Dig it

Been a crazy couple weeks. I picked up this Ironhead chopper chassis. Lots of decent parts. But after examining the frame, I'm 90% confident it's an old Arlenn Ness digger front loop on a stock sportster frame. I decided I wanted to bring the bike back to what I imagine it should be, a mid 70's Ness-style Ironhead digger, but with my own touches. I'm basically only keeping the frame and rear wheel. I imagine it to have a stretched slim Factory Metal Works springer or maybe a girder, 21" spool spoke or Invader on front. Tank, fender, and seat by my design. It's basically an art bike. I'm already dreaming shaping foam to design the tank. 37 projects down the line...







I'll be hanging the frame in the garage until that fateful day arrives when i can start working on it. I have problems focusing as you can see.

The Lonely Dragon

Max wrote his first book :)

Lucky

I picked up another one this weekend, so dirt cheap I might as well have stole it. A matching numbers 1967 TR6 frame/motor with a Bonnie head, rear wheel, Wassel banana tank, and an oil tank. Plus a 50lb box of misc SS bolts. I've always wanted to do a strutted custom bike, similar to Marc "Lucky" Locke's Trump. About 5 projects down the road.

Mine All Mine

Yesterday was an amazing day. The monkey that had been sitting on my shoulder for a year and a half decided to move along. I sold the CB750A Hondamatic. To refresh, Christmas 2013 my buddy Danny sold me the 1950 Candyman Beezer I'd been begging him for and the CB750A as a package deal. Here's the whole story on the BSA. Because he is a good guy, he took partial payment, on condition I pay him fully after the CB750A sold. And that took a year and a half. Over 40 hours of work and $600 invested allowed me to break even, making the BSA "free." The CB750A is a good bike, but it had to go. And now the BSA is finally mine, all mine. I feel I can actually start working on it now. Now to pursue Candyman's leather jacket his buddy has...

County Fair Heat Strokers

We, perhaps without thinking, went to the opening day ($1 Day) at the Alameda County Fair. It was crowded and so.goddamn.hot. Max was probably on the verge of a heat stroke, as were we. Water was in limited supply unless you bought $7 glasses of lemonade. He had fun, but we damn sure paid for it with our sanity. We repaid ourselves with some wings and frigid AC at BW3s.

Yosemite

Motorcycles are in the background for a bit. I've been spending as much time as I can with the family. We took a camping trip to Yosemite, staying in Hodgdon Meadow. What an absolutely beautiful place. It was both Lori and Max's first time camping. Ever. And they both rocked it. We stayed in Hodgdon Meadow which I thought was great. It's about 45 minute drive to the central Yosemite Valley, and judging by the camping there, we picked well. Everybody is on top of each other. Day 1 we setup camp and hiked 2 miles to Carlon Falls. Day 2 we went to Yosemite Valley and looked at some sights like the falls. And day 3 we headed back to the valley to swim at the frigid Cathedral Beach. If there's one thing we did wrong, it was too much hiking/walking with a 3 year old. Beautiful place, can't wait to go back. Also a great place to ride a motorcycle to *wink wink*.