Happy 4th Of July!

 Because it's the best photo.

Cheeses.

He sees you when you're sleeping....

Gone, but not forgotten....

Grow up and spend the rest of your life acting young.

Remember when....

.... we went to Daytona, got kicked out of every bar, choppered the fuck out of everything, and Shinya took our photos? That was a good time. The Japanese aren't too familiar with moonshine.

Happy 4th of July!

It's America day, I'm using this bad, mother fuckin' photo.

Hugh's Hand Built.

I seriously don't know what to say about this whole situation. It's one of the coolest things anyone has done to help out a Haint. Unless someone wants to build a good ol' Harley Davidson Knucklehead for myself, then that'd be pretty cool. Anyways, some of you might know that Bowles wrecked the fucking shit out of his bike when we were at Ramble Tamble. I told him to throw that XS of his in the trash and get an Evo Sportster, as his bike was beyond repair in my opinion. Our good friend Eddie, aka Shreddie, aka Big Dick Wrangler Dangler Meat Sandwich Man, works for Hugh's Hand Built in Asheville, NC. Hugh is the master wizard of all things XS 650. Bowles got a text from Hugh after we got back from Tamblin' saying he wanted to "pay it forward" and not only fix Bowles' XS, but make it better than it was. Free of charge. I'm still in shock of how stand up that is of him. I think Bowles owes him free "old fashions" for life. I ate my words about tossing that XS after I heard that, seeing as the dude that can make these things really run was going to be behind the build. The last trip this bike went on broke down at Whole Foods which is about 5 miles from the Dojo, so I'm stoked to see Bowles actually have a decent bike again. They built the bike in 3 days, including tear down. Here are photos taken from Hugh's blog. Thanks again Hugh.

Happy Memorial Day.

I use this photo for every sort of patriotic holiday. I love it. Perfect. Let's go ride.

RIP Ash.

*********UPDATE********* I just found out that this was a tasteless joke. Long Live Ash!

This is a total bummer. I just heard that Bruce Campbell died this morning while filming a movie in New Zealand. Fell 60 feet or something. Fucking lame. You will be missed my man.

New for 1948.....

I found this catalog for the 48' O.H.V.'s and 45's from a link off of the JJ. Maybe I'm a dork, but I love seeing this type of shit. It puts me in day dream mode and gets me motivated to get some work done on my 48, which is actually getting very close to starting up if I gather a few more parts and don't fuck something up on it.

Fuck Politics.

Even if we succeeded and Spicoli won the presidency, everyone would still find something to bitch about. That's our American nature. We have the freedom to bitch about whatever the fuck we want to. And it definitely gets taken full advantage of. I'm stoked that I can be a shit head and ride a chopper wherever I want and be a Haint and backwards pee on things, no matter who the poster boy for our country is. If you don't like it, try living in Zimbabwe or Jumanji or some shit. Worry about catching AIDS and finding drinking water instead of how much it costs to put gas in your unnecessarily massive vehicle. Or just ride your chopper. Mine costs me a whopping 4 bucks to fill up.

Actually....

....this might be homeboy's daughter from the post below.

No Big Deal.

The factory workers probably hated knuckleheads. 

"It feels like the first time...... It feels like the very first time."

Rex, a.k.a. Slop Dawg, scooped up his first Harley the other day. And it just so happens to be an FX shovelhead that has been sitting in a garage since the 80's. Not a bad score my dude. Congratulations. Now clean up your garage.

As American As Taco Bell.

I love this dude. He's as a pimp. Do you realize how many times he has saved our country from bad guys and destruction? Fuck you if you disagree.

Seek And Destroy.

I yanked all of these photos from a link to a link to some off road riding thing. Anyways, some of you have probably seen some of these before. Those that haven't, well here you have a bunch of original badasses. From what I gather, the guy that shared these photos is the son of the fella in the first photo. These are photos of him and his group of buddies doing what they love to do every weekend in the mountains of Colorado. Riding their bikes like assholes and doing things on stock rigids that some people are too pussy to do on modern day dirt bikes. The best part is, from what it sounds like to me, most of these guys lived near Denver or Boulder and would ride good distances to some of these spots. A lot of these photos are taken at Arapahoe Basin. Being from Colorado originally, I know that's fucking far to ride then attempt to climb the side of a mountain on your panhead. Oh yeah, most of the guys are on stock 74" Harleys. I remember reading also that one of them rode a stock 45" and a couple on Triumphs. But the majority of them had 1950 panheads. Working on choppers, going to shows, etc. How fucking awesome would it be if this was how we spent our weekends instead?