From Denny:
This time of the day was my favorite out on the salt...On the starting line right as the sun was coming up with mountains looming in the distance, and a clean white track ahead. Quiet and still for a little while longer. 75 days....
I am continuing to work daily on my race bike to get it ready for Bonneville Speed Week 2011, and as stoked as I am about it I don't want to clutter up our blog with updates every day so I started a build (or re-build) thread on Chop Cult, you can check it out HERE if you are interested in following it! If you haven't checked out Chop Cult make sure you do, it is a pretty cool forum for choppers and bikes in general run by our friends at Biltwell Inc.
Just last week I brought my race bike over to the new shop. Pretty late in the game (less than 3 months to Bonneville) I know, but between the holidays, our big move, the EDR and other big changes and projects in the work (Just wait!!!) I just didn't have time to get working on it. The great thing that came out of that break was a real excitement to get to work and a LIST of ideas for this season. I didn't hesitate once I got it on the lift to start stripping off the old hard tail, oil tank, primary cover, fender etc.
Some thing in store......a new 6" over David Bird hard tail for a little more room, re-worked rearsets (back by the axle) a new design oil tank, a full aluminum rear fender, a rad polished flat track primary cover (this is taking some work with the racing belt drive, but it is way too cool not to use!), a new exhaust, and a partial fairing. That is probably leaving off about 20 more changes as well as re-working all the little things I ran out of time for last year since I built this in less than 4 months! Stay tuned for some updates...
80 Days and Counting until 2011 Bonneville Speed Week!
Special thanks to Marco Costiglio for giving us such a great review in this month's issue of Iron Horse! As with all of his articles it is extremely well crafted and features a review of English 101, English 102, MIG Welding Fundamentals, and TIG Welding Fundamentals. I want to say that all the comments he made regarding these are absolutely true! He also has a few statements in there that gave me a pretty good laugh, such as David Bird having "one of the best mustaches since Tom Selleck starred as Magnum P.I."! Thanks again Marco and everyone check this issue out if you can!
What motorcycle-riding wild man doesn't like free stickers? Perhaps it is a throwback to our neanderthal heritage; plastering your garage with chopper stickers is akin to painting mammoths on your cave wall. Here is how you could end up with some free Lowbrow Customs stickers in your mailbox:
I headed down to Columbus yesterday for the first Pinned! show held in Columbus Ohio along with our friends Greg and Tim. It ended up being a great day weather wise sunny and in the low 80's which was tremendous luck as there have been about 2 days without rain this whole month!
I met up with Kareem who put the event on. He did a great job, the event featured about 7 live bands, the PBR truck, a roach coach making what I heard were good burgers, and a bunch of local vendors including Josh from Old School Helmets.
There were a bunch of great bikes and groups of people coming and going all day, some hot rods as well and a couple real jems including this rare 70's trike and this V-Twin Royal Enfield (that's right they never made a production model, I have a couple more photos and some more info on it I will feature in a future blog)
Awards were given out in several categories as well as prizes from some of the sponsors.
This was a fun event and a great turnout for the first year, good job Kareem and crew, we hope to see you next year!
"Run what ya brung Scramble Races are coming to Riverside, CA! Sign up today to race! A class for every bike - including Modern support class. It is $40 to enter, $20 for each additional class and includes a t-shirt (pick it up day of the race!), price increases after June 7th. "
I am just going to do a blog on this, due to the huge demand we sold out of these tanks pretty quick last time and had a couple weeks shipping delays, but all the Cleveland CycleWerks tanks are back in stock! Get 'em HERE!
Pinned is coming up this weekend in Columbus Ohio! Check it out if you can, bikes, bands, trophies, I hear a pinup contest.... and who knows what other mayhem (those Ohio types are a surly bunch). Check out their FB page HERE!
Yes this picture says it all......Bros being Bros. (I am pretty sure Bill or Wes may have some incriminating photos of me, but this was too good not to post!) This is one of hundreds of photos Ava and I took on the 2011 EDR, check em out HERE in our Flickr album! Thanks to our friends at Biltwell for putting on another amazing event!
I have been driving cross country with Ava as my passenger towing some bikes out for the El Diablo Run and we have hit crazy thunderstorms, freezing temperatures, and insane winds. Pretty much the reasons I have not posted a blog since I left! Monday morning in Dallas Texas I changed my Jeep's oil in a thunderstorm in a driveway, Not fun! Halfway through the day well into west Texas we finally hit the good weather and made some time, so much in fact I am sitting in a hotel room in Phoenix AZ writing this blog at 4am local time! 23 hour days on the road are tough but now we have a free day here tomorrow to go to some bike junkyards and enjoy this weather! Stay tuned for some pictures and shots from the EDR pre-party Wednesday! Cheers, Kyle
