rent 'dust to glory'

awesome documentary of baja 1000...I think this might have been one of the last years before Honda moved to the oversquare 450 mill. I see a lot of early 2000 XR650R's around here that are plated and man, I wish I had one before California made it impossible to license dirtbikes for road:

dad the exemplar

Dad flew down from Seattle area to visit people in so-cal. Spent some time with Sarah and I in Oakland. Looked over his plane on his way out and co-piloted one go-round in the pattern before he left for sunnier weather. Very shiny. He built this rv-7 by hand in his basement. putting the MAN in Manual!

Stock foto from up North:


Took a few vids of the plane, awesome picture quality, I know! Weather was crap so we weren't even sure he would fly out until ten minutes before takeoff. All worked, tho. Not much talking, but "chit-chat" is not appropriate in this moment; we're concentrating on all the little things you have to think about before takeoff, so silence, please!

readying for santa inez


plotting trip; ignition


taxi, queue


takeoff


more idling

more coming...in the meantime:

"Now let it work: mischief, thou art afoot/Take thou what course thou wilt!"

check out thierry's XL street tracker work in progress

It's good to know I'm not the only XL600 Chopping lunatic. Check out Thierry Coup's Progress at: http://street-tracker.blogspot.com

by the way, this is gorge

Taken from the Street/Flat Tracker thread on ADV Rider: http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=272954

Nisky Garage

Just came across a link over at ADV Rider:

Nisky Garage is a mechanical eng. program offered at Niskayuna High School in Schenectady, NY. A few very inspired teachers and students restore and build up some pretty amazing bikes. Great ideas.

Bookmark their blog here:http://niskygarage.logical.net/nisky_garage/Blog/Blog.html

(Foto taken from their website, hope that's okay :) )

throttle up, chin forward, rear wheel loose, grab a gear, goooooo!

I originally found this pic on the advrider web forum, here:
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=400341

EDIT: Looks like those guys at sideburn have taken up the cause, tho. That's okay. I'm engaged to an honest to goodness betty myself :)

Too bad there's no CCM USA importer!

another buba shoebert rs750 find

another one

sessy beastie

i like the layout on this beast from Sideburn Mag

nicky hayden go sideways!

exemplars

Cute little SR500


Just b/c an XR600 Thumper would make a really cool track bike