The frame will is at DAS and is beeing modded as I speak. I will not be driving it to CA. It will need new valve springs every yesr and check the motor every year too. I will also change the gearing from 20 -35. to 18 -43. I will only run 6 to 10 lbs of boost too.
Hi. Saw vid on maybe one of his bikes and it looked like Guy Caputo and Bill Werners bikes. I do not know if he raced a stock body bike.
I see cop tape on that thing....crazy that they'd just leave it out there and not have it towed away.....I went into the city today and took an extended ride on the way back. At one point, after overtaking some cars and trucks on a section of Highway I never travel I saw a sign warning of average speed radar cameras. that was nice of them, since I took note and just 500m up the road was the "second" set. I pulled over for 4 minutes and stretched my legs
Then later, traveling along a familiar road I took this detour.
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Boys will be boys I suppose but when I was young we just threw rocks at phone boxes. This seems a little over the top to me. And how long has it been laying there?
Thought of you today when a large herd of Hawgs rode by while I was at my usual stopping place atop the hill where this pic was taken. Love their sound. When I pulled up about six go fasters were taking a break. S1000RRs, a GSX1000 R? and a gorgeous V4 Panigale. Very trick suspension. All had Brembos although the calipers weren’t identical. We were all complaining about the sand on the road. Apparently it got cold enough that our hiway dept (CalTrans) decided it was wise to sand the road surface to help if it iced up. Not just on the shady damp sections either, every corner was sketchy on two wheels. Not fun! CA. doesn’t use salt thankfully but that sand is awful! First time I’ve seen it on this section of hiway 49. 
Only a couple knew what it was and no one could believe how old it is. They were all under 25 or so. I did a loop and ended back up there. All the bikes were gone and just one car was there, a dark red 71 Chevelle SS454 convertible! Niiiice car.
Know that feeling. I usually only take pix when I stop for a smoke. I went out through the backroads for a couple of hours today and stopped at a general store for a drink. There was a yuppie bakery two doors down (Harrisville) but I steer clear of those pretentious dives. You meet a better class of rider at the little unassuming stores. There was a guy there finishing a burger, he was covered in bandages and as it turns out was a big time old school racer type and motorcycle mechanic with a shed with 20 bikes in it. He's a dirt rider too and had dropped his honda crf 450, or whatever it was, on a slippery dirt road up in the back blocks and had come out of it bad. Broken ribs (broken, not fractured) and internal injuries, dislocated thumb etc etc. Bike came off with hardly a scratch as it turned out? He wasn't a happy camper because of all the injuries but mostly because he couldn't ride for months, poor bastard.
Wow! Quite the story and chancemeet up!Know that feeling. I usually only take pix when I stop for a smoke. I went out through the backroads for a couple of hours today and stopped at a general store for a drink. There was a yuppie bakery two doors down (Harrisville) but I steer clear of those pretentious dives. You meet a better class of rider at the little unassuming stores. There was a guy there finishing a burger, he was covered in bandages and as it turns out was a big time old school racer type and motorcycle mechanic with a shed with 20 bikes in it. He's a dirt rider too and had dropped his honda crf 450, or whatever it was, on a slippery dirt road up in the back blocks and had come out of it bad. Broken ribs (broken, not fractured) and internal injuries, dislocated thumb etc etc. Bike came off with hardly a scratch as it turned out? He wasn't a happy camper because of all the injuries but mostly because he couldn't ride for months, poor bastard.
We had a good long chat about bikes and he showed me pix of his Yamaha tdm 850 twin with a 270-degree crank and stock brembo brakes. An old bike from the late 1980's. It was a sport tourer, with some special engine and gearbox arrangement that allowed the engine to be shorter and hence the wheelbase too. He was in the process of painting his rims Gold. It looked sweet! I forwent my drink and after half an hour we went our separate ways, just a couple of old motorcycle fanatics meeting by chance and sharing our stories.
His Yamaha (just a web pic) I think BB might like it
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Oh yeah, 1/5 of the population here smokes, but they are all mostly embarrassed by it and do it hidden around corners out of sight. The 2022-23 National Drug Strategy Household Survey found the smoking rate among adults was 11.1%. But a hell of a lot of people don't admit to it, and a hell of lot of smokers now buy the black market smokes brought in from SE Asia. You go to one of those smoke shops, and they are literally everywhere, and you'll pay 1/3 the price you would in the supermarket. The government has no record of those cash transactions so they never enter the statistics.
The only difference is people can eat and drink around me as much as they like and i don't really care.Oh yeah, 1/5 of the population here smokes, but they are all mostly embarrassed by it and do it hidden around corners out of sight. The 2022-23 National Drug Strategy Household Survey found the smoking rate among adults was 11.1%. But a hell of a lot of people don't admit to it, and a hell of lot of smokers now buy the black market smokes brought in from SE Asia. You go to one of those smoke shops, and they are literally everywhere, and you'll pay 1/3 the price you would in the supermarket. The government has no record of those cash transactions so they never enter the statistics.
I remember watching episodes of the X-files where they denigrated that guy they called "Cancer Man" There has been a big public propaganda campaign to portray smokes as evil bastards and it's mostly worked, but only is Western nations. Go to China, India, Russia and you'll find very different "Attitudes" From a health perspective it's very interesting to look around with your eyes, I have known many smokers who were in their 80's, but never have I met a big fat bastard in their 80's. That tells me that obesity and heart issues kill people off younger than smoking. My brother was a big Bundy rum and coke drinker, he quit smoking in this early 40's but died at 62 from pancreatic cancer. Coke in large volumes is probably more dangerous
Oh yeah, 1/5 of the population here smokes, but they are all mostly embarrassed by it and do it hidden around corners out of sight. The 2022-23 National Drug Strategy Household Survey found the smoking rate among adults was 11.1%. But a hell of a lot of people don't admit to it, and a hell of lot of smokers now buy the black market smokes brought in from SE Asia. You go to one of those smoke shops, and they are literally everywhere, and you'll pay 1/3 the price you would in the supermarket. The government has no record of those cash transactions so they never enter the statistics.
I remember watching episodes of the X-files where they denigrated that guy they called "Cancer Man" There has been a big public propaganda campaign to portray smokes as evil bastards and it's mostly worked, but only is Western nations. Go to China, India, Russia and you'll find very different "Attitudes" From a health perspective it's very interesting to look around with your eyes, I have known many smokers who were in their 80's, but never have I met a big fat bastard in their 80's. That tells me that obesity and heart issues kill people off younger than smoking. My brother was a big Bundy rum and coke drinker, he quit smoking in this early 40's but died at 62 from pancreatic cancer. Coke in large volumes is probably more dangerous
yeah, but there's nothing wrong with standing in the exhaust stream of motorcycles is there. After all, you can't see those gases, and they smell nice.
