn nostalgic feeling...feel very young... felt like i was 9 years old back standing in the middle of the field along with my friend watching the sunset sky pointing upwards to the brightest star. That feeling was lost for more than 10 year..now its back.. HHmmmmmm.... its wonderful feeling out their with my bike... freely..i can go where ever i want...my heart will guide there...sometimes i can feel someone special watching for me from above....as always..

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

..when i listen


I like to listen to peoples story, story about their life, their difficulty, story about something that you rarely heard, a personal story, a tale to share from his heart to a person he or she trusted. Listening with all my heart...something it makes me think that i'm very luck or vice versa. I can't see much from their looks...but whats inside them really matters. Other people don't care much, maybe they are too young to understand, maybe they can't even experience how difficult a person went through or maybe its not worth profit or bother much since its not much entertaining. For me listen their other side of their world bring me deep appreciation and experience that cannot be decribe on just one word, their story create imaginary world in my mind....... Better to know what happening around me rather than being under the rock. I like to wonder around places... places that no one could go because they refuse too...for me its a special plce for me to discover new things....appreciate my life.

Monday, October 27, 2008

Supercar need super wheels - AERO CF8.




Well this is not finalized wheel for XAVAGE. This is genetically identical to previous models that i built first for X3-SIXTY (AERO-F6-XL wheel model) except some changes on the rims radious thickness to accomodate bolts billet on the parameter of the rims to reduce stress load theorectically and increase the amount of flange from 6 to 8 flanges. Still under review if this is still suitable design to match XAVAGE sharped edged design. I like the flange flat edges buldge out because it looks mroe concept like rather being outdated design to modern day standard. XAVAGE cannot use crappy wheels because the first impression when people see the car is firstly contract on wheels. That's why people would *bling their car first on wheel.
At final lifespan of XAVAGE definately the GTR version of this concept car will uses turbine flange type wheel like the one used by NEMIXIS XGT (HELIOS NM22/24).

Home sweet home.


Will never miss this place everytime i get back home from work. This is a must stop place else you won't see any supercar on the internet. I keep my workstation neat and tidy. Clean and uncluttered work place bring peace and feeling spacious. Ahhh... being on that table feels like heavens on earth. A place for inspiration, imagination and birth of ideas

Monday brain syndrome.


As usual every body have these "monday brain syndrome" every time we get back to the office on every monday first day of the week in the office. Still have that wooozy comfy feeling of Sunday sleepy and relaxing thingy. Then when you wake next day its like sudden shock being getting up that lazy bum and hit the cold shower cuz you need to get back to corporate world....not Haiwaii paradise......awwww...working day already. You wish weekends should have 3 days break. May the earth spin slowly......
Just like any other day my job is squishing my brain pulling out ideas to come out with software solution, too bad ideas don't just pop-up out of the blue. Its seems ideas doesn't spark out that easily. Sometimes it take week and months to come out with software solution. On the other hand another section of my brain manage to cough out abundant of ideas for new car design in a wrong time..hhhhuuuuhhhhuuuuu. come on brain..think think think...

Friday, October 24, 2008

The true REVENTON killer.



Yup a shadowy figure of upcoming road brat that will going to smoke REVENTON off the road and hit VEYRON hard in the face. XAVAGE inherit some genetic design from NEMIXIS and X3-SIXTY but with more radical approach. Interm of body design XAVAGE built to reduce wind resistance/wind drag by "cutting" or "breaking" the first head-on wind and the dissipate the wind current via steep sharp surface angular on the body panels to create downforce when it travel from windshield section all the way to the back. Which explain why XAVAGE have sharp dynamic edge body contour from the front section and dynamic angular body sweep all the way to the back to create on body natural spoiler for down force effect. Huge rear section create wind vaccum behind the car to allow air intake from the front of the car force to the back, on its way it will help cool the engine, power turbine generator through air hydraulic force and force thw cool air into the disc brake ventilation system for caliper cooling. To sum up the details short, XAVAGE is like a huge knife cutting easily though the wind without resistance. Unlike any super car design in the world every body surface of XAVAGE are carve with purpose, very corner of its body is functional.

Just like the stealth air figther the F-22, the body is very sharp and angular to deflect enemy radar and at the same time allow the wind to break and slide gently.

Yes, this car is truely is the stealth fighter of the road.

Monday, October 20, 2008

Batman on the roof.

Hmmmm..yeah looks cool video clip from TEP NC production. Really turn my original yellow X3-SIXTY car into something more cooler on the roof..superheroes ya!. Felt like in Batman the movie scene with Ultraman feeling in it. The car now felt like ultraman thingy, btw thanks NEP TC. Thumbs up! I give 10/10 for the video quality production and good job on the paint jobs.

First successful genetic

Here another video made by Track Mania fan feature the first prototype trademark of that carry foward SupermotoXL Design genetic to future car. The video feature CYBORX which i designed in the early year 2005 the same year NEMIXIS was born. It the most pioneered symbolic version of XGT series and from there the car evolve into GT spec car like NEMIXIS and X3-SIXTY. Fans however favour this car..i don't know why mabe its the paint job or something..hhmmmmm....

The video that start it all..Virtual world famous car.

This is the first video that from Track Mania community that made NEMIXIS the most famous car in the internet. The video shoot made by FloTM, car conversion by Starbuck and the original car design and model by me (SupermotoXL). Track-Mania made this car a big fame and spread its wing to various game genre and created huge fans all around the globe, thanks to people from Track-Mania.

Youtube: Most wanted speed killa!

Thanks to a guy named McLaren_3Dcm from Nfs community for putting my NEMIXIS model into Need For Speed Most Wanted scene through conversion/porting work. Yup, its the most fastest car on the internet...hee..heee..

Youtube: Taman Tunku ride

Here some youtube video clip of our last week ride behind Taman Tunku Miri district somewhere along the single track, easy and fun ride. Thanks to Pier Liang for taking video cam on PSP on his helmet.

Miri Wet Land adventure!



Yesterday was a special day for me, was unexpected it turnout to be interesting ride of the month. Sunday morning was a bit drippy morning after raining throughout dark morning but ended before 6.00am. Usually i don't plan to ride during wet season because it would took me more than 1 hour to clean and maintain the bike after muddy dirt and muddy ride. Somehow there was strange feeling everytime when i look out into the windows staring into the sky with mixture or dark cloudy background with bring white cloud and blue sky noon at 12pm. A little drizzle rain, i called my friends and they said they are planing to ride somewhere near Bakam district which is very very distance from bad city weather. So i took my luck join them hoping i could escape from gloomy rainny city weather. I load my bike into my Sunday joyride car which i use to carry my trusty and dirty bike and drove kilometers away from home via coastal beaches using MIRI-BINTULU road. Its was a very clam and gentle weather as i move towards the outskirt of the city and into the remote country side where everthing is blue and green.
Upon arrival everyone in large number of biker already gather around unload their bikes and apparel. We're near the beach at our usual parking spot where you can see beatiful sight and scene around the beaches. The seaside is very bright litted light golden silk cloth waving on the surface and the wind really pounced on my body feel very refreshed and cleansed. By 3.30pm we start our ride through the villages and deep into the woods. It was dry surrounding at first entry but as we go deeper into the bushy and dense crowded jungle everthing getting very wet and muddy, We have to navigate and balanced our bike through slippery terriains, wet mud holes, narrow tree gaps, falling tree trunks, upp and down the hills with very high speed turns and corners. The best part is we have chances to clean our bike by going through very heavily flooded jungle with deep murky water which probably due to heavy rain and flood nearby some river. The water almost reached our knee level but we pedal as much torque as we can to avoid being stuck and spread the water into break it to minimal flood level. Through out our ride we encounter wet - dry - wet - dry -wet -dry - wet - dry situation. Our trail space become much narrower and narrower the further we break into the jungle. To to large number of people we need to stop due to heavy traffic...hahaha. Some of our rider really old people but they really have extreme endurance and power like a teenager thanks to their daily workout on their bikes, so far no one of them have problems with broken stamina and injury. We stumble lots of difficult obstacles especially with deep river grooves where long channel of river was crossing our path. We have to cooperate by helping each other to pass through the river. We have to help carry other people bike to another side of the river banks and up to stiff cliff. I can see there lots of positive team work and heavy task to help people around us....at the end everyone manage to get through the difficult challenges. Our rides sure comes with crashes, human splat into the water, same tumble into the dirt while other loose balance and fell into the clif,..barely.. for us that's is fun and exciting and no one argue about it else its wouldn't be called adventure ride. Thanksfully we didn't think about dangers like wild animal, reptiles and danger that lurks around us.
After hours being in deep forest we finally spotted an open air land just above the hill, we climbed up by passing through the river, climb up the dusty crusty hills and on our way towards the logging hils. Its all up and down, zig zagging and full speed to the highest peak on the land. On top of the dry dusty land we take a break and enjoy the beautiful sight around us. Its was the best moments being up there high above the sea level looking below carpet of trees, distance seas and experience fresh breeze of wind drying our soaky wet bodies which dry us in an instant. I took lots of beatiful photo on my PSP cam. A mixture of golden sunset rays and sunny blue sky, white clouds and orange yellow trails provide contrast and harmonic view on my camera lenses. Everyone was tired, i can feel my tummy become more and more slimmer as fat burned out excessively, i can see my six pax now..hee heee... So we continue our journey again with convoy of mountain biker exiting the logging trails and heads towards nearby tarmac road road which leads toward the beaches where we parked our car. Its was quite far distance and we need to pedal fast to reach the destination before dark. Due to fact some of the riders are roadies these guys sprint so fast few of us have to break away like F1 car. I have to push my power and leg muscle to the max to give a hard chase and draft at least on of the top 5 rider behind so i can draft behind another rider with less wind head-on resistance, everyone travel very fast with at least 1cm gap between each rider tyre colse enough to catch low wind resistance....we called it DRAFTING.
From exiting point at "Sungai Rait" tarmac trunk road to Bakam finishing point it tooks only around between 10-15 min to reach there at screaming speed.....by the time we reach there everyone hearts and muscle felt like it wanted to explode...hahaha., Thankfully we all serve with chilled cold and gassy isotonic drinks full with sugar to relieve our body ache. At the parking spot the sun already behind the sea glowing dim orange ready to give way to glittering stars. We hangout for a while and chat about the rides. As for me this is totally cool adventure ride, totally and emotionally keep me alert and excited. At least i dont have boring life, everyday life is always full of adventure. I loving it!