Logging hours on the 36

Crushed some hours on the 36 this last week and she is only a few hours from a bench test. Had some trouble with the bar ends and spirals, but a little hack saw, lathe work and tig and we were back on track. Love them old bikes ;). Fred Lange swung by to drop off his 29 JDH motor (amazing) and had a twinkle in his eye for the old girl. I was pretty excited about meeting him and even more flattered that he was digging my bike. Will post some pics of his amazing machine soon.

Old looks paint ;)

Just wrapped up some old looking paint on the sheet metal for the 36. Good from far and far from good, but it suits me just fine.

Vashon , Filth-Mode , Rain Dogs and Colorado Cool-Aids

Vashon TT was this weekend and we had a blast.  Made some new friends and had a blast with some old ones.  Ash and Linda came down from the Couve and brought one of the craziest knuckles you have ever seen in your life.  88" of pure insanity.  A great pairing from up north and it was a pleasure to get to know them.  Their crew "Filth-Mode" has a blog linked here, so check em out.  Our brother Dave from the "Rain Dogs" came out and represented and the rest of the Seattle crew hit the ferry out to Vashon.  I ran out of gas once and the scoots kicked and bucked as usual, but every bike but one, made it back. If you know the Seattle crew then I'll let you guess which one didn't, but if you don't, it'll be our secret ;).  Be sure to make it out next year if you didn't this time.  Enjoy!

Teak Velocity Stack?

Why Not?  I got wood laying around and everyday I think what can I do with this junk.  One of my new obsessions is teak accessories for the scoots.  Got a few bike projects going lately and as a woodworker, I feel it is absolutely critical that every one of them has something that throws back to what I do.  Here is my latest experiment with it.  A roth scoop and v-stack for the pan and the knuck.  If you follow me on instagram some of this stuff will be redundant,  but if you dont, you should!  "semigoods" on the old instagram thingamabob.  Enjoy!

Here's looking at you...

They caught me tearing out of Born Free 4 this year.  This pic was stolen from the Mooneyes site.  I would link it here but I can't find it again :(

The VLH

Well it took a while to get things rolling with the VLH.  Got busy with work and then took apart the Pan, so the VLH has been on hold.  Just finished up the motor yesterday and dropped her in.  Big thanks to Andy for helping out with both knowledge and specialty tools.  It is pretty crazy how different everything is on all these old bikes and if you don't know the right people, let me tell you, stuff can get pretty tricky.  She's far from done, but I'm gonna fab up the fenders today and see if I can get her looking a little more like the bike she longs to become....

It's in their blood.

Here are some photos of my two boys, who as luck may have it, love motorcycles.  Picked up Axel this little Indian for his 3rd birthday and took Tavo on his first Panhead ride the other day.  Needless to say, this is a father's dream, but as they say, "watch what you wish for".....

Been a while...

Well, its been a while.  I have traveled all over this beautiful country on the Pan these last couple of months.  Met some amazing people and spilled a lot of oil.  Right before I left to California, I decided to take apart my perfectly good motor due to the nerves of being caught with my pants down, somewhere in the deserts of southeastern california.  Hind sight is 20/20 as they say, but my advice to you is this.  If your bike runs just fine.  Leave it the hell alone.

Panheads Forever???