West Bottoms Show 2013

Well for the first year I would say it was pretty damn good. I'd say about 200 cars and about 50 bikes were lined up under and around the 12th street bridge in the bottoms of Kansas City. Our shop is about 4 blocks away so that was nice. Took the kiddos and a neighbor along so they could hang out with me. They had a blast and so did I. Check out the crazy Ripper Shovelhead with more oil on the ground then in it. Hilarious because Ian said " That Bike Is Yucky". The Gasser Nova was insane and my favorite car there by far. Well up until this Chevy Tudor rolled up then I left. Great that there is someone else willing to do some hard work and have a real good first show. Enjoy and starting tomorrow I will be riding every damn day period. We had some crazy ass Midwest weather the last two days with tornado's and rain like it was the end of times. I swear last year I had been riding everyday for a month already. Season is starting late but that will hopefully mean it goes a month later, Right?

Hair Farming Dirty Jammers

Seriously Crazy Good

Top 5 Saturday

This is how my brain works. 
Falling asleep I am thinking about motorcycles.
Dream about motorcycles and or redheaded girls and motorcycles.
Wake up and look outside to see if I can ride my motorcycle.
Decide which bike I am going to ride that day. It is usually the one with gas.
Time travel at work and think about working on bikes that evening.
Get to the shop and work on motorbikes. 
Ride home and do my family duties, eat, shower and start over.
All these steps are done while listening to music. 

Doesn't sound like much of a life but for me this is what I have to work with at the moment. In the future I would like to add:
Went skateboarding for an hour.
Got ready for a road trip. Rode my bike just for fun hundreds of miles today.
Money fell out of my ass. 
Went camping and woke up to the wide open sky and the smell of a half burnt out camp fire.

 Top 5 Saturday
Number 1. Shovel head has been running great and I am getting all the little bits dialed in. Found my brand new petcock would not shut off so I replaced that this week and then dialed in the brake for the last time hopefully.

Number 2. 10 days till I move into the new digs. Fucking crazy around here and I am getting very behind at the shop. Truck is almost ready for paint and the Norton is almost ready to get blown apart for paint and such. 

Number 3. For the first time in a long time I would have to say I am real happy with my bikes. Both are done and look proper as well as run proper.  May be tempting the gods but I am feeling like I don't need any other bikes right now. I loved only having one but two is good as well. Jockey shift or foot shift. 100 miles per tank or 50. Making choices is fun.

Number 4. Listening to Graveyard . Got hooked up with there other records and let me just say how great this band is.Almost has a Black Sabbath feel if you mixed it with The Kinks or something like that. Riffs for days and the vocals are perfect. Great music to drill holes to. 

Number 5. Swap meet tomorrow. I love that we have a motorcycle swap every month. It is the best feeling in the world to wake up early and hit the road. I usually drive out because I end up buying all kinds of shit every time I go. Always end up getting little brackets or pegs stuff I use a lot of at the shop. Brake parts and gas tanks are always a most. I get to see all my swap meet friends and be a little bit social which for me is rare. 

Enjoy The Quiet......

I know that my bikes are not quiet but while I am riding them all the bullshit in my head just fades away. Only to come down even harder when you step off the bike. There is a spot in almost ever town I have ever lived in that I would go to and just sit and think or just sit and try not to think. Special places that might not mean shit to the next guy but to me they are almost holy ground. There are those places out there you just have to find them and finding them on two wheels is the only way your gonna know your there, get it.

Really Love Motorcycles, Seriously......

Had the first great weekend of bike events in town. Two shows in one weekend and I have to say it doesn't get much better. The Vintage Japanese Motorcycle club in KC put on there show and swap Saturday. I think the little CB 160 road race bike that actually gets raced was the coolest thing there. I could not have even got on the damn thing but it looked killer and I guess goes like stink. The boy went crazy when he saw the Mini Trail Honda and I have to say it would be killer to roll on. There were some very cool and clean old bikes there. Sunday was a typical Harley show with your typical Harley bullshit and all that comes with it. Yeah I rode my Harley out, So. The Shovel got some attention and I loved the blue shovel above. There was Elizabeth's Knuckle and the Indian in the show. Everything else was crap. Riding the Shovel back I smelled a lot of gas and found out the float was sticking open and letting copious amounts of gas to hit the ground. So today I found out my brand new petcock does not shut off. It says off but it doesn't shut the fuck off. There was a little burr on the needle seat of the S&S so I took some red scrotch brite and cleaned it up. Luckily for me Dave had giving me a new petcock that he could not use. So I swapped it out and all is right with the world again. More miles this week and more shows and swaps this weekend. Winter is finally over.

Small Things and Snake River......

I know I am not the only one that wastes hours and hours on youtube watching vintage Evel footage. Well my boy and I just got done watching  the Snake River jump and then he ran over to the table and set up this Crazy Jump as he called it. So freaking cool that he instantly knew to make two ramps and then went and picked out his yucky cars so they wouldn't get hurt if he crashed. Well with a rev of the throttle we went at it with all our might and didn't you know it this time he actually made the leap and rode another day folks. We did this for about two hours until he moved onto monster trucks smashing the cars. Either way it was quality time with my boy.