Author: illnoise

Remember that post a couple weeks ago about the Wildcat 100? 100 Wisconsin miles on a 100cc (or smaller) motorcycle or scooter? Well, Grace had the mighty cool idea to try to find a bike under $100 and get it running in time for the Wildcat 100, so 2SB is throwing out the challenge for others to try this challenge-within-a-challenge. If you’re interested in getting a $100 rat bike together by the end of summer, email us. I’ll make a page explaining the rules and outlining the progress of each team. any sub-$100 sub-100cc 2-wheeled vehicle is eligible, the rattier the better.

The quasi-official Breeders site noaloha.com now has a lot of demos and out-of-print b-sides available for download, including their cover of Aerosmith’s “Lord of the Thighs” and “Do You Love Me Now, Jr.” with J. Mascis. And the entire “Head to Toe” single with the the GBV and Sebadoh covers.

ChiVinMoto is hosting another Isle of Goose TT (for under-50cc and under-100cc bikes) on Sunday. Their events page says “7:00 a.m. If you don’t know where the IoG TT is run, you’re not invited.” It’s pretty difficult to figure out, since the name of the event narrows it down to about a square half-mile. I can’t figure those guys out, half of them post their events on scooter lists and beg us to come, and the other half sneer at us when we do.

Week 2 of Chad’s promise to organize a ride a week: Gears and Ears 26 Car Show and Swap Meet in Wheaton, this Sunday. The Voodoo Kings Car show last saturday was really fun, hot rod rallies are just like scooter rallies, minus nudity and worthwhile raffle prizes. Props to Chad, keep it up!

a.k.a. The Camp of Dr. Caligari. Editor’s note: As promised, Elvis ‘e*rock’ Jones’ Daytona story, guaranteed to scare you away from Florida for life:
Most of the license plates around here have a green peninsula and a juicy ripe orange inked by prisoners in back of the numbers. At the bottom, it reads: SUNSHINE STATE. Not this time. Shortly east of Tallahassee, the rains came. And came, and came. In the back of the truck, there’s no air filter or protective housing on the big Mikuni carb, except for the Lammy sidepanels. Fresh rainwater in the chamber does not make for a fun rally. If only I had a stock twist ‘n goOe
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From resident Italophile Scott Baxter: An Italian scooter newsgroup describes their favorite Vespa sounds. Scott also found these really detailed Vespa Models.

Liam Bradley, 3, passes his sister Fiona, 7, on the outside in turn one at Kiddieland International Raceway. The siblings miraculously finished in a four-way tie with Louise and Winston Upchurch in the eight-lap race, then celebrated by poking sticks into my air conditioner.

This one goes out to M5: From superchunk.com, a song for that other 2-stroke engine in your life: Mower (mp.3) from On the Mouth (Merge Records). Also, shortly after I linked up GBV last week, they replaced the intro photo with a photo of Bob Pollard on Scott Smallwood’s Vespa Rally. Anyone out there know the story?

JKSC Chicago is sponsoring a ride this Saturday to the Voodoo King’s weekly vintage hot rod cruise. (Woodfire Chicken, Irving Park Rd. & Rohlwing, Itasca, IL) “See old cars with dangerous modifications leaking fluids & polluting the air! Hear rockabilly & psychobilly from DJ’s & bands throughout the summer! Eat fire-roasted chicken, garlic mashed potatoes, ice cream!” Meet at Scooterworks, USA at 4pm, ride leaves for Itasca at 5pm.

Remember when the Rockford Rally seemed really far away on the calendar? Well, it’s less than a month away. Here’s the latest. If this rally isn’t fun, nothing is.

From 32: The Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum, host of Amerivespa, has posted the TBS Amerivespa segment that was broadcast during “Dumb and Dumber” last week. Nicely done, funny, and only one glaring factual error.

when a young man can’t ride a motorcycle over 100mph through yards and stoplights, without being unfairly chased by racist police?

E*rock has tipped us off that Filter Magazine, Diesel Clothing, Capitol Records and Vespa are giving away a Radiohead “Hail to the Thief” Vespa. That album cover is really cool, hopefully the scooter will look something like the photoshop job on the site.

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‘Squadra Corsea 2SB had another strong showing at Gateway International Raceway in St Louis this weekend. Stock class winners (above) were Mykrrr (2SB, asleep), 2nd place; Ryan Bastianelli (Moped Hospital, shirtless), 1st place, and Michael Durso (2SB, kneeling), 3rd place. Matt Devries, in the tradition of 2SB, failed to place. I dunno who won stock because no one ever posts the stats on the MASS list until a month later.

Our soccer correspondent sent us this gem from MLS Public Relations’ weekly quote sheet:

SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 2003
D.C. UNITED 3, COLUMBUS CREW 0

D.C UNITED HEAD COACH RAY HUDSON on individual performances:
“(Marco) Etcheverry: huge heart … (Ali) Curtis:
superlative … (Mike) Petke: magic. If you don’t see the class in (Galin) Ivanov, then you’re
as blind as Stevie Wonder locked in a vault. He plays with such poise and class. He plays on a different planet.”

They left this quote off the list: “That could well be his last game played on planet Earth, I wanted to give Stoitchkov this game. He’d earned it.” That’s right, the 37-year-old Bulgarian star of the ’94 World Cup, Barçelona, and the Chicago Fire is likely to be cut from DC United any day now, unless his green card comes through or another foreign player is injured.