Memorial Day Weekend

Took off on the XS scoot to L-Ville Sunday afternoon after waking up at noon from the night before. Nice backroad three hour tour each way. Bike ran great. Caught tail end of Beatersville Car show and snapped a few of the the couple bikes and cars I liked. Hope you like. Sorry about crappy pics: Its a cell fone!

Gasser Wagon, nice wheels.

Perfect.

I really like these two T's Esp the blue one. I like these nice finished period style rods more than most all rats. A good rat is great, but too often its an excuse to not finish your car!

 Clean Scoot

Woke up this morning and went to the Flea Mkt at the fairgrounds with some old friends.

Found some cool junk.  $30 Well spent

Pan on the ground

Russ's 1930 Tudor

This is my buddy Russ's Tudor. I friggin love it. I think he did a real nice job keeping this car looking like it came out of the field. He's an avid fisher, thus the shifter. He also pounded out the seat backs to match the tractor seat bottoms. Fuckin Killer. 

Panhead

Here's the latest mockup of the Panhead. I didn't have the spring fork rods at the time and the sissybar is a little too far kicked back, but its starting to take shape. 

Land of the Rising Sun

Made this seat for my buddy's CB750 over the last couple days. 

April is Filing Time!

Well if you are like me, you tell the IRS to go fuck themselves. 

But that doesn't mean you don't have to file. 

This is how you turn the neck of your orig BT frame into a pile of shavings. 

Step 1: drill a bunch of holes around the perimeter.

Step 2: knock out whats left with a hammer and punch. 

Step 3: Spend four hours straight with a file and Voila! A nicely shaped orifice appears!

This is what you end up with: a pile of shavings that from 64 year old metal. Great for many uses, like making you sneeze for two days because you weren't about to wear your respirator for four hours, right? 

If you're really hard core, you grab a piece of steel oil line and toot a line of the old Harley's skeletal structure just to say you did it. 

Springer Gold

Alright, this is how you turn junk into good shit. This Offset springer showed up on my doorstep two days ago out of the blue! Ok I bought in on ebay, but nonetheless, I was stoked to see the package out front. So as you can see from the before photos, it needed a little help. So I performed some surgery, massaged it a little, and transplanted some new sleeves with a little artistic flair. 

As you can see, turned out pretty good, i'm stoked. Just waiting on the front leg to show up and we will be rollin! (or maybe Springin!)

A friend of mine brought over some old chopper mags today while I was in the garage and I picked this one out as my favorite. Denver's Choppers employee's personal scoot. Sweet. Hate to say I'm probably gonna copy the paintjob somewhat. Now I want to build my shovel like this! Dammit Dane, why'd you have to bring this shit over!

Local Legend

Today's post is dedicated to Dan Burns, a man I'm proud to call my friend. He is a master fabricator and welder by trade, but has also accomplished some impressive racing feats in his day. A true original crusty old fart with a heart of gold (he takes care of all the stray kitties that wander thru the welding shop's door.)

 First pic is of Dan on his Norton that he won the National Championship on in 1963. He was 21 years old.

 I think the class was 650cc.  He told me the plaque he's holding is equivalent to a Wally today. 

Second pic is of his National Champ Dirt Drag rail from the 1970's. I'm not sure about the distance, but I think he said 400 ft in 3.84 seconds at 147 MPH with roostertails over the Sun! Badass. 

One of the best compliments I ever got was when he came by the shop as I was building my Sidehack for the KZ1000 and he gave me an emphatic "Cool!" Coming from someone who has done and made so much cool shit in his lifetime, this was all the compliment I needed. 

Thanks for helping me on many projects over the years Dan. 

RESPECT

Daytona 1937-1938