Saturday, March 10, 2012

Next month....going to pick this up....

Been in storage in NC for near 1 year.  It'll be interesting to see what a float bowl full of gas looks like.

Saturday, February 4, 2012

San Francisco

Went to San Francisco this last week for some business meetings.  I happened to fly in 1 day in aadvance so I rented a Harley and drove around the bay.  I hadn't been to this part of California before but I thought it was a really nice place for riding, good weather, and just an overall good feeling.  Oh yeah, a picture of the stampede bike...Miyagi is doing a great job on that one.





Thursday, December 15, 2011

Bike X

I can't say much about this bike at this time  If you know who is building it you'll recognize the style.  It's designed to tackle a little race going down next June in the USA.  Laugh at the front fender all you want but I am over having water thrown in my face.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Cleaning up a bit....

Drilled the bars, ran the wires internal, changed out from the ugly stock brake line, removed the stock mirrors and added a cool lollipop version, and re-located the turn signals.  Small stuff but it makes the bike look so much better.  Biltwell risers are awesome, I recommend them to everyone!  Also got a kick ass side mount tag holder that tucks in a bit tighter than before.  Thanks Black Chrome san!



Sunday, October 9, 2011

3日間休み

It was a 3 day weekend in Japan, we rode out with some friends and went camping on Saturady night.  Sunday morning woke up and rode toYamanashi to see Dan san.  Shot the breeze with him for a bit and installed the new plate mount he made for me.  Apparently Tomo san (心ガラジの友さん)did the welding.  Dan of course being a stubborn American wouldn't take a dime for it.  タンさん、友さん、ありがとうね!

Afterwards Maiko and I had famous Yamanashi fat noodle, namely 豚ほうとお and then made the 100km trip back to 新百合ヶ丘。

On the way to camping, letting my friend Said take his first stab at a Harley...don't worry Said, you'll get it!



Dan Woosley and the midget garage



Good to see you Dan, now get that Kunck of yours fixed and let's go for a put!



New plate holder not only looks good, but cleans up the fender a bit and would allow for a bag to be set there if need be.



Sunday, September 25, 2011

Sunday ride to nowhere

Maiko san wanted to go to the onsen today and I had every intention of making that happen....it's just that on the weekend we don't exactly have the proper "wake up early skills".

We left around 1PM and rode down to Ebina, up through Hakone, and then past Fuji ending the night with some shopping in Gotenba since she HAD to go to the outlet center.  All around a good, destination free day with no pressure to be anywhere or do anything in particular...only to clutch, gas, and go.

This is a picture at the end of daylight in front of Fuji.  He attracts every cloud in the sky so to see the whole mountain is quite rare....just like today.