Hello Race Fans:

The 6th annual Death Race is quickly approaching.

This is an annual outlaw desert event where riders will see their bikes disintegrate beneath them as they approach speeds of 50 mph.

To avoid the heat from coming down us, we have rented a race track for the day. Anyone and everyone is invited to participate. Death Race is open to all gas and electric motorized bicycles. Pedals and a motor, you're in.

Safety equipment, i.e. helmets, boots, knee and elbow pads, are highly recommended as well as mandatory. A helpful tip to racer's looking for first place on the podium, races are won by those who fall least.

Death Race 2010 will be held at P1 Circuit Race Track at the Pima County Fairgrounds in Tucson, AZ on Sunday April 18th, 2010.

The entry fee, which covers insurance and track rental, is $15. Riders can begin to register at 12 pm and spend the afternoon running the course at their leisure.

Death Race begins promptly at 3pm with 2 30-minute qualifying heats and then the final Race to the Death.

This is a premiere event and the largest of its kind held anywhere in the nation.

The winner of Death Race not only wins prizes, but gets full bragging rights for the year and a prominent spot on the Spooky Tooth website.

This is an excellent opportunity for manufacturers and vendors to promote their products by placing first in Death Race 2010.

Bring the grill! Last year we hosted 100 people from as far away as Salt Lake, Austin, and SoCal. The most unique form of racing in the country and the funnest spectator sport to smear the pavement, Death Race!
See you there...

P1 Race Track Aerial View

P1 Circuit Race Track is the latest and greatest karting race course in the United States and regularly hosts professional Supermoto and Karting races.The course is a replica of the famous Suzuka Kart Circuit in Suzuka, Japan.  Known by professional kart drivers as one of the best circuit's in the world at 10m X 1264m. From what we understand about the track, there are several long chicanes, the turns are sharp and can be very technical. More information at www.p1kartcircuit.com

• Length: 0.7986 Miles
• Turns: 13
• Track Record (counter-clockwise): 48.964 sec Bud Grossenbacher 03/15/08
• Track Record (clockwise): 47.028 sec Jordy Vorrath 04/06
• Width: 34 ft.
• Elevation change: 17 ft.
• Elevation: 3200 ft.
• Longest straight: 680 ft.

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2009 Gallery

Past Death Race Winners

Death Race 2009 Winner - Joey from Austin, TX
Self Prepared

2nd Place Death Race 2009 - Vince Pellegrino
Self Prepared

3rd Place Death Race 2009 - David Fair
Self Prepared

2009 Halloween Race Winner - David Fair
Self Prepared

2008 Death Race Winner - Happy
prepared by Happy Time Cycles

2007 Winner - Happy
prepared by independent mechanic

2006 Death Race Winner - Bryce Myhre
prepared by Spooky Tooth

2005 Death Race Winner - #11 Nicole Dejiacomo
prepared by Spooky Tooth

150 miles per gallon at a steady 30 miles per hour. The brand new mini 4 Stroke 4G Hua Sheng 142F timing belt driven motorized bicycle from Spooky Tooth Cycles.

The Nomad Motorized Bicycle

This month, in homage to brave and adventurous Nomads everywhere, we'd like to introduce the new 49cc Nomad and 4G Belt Drive Bicycle Engine. 

Spooky Tooth's 49cc Nomad comprises the best technology for motor bicycling that we've ever been able to offer.  A clean 150 mpg without pedaling and an all day cruising speed of 30 mph.

This new 4 stroke bicycle engine kit is available for $350.  The reverse engineered Hua Sheng 142F engine is an exact reproduction of the original Honda GXH50 but at $200 less than the trademarked name.

On The Road With Nomads

The Background for this Story:

I, Heather, worked with Spooky Tooth Cycles for 3 years doing everything from answering the telephone to wrenching on the bikes.  Callie and I met through a mutual friend in the spring of 2009.  We got along so well we decided to meet back up in the summer and satiate our wanderlust together.  I left Spooky Tooth Cycles in July of 2009 to travel with Callie.  Roland and I kept in touch throughout the many months that Callie and I meandered around through the states of Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California, and Oregon.  In the beginning of November Roland told me all about a new 4 stroke motorized bicycle prototype he designed.  For the years that I worked with Spooky Tooth Cycles we were consistently trying to find or create a quality built, long lasting, and affordable 4 stroke bicycle engine, and now Roland had finally done it.  This was monumental.  Roland asked me if I would test the new prototype by riding it around Arizona and documenting my travels.  Without hesitation I agreed to do the trip.  I told Callie all about the conversation that I had with Roland and she got as excited as I did, and she decided to go with me.  We both were as eager to go on this motorized bicycle trip as we were to leave western Oregon in November.  Callie and I arrived in Bisbee in late November.  We set up the bikes to fit us, and picked out the gear and tools that we would need for the trip.  Once the bikes were ready, we spent several days riding them around the old mining town of Bisbee.  We found and climbed the steepest hills in the area and explored some of the old rutted dirt wagon trails.  Finally, Callie, me, and the bikes were ready to start our Nomad motorized bicycle adventure.

December 1st

Callie and I left the copper colored mountains of Bisbee, Arizona on the coldest day of the year so far.  We rode out of town on the 2 lane winding Highway 80 towards Sierra Vista.  It took us about an hour to travel the 30 miles to Sierra Vista. The first hour of riding, Callie and I were very uncomfortable, not from ill preparation of the bikes, but rather, from the devastating realization that we were not prepared for the dry coldness of 30mph winds rushing through our many layers of clothing and chilling us to the bone.  Once we got to Sierra Vista, we ground our teeth and pounded our feet straight into the local Wal-mart for the thickest pair of thermals and thickest full face masks that we could find and bought them.  With our new gear on we soaked up the warm sunshine until we started to sweat on the sidewalk outside of Wal-mart.

We left Sierra Vista on Highway 92 headed towards Huachuca City.  Riding motorized bicycles on the highway takes twice as long to get somewhere than a car would.  Normally this would be a welcome departure from the normalcy of a car, or as Robert Persig refers to it in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, "more television".  But this was different, the cold today was bitter and dissettling, even with our new found gear.  We stopped in Whetstone to fill up on that precious liquid that makes the modern world what it is - gasoline.  My second lesson of the trip, after learning how to dress properly in winter while riding a motorized bicycle in a southwestern desert, occurred while attempting to pour gasoline into a quart sized plastic bottle for emergency fuel reserves.  My second lesson learned - the odds of getting gasoline splashed back into your face are really high even if you are taking extreme care in avoiding splash back while filling up a quart sized plastic bottle with gasoline.  My suggestion - Don't do it!  We left Whetstone at sunset and we knew we were in for a cold ride ahead.  We headed towards Sonoita on Highway 92. As the sun drifted downward, the slightest changes in temperature became more noticeable.  The quiet hum of the engines became a ceaseless ringing as the chilly night rolled on mile after mile. It was our first day on the road and we were beat down by starting too late in the day and from a lack of preparation of the cold air.  We slowed down onto the side of Highway 83 and pushed the bikes into the brush in order to set up camp for the night. 

December 2nd

After waking, Callie and I brewed herbal tea and cooked quick oats over a small pit fire in the desert off Highway 83.  The sky was clear and sunny; the air was cold and dry.  We looked over our Arizona map and discussed our route for the day.  Once our route was decided, we broke down camp, packed up our bikes, and we were on the road again.  We rode north on Highway 83 towards the heavily traveled, trans-southwest Interstate 10.  As we approached the on ramp to Interstate 10, I began to feel a bit nervous about riding the shoulder alongside 80mph traffic.  I kept thinking to myself as we rode west on the interstate towards the massive sprawling metropolis of Tucson that if we survived this interstate ride, I wouldn’t be traveling on any interstate on a bicycle, motorized or not, in the future.  I had previously lived in Tucson for many years so I knew the area well and had many friends that still lived there.  We exited off of the interstate headed towards downtown Tucson where a close friend of mine lived.  We would be sleeping warm in the comfort of the indoors tonight. 

December 3rd - December 6th

Callie and I arrived in Tucson in time to thoroughly enjoy being inside a warm house while a wet and bitter cold winter storm passed over the northern Sonoran desert. We decided it was best to stay in Tucson over the next several days to acquire some much needed warmer gear and to let the storm pass on. We scoured the local Tucson thrift stores in search of the warmest most weather resistant clothing we could find. In our scouring, we found exactly what we needed to stay warm and dry throughout our trip. Our daily wear now consisted of knee high thick wool socks, a layer of polyester blend medium weight top and bottom thermals, a second top and bottom wool layer, a third wind and water resistant wool filled jumpsuit, a facemask, gloves, mid calf steel toed boots, and of course, a very warm hat. The day before we planned to head out, I changed the oil and throughly inspected both bikes to ensure that they were in good riding condition. We were ready to ride on.

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TO BE CONTINUED...

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