4 WHEELER DIRT BIKE

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October 10, 2011
Ashley SMASH!!
Today had lots of fail and some win.

Woken up by a call from a guy interested in my CR250 dirt bike who says he is on his way and will be at the house in an hour. Oh crap. Ian hadn't gotten around to getting the front sprocket bolt in because the bike was missing the sprocket washer and the blown rear shock hadn't been changed out for the fresh one because Ian has been so busy with work lately. I technically wasn't supposed to be working on stuff like with my back surgery because of the extended time of bending over. Ian stole a washer off an older CR125 we have and torqued the sprocket on, no time to swap rear shocks so when the guy arrived we told the him why the bike came with an extra shock. Well, turns out the first guy wasted our time because he was more interested in a 2006 he was driving to Dallas for, but wanted to check out our 2001 anyway. Thanks a-hole, wasted an hour of our time for nothing.

Then after lunch we went to look at 3 more houses since the one we were going to buy fell though. One was newer and nice, the other was way too old and big, and the last one was nasty and old. Decided to make an offer on the first house, but turns out it already has TWO contracts on it. Yeah. Good luck with that. So three more hours of our time wasted.

After we got home from the houses two different people needed vinyl jobs quoted. Big jobs, time for some win. That took a lot of time to quote and proof since one business was a brand new customer wanting a bulk rush job. Why does everyone need something immediately?? Around the same time another person contacted me to come look at the CR250 around 5pm. Ian had to get back to work at his day job so looked like back or not I was swapping the rear shock out on the bike.

Took the back half of the bike apart and swapped shocks and as I was putting it together the guy calls and says he will be over in about 40 minutes. Spent about 20 minutes buttoning up the shock swap, then went to start the bike to make sure all was good. Well, it wasn't. The damn thing ran out of gas and I had no premium mixed gas anywhere. Grabbed the gas can and headed down to the local gas station for some premium, brought it back and mixed the 2 stroke oil, then filled 'er up and got it started. The people showed up about 10 minutes later. Fortunately they loved the bike and left a wad of 100's with us and took 'er home. One more thing out of my life and will help with a house down payment.

As far as the shot:
Canon 30D
Kit lens
1600 ISO maxed
Ambient light since that's all I have
...yeah, so I have a badass 5D Mk II and no lens smaller than the 100-400mm to put on it. My lens selection is severely lacking with the big monster and a $30 kit lens that has so many scratches it isn't funny.

abby's helmet.
abby brow beat me til i bought a dirt bike so we could go riding together. this is our first excursion, right after i picked my brand new 1997 cr 125 up. they eat plugs like i each chips...lol.