To Hell With Tomorrow, Our Bag Is Today

After hitting the local bike night, tonight should be fun with some polishing, chopper movies, and some devil in a bottle.  I was going to sell one of the Finch lights, keep one, and make some profit, but there's no way I can part with one and separate the pair.

Joe gave us a little history on this picture tonight, and man it doesn't get any fuckin cooler, let me tell ya! 

Cal's just carrying on family tradition like a pro, and man his Sportster rules!

Get weird.

Rigid Frank #3

Rigid Frank #2

Someone on the Jockeyjournal snagged this perfect picture of a perfect bike.

Born Free Universal Rigid

I saw this Born Free 3 pic on the Dice blog, http://dicemagazine.blogspot.com/.  See the fender on that gorgeous gray pan?  It's the universal rigid Crazy Frank flat fender!  Man, you never ever see these things, and to see one used on such a beautiful build, instead of on a shelf, made my day.  That seat really is perfect too.  Damn, fuckin cool shit.  I need some more pictures of this bike; if anyone has any info or pics, hit me up: dripshovel@gmail.com

Electric Kool-Aid Soft Parade Rickey Farm Liquid Light

Turn on.

Ride in.

Camp out.

Good Shit Going Down...

First off, things are coming together on the narrowed 41mm front end.  Just have to get the internals and figure out a headlight setup and what type of spacing will be required on the wheel.  Gotta love those '49-only top caps.  Ken's also got some 4" over 35mm tubes in the works for his shovel.

Out of nowhere, Cal's ironhead turned into a '70's dream this weekend!  It's actually really crazy that he had the tank, I had the fender, we realized it, and reunited these two the way they were meant to be!

Definitely will be more info on this topic here:  http://captcals.blogspot.com/

If anyone's feelin' strange and gets an urge, they can be super cool and print out this 8x10 flyer!

Not really sure why I think Rip Van Winkle is so cool.

Great weekend once again, and Strange Days is just over one month away!

Rhinebeck Swap #2

This old knuck had to be my favorite bike of the weekend; perfect in every way.

Sounded as good as it looks cruising by.

Evel stunts.

I did pretty well on the parts side of things, but the pair of old Finch pawn lights were my main score.

Overall this weekend was a fuckin blast.  Our bikes did not let us down, we drank enough for a month, people hit jumps, and the rain held out for the ride home.  Couldn't ask for more.  It's always good seeing familiar faces, hanging with friends, and making new ones.  Check these good dudes out:  http://paradisechoppers.com/

Rhinebeck AMCA Swap 2011

Patty sitting on her first big twin while waiting for Ken to get his bike fixed and arrive, so we could hit the road.

The ride there was beautiful and the bikes ran good; then we met up with the early crew, set up camp, got the beers flowing, and started rummaging through parts!

Billy rolled in with some carb troubles on his Ironhead, but they were quickly taken care of with all the readily available parts.  This would prove to be minor compared to his stunt later in the night...

The bikes love socializing.

Gorgeous knuckle chop built back in the day.

Ken's shovel parked in the chopper show.

http://www.leadfistcycles.blogspot.com/?zx=225c9e7c697a43e0

Fuck Yeah

Some awesome reading material from nuts who know what's up.

http://www.showclassmag.com/

Strange Happenings

Topher's goin' at it!  313 Paint is rockin' and rollin' on the raffle tank, and I can't wait to see what's in store for our eyes and minds when this thing's done!

I scored these little beauties to top off my dream front end. 

Two awesome bands that are booked so far for Stange Days:  Uncle Shoehorn, and Meat Planet.  This is guaranteed to be a great time.

http://www.facebook.com/UncleShoehorn

http://www.meatplanet.org/fr_meatplanet.cfm

Sean and His Bro's Bikes

Retrofit Garage Sale

Besides the endless drinking and BBQing this Memorial Day weekend, we stopped by Cal and his Pop's place for the Retrofit garage sale.  Lot's of good shit and good people.  The bikes decided to chill in the yard, which made for some cool pics.  (WAY better ones here! - http://captcals.blogspot.com/) 

Joe's Pan:  the epitome of cool.  He hooked me up with some 4 over 41mm tubes, which are perfect for the front end I'm building.  Thanks again!

Then some of us took a cruise out to the Rickey Farm, the picturesque site for Strange Days.  The bikes ran great and the food and beer were abundant, definitely an awesome Memorial Day weekend of riding and chilling with good people. 

Ride to Skate 5 / shake down run

So friday evening i got the shovel back together after a rear sprocket problem, i just finished the build on this gal tuesday, not enough cash for a rear brake front only haaa, I put about 20 miles on her. So i guess Ride to skate 5 would be a perfect shake down run! I rode out to Nicks place in Bath, P.A friday night and met up with him after the Delware water gap around 11:30pm, Riding thru a star lit night in Nj then into fog and some rain in Pa it felt great to be cruising on this death trap but hey i made the first 70 mile trek to Bath


Soo Saturday morning we got a early start and met up with Nicks brotha Michael and their buddy Michael at the garage somewhere in the sticks of P A. Somehow are early start turned into a lane splitting engine mis firing race down Broad St 15 mins to late arrival at FDR.

michaels sporty

nicks softail

2 miles down the road from fdr and the shovel couldnt stop crackling and poping so we pulled over, turned out my point gap closed up on me so instead of being 18 thousands it was more like 2 thousands of a gap, match book feeler gauge later and as Willie Nelson sang..... on the road again

we made it down to the skate park in baltimore to find out everyone left to go and party, hmm not a bad idea so we went to get groovey are selfs, got to drinking beers, talking about nonsense checking out some rad moon machines and of course ended up at a strip club! Rise and shine Sunday morning and it was a great ride thru the Omish country!! After splitting up with the crew up towards Bath P.A. I was solo goin back to the NJ. all in all it was close to a 500 mile weekend and the budget build shovel made it!!!! Great weekend of bikes, miles, sunshine, and beers.

Its not the destination, but the journey in between

headlight mount & sissy bar

finished the metal work on the headlight bracket, started with half inch square stock gave it some twisting and shouting, welded the 3/8 spacers to the end of the square stock and the headlight bolt mount was 2 pieces of angle, after couple hours of welding and grind work it turned into this creation!!!

made the sissy bar out of 1/2 inch round stock, started as a 10 foot piece, Joe ( captain cals pops) helped me out by doing the first bend at the local steel yard on his break so i can fit it in my 74 dodge dart. after couple measurement and making a jig on a plate of 1/4 inch steel i fired up the magical wand and made the bends

used another magical wand to cut out the mounting plates