Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Tuque'fer Tuesday

Oh yeah, who can forget the Monkees??? Michael Neysmith hittin' the tuque up hard. You might notice, this is the glorious tuque that graces our very own Saint Knucklehead on the site's logo. Yep, respect where respect is due. Sorry they chewed up your freedom and spit it out as commercial, kiddie, psycho babble there Mike, but we'll always remember this as your showing of true strength!

Hopper leaving us...

Sad, but true. Dennis Hopper looks to be on his last leg. I'm a huge fan of Hopper in general, but all the talk is usually centered around Easy Rider. Probably because everyone wants to be part of the chopperazzi and do the fashionista thing. The reality is that Easy Rider wasn't a "chopper" or "biker" flick. It was a hippy flick. Had some good parts, but it was not his best work. My money's on Apocalypse Now, but if you know me, you already figured that out. If you don't know why, go rent Heart of Darkness - the making of the movie. You'll get it. It will also put a new light on for Martin Sheen and the rest of the crew, but it lets you know how Hopper held his shit down. Or didn't. Whatever. I'm saddened to see him exit, but the world will know it was better for having had him around while he was here for sure.

Friday, March 26, 2010

Beautiful thing...

Time for a Brit bike. I just ripped the heart out of mine, so I'm waxing a little nostalgic here I guess. That, and this Heiwa Trump kicks some serious ass. No need for excuses to show this thing around...


Winner, winner, chicken dinner...

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Right again...

You can't tell me any different. I've been saying all along, it's only natural... no big thing.

This story snagged from CNN furthers the proof -


Perhaps the biggest difference between the male and female brain is that men have a sexual pursuit area that is 2.5 times larger than the one in the female brain. Not only that, but beginning in their teens, they produce 200 to 250 percent more testosterone than they did during pre-adolescence.
If testosterone were beer, a 9-year-old boy would be getting the equivalent of a cup a day. But a 15-year-old would be getting the equivalent of nearly two gallons a day. This fuels their sexual engines and makes it impossible for them to stop thinking about female body parts and sex.
...To a man, this is the most natural response in the world, so he's dismayed by how betrayed his wife or girlfriend feels when she sees him eyeing another woman. Men look at attractive women the way we look at pretty butterflies. They catch the male brain's attention for a second, but then they flit out of his mind. Five minutes later, while we're still fuming, he's deciding whether he wants ribs or chicken for dinner. He asks us, "What's wrong?" We say, "Nothing." He shrugs and turns on the TV. We smolder and fear that he'll leave us for another woman.
Catch the rest HERE

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Today's track...

Listen and learn... with Blacklisted

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Holy Crap!

Mike D can stop looking for a club bike! Now he just has to decide if he wants airbags on the scooter... siiiiiiiick!


Thanks to Dan for the link! Now I can do whatever I want with that strange shovelhead in my garage...

Shop weekend...

SO... with everyone gone for the weekend, I got some good alone time in the shop. Finally gutted the Trump and got it out of the way for the time being while the motor goes through its 750 upgrade and some other tweaks. That made room for Mr. D's shovel to take the stand. TIME'S TICKING!!! Figure I'll give him a week or two to show some interest and then I'm going to gut it and make it the way I want it! (insert evil laughter here)

Also ripped the fuggin' SU out of the pan to see what's up with that. Most likely getting the Super E after I rebuild that, but you never know... Found a Mikuni I thought I had sold with a pan manifold adapter, so that could be another option... choices, choices.

Then I tore into the van. Cleaned up some of the underbelly goop and tightened all the loose shit. Hit most of the things on my shopping list other than a new radiator, which I'll hopefully find today. This week is new Ujoints, hoses, and more general clean-up and lube. I said lube. LUBE. Oh yeah. Nothing like the smell of a little van lube in the morning!

This...

Came outta this...


To be replaced by this...


Then I removed a tumor from this...


Only to finish the day disecting more of the underbelly of the van. No pics of that. Suck it. 

Monday, March 22, 2010

Stolen...

From the Church... I dig this. Sue me.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Gotta Love It...

Sometimes, things just kinda work... Dug into the van motor yesterday afternoon and found that the idle screw had been backed out so far, it really wasn't doing much. Some adjusting and now she runs like a top. Fiddled with the dash loom and got some wiring cleaned up and miraculously, the A/C started working and all the dash lights came back. Figured I better not press my luck much more, so I just jumped in and drove the crap out of it going to meet Mike D and Wayne Ballard for some China grub.

I like it when a plan comes together.

Friday, March 19, 2010

Today's track...

Listen and learn... with Chuck Ragan