On a recent trip up north we stopped by a bike and snowmobile boneyard for a look around. In the four feet of weeds on the overgrown lot were a lot of old picked over carcasses of once great racing bikes from the last couple decades. I dug around for a while trying to spot an xr75 frame but only found a rough xl75 one that was bent. But then under an old Yamaha I found the left overs of a 1986 xr100 with most of its driveline still on it. So I picked it up and now have it safe and sound on the bench ready to get some much needed attention after years of neglect. Cost for of frame – $50

So here’s the plan. Honda XR75s are awesome little mini bikes. My buddy has one and my Dad just picked one up. After looking around at the ones on ebay they seem a little out of my price range for something that’s basically an expensive toy. To get around this I will try building up a XR75 from nothing, buying odd bits of Honda’s that have passed on to the scrap yard. I will also be doing everything I can to keep the cost down on this build. Kicking this project off is a set of front forks and triple clamps from a 2003 Honda XR100. From what I have read they will fit a 75 frame but to be honest I have my doubts. But that’s what welders and sawzalls are for right?

So not bad for $26 bucks, shipping was only $19. So lets hope this ends up looking like the picture below and not horribly deformed Honda mutant.

I can’t shake the thought of a leaking, smoking, gangley looking bastard child of 25 years of Honda products coming from this. Best not to think about some things. Onwards and upwards!

Reggie Watts was the opener, and man was it cool to see him live. Could of went home happy after just seeing his set.

The bat from Meatloafs Bat out of Hell Tour! Sweet!

The whole show was just amazing beyond words, if you can catch one before Conan gets back on Tv do it.

Evelyn Bay. You can get:

• Wackmaster Sunrize
• Fred Bear Blend
• Ted’s Hunt Blend
• Misty Dusk
• Nuge Java Decaf

So, The best part of waking up is Wackmaster in your cup. Yikes.

The ones we got were running XP Embeded, and at various levels of freedom. Some allowed wrighting to their little 256mb solid state drives, while others were locked down tight. We spent more time then it was worth trying to get the WYSE device manager installed to flash them over the network, but gave up and installed laptop drives em. They have all the converter cables and power lines to run mobile IDE stuff which is awesome. Also since the little VIA’s just sip power they only pull .8 Amps to run over their little 12V AC adapters. They would make a great torrent box. But being that we can’t leave them alone we ended up installing the mobile drives, more Ram, and Windows XP Home. I put 7 on mine for a while, and while it was useable it also needed more Ram then I had. After we got them all running on XP, Travis and I started benched marked ours to see whos machine came out on top. His benchmark is with a solidstate page file and tweaked XP settings mines just stock.

Check out those numbers! YEAH!! Mine is the brain dead one thats pulling 0.00mhz. This stuff cracks me up because you know that some supper serious overclocker people are going to see ours in there. Go lil WYSE’s clients!