BFA Parking
Sure, you can keep your bike here, zach. We are accomodating. Don’t feel to bad, Abby and I have bikes in the corner Jesse designated the “think about what you’ve done” corner
Cutters invade art school
Lil Honda Robert took us to his art studio. Miguel took some pics in the space room and the rock room.
Stock vs. Kitted
I took a chance in San Francisco because my Motron wasn’t ready to ride… I used the 50cc Concord Shadow, with a top speed of around 37mph, stock pipe and everything. I swapped the 14/12 carb for the drilled out 14.27 from my Baretta and crossed my fingers that I wasn’t going to get stranded – California rallies are usually crazy fast, almost everyone has a kitted bike.
After that went reasonably well, I decided to do more to build up my stock bikes. They really aren’t so slow as to be left behind or even be embarrassing. Sometimes I would catch myself passing up a bike I knew to be kitted, and I passed people in corners all over the place, usually only to have them pertly cruise by again as soon as they got their comfortable straight stretch back.
I love going fast, but there’s something about driving a stock slower bike that brings out the crazy competitive road-rage filled cursing-like-a-sailor moped racer in me that is fun as hell. I hardly remembered what it was like to round a corner up a hill as fast as possible, trying to keep up speed.
I think this winter will probably be seeing me in the garage with a dremel and a variety of Minarelli cylinders. So get ready…. Next spring : 50cchallenge! Stock (vintage) bottom end, stock cylinder (no 50cc kits) and you can do what you want with your carb and pipe.
