the beginning...

i've always been a speed freak and always will be.

i used to race my mountain bikes (Kona HOT with XT and various one-off machined aluminum components...some titanium parts as well...that bike was worth about $3700, which seems totally nuts to me now; i also had a custom built AMP Research frame with Reynolds 851 tubing and a beautiful downtube gusset, RST air/elastomer forketc. etc. etc...).

i blew my motor in my 92 talon this year...i was still running ok times (14.1 @ 93 or 14.2 at 94). i think it went a little lean and fried two of the pistons and whacked the valves too. Arrrgh. i spent months just trying to decide whether to buy a used JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) engine, or to rebuild. I decided finally to buy a used engine from someone locally... phew!