Kudzu, Kudzu, Kudzu.......

Well, if you've been looking in the latest Model Aviation, you've seen the Kudzu......

I flew this bird at the AMA Nats this year. It did very well. I managed to get in a whopping total of 6 practice flights with the airplane before the competition, and I still managed 8th place. That tells me its got potential.

Next thing for this airplane is to take even more weight out. I'm sure I can, but doing it is the hard part. I will likely build a new fuselage if I can find a source of .75lbs/ft3 foam, then I'll build a new one.... until then, I'll keep flying this one.

Matchless Votige

Here is my new indoor pattern plane for the 08-09 season. Its sitting next to a Matchless/FancyFoam Vantage for size comparison.

I'm excited to develop it further. So far, it has turned out to be a really good bird. Weight of the quick prototype was 5.25 ozs RTF. The next one should finish out well under 5 ozs with a few tricks like milling and other things.....

CycloCrunk Cyclocross race

This past week, I raced in the last of the '08 CycloCrunk Cyclocross races.

The race went really well all things considered. I ended up not finishing dead last, and my new bike went well.

My new bike is a Labadie cyclocross bike from the south of France. I built it up as a singlespeed with all Ultegra equipment. Finished out at around 19lbs, so I'm more than pleased with it.

The pictures from the race are pretty cool. http://www.cyclocrunk.com/.

My blog.....

So what is my crazy blog about?

I'm a middle aged fat guy with too many friggin hobbies.......

I'm a former bicycle racer who is now trying to get back to riding to improve my health.

I'm also an avid model aviation enthusiast. I design, build and fly competition model airplanes. Luckily, I also sell a few of the designs I create and help to fund my hobby........

I don't have a clue why I'm putting up this blog. I guess I just want to.