Manual Haiku - Yamaha YZ80B

YZ80B

choice that promises

you many delightful years

of motorcycling.

inspiration - Off Road Vespas

At least two people tried to race Vespas in the Baja 500 and Mexican 1000. The only evidence I have are three pictures from the 1972 Mexican 1000 race program. I don't know if they finished, or anything else about them, but they're still pretty inspirational.

1972 Baja 500 startline portraits

the captian read

"Busting through the canyons of South El Rosario, 1971 Mexican 1000."

That's about 150 miles from the start, it's really amazing that they made it that far. I like the asymmetrical light and It looks like they built some sort of expansion chamber that goes up and over the engine.

Old Gold 6

I shot these slides for my MFA applications but I can't remember if they made the cut.

This beautiful machine has a vespa 150 super engine on an old cut up frame, with a p200 front fort and a fuji rabbit fender. It didn't get out much because it was scary to drive and extremely illegal but it was fun.