Went out to a decent little bike show put on by the Iron Horse Taveren in Norcross, GA. Few cool bikes out there. The owner of the local BMW dealer, Blue Moon Cycles, has a nice collection of vintage BMW, Ural, Guzzi’s and HD’s. He brought out a choice selection. A few nice customs turned out, both Big Twin and sportbike. Spent a few hours hanging out with some of the peeps from customfighters.com and blokessportbikes.com. Not a bad way to waste a sunday afternoon.
Nice WL Flatty from Blue Moon Cycles
The WL’s tow pig. Sweet COE pickup.
Some of the Blue Moon collection.
WWII era BMW Side hack. Got love the machine gun.
Ural Side hack.
Very Nice R-11. Beautiful bike.
Freshly restored RD250. For sale for $3000 with only 4,000 original miles. Not a bad little scoot.
This thing is pretty cool. At first glance, I thought it was a Walz Hardcore untill I got closer and noticed it was a custom Yamaha Road Star.
With my newly aquired welder it was time to fuse metal. My buddy brought by his 03 Bandit 1200 and the tail section from an 05 ZX10R. He handed them both over and said, make it work. Not a problem.
First thing was getting the rear end stripped.
Test fit the tail and start chopping out brackets.
Moved the seat latch plate and reused the removed grab rail for the retaining bar for the passenger seat.
Bodywork and seal latches in place with new tabs and brackets welded in.
The stock 1 piece seat was cut down into a solo, reshaped and recovered with the factory seat cover.
Front seat latch instaled, factory undertray cut down, welds ground down and the whole thing treaded to a few coats of Gloss Black paint.
Final fit of the new tail and seats.
And for a nice custom touch, we added a filler panel under the tail with a Custom Fighters Skully logo that is back lit with LED’s when you hit the brakes.
Picked up a cheap buzz box last weekend from my local Harbor Freight. I’ll start this post with a warning. Don’t ever lend friends your tools. Long story short, once upon a time I had a decent little MIG setup. Nothing fancy, but it worked well for what I needed. Lent it to a buddy and never saw it again. So now I got this one. Got a decent deal on it too. It was on sale for $89, marked down from $120. Once I got to the counter the cashier offered a replacment warrenty on it. I usualy shine on this but I figured I’d inquire what all it covered. Basicly, I can drag this thing behind my Truck, bring it back and they’ll replace it, no questions asked. for $20 I got the 2 year replacment and she knocked off an additional 15% . So out the door with tax and 2 year warrenty, $100. Not a bad deal.
I got it home, wired it up and threw an electrode in and strated welding. It’s not a bad little box. 120 amp peak on 220V, 70 amp peak on 115V. The amp adjustment is a little vauge, but once I got the hang of it I got it diled in to what I was welding.
Future plans are to convert it to a TIG torch so I can get a little bit cleaner welds and more control. It’ll still be a scratch start, but I can deal with that. And the Custom Fighters stickers make my welds 10x stronger
We’ve been slacking on the Blog here for a bit. Been moving, working and consolidating our life over the past few weeks. Spent the past week Do’n Work on some bike stuff though. Post that up here soon with a bit more to follow.
To say thanks to our loyal customers we’ve opened a new gallery dedicated to you. We dub the Street Junkies.
Send us pics of you, your bikes and general stuff of you and your buds living the StreetKORE lifestyle. Just make sure you rock your StreetKORE gear while you’re doing it.
I have to take the time and give a huge thanks to my Family over at www.customfighters.com. Recently, my self and my family have hit a rather rough patch in the road of life. One that was on the jagged edge of becoming dier. As so many of us are experiencing hard times, those hard times sometimes can get deep without warning. With no options and nowhere to turn the members of CustomFighters steped up and helped out when the world was at it’s darkest.
For that I owe them a huge debt of graditude. Many of them I have never laid eyes on, but when the chips were down they jumped in to help out. It goes to show there is still good and decent people in the world. Even in your darkest hour there’s always light at the end.
For everyone that supported us and for all your help and inspiration. THANK YOU!!! from the bottom of my hart,
Scrapyard
I spent most of my life on 2 wheels. In the early years it was on BMX bikes. Then eventually motorcycles. After taking a 10 year hiatous from the BMX world, I’m looking to get back to it and see if I can still do all the crazy stuff I used to as a kid. Stay tuned for future injury reports
I have to say the game has changed a lot since I was into it. Here’s a killer example of some extreme street street riding featuring Danny MacAskill. This dude will make your jaw drop with some of the stuff he pull. Enjoy.
For reasons, some good, some bad. Regurdless, I’ve been staying busy. Last week was hell though. Hopefully, this week things will start to turn around. Time will tell I supose. Y’all stay safe out there and enjoy the ride when you can.
Once in a while the world smiles on you. Since I’ve started the Mobile Motorcycle Service I’ve meet a lot of very cool and super nice people. Well, one such lady had me come out to fix some damage on her 85 Yamaha Maxium 750 this week. Nothing major, busted blinker and throttle cable from a drop at low speed. Well, the next day she called me up and offered the bike to me for a price I couldn’t refuse. She felt the bike was a bit too much for her as a learner and wants to get something a bit smaller to get the hang of riding. So I’ve accquired a new bike project that I’m going to clean up and give it to my Mom so she can get out on two wheels herself. Thanks very much Anne. I appreciate it more then you know.
If any of you readers out there are looking to sell a good learner bike for a reasonable price, get in touch with me and see if we can find Anne a new ride.
I’ll post pics in the gallery and in the Blog once I get it unloaded.
