Blew the dust off of these photos. These pictures were taken with a Polaroid camera after I had the altercation with a Chevette. I was behind a pickup w/camper shell that was turning right onto a side road off a 2 lane. I went to pass, but the Chevette was coming out of the side road and turning left onto the 2 lane... *Couldn't see the motorcycle* because of the camper. I guess she couldn't HEAR me either, check out the unmuffled drag pipes I had on at the time. The flat spot on the rear one was when I slid under the car. I went down on the right side, the crash bars took the brunt of the slide.

Note the leather saddlebags, before I got the fiberglass ones. A friend gave them to me, they were originally for a horse, but I cut a section out of the middle and strapped it back together with bootlaces. They were natural roughout, but I took black shoe dye to them. The bike was supposed to be painted blue, but I guess the kid at the autoparts didn't know how to mix. I think he gave me a can of blue base. Anyway, when I came back after dropping the paint, tanks and fenders off at a painter friends, the shade was a dark purple.

A closer shot of the pipes. I almost forgot about how I rigged the spark advance on the old manual distributor (circuit breaker or ignition timer for you nitpickers). That's a universal choke cable that ran up to the dash and the pull knob came up through the hollow dash mounting bolt. The choke had broken on the Kehin carb, so there was no butterfly on it.

Dad holding the clutch shell. That dent came from running up under the car. I had an open primary at the time.

Check out my cool clutch lever for the suicide set up. That was a piece of flat stock welded to a standard hand clutch lever, drilled for a piece of wire rope and a clamp to hold it on. The cable ran to a foot shift lever which I used for a pedal. The ball thing above it was the shift knob on the jocky lever.

Top view, left rear crashbar off since it snapped the weld at the top mount. It also cracked the weld on the frame below that.

That was my first La Pera frame mount solo seat. The next one had a skirt. Then I got the pogo.

My cheap plastic helmet.