Thy Will Be Done Art Show, July 17th 2010

Art show in SoCal this Saturday, July 17th! Be sure to check it out, in addition to showing a bunch of great art they are raffling off some nice prizes, check out the blog here for more info.

Thank you Mid-Ohio!

Great weather today a good crowd and partying with the Speedcult crew tonight. I may have missed out on the Rickman I wanted but I scored this 250 Triumph Trophy after the races! Cheers, Kyle

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Mid-Ohio swap meet find!

A bit rainy today and I missed buying the Rickman I had my eye on but I found this jewel in the swap meet for the collection!

1955 Triumph Land Speed Racing Motor

A package arrived early this morning that I have been waiting for with baited breath. Wes, my good friend and Triumph motor go-to-guy over at Four Aces Cycle put together this motor for me for my Lakes bike. What is inside it? What trick parts does it have? Come race me on the Salt and you can guess for yourself! Thanks Wes!

Tyler

Mid Ohio Vintage Motorcycle Days 2010

We are preparing for Mid Ohio Vintage MC Days, we leave tomorrow to set up. It isn't far from the shop, about an hour, so that is nice for a change, we are used to hauling half way across the country in every direction for bike shows. Come visit us, we have a sprawling setup in a couple new spots this year, P5 and P6. We will be there Friday through Sunday vending, and Mike D from Biltwell is going to be hanging out as well.


Husqvarna is marque of the year this year, and guess who the Grand Marshal is? None other than Malcolm Smith! I hope I get to meet him. Malcolm rules. My wife Larissa watched On Any Sunday with me and she thinks he rules too.

Tyler

Final assembly begins!

I decided to just paint my 67 T120 frame due mostly to the fact that we are down to about 4 weeks till we hit the road for Bonneville. So after letting the paint cure for the weekend and catching up on emails and orders today it is time for final assembly! I'm pretty damn excited so I am forcing myself to take my time and do it right.
Some grade 8 holding the frame together and my rearsets in their new home.
The engine in its place, fit like a glove and just a couple little touch-ups. Not bad for putting it in alone! I also finished sorting out my bearing setup for my NOS Ceriani front end.

The goal for tomorrow: get the front end fully assembled, clip-ons and throttle installed, steering damper bolted up, and install the rear wheel and brake set-up (who needs front brakes?) and mount the oil tank. I am excited to see this take shape, I never had all the parts together at once so seeing it come together fully is a first even for me. Cheers, Kyle

Happy Belated 4th of July

I was too busy swimming and hanging with the family and sweating my ass off in our un-airconditioned house to get a blog post up in time. This is what the 4th is all about, babies eating watermelon in the sunshine. That and keeping the King of England out of our face! Thanks to all our armed forces, current and veterans, it is great to be an American.

Tyler

Heading into the home stretch.....

I disassembled my bike and began the paint prep yesterday, and sprayed the frame again this morning and then set my sights on the engine. Fully installed the Bob Newby belt drive, sorted through all my parts to finish the top end assembly, and took care of a bunch of detail assembly. I am excited to get to it after the weekend and begin final assembley on my frame once the paint is cured. All these parts will start looking like a motorcycle! Rumor is my tins will be back from paint next week also.
Funny thing about a build like this in such a short timeframe is that every day you can alternate between confidence of finishing with plenty of time to tune and test, then later that afternoon feel overwhelmed at how many details are left! Evidently some of us even talk about motorcycle parts in our sleep. Like the Man in Black said, one piece at a time......
Cheers, Kyle

Photos from the Lowbrow Getdown

The Lowbrow Getdown was a big success, with over 100 people riding in from NJ, New Hampshire, NY, PA, MI, and all over Ohio, as well as Canada! Click the photo above or here to check out a Flickr set with a bunch of photos from the event. Some of these photos are credited to Tim Averre and Atesh, and perhaps others, this is all the photos that have come in, if you have any to add email them to us!

Tyler

If it's not cool....drill a ton of holes in it!

I thought I had finished all the fabrication work on my 67 Triumph landspeed bike and Tyler reminded me to pass tech I need a chainguard! A bit of a downer as I was ready to get the bike torn down and start the paint and final assembly, but you gotta do what you gotta do. So I grabbed a sheet of steel and got to it. I have to say this is the first time I ever made a chain guard, I am usually throwing them in the scrap pile!

A bit of cutting, knee bending and some welding and I had a chain guard that worked. I was definitely a bit bummed though, feeling it broke up the lines of the bike. So I decided to go with the old stand-by, "speed holes". If it doesn't look cool make it look fast at least! I am pretty sure the drilling took alot longer than the fab work, but I am pretty stoked with how my first ever chain guard turned out. Cheers, Kyle