My idea is to purchase a used yellow school bus (already half of the team colors), and convert it into a Putney/West Hill racing team vehicle that can be used to transport bikes, equipment, and racers to events (road races, crits, mt. bike races, cross races). We can paint it to match the jersey. Putney on the back, West Hill on the front, Putney/West Hill Race Team on the sides, with the shop phone number and website address. Take out a few rows of seats and install bike racks on the floor, bolt a set of rollers or two to the floor, hang a curtain for a changing area, park it in the field to be seen from I-91 when not in use to help drivers spot the shop. Not a full size bus, but not a converted van either -- mid-size. Preferably diesel. I am checking with DMV to see if the driver would need a CDL - probably not if used for strictly recreational purposes and noncommercial uses.
Here is a link to a possible bus: http://www.buscrazy.net/upload/L1745.htm
Any interest? Any ideas how to raise the money to buy one?
Will.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
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I gotta start racing again, just so I can ride the bus with Buser and Will.
Deano: YOU'RE EITHER ON the bus, or you're off the bus," became the metaphor for Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on the long and now famous cross-country journey in the psychedelic bus, Furthur.
I am having a little go around with DMV - their initial reaction is the driver needs a CDL - I am trying to convince them that if we install a bath (a 5 gallon bucket), eating and sleeping area, then its a motor home and exempt from the CDL requirements. I will keep you posted.
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