decrypting kenny’s mind

There are a lot of things that I want to be able to do to my car.  Mainly I want to be able to be able to auto cross with it again.  In order to do that, I am waiting for a company to get some stock of a part that i need for my suspension.  I called them two days ago and they said that they would have stock again either this Friday or by next Friday.  That is step one in getting my car track ready again.

Step two is not necessary, but I would like to do it because it would make my car better on the track.  There are some suspension components that could be upgraded that would allow me to be more competitive.  Of course these won’t be purchased until I get a little bit more money.  I would also like to get another set of rims and tires for my car, but that too needs to wait until I get some more money.  I am hoping that I will be able to get at least the latter by the first race of next season.  That gives me a few months to come up with the money.

The third thing I would like to do, depending on how mean my car is after the second set of upgrades, is look into either getting my engine a little bit more pep, or getting a racing seat.  If the car is doing what I predict it will do after all the suspension upgrades, I imagine that I will not be able to hold myself in place when I corner, hence the racing seat.  If I can still manage to hold myself in place, I will probably spring for some more engine pep, as in acceleration, not horsepower.  I figure a lightened crankshaft pulley and lightened flywheel ought to do the trick.

Because I know those won’t get the car where I want it to be in the grand scheme of things, there is one final upgrade I would like to do.  One of the last, but definitely not the least of the upgrades to come will be a different engine.  This will take some time, considering I need to first find and engine, then I need to pull mine out (including the transmission), and swap it with the new one.  After that comes the fun part (not really) of getting all the wiring installed and overall getting the thing to work.  I know it is going to be a lot of work, but considering this is my project car, it will be worth it.  My car will be a beast of a track car when I am done.  If all goes well, it could eventually be used for something more than just autocross.

Title: Laurel Classic MTB Race
Location: Wellsboro
Description: This will be my second time racing at the Laurel Classic MTB Race. The first year I competed, I took first overall in the beginner class. I decided to enter the sport class for this year.
Start Time: 11:00
Date: 2008-09-06

It’s official now.  My mountain biking races are finished for this year.  I wish I could say I went out with a bang, however, I did not.  When I was getting ready for the race (the morning of), I was thinking ahead and packed Advil knowing that when I bike in a race I bike very intense and normally my lower back starts to hurt.  Normally if I take some Advil before i race, I don’t notice the pain as much during the race.  Forgetful Kenny didn’t remember to take the Advil before the race started.  Not only that, I couldn’t take any once I started racing either because it was back in the vehicle.

Just like clockwork, I started to feel the lower back pain at the top of the first climb (which is 4 miles by the way).  It still wasn’t bad enough that I was out of the competition, so I continued to push forward.  It wasn’t until after the second climb of the race that I started to realize that I was going to be out of the competition.  It was getting difficult for me to stand and pedal, which is an important aspect of mountain bike riding.  The third and final climb (large climb anyway) put the pain over the top.  I actually had to get off my bike and try to stretch my back and get the blood flowing back into it again (it was another biker’s suggestion I gathered while climbing hill three).  It did work for a little while.  My back felt refreshed for about a mile but then I was right back to were started (not literally, because then I would have finished the race).  After that last mile of feeling good, everything went to crap.  A section of the course that I know I can normally ride at about 10-15 mph I was doing at about 2 mph because that was the only way to keep the pain at a minimum.  All I wanted to do was finish the race in one piece.  And I eventually did, in seventh place.

The other members of Team Summit Junkies also entered the race, as did my uncle Chris.  Steve took first in his age group, my mom took second out of all the beginner females, and Chris took first out of his age group in the beginners.  As for my dad, well, he did come in fourth place in the same age group as Steve, however my dad had a pretty bad accident during the race.  He was probably less than two tenths of a mile away from the finish line and he flipped over the front of his bike and rammed his shoulder into the ground, tearing a ligament that holds one of his shoulder bones in place.  He was able to get back on his bike an finish the race, however, he now needs to have his arm in a sling.  It doesn’t fit my dad seeing him with any type of medical stuff on him.

That is my update on the race.  As I predicted, it wasn’t nearly as much fun as the Ole Bull race.  I am looking forward to that race again next year.

While I was thinking about it, I decided just to look through some themes and I came across this one.  I liked it enough without the need to make any immediate modifications that I decided to install it right away.  If you happen to look at the poll in the previous post, I was the only one to reply (probably had to do with the fact it was only up for a little under an hour).  I took the results from the poll to heart and changed the theme as soon as possible.  There will be some minor changes to this theme coming in the future, however I plan on sticking with this theme for a while.  I hope you like it.

Before I start off on this topic, I would like to add that my iPhone is working again, for the most part.  It says it didn’t activate because it didn’t have service.  Well no crap, I don’t get service at my parents house.

I know that I changed my theme not all that long ago, however, I’m a little disappointed with it already.  It is not nearly as clean as it could be.  I mean, I can see vertical lines in the light blue sections along both sides of the main section.  So here is the deal.  I am very tempted to change my theme.  I’d like to take the time to pick a new one, however I’m curious what the reader wants.  Let me know.  Feel free to comment or use the poll below.  Thanks.

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Did I brick my iPhone?  Not exactly.  More like froze it in time.  I tried to upgraded to the newest firmware (2.0.2) tonight and I am getting nothing but errors when trying to apply the update.  The error may have been caused by an attempt to jailbreak the iPhone in the first place, but let’s keep that on the DL, shall we.  As it stands right now, I am stuck with 2.0.1 jailbreak unless I can figure this out.