Odds & Sods

 

Hard to beat John Lee Hooker if you're looking for a toe-tapper.

Before anyone complains, I know wife beating is not funny. However, if you're a boxing coach, that's laugh out loud funny. 

Twin engined Royal Enfield drag bike and Bonneville competitor. Some of the welding looks pretty rough, but the engineering work must have been solid.

This is the cover photo from the Superbike book I got for Christmas from Surly. It's chock-full of really good photos of when the Superbike series was basically a run what you brung deal and the later years when the rules started to kill some of the creativity. The stories accompanying the photos are by Kevin Cameron, a name everyone who read Cycle or Cycle World back then would be familiar with. 

When the guys in the book were racing, Surly and I were going to the track to watch them. I was also doing quite a bit of frame work about that time. Mostly on drag bikes, but a few road racers. I was all about those Superbikes. 

Went to a hockey game last night in Indy. Good game, lots of action. Big fight broke out with 5.6 seconds left at the end of the second period. Everybody was duking it out in front of the Komets' goal and then Indy's goalie skated down and the two goalies were throwing punches. Then all the other players stopped and watched the goalies. When the third period started the announcer listed all the penalties. Only two guys went to the penalty box, though. If everyone involved went to the box, they would've had a couple of minutes with no-one on the ice. Quite the scrum.

That's about all for 2023. We'll see what 2024 brings and at this point, who the hell knows.