Please

Stop and help a brother out.

Joe Bar Team

Coast ride

Took a day trip to Santa Cruz with Ed. Met with good friends and took our time. Good for the head. 

Lacey not Cagney

Relaced the Hallcraft. Now I need to follow through and get the rotor and some sort of front brake setup. It'll be a while,  'cause the pocket is empty.

Really Wheelin'

Vorhese wanted to have Chris at Wheel Works lace up his Bultaco hub to a 21" rim. Since I had never been there I asked if I could  tag along. I figured as long as I was tagging along I would get a few missing spokes for my Hallcraft hub.

This place is easy to miss, as its down an alley of other shops on a busy industrial street.

The first thing I noticed was how much stuff there was. I couldn't find a place to put the couple small boxes so they went on the floor. Even there it a little difficult to find a place to put something.

There were a fair amount of broken hubs and front ends and rims that were probably left behind as examples of what could go wrong. They were probably put out just to keep people like me from trying to build my own wheel.

So, Vorhese starts telling Chris about his hub and rim, which he brought with him, along with his newborn, when Chris notices my hub and comments on it. I mention I only need three spokes for it and we work out a deal for ten bucks. Then back to Vor.
Chris goes into all kinds of detail about what years had what setups, and that he can't make the spokes for this, that he should call Buchannans. Ffuuuuucckkk!! I now feel kind of guilty. It comes back to me again and I ask about another hub I have that I want laced to a 19" rim. He has both the spokes and rim in the shop. (Somewhere, I'm sure) He says he might also have the rotor for the Hallcraft. (Again, somewhere)
    Then he opens the door to the back room to get my spokes.

There was stuff everywhere. Under all of it was piles of unused spokes. Front ends, rims, tires, some frames. A little if this and some more of that.

While he was prepping my spokes he and Vor were doing a lot of talking about Preunit Triumphs, of which I know very little. One thing that I did understand was that Chris and his nephew ran a Preunit at Bonneville in 2012. If I'm not mistaken, I think I heard him say they got a record with the bike on a technicality. They hit 68MPH. It still had the salt on it.

Not a bad trip for me. We stopped at La Rosa and Vorhese ordered the saddlebag for his Preunit. At least he got something. I just tagged along and got this huge blog post out of it. And I get my wheel back.