SPOILER ALERT...the wood bike

Really I wanted to wait until the end, but I couldn't help it. This is our latest build. We started it so long ago now. We had to wait about 6 months to get the frame back from the wood grainers. But it's back and Nick and I have been going full steam ahead on it for the past few days. When it's all over, i'll be posting tons of pics and the whole build story. but for now...

Here's what we got to start with.

This is actually the old frame from my bike. I used a spare to build mine, and since this bike had an ugly late model ironhead frame, we welded a hard tail to my old one and used it here.

This was right towards the end of the mock up.

Here's Dennis powdering the bits up. Doo-Doo Brown matches good with the tone of the bike.

Here's what she looks like the other day. Waiting for the tanks to come back, Nick and I are now tying up loose ends.

The Dirty Girl...Bryan's 79 Sportster

Bryan had been asking me to post some pics for a while. I thought today was as good a day as any. He just got the bike running again this afternoon. More on that in a minute. To understand this bike, it's important to realize where it came from.

Lou and CJ bought it as a basket case years ago. They put it together in Lou's fathers shed. The fram is actually for an EVO sportster, and it seems it's a special made to order Paughco rigid. To say it's low is an understatement. For some reason it was made with the drop-outs super high up from the bottom of the frame. That seems to be how it gets down so low.

After crafting some ingenious motor mounts, the Ironhead motor fit in with room to spare. Turns out the motor itself is special, it has an S&S stroker kit in it with 1200 flywheels and EXPENSIVE ass special stroker pistons.

After Lou rode it a couple years, it eventually fell into our friend Josh's hands.

Here's what she looked like when Josh owned it.

Obviously since buying it Bryan made some changes. He brought it to the Smoke Out a few years ago looking like that. Afterwards though, he tore it down, repainted the frame, changed the tires, added a rear wheel powdercoated black with stainless spokes. After that he found the tin set in this guys basement, untouched since about the 70's when it looks like it was painted. Nick cut the stock sportster part of the rear fender off to re-radius it to fit the frame better and Bryan and I made the pipes. Our resident painter Sean Foley did the oil tank and aircleaner artwork.

These pics are actually from last summer. If you go back in our archives here you can find the photos i took of the handle bars Nick and Bryan made from stainless stell, like all our home made bars are constructed from.

The bike, due to its large displacement, has ALWAYS been a pain in the ass to start. It eats batteries and starters for breakfast. So the other day, Bryan and I swapped out the starter from Nick's Brown Bike and got her running again.

Lately Bryan has rebuilt the top end with those EXPENSIVE ASS stroker pistons from S&S, he installed a Super-B carb and DYna 2000i ignition to give some more ooomph to that ironhead. And today he got it running.

Thats about it. Again, if you look back in the archives you can find the post about his conterfeit liscense plate. You can also watch Bryan talk about it in the Choppahead DVD Vol.3

some twisted shit

So i was riding thhrough a parking lot at the beach with Dennis. As i was turning, leaned over pretty far, the side of my back tire found a patch of sand. Next thing i know im picking myself up off the ground. I low sided it and the bike spun a 180. After my knee tried digging a hole in the asphalt i evidently somersaulted over the wreck.

Worst part was this was at a VW car show and there were like 100 people watching the whole thing. i felt like such a fool. I wish i could've crawled into my helmet. But i picked up that bike like a lunchbox and rode out as fast as i could.

This is not a trick shot. Thats how bent my grape hangers are. I'll get em' straight though.

Heres my fucked up knee. Super concentrated road rash and very swollen. But other than a new gangsta limp and a bruised ego, no bodily harm.



This fucking shiter was so hard to move what with being stuffed into the primary and all.

But now moving along this is whats next on the list. The rear rockerbox on my ironhead is leaking bad. Thing is, a couple of the bolts are under the frame backbone. And so the whole cylinder head is coming off. Then i can get the rocker box off.

Bryan really hooked me up finding the ONLY one at the entire Stafford Springs swaps the last time we went.

So all in all i had a great time last weekend. The weather has finally broken around here and Bryan is getting closer to finishing the Dirty Girl. Pete has a WAY to go on his scoot, and Dennis' evo-knievo has some reassembling he has to do, so hopefully everybody will be up and running soon enough. After all, the point of doing all this shit is to ride them.

picked up a new tank this weekend

scored it for 75 beans 5 mins into the first row.

Ground Floor

I posted a pic of the Chevy over the weekend. That's the "before" picture. Today i went and had u-bolts made, then bought the rectangle tube. It's three inches tall and the right width for the spring. I had to drill holes in it and put an allen head bolt for the little peg that centers it on the axle. Easy breezy.

There you go. 3 Inches lower and i'm a lot happier.

yesterday

My 1950 Chevy

i been out riding

CJ took his bike apart to paint the frame (the ironhead is for the wooden bike)

ok.....

so shit got fucked up and i ordered the wrong size chain for the ironhead.....and also the wrong size sprocket on the chain tensioner. the good news is i just got the right chain in today, and monster craftsman agreed that i could send the sprocket for the chain tensioner back in exchange for the right one. i plan on doing lots of work on it tomorrow....but then the bad news....I'm sick, I'm tired and i feel like shit! good thing for me Ed offered his help once he gets outta work....so if all goes well, and i can also make it to precision HD to pick up the rear axle collar things will finally be on the right track.

love, Pete

PS......get ready for some new spy shots of the next bike I'm working on once the sporty is done!

WAITING!

it fucking sucks! I'm waiting for my chain tensioner to come in from monster craftsman, the one with the torsion spring that keeps tension on your chain even when it stretches out. anyways ordered it last week, they shipped the next day, and still i have no tensioner a week later. I JUST WANNA FINISH MY FUCKIN BIKE AND RIDE ALREADY! i get asked at least 5 times a day when my bike is gonna be done, I'm poor, the pony express ain't helpin me, and i haven't even bought my paint and metal flake yet! I'm gonna try to forget about it just for tonight, get some food and beer at
99's and then see where the night takes me.

don't forget about singletary (spelling?) swap meet on Sunday....if you don't wake up early and show up first thing, don't even bother going because I will have already bought up all the best parts, drink up all the beer and eat all the killer pork sandwiches and there will be none left for you.

<3 Pete

CHRIS MARTIN!!!!!!

Shes almost done!!!!!

Just got done doing odds and ends on Dirty Girl.
Ordered the coil and hopefully in a couple
days she will be up and running

update!

my brother fights!





supermoto is da shitttttttt!


welcome to my second blog!

not much going on right now. im poor so my motorcycle is getting built very slowly.
im gonna upload some pictures of the build later.

as far as racing goes....im still dreaming right now.

AMAZING!!!

This is a score find.
It's like something from
Terminator

some stuff

So since im on this thing and pete wants to blog about everything figured id throw some stuff up here.

1st thing is Pete's bike after the hardtail was put on and motor back
in to do some marking up. We also just slapped that tank on
just for the pic. bike still needs to be stripped down and painted.

2nd is lou working on his old mans pan. hopefully lou will have that up and running
soon for him to ride this year.

3rd is petes rocker boxes that he split. wanted to go for alittle
something new other than that standard ironhead look.

and 4th is one of annes 1st paint jobs. came out really well.
maybe well see this on CJs bike this year.

new bloggers!!

Bryan and i have recently decided to start to contribute to the blog! This should be fun for you to follow for sometime as Bryan and I plan on taking this much farther than it needs to go on our quest to become " SUPERBLOGGERS"!


Plans for the coming months include but are not limited to:

1. To get Bryan and I racing as much as possible i.e ,getting on one of the R.A.T.T. racing hill climb bikes and trying to make it to the top of a hill without having to check in to the ER, i.e me trying to build and race a flat track bike, or any other type of race that brings the heart pounding excitement!

2. continue to drink beer

3. keep hunting all the swap meets and buying up all the parts I can't afford.

4. finish my ironhead and ride the fuck out of it ( maybe show it? maybe win first place at every show it goes to? maybe have the whole world bow down and respect my greatness as the bestest builder ever.......nah.

5. enjoy the company of all my awesome friends at the Butcher Shop, Choppahead, the Poor Boys and all you other party animals out there.

6. Blog the fuck outta all of it!


love,
Pete

The Butcher Shop isn't dead...it just sucks right now.

So i haven't posted anything in a while. It's not that we haven't been doing anything, we just haven't been doing anything cool. So here are some pics.

My fat ass broke the seat bracket i had made the other day, last night i fabbed up its replacement out of thicker steel.

A few weeks ago the wall literally fell of the side of the shop. We all pretended to be contractors for the day and replaced it.

Bryan will tell you he DIDN'T leave his key on. But either way after a couple of days with juice to the points, the coil decided to melt. And all the wiring. And those points. The lesson to take away is always have a fuse on the power wire.

Here's a quick shot of nicks bike, my bike and bryans bike.

If you look closely you can see the dent in cj's front wheel. theres one like it in the back. That tank is what he'll prob use. And i like that seat. Im going to make a bracket for it so he can run it. very Ed Roth like. I just need a giant lexan bubble.