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Tucson Whizzer Ride


Discussion at Motorized Bicycle Engine Kit Forum in the Whizzer Motor Bicycles forum. Took a short ride around Tucson's University of Arizona and the quaint area just north of downtown called Fourth ...
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Old 09-28-2008, 04:05 PM
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Took a short ride around Tucson's University of Arizona and the quaint area just north of downtown called Fourth Avenue.



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Man, pretty bike! Was there stuff behind it?

Honestly, you have me wanting a whizzer.
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Thank you Dan. I was using my cell phone and had it on the wrong setting. Luckily it didn't pick up the oxidized paint and road grime. The sky was actually blue, not lavender. I talked to a guy that was riding a Riva scooter in the bike lane, he asked about the price and gave a thumbs up.
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Hey! I'm sure glad you had a nice ride! You musta went home hungry, and I just cannot figure out how they can sell Taco's from behing an 8 foot chain-link fence?

I did see that they left the army truck out tho?

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Sadly the taco stand was closed, after all, it is Sunday. I'll get a picture of the pedi-cab parked behind the giant head next time. The ambulance is a Mercedes and the door that had the "Do not block" was spewing some potent V.O.Cstucson-whizzer-ride-0928081125.jpg Here's the new Amtrak station in the background and the sign on the skyline is the world famous haunted Hotel Congress where John Dillinger was once captured.
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Very nice Weedy
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Thank you. I've been keeping the rides short because the Whizzer isn't really "broken in" yet. Less than 200 miles on it in 10 years, it sat neglected on a back porch since it was new. I'm finding crusty rubber, oxidized paint and dry joints and bearings. I've got to ask Quenton about whether I can hog out the restrictor plate. If I read correctly, he said nothing should be done on this WC-1 engine. I am thinking that cleaning up the exhaust and intake is OK though.
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That Whizzer looks just fine. The ride looks like fun too. I like the Tucson area but have just been thru about once a year for 30 years. I don't know it well so I'll have to come down and get a guided tour.
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You're welcome here any time you get down here, a few days notice would help so I can schedule my work time around my fun time. I've lived here for 37 years and still get confused sometimes around the "new" areas that were built twenty years ago.
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