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ook a drink from the small canteen that he kept on the edge of his workbench where he could reach up and find it in the dark if he should wake up thirsty he stretched and put his boots on he was hungry but not hungry enough to worry about it he could eat after the run he didn t want the extra weight in his stomach he scratched his head wiped his eyes yawned and looked around leaning forward he slid the small rolling work stool closer to his bike on the small wooden work platform he had constructed from scraps of 2x4 s and plywood he had scavenged here and there he stopped took a deep breath and started he slipped his medium length extension though the full length aluminum belly pan that run the length of the bikes frame and unscrewed his drain plug the oil started to run into the aluminum pie pan he used as a drain pan as he caught a bit of the oil on the tip of his finger and put it straight into his mouth he found he could feel the metal fillings on his tongue easier than he could feel them on his fingers or see them and the taste of the oil also clued him into the condition of his clutch plates hmm the plates were ok the metal filings were nothing to worry about he was in great shape this motor was holding up excellent he leaned over a bit and looked at the color of the oil with the light behind it then inspected his bellypan big scratches to be sure and a gouge or two that bellypan was working beautifully he remembered the last big hit he took jumping a curb a week ago over by the red market that was that big gouge there on the left he took out his permanent marker and marked it and then redid all the slightly faded marks next to the other big gouges he wanted to make sure he kept track of all of them and keep a close watch on the condition of his pan he wanted to know what he could and couldn t do if he took a chance and took a big hit that got through the pan he wanted to know he slid his stool back and looked around his home a tiny one stall garage is all it was no windows no doors other than the small overhead door several very bright high output fluorescent fixtures were mounted above the bike and on the walls carefully angled and deflected to keep them out of his eyes but offer plenty of light bouncing up off the floor and across the room so he never had to deal with shadows hiding something important from him packed into the very small garage was his support system his tig welder his small lathe his drill press grinders small tool box various hand tools and a very minimal amount of spare parts his wooden workbench was small and purposeful wall space was utilized to hold any scrap and larger tools to keep as much of his floor space open as possible his cot was now folded up and stored underneath the work bench next to his spare motor and small torch tanks there were no decorations save for four pictures on his walls they were placed right above his workbench so that when he sat on his stool next to his bike and looked over the seat towards the workbench he saw the pictures dead center in his vision one was a sharp black and white picture of a p 51 mustang in flight looking like it was doing 6 000 miles an hour when he looked at the photo he feels that he is the pilot he could see in that pilots forward facing gaze the burning focus the intensity he knew it well he can hear the roar of the merlin engine sometimes he wakes up from a dream where he is flying the mustang into combat and he can still hear the engine wailing and the vibration of the guns firing as he sits upright on the cot in the dark and thinks that he was shot down next to that was a color painting of two gudal canal f4 wildcats banking high on a squadron of zero s below them they are blue with white and black us stars on the side one wildcat has oil streaking from under the engine cowl he loves the painting he knows that feeling too feeling like death from above coming down on the enemy high and from behind next to that is a small painting of a fictional train engine pulling a streamlined train he assumes it is fictional because it has smoother and more majestic lines than any train engine he has ever seen he remembers a special woman when he looks at it he thinks of the drive to be the best to conquer to survive and then next to that is an old photograph of a frisco style panhead chopper from a time gone by the chopper is amazingly skinny and the pilot is tucked in tight knees high on frisco pegs elbows tucked in head dipped low body hunched over trying to keep the his weight low and towards the front end peering over the t bars eyes cold with concentration as he wheelies the bike over the crest of a hill in sanfrancisco at what is no doubt a high rate of speed the bike is light and stripped to the absolute minimum he has stared at that photograph millions of times and wanted desperately to meet that chopper pilot and then to run him through the streets of neotokyo and see how he would match up to him he listened to the slow gurgle of the oil falling into the pan as he reached for the spark plug wrench and pulled the boot off the plug he inspected the plug electrode carefully under his magnifying glass looking good he was happy with the burn and thought back over the months and months of careful r d he had to do being careful not to get caught out on the streets with the bike in a poor state of tune he took his time and cleaned the electrode carefully then gapped it open just a tiny bit farther with handmade feeler gauge carefully checked every time he used it with his calipers he inserted the plug back into the head with his eyes closed using both hands to guide himself and then gently turned it in the threads with just two finger tips on the very end of the plug he squeezed his eyes shut tighter and concentrated he felt for the plug to bind for any resistance at all he felt none only when he felt the plug seat did he allow himself to open his eyes the music from the club above him started to pound suddenly the dull thump of the bass cabinets soothed him many times he found out what day it was by the type of electronica that came soaking through the cement floor of the club oh good it was his favorite acid breakbeat must be saturday his forehead tightened suddenly as he thought of the saturday night sunday morning traffic he would have to fight it made it a challenge but he had a bit of an edge slicing through a pack of drunk drivers their unexpected behavior and crazy jerky lane changes gave him the advantage more than once he had shaken a nasty bogey by out swerving the fat tired bike with a sloppy slow handling swingarm frame and watched the exploding pieces of sport bike in his small rear view mirror as he blasted away he rolled his stool along the wooden platform inspecting the safety wire and looking for any unforeseen problems he put his hands on every bolt checked every clamp and ran his hands along the nickel plated frame looking for cracks he spotted a bit of rust and promptly wiped it away with a bit of windex on a clean rag he checked the safety wiring on the axle nuts he spun the rear wheel slowly and checked his chain tension he had already adjusted it last night but it wasn t luck that had kept him alive this long as he rolled the stool back to check the progress of his oil draining the light caught the rainbow colored titanium pipe where he had cut and re welded it to tuck it in tighter to make room for his boot to tuck in closer to the motor the oil was done he told himself he changed the oil way too much it was a waste of precious money every four runs come on who changes oil that much anymore maybe big name factory race teams back in the day but there was no racing anymore anywhere at least not on tracks and not for trophies and not by any rules that would be recognized by the racers of the past money was hard to come by these days and so was oil at least the high performance oil that he ran in his bike he shook his head to clear the doubts he didn t care he wanted to do it and he wasn t going to live forever and he took great pleasure in pouring the fresh oil into this motor he opened the footlocker hidden at the back of the small room under a oilskin tarp and was disappointed to see that he only had 20 quarts left of his special oil he was going to have to talk to the fixer again and see if he could get him stocked back up again he poured the oil into the funnel slowly and admired its honey color he wondered how much longer he could get clean oil he took a break to weigh himself 155 lbs he sighed then ran his hand through his hair it was long enough to shave off there might be a ¼ of a pound he snatched up his clippers and leaned over the small trash can he shaved his head to the scalp and caught himself wondering how much his eyebrows weighed he washed his head off with the hose that was attached to the spicket that sprouted without reason from the middle of the back cement wall man this room was amazing he thought to himself it was one of the most hidden garages in neotokyo he never had to worry about it being discovered and it had all the sweetest luxuries if only it had a bathroom too he took a file to the titanium beartrap foot pegs and made sure the spikes were sharp he need those suckers to bite hard into the soles of his boots he had skipped off a quarter panel of a caprice classic one time when he slipped a foot of the peg in the heat of battle and stomped the concrete at speed that ankle was never right after that day and his shoulder ached whenever he ran up next to a full size chevy he checked his watch and saw he was ahead of schedule good that s the way he liked it he liked the calm quiet careful methodical preparation the relaxation the calm before the run and he liked this time even more because he knew the others would not be relaxing at all probably hadn t all day there were a lot of wolves out there that no doubt got the word that there would be a runner out tonight he liked the thought of them out there all juiced up trying to stay alert after all the hours of being awake and tense sitting and watching or patrolling all tweaked out the crank that they made nowadays didn t work like the stuff back in the 90 s this stuff couldn t keep you going as long as it did back in the day and you got real shaky real shaky if there was such a thing as illegal drugs anymore the cops wouldn t have a hard time picking up the speed junkies just look for the people shaking like a washing machine with too many towels in it no he didn t worry too much about the wolves that were tweaking it was the straight edge wolves that worried him tweakers couldn t even shoot a pistol at you they quit trying years ago pistols cost too much money and they missed every shot sometimes they even shot themselves or their partners and they crashed so often their bikes and their bodies where in horrible shape but the straight edges they were out there too he went back to thinking about the pissed off juicers he smiled he stood up from the stool and ran his hand along the gas tank underneath the aluminum armor plates it was a bright green plastic tank from an old 70 s era japanese dirt bike 3 gallons of weirdness perched atop of his frame a bizarre bulbous shape that was quite a contrast to the straight lines of his rigid frame he ran the tank because it was light held 3 gallons of 120 octane quite nicely took a hit very well without denting or piercing and was the only tank that he knew of that did not rust it didn t hurt matters that it was what the breaker had when he was in the market for a new gas tank he had grown to admire the odd shape of the tank not completely symmetrical and certainly not a traditional motorcycle tank shape more insect than man made he thought of wasps when he looked at it he took a large flathead screwdriver with a cracked wooden handle and blood stains on it and pried off a large scarred up piece of flat aluminum that was glued to the side of the tank he had glued the armor plates onto the tank with something in a tube called liquid nails they didn t make it anymore but he had found some in a store in the middle of the united states when he was running across nebraska that was a long time ago but he had kept a few of the tubes with him all these years and used it sparingly the stuff was nasty this was the 5th time he had replaced his armor plates on the tank and every time he was impressed with the glue he peeled off the three plate s one at a time one on each side that was bent precisely to follow the curve and wrap around the front of tank and then one down the middle like a dash on a fat bob harley tank they left lines of bright green plastic peeking through the dull grey aluminum the old plates had gouges and scrapes and a some serious dents mostly from shotgun pellets one 22 and two 380 dents had motivated him to replace the plates before this run if someone got lucky and got shot into one of those dents he glued the new plates on after cleaning the plastic off and was thinking that maybe he should start doubling up the plates twice the weight he whispered to himself and shook his head he stood back and looked at his bike 198 lbs of steel aluminum plastic rubber and titanium lightest thing on the street that he knew of he had squeezed 60 horsepower out of the honda crf450 single that he had chosen for his attack chopper the motor itself only weighed 65 lbs headwork a cam and a carefully tuned pipe was all that it took one plug one carb one pipe and one purpose to outrun overtake overshoot out accelerate and out last every other bike on the road evade pursue survive that was his motto holeshot after holeshot this bike had proved to be the fastest nastiest most nimble most ferocious and most durable thing out there it wasn t quiet many wolves knew the sound of the snarling thumper by heart but then it didn t matter if they heard him coming or not it wasn t subtle or sophisticated but many wolves had learned the hard way that their precious fuel injected race bred superbikes didn t work so well in the nasty nighttime streets of neotokyo they were a dying breed the sportbikes of old so many of them had been wadded up or slammed into the back of a car at triple digit speeds that they were quickly becoming a thing of the past the wolves were starting to figure out why the smart runners always ran rigid frames the razor sharp handling the fast lane changes the connectedness that the rider felt to the bike almost like it was hard wired into their brain s cortex the low center of gravity the ability to drift the bike the superior behavior on lose surfaces the swingarm was dead long live the attack chopper this bike was the culmination of years of building and refining his ideas he had been running for a long time he was one of the lucky ones he was able to cut his teeth back when running wasn t so dangerous people weren t as desperate for money as they were now the wolves treated it more as a sport than as a m...
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