Saturday, 31 January 2009
Monday, 26 January 2009
Busy time at racewear
It's been a busy time at www.racewear.co.uk. We've just supplied a dozen FIA suits for the F1 circuit in Bahrain again. It's for the doctors at the track, they were on duty at the A1 GP race and are getting ready for the F1 event too. We've done them for a couple of years now, but we were let down by TNT's delivery. Why are carrier companies SO incompetent? I'm at the end of my tether - the only good part about the whole sorry affair is the it was the customer's carrier account, not mine. Phew!
Sabelt racesuits are coming on stream now. I've sold the first "Stratos" FIA suit to be imported into the country (!) and there's some really interesting products in their catalogue which will be going on my site soon.
WANTED - someone to help us with our Facebook strategy! Got some time on your hands? Like to help us develop new media strategy? We're looking for someone to help develop racewear.co.uk via blogs, Facebook, YouTube and other social sites. It's fun, part-time work made in heaven for a petrol head. Healthy discount on racewear and the chance to join our Midgetmax Racing kart team FOC, and possibly even my MG racing team at Historic events around Europe. Interested? Contact Max Tyler max@racewear.co.uk
Sold some bits to pay for my race engine over the weekend, looks like I'm going to be able to get the block and crank prepared soon, but need to decide what spec to build first of all. 1380 or 1330? I bet the 1330 will be as powerful at my level, but it's more expensive to build because I need pistons. There again, they'd come with rings, and the rumour is that there's a shortage of 1380 Powermax rings. Hmm, decisions, decisions!
Been busy wth the Actiondrome. Spent the last couple of weekends teaching, to the extent that yesterday (Sunday 25th) was my first day off since New Year. Had some really good lessons in the last couple of weeks, working with Waz Pablo. I think our customers really got a handle on some simple steps to keep themselves safe in slippery weather - and had great fun driving the SKID CAR!
Sabelt racesuits are coming on stream now. I've sold the first "Stratos" FIA suit to be imported into the country (!) and there's some really interesting products in their catalogue which will be going on my site soon.
WANTED - someone to help us with our Facebook strategy! Got some time on your hands? Like to help us develop new media strategy? We're looking for someone to help develop racewear.co.uk via blogs, Facebook, YouTube and other social sites. It's fun, part-time work made in heaven for a petrol head. Healthy discount on racewear and the chance to join our Midgetmax Racing kart team FOC, and possibly even my MG racing team at Historic events around Europe. Interested? Contact Max Tyler max@racewear.co.uk
Sold some bits to pay for my race engine over the weekend, looks like I'm going to be able to get the block and crank prepared soon, but need to decide what spec to build first of all. 1380 or 1330? I bet the 1330 will be as powerful at my level, but it's more expensive to build because I need pistons. There again, they'd come with rings, and the rumour is that there's a shortage of 1380 Powermax rings. Hmm, decisions, decisions!
Been busy wth the Actiondrome. Spent the last couple of weekends teaching, to the extent that yesterday (Sunday 25th) was my first day off since New Year. Had some really good lessons in the last couple of weeks, working with Waz Pablo. I think our customers really got a handle on some simple steps to keep themselves safe in slippery weather - and had great fun driving the SKID CAR!
Sunday, 25 January 2009
Sunday, 18 January 2009
Monday, 12 January 2009
Autosports International - what a great show!
With mixed feelings I took up a last minute (cheap!) deal for a stand at Autosports. Last minute? 4:15 the night before it opened!
So off we went to promote Uvex and sell some stuff to try and cover the costs.....objectives met! Despite having the wrong stock with me (Doh!), despite not having much stock (wasn't expecting to go after all!), despite the credit crunch...against all expectations I met some good potential clients and sold some stuff as well.
Show had improved, lot more focus on the sport, less on "souping up" cars for noise and style rather than outright speed around a circuit. Interesting displays, good to see a whole stand devoted to my hero, Ronnie Peterson. Plus TWO Lotus 72s with his name on the sife and an F3 car. Terrific.
Interesting point though, as credit gets crunched, cash is king. Of all our sales only two were by card - and they were debit card, not credit card. Mmmmm, maybe all that money thrown at the banks isn't enough to get the public trusting them. Whatever, I'm happy to receive them!
Oh, just thought....new web site started this week....watch out for www.racewear.co.uk changing!
So off we went to promote Uvex and sell some stuff to try and cover the costs.....objectives met! Despite having the wrong stock with me (Doh!), despite not having much stock (wasn't expecting to go after all!), despite the credit crunch...against all expectations I met some good potential clients and sold some stuff as well.
Show had improved, lot more focus on the sport, less on "souping up" cars for noise and style rather than outright speed around a circuit. Interesting displays, good to see a whole stand devoted to my hero, Ronnie Peterson. Plus TWO Lotus 72s with his name on the sife and an F3 car. Terrific.
Interesting point though, as credit gets crunched, cash is king. Of all our sales only two were by card - and they were debit card, not credit card. Mmmmm, maybe all that money thrown at the banks isn't enough to get the public trusting them. Whatever, I'm happy to receive them!
Oh, just thought....new web site started this week....watch out for www.racewear.co.uk changing!
Sunday, 11 January 2009
Thursday, 1 January 2009
It's my party.......
.....well, my birthday and the party was at someone else's but you get the drift.
New Year, new promises. I really *will* get the Midget racing this year. Spent a few hours last week developing the dashboard to take the rev counter in the centre instead of behind the steering wheel where I can't see it. I'm rubbish at this sort of thing, but at least the scruffy cutting will be hidden by the bezel ;-) Also made a mount for an orange oil-pressure tell-tale light, I've got one of thse gurt big Land Rover indicator things :-)
So the job list has two things taken off it! Except that I found more to do to the engine...the head I planned to use from the 1380 needs quite a lot of work, thanks to a valve having recessed into the seat. It's standing proud from the others by a good couple of mil, and it fails the leak test. Grump.
Spent a bit of time last week sprucing up http://www.midgetmax.com/ - not much content change but I think it looks nicer, so do take a look. I'll be adding more to it soon!
New Year, new promises. I really *will* get the Midget racing this year. Spent a few hours last week developing the dashboard to take the rev counter in the centre instead of behind the steering wheel where I can't see it. I'm rubbish at this sort of thing, but at least the scruffy cutting will be hidden by the bezel ;-) Also made a mount for an orange oil-pressure tell-tale light, I've got one of thse gurt big Land Rover indicator things :-)
So the job list has two things taken off it! Except that I found more to do to the engine...the head I planned to use from the 1380 needs quite a lot of work, thanks to a valve having recessed into the seat. It's standing proud from the others by a good couple of mil, and it fails the leak test. Grump.
Spent a bit of time last week sprucing up http://www.midgetmax.com/ - not much content change but I think it looks nicer, so do take a look. I'll be adding more to it soon!
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