Transport

Honda Hobbit

Tuesday we went over to Scooter Swap Shop to pick up Jack's 1985 Honda Moped. He's had it since it was new and periodically it needs a tune up. It doesn't seem like the kind of bike a retired engineer would choose, but he's had it forever and I guess he's gotten kind of attached to it. Plus we both come from the drive-it-until-it-won't-drive-no-more school of motor vehicle operation.

Scooter Swap Shop

The shop is a hole in the wall kind of place, but they had a couple of interesting machines.

One fancy, full dress scooter in the back and
a stripped down custom job in front

The shop truck is a right-hand drive Japanese mini truck that is getting a Hayabusa motorcycle engine

Coincidentally, I came across this video today.


Motorcycle Engine in a Car - Here's Why and How SuperfastMatt
P.S. The photo of the Honda Moped (at the top of this post) confused me a bit. When I saw the original on Wikipedia, I thought the vertical white streaks above the handlebars were some kind defect in the image. Since there was nothing of import above the handlebars, I cropped the top section of the image off. It wasn't until I saw it here that I realized the white streaks were reflections in the windshield. Now that I've seen the windshield, I can't unsee it. Oh, well, Jack's moped doesn't have a windshield.