1996 Fender Jag-stang

- 1996 MIJ Fender Jag-stang: my main axe for 11 years

- P90s

- aluminum pickguard fabbed outta an old street sign

- 5 way switching: N, B, N+B series, N+B parallel, N+B out of phase series

- 500K pots w/ .47uF cap

- chicken head knobs off a russian muff

- extra stiff trem springs

amp is crate 1 and the cab is a peavey with 12" eminence speakers. boss odb-3 + tuner.

Lizzy's Sachs G3

lizzy on her g3

80cc 45mm reed valve athena kit on a 505/1a bottom end.

19 mm mikuni vm? i think some old clone 85 jet drilled out to somethin' that works, problably around 90 but who knows for real?

the pipe's on the wrong side 'cause of the header! biturbo chamber hangin' on there.

rear wheel geared to 43. puch mags, 3.0 gazelles.

gets to 40 pretty fast. tops out at 43. revs to all jesus even though it's restricted on purpose to help the bottom end and especially the clutch not explode with the bendy air intake. the exhaust header is skinny 19mm? i'm pretty sure. it's kind of flattened where i contoured it so the chamber fits on the bike.

thanks to josh at TBS for hookin' it up.

zowie look at those transfers

replaced broken circlip, regasketed the case halves. case matched!

clutch nut slippage problem solved by using two axle nuts. i loctited them, too. a hundred miles later so far so good.

I just got a 1980 Sachs G3. It runs, but needs some love.

The frame. I fixed the kickstand, which was busted.

Engine enamel takes about a week to dry, but it's gas, oil, and temperature resistant to 500℉.

The motor is the 505/1A.

OB1 Repairs

Stoney's the one that started calling me me OB1 and it stuck....

Bikes I've wrenched on:

50 mph after rebuild and tuning for Bredan of road gnomes.

Heidi's Jawamag

Spree!

1964 Honda CA200 "Baby Dream."

Carabela Motomatico

Brian on his JC Penny. One of the fastest bikes in town.

A few engines I have tuned:

The White Witch

A moby with a (functioning) kickstand!

A pretty cherry 67 ciao, bone stock.

Heidi's Jawamag

Honda NQ 50 "Spree"

These are pictures of a Honda Spree I ported out in the quest for power, since there are NO aftermarket goodies and it ran a puny 25 mph when I got it (okay, maybe 27 but it was SLOW). I enlarged the transfers by quite a bit, using an old E50 cylinder for a model, widening and de-restricting the intake and raised the exhaust by 1.5 mm.

The intake, smoothed out.

Case matched.

After porting, I slapped on a manifold and reed block from a Honda SB 50 Elite. I fabbed an adapter by chopping an exhaust manifold from a stock E50 pipe so I could mount a sweet Mikuni VM with a K&N filter. The exhaust was derestricted via steel punch enema.

I took off the oil pump so's to run premix. Tuning was a breeze. Let's see, what else did I do? I converted the headlight to use normal halogen bulbs. I also fixed the kick starter, and rebuilt the brakes. I didn't diddle the drive pulley at all to preserve maximum low end.

Final result: 35 mph! And the all important hill climbing low end was still there!

1969 Harley-Davidson ML 125 Rapido by Aermacchi

This is my 1969 Harley-Davidson ML 125 "Rapido," a 125 cc 2 stroke 4 speed street bike made in Italy by Aermacchi. This is a so-called "Spaghetti Harley." In the middle of 1969, the ML 125 production line was switched from a street bike to a trail bike. Thus, there were only 1,000 of these motorcycles made. The most notable distinguishing feature is the right-hand shift, with a one up, three down pattern. 1969 and subsequent trail models had a left-hand shift with a standard pattern. This bike has less than 5,000 miles on it. Corrosion is minor. The tank is shiny inside. The engine is 2 stroke, meaning that 2 stroke oil must be added to the gas, just like a dirt bike or a Vespa. All the engine gaskets have been replaced. Compression is good, with plenty of torque and a rich, throaty idle. How fast does it go? I chickened out at 75 m.p.h. Riding doubles is no problem in the city, but I wouldn't recommend it on the highway. I have put 1,000+ miles on this motorcycle in a year. It is very reliable.

Everything on this motorcycle is stock, with the following exceptions:

- New Michelin Gazelle tires.

- New sealed bearings for the wheels.

- New chain.

- New light bulbs.

- New gaskets.

- New clubman bars (original bars included).

- New brake, throttle, and clutch cables (cable housings remain stock length for retrofit to stock bars).

been working at this corner store, living on the beach, being in a band.

Well, a lot has happened in the last year. After a brief stay with Justin of Nobunny fame, I moved off the roof of Hotel Excelsior and into an apartment by Baker Beach in the Presidio, with Sam Israel. He and I had shared the Hotel Excelsior roof as well as playing together (briefly) in the Fault Lines. I landed a job at a 3 movie theater chain. I had some cool co-workers: Tin Yan Lee, a film school grad, her husband (hahah!) J.R. Reynolds, and Joshua Yazzie, a punk rock international affairs student. I learned how to run the projectors (sort of) and spent a lot of time reading Dostoevsky that winter. I bought a moped from an Air Force guy I met at the marina across the Golden Gate bridge. It's a green 1978 Puch Maxi. It was in pieces. I paid $150 for it. After a lot of work, I got it running.

Critical Mass:

Festivities at the Fabric House/Hotel Excelsior:

Robert and Tiare: Hawaiians striken by wanderlust no more.

Stoney and Lauren peace out.