Let's see your CB1100 out on the road!

[Gone in 60]

Alprider, those pictures just gave me an idea... Mrs. Gone picked boxes of fruit at her Mom's yesterday, and they are cluttering up the house. I think this would be not only a more practical use for them, but decorative as well!
On the way home from work yesterday, I stopped by The Bike Shed in L.A.'s arts district to see what was what, chat with other riders and get my now customary iced coffee to wake me up for the rest of the ride home.

I parked next to the Guzzi Eldorado I submitted for the monthly photo challenge, then noticed that the traffic on nearby Sixth Street waiting to try out the new bridge was very light.

The new Sixth Street Bridge over the L.A. River has been quite newsworthy since its opening, as it immediately became the place for everyone's 15 minutes of internet fame - hooligan bikers, street takeovers, people climbing up the looping spans... a few times a local barber set up a chair and gave haircuts in traffic. It's been closed many times already, has been defaced with skidmarks and spray paint, and is proof that we can't have nice things.

Since I hadn't ridden over it yet, and traffic was light, I figured I'd give it a try. It's around the corner and down the street from The Bike Shed. As I neared, I heard a weird swarming sound. A group of about 40 little Taco minibikes was buzzing up Sixth to cross the bridge, so I hung back to let them all go by, not wanting to be in the middle of their unlicensed mayhem.

Even so, one late-comer was behind me when I did cross, with his mini bike sawing away. Despite the rather empty bridge, there were motor officers at both ends, and an LAPD copter lazily circling overhead. The officer on the downtown side of the bridge had just pulled over someone on the bridge for what looked like an illegal turn, so he chose to ignore the cacophony of the Taco swarm as it rode past him.

The bridge surface is covered in skidmarks and donut marks, and hastily-installed temporary fencing now lines the walkways on both sides to try to keep people from climbing up the circular spans.

I posted a video of the crossing here: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCGu7CzKwh4&t=19s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCGu7CzKwh4&t=19s