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Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Friday, June 3, 2011
The Briggs Chopper...
Went to IA with Drew back in '05 to pick up this little gem. A CB750 Chassis with a Briggs & Stratton motor in it! Quite a toy. The guy we bought it from said it was ridden in parades and such. He was a machinist and it had some nice pieces on it that he'd made....unfortunately no close up pics of those. I just came across these pics today on an old jump drive, I'd forgotten they'd existed until now.
These days the CB750 powerplant that is supposed to be nestled in the cradle has returned.
After a few greenbacks were exchanged and some manual labor this bike is now Bill's chopper!
Dig that.
These days the CB750 powerplant that is supposed to be nestled in the cradle has returned.
After a few greenbacks were exchanged and some manual labor this bike is now Bill's chopper!
Dig that.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
This Bike for Sale
Funky Digger Dealio dubbed The Praying Mantis
...and then click the link below the pic of this bike.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
New Tat Zappery
Our good buddy Duane "the Gent" Ackley paid us a visit from Toledo, OH this week and I was able to coordinate a time with him to get some work done that we'd been trying to get to for some time. I got home about noon on Sunday after riding up north for an overnight shindig at my buddy Adam's house. Just before getting in the shower, standing in the laundry room in my underpants with a straight line to the open screen door, I about had the shit scared outta me when Duane appeared in the doorway! He had just ridden the 6 or so hours to my house from his. Glad I didn't go commando from the laundry room to the bathroom as I commonly do!We had a chance to catch up and do some grillin' and made plans around his other tattoo appointments to fit me in. So wednesday 5/25 I met him at Altered Egos (Champaign, IL) to get my portrait of the rulin' Gene Vincent. I'm very stoked with how it turned out and look forward to more work from Duane in the future.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Scrap's '78 CB750 Chop
Only a little over a month until the North Carolina meet for the Hondachopper.com forum, known as the World Honda Chopper Meet. I went down do Chuck-town yesterday to nurse my hangover and spend the afternoon with Scrap and Car and the "Scraphous Special"
Tires & tubes = check
Runing wires = check
Carbs & V stacks = check
After I headed out, Car threw the existing stacks from Steel Dragon Performance, that were too long, on the lathe and made those sum bitches fit.
So, now to tighten up/finalize the wiring and a few other odds and ends (such as fork stops, haha) and then it'll be time to make the ole gal chug-a-lug some overpriced hi-test!!!!
Tires & tubes = check
Runing wires = check
Carbs & V stacks = check
After I headed out, Car threw the existing stacks from Steel Dragon Performance, that were too long, on the lathe and made those sum bitches fit.
So, now to tighten up/finalize the wiring and a few other odds and ends (such as fork stops, haha) and then it'll be time to make the ole gal chug-a-lug some overpriced hi-test!!!!
the freakin weekend
Lots of rain this past weekend. Spent friday night assembling goodies for a spring kick off cookout saturday night...which also doubled as Kari's birthday party. I rubbed about thirty chicken legs with a dry rub friday night. Half were with a Nah'leans spicy mix of seasonings and the other half were a mix of a more mild Polish poultry rub and then some with the old standby, Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce. These were put on the smoker with a pork tenderloin for about 4 hours prior to the party people showing up. We also made up some chicken ka-bobs with onions, peppers, shrooms, clementines and tomatoes. Made a few pans of sliced potatos smothered with garlic salt and butter as well. In addition, our guests brought misc things too. Like Melanie's best homemade cookies ever to grace the earth. Unfortunately no known pics of the feast exist. As mentioned it rained all fuckin' weekend so our "bonfire" was reduced to sippin' suds & passing around the 'shine jar around indoors, splitting the party between the garage and the kitchen. All in all the party went off though and everyone had fun. Now we've gotta have another to burn up all the wood and pallets I aquired last week!
Friday, May 13, 2011
Bill's new ride
Dirty picked up this '68 FLH down Virginia way. All or mostly stock and he is now the third owner. Score!
We'll have some better, more extensive pics besides this crummy cellie-tellie pic soon....drool on.
Friday, May 6, 2011
West Coast Cohort's Handy Work
Randy's been trying his hand at some leatherwork and from the looks of it, well peep these pics:
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Devil's Playground/ Vegas Crew
Just another tech day for AJ and his band of degenerates...
(scroll to bottom of the page to pause the So'full playlist before watching the video)
(scroll to bottom of the page to pause the So'full playlist before watching the video)
Monday, April 11, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Beer Breed’s "North Drinks With the South 2"
by Randy Owens
Saturday April 2, 2011 my good friend Jack and I got on our bikes and rode north from San Diego to Stone Breweries in Escondido, Ca to meet up with some other like minded dirtbags for a day of riding, drinking, and camping.
If you read my write up of the Slab City Riot 2 you know that Jack is a badass who will ride her sportster anywhere, with little more than the clothes on her back and a GI woodland cammo poncho for a bedroll. What is the "North Drinks With the South" you ask? Well it’s the brain child of Atom Rotten of http://www.beerbreed.com/ who is also the loose organizer of our little semi-weekly Wednesday night ride here in SD (we’re not big on schedules ).
The idea is simple: There are a bunch of us chopper jockeys scattered around San Diego and Orange County and Atom wanted a reason for us all to get together ride and drink so the "North Drinks with the South" was born. The first event was held right after the new year and was over on the beach, but for this one Atom wanted us a bit more off the grid, and boy did he accomplish that, but more on that in a bit.
So we met a few other people at Stone had a quick beer and hit the road to Ramona for the next gas stop, then it was on to the twisty mountain roads of Julian another gas stop to meet up with the boys from Biltwell and some folks from further up north. After topping off the tanks at $4.30 a gallon we hit the Sunrise Hwy headed south. This road is amazing! Quiet mountain road with very little traffic and lots of scenery. There is an old Lodge here that has been open since 1926 were we all stopped and had a beer and rested up for the next leg of our journey, 11.5 miles of rutted washboard dirt road! Our final destination was the McCain Valley Lark Canyon camp grounds just east of Boulevard, Ca.
Now Atom had mentioned this dirt road before but being the salesman that he is he down played it just a bit: “Three miles of the ride into the camp ground is on a manicured dirt road so don’t freak out”, that was his story when he first posted the plan on ChopCult.com. A few weeks later it was like this: “The camp ground is remote down a 5 mile fire road.” No big deal. Day before the ride he posts this: “Follow it under the freeway until you come to where it turns into a dirt road. You will then ride almost 11.5 miles on the dirt road to Cottonwood Camp Grounds and go left over the tiny stream and you will run straight into our site.”
Now that dirt road is 11.5 miles long and we are crossing a stream! HAHAHA, nice. I spoke with Atom on the phone the day of the ride and asked him about that magic growing dirt road and his answer was simply “I want people to come”, I love this guy!
The dirt road was in pretty good shape for the most part although there were a few good sized washouts, one of which attempted to swallow my bike. Only one guy went down in the sand sustaining a bent shifter peg and some broken turn signals (Guess it’s time to chop that sportster, eh DD?). The stream was nice on the way into the campground as it washed some of the dust off of us from that 11.5 miles.
As soon as the bikes were shutdown the beverages started to flow and the party kicked into high gear. We had it all, a guitar sing along, a drunken ranting Reverend, stick-on cop mustaches, all the politically incorrect jokes you could ever want and a seemingly endless supply of beer. The party went on into the wee hours of the morning with me and one other lasting till after 4:30am. Not sure how everyone else got to sleep with me and Marc yelling from the fire pit calling them all pussies.
A damn good overnighter! Thanks to Atom for putting this together. Let this be a lesson to anyone reading this, you don’t need some big national event to go out and ride to, just some friends and a campground far away on the map is all you need to have one hell of a good time.
Most of the pics are from Bill at Biltwell or Atom of Beer Breed, I forgot my camera...
Saturday April 2, 2011 my good friend Jack and I got on our bikes and rode north from San Diego to Stone Breweries in Escondido, Ca to meet up with some other like minded dirtbags for a day of riding, drinking, and camping.
If you read my write up of the Slab City Riot 2 you know that Jack is a badass who will ride her sportster anywhere, with little more than the clothes on her back and a GI woodland cammo poncho for a bedroll. What is the "North Drinks With the South" you ask? Well it’s the brain child of Atom Rotten of http://www.beerbreed.com/ who is also the loose organizer of our little semi-weekly Wednesday night ride here in SD (we’re not big on schedules ).
The idea is simple: There are a bunch of us chopper jockeys scattered around San Diego and Orange County and Atom wanted a reason for us all to get together ride and drink so the "North Drinks with the South" was born. The first event was held right after the new year and was over on the beach, but for this one Atom wanted us a bit more off the grid, and boy did he accomplish that, but more on that in a bit.
So we met a few other people at Stone had a quick beer and hit the road to Ramona for the next gas stop, then it was on to the twisty mountain roads of Julian another gas stop to meet up with the boys from Biltwell and some folks from further up north. After topping off the tanks at $4.30 a gallon we hit the Sunrise Hwy headed south. This road is amazing! Quiet mountain road with very little traffic and lots of scenery. There is an old Lodge here that has been open since 1926 were we all stopped and had a beer and rested up for the next leg of our journey, 11.5 miles of rutted washboard dirt road! Our final destination was the McCain Valley Lark Canyon camp grounds just east of Boulevard, Ca.
Now Atom had mentioned this dirt road before but being the salesman that he is he down played it just a bit: “Three miles of the ride into the camp ground is on a manicured dirt road so don’t freak out”, that was his story when he first posted the plan on ChopCult.com. A few weeks later it was like this: “The camp ground is remote down a 5 mile fire road.” No big deal. Day before the ride he posts this: “Follow it under the freeway until you come to where it turns into a dirt road. You will then ride almost 11.5 miles on the dirt road to Cottonwood Camp Grounds and go left over the tiny stream and you will run straight into our site.”
Now that dirt road is 11.5 miles long and we are crossing a stream! HAHAHA, nice. I spoke with Atom on the phone the day of the ride and asked him about that magic growing dirt road and his answer was simply “I want people to come”, I love this guy!
The dirt road was in pretty good shape for the most part although there were a few good sized washouts, one of which attempted to swallow my bike. Only one guy went down in the sand sustaining a bent shifter peg and some broken turn signals (Guess it’s time to chop that sportster, eh DD?). The stream was nice on the way into the campground as it washed some of the dust off of us from that 11.5 miles.
As soon as the bikes were shutdown the beverages started to flow and the party kicked into high gear. We had it all, a guitar sing along, a drunken ranting Reverend, stick-on cop mustaches, all the politically incorrect jokes you could ever want and a seemingly endless supply of beer. The party went on into the wee hours of the morning with me and one other lasting till after 4:30am. Not sure how everyone else got to sleep with me and Marc yelling from the fire pit calling them all pussies.
Most of the pics are from Bill at Biltwell or Atom of Beer Breed, I forgot my camera...
Weird Oh's
Apparently Taco Bell reissued some Weird Oh's finger boards and stickers to give away with their kids meal sometime last Summer. Well according to my buddy Clint, apparently Slidell, LA T. Bell's are still giving em out!!!
Anyway, here are some O.G. Weird Oh pics submitted by Willy:
Anyway, here are some O.G. Weird Oh pics submitted by Willy:
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