Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater
Someone on the F-160 mailing list (a list for 160 Vintage racers) mentioned shoving a track-vendor hotdog into his peg as a substitute for a peg slider, and it inspired me to find this clip:
Hopefully clear enough from the visuals and the tone of voice, the only helpful clue I can provide is that TUV is the German equivalent of the DMV, sort of, only every change to a vehicle has to be approved by TUV. Suffice to say that bike customizers and TUV don't usually get along.
Posted at 16:51 permanent link category: /motorcycle
I'm working on a full report of this weekend, but I'll give you the quickie review.
Basically, I didn't have a very good time. There was a lot of self-doubt and wondering why I was bothering. I didn't have any overt problems, no crashes, no big goofs, just a steady stream of "why am I doing this?"
This was all capped off by a range of annoying things, from the GoPro camera (which has always been spotty, but was at least kind of working last year) completely crapping out to dropping my shift linkage to coming in dead last, behind a new rider who hadn't even come to practice on Saturday. He was literally riding his first laps around the Pacific Raceways track on Sunday, and it was only his second time out on a track, ever. Humbling and thoroughly demoralizing.
Still, I loved hanging out with the racers (although the new guy rubbed me the wrong way somehow), and being at the track, and all of it except the actual riding around the track "competing" for last place.
I'm not giving up yet, but it's hard to be too fired up about the whole thing right now. It was also a massively over-committed weekend for me, so I was operating on far too little sleep and a pretty constant feeling of stress.
I'll mention it here when I get the race report finished -- it's mostly done, I just have to add pictures.
Posted at 11:10 permanent link category: /motorcycle
Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater