Say No To Swoopy

With my encouragement, Barry made the call to ditch the fat, butt ugly seat we had on the bike and go with a Biltwell unit that looks about 100,000 times better. I'm down to the last handful of steps before I can put some gas and oil in this monkey mobile and fire it up.

And on a related note: Baggers suck and they always will, and say NO to swoopy shit.

Every Day I'm Hustlin'

All kinds of things going on lately, so I've lacked a bike post. Waiting on just a couple of parts for the project bike, but it will fire up within the next week, so there will be video of that. Headed for the Southeastern Beard & Moustache Championship tomorrow to see friends and watch my awesome girlfriend win the female fake beard category. Oh, and see a bunch of guys that are waaay too obsessed with their beards, hahaha. Until then, here's this:

Form Follows Function

And this set up has them both in spades. The legendary Fabricator Kevin's springer brake kit, the Gold Standard for any chopper builder with a brain in his head. This bike is a rock rolling down a hill and it's just picking up speed.

Organized Chaos

The middle stages of building a bike, the mess that only the builder knows and people who only see the finished product rarely get a glimpse of. Fabbed up a nice ignition switch mount today and started on the wiring. Only 3 weeks to go.

Disregard

I picked up another load of parts yesterday and the project bike will take a couple more big steps forward this weekend. Plus, the Fab Kevin springer brake and tag/tailight set ups are on their way, so things are looking good to have the bike mechanically complete and running by the end of the month.

This chick is psyched too, she's just cool like that.

Short Skirts Always Look Good

I did the final trim and shape on the Walsh bike's rear fender today. It came out nice and I'm very happy with it. It fits the overall look of the bike and shows off the 18" rim/200 tire properly. Check it out.

I'm on to the primary drive & clutch set up next and it will be wired and fired by the end of this month.

Fire & Steel Puzzle

Got down to business yesterday fitting the Fab Kevin fender strut kit on the Walsh bike. It had been awhile since I'd done some good steel bending with my little Home Depot MAPP gas/Oxy torch, but with the right amount of planning and measuring it came out perfectly. It doesn't hurt being the greatest bike builder alive today either. Check it out:

Making the first bend, an old 39mm fork tube makes a nice leverage multiplier for this type of work.

Second bend done, strut trimmed to length and fitted.