wefunk goes F1
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Ron Barbagallo
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Thank you very much for the congrats.
No, I haven´t been involved in a racing team.
I am prepared to work a 50-60h week now in the winter (working shifts).
That is no problem for me as long as the task is demanding and asks for highest concentration and precision.
It won´t be worse than the last 1/2 year I did as a lamp designer (before wefunk), sitting 8h/day in an office chair with no or just stupid tasks at hand.
That let me slump down first mentally and then physically leading to severe back problems and a whole range of psychosomatic illness (stiff neck, sour stomach, etc.).
THAT was hell. Just sitting around won´t happen at Toyota -- that´s for sure!
This move now happens just at the right time (for me):
I was doing the bonecores now for two years and though I have new Ideas I don´t have the technical means to let them become real. I would have had to either invest into a completely new workshop and presses (out of the question) or move to the US and join a skate + snowboard company (which didn´t work out). Both would have been huge financial risks putting me further into debt and wouldn´t have helped me in short or mid-term to put my family together again.
Now the pieces are coming together nicely and I know that the last years with wefunk made a lot of sense.
Of course I hope to make a comeback at some point in the future with my then newly acquired knowledge. Time will show.
But for sure I´ll be on a skateboard as long as my already f´ed up knees will allow:
No, I haven´t been involved in a racing team.
I am prepared to work a 50-60h week now in the winter (working shifts).
That is no problem for me as long as the task is demanding and asks for highest concentration and precision.
It won´t be worse than the last 1/2 year I did as a lamp designer (before wefunk), sitting 8h/day in an office chair with no or just stupid tasks at hand.
That let me slump down first mentally and then physically leading to severe back problems and a whole range of psychosomatic illness (stiff neck, sour stomach, etc.).
THAT was hell. Just sitting around won´t happen at Toyota -- that´s for sure!
This move now happens just at the right time (for me):
I was doing the bonecores now for two years and though I have new Ideas I don´t have the technical means to let them become real. I would have had to either invest into a completely new workshop and presses (out of the question) or move to the US and join a skate + snowboard company (which didn´t work out). Both would have been huge financial risks putting me further into debt and wouldn´t have helped me in short or mid-term to put my family together again.
Now the pieces are coming together nicely and I know that the last years with wefunk made a lot of sense.
Of course I hope to make a comeback at some point in the future with my then newly acquired knowledge. Time will show.
But for sure I´ll be on a skateboard as long as my already f´ed up knees will allow:
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Tod Oles
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Good luck Alex!!
Crap, I can't fabricate a lie let alone a monocoque??
Yo Lavin, I still have one of C-nova's books, "Successful composite techniques" by Keith Noakes.
I think it would be a great read...............if I could read.........
Nice pictures though!!!
How ya been?
Crap, I can't fabricate a lie let alone a monocoque??
Yo Lavin, I still have one of C-nova's books, "Successful composite techniques" by Keith Noakes.
I think it would be a great read...............if I could read.........
Nice pictures though!!!
How ya been?
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Congrat
Alex:
Amazing opportunity for you - enjoy every minute of it!!!
All the best,
Rob
Amazing opportunity for you - enjoy every minute of it!!!
All the best,
Rob
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wefunk goes F1
I haven´t logged in here for a long time -- sorry for the unanswered PMs.
As of october 15th I´ll be a member of the composite layup team of Toyota Motorsports, building the 2008 F1 race car.
As of now I don´t take any custom orders but will use the remaining weeks to use up some of my stocked material building bonecore downhill racing decks.
I´ll offer the built decks on silverfishlongboarding.com as they are.
Please don´t PM or mail for decks now but wait for what I´ll offer.
That doesn´t mean the end of wefunk but another step in my life and the opportunity to learn more about composite design and construction than I could ever have dreamed.
That´s the ultimate king´s class of civilian composite works.
The skateboard production is then on hold for indeterminate time.
When touring the workshops I felt like a crude butcher amongst brain surgeons.
Working with pre-cut prepregged carbon which gets baked in the autoclave is a TOTALLY different game compared to the possibilities I had so far.
The quality you get when done properly is OUT OF THIS WORLD.
So stoked that I´ll be a part of this.
Thank you for your support during the last years that have seen lots of ups and downs for me and the wefunk brand.
Alex Luxat
As of october 15th I´ll be a member of the composite layup team of Toyota Motorsports, building the 2008 F1 race car.
As of now I don´t take any custom orders but will use the remaining weeks to use up some of my stocked material building bonecore downhill racing decks.
I´ll offer the built decks on silverfishlongboarding.com as they are.
Please don´t PM or mail for decks now but wait for what I´ll offer.
That doesn´t mean the end of wefunk but another step in my life and the opportunity to learn more about composite design and construction than I could ever have dreamed.
That´s the ultimate king´s class of civilian composite works.
The skateboard production is then on hold for indeterminate time.
When touring the workshops I felt like a crude butcher amongst brain surgeons.
Working with pre-cut prepregged carbon which gets baked in the autoclave is a TOTALLY different game compared to the possibilities I had so far.
The quality you get when done properly is OUT OF THIS WORLD.
So stoked that I´ll be a part of this.
Thank you for your support during the last years that have seen lots of ups and downs for me and the wefunk brand.
Alex Luxat