Waitin at The Wall for some old Nortons to pass by...

CHP Lane Splitting Guidelines

Since the CHP caved and took down the Lane Splitting Guidelines, I thought some people might still like to have access to them. 

Here they are...

Caught riding...

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Scott Sylvia has my back...

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Heads!

Riding season is in full swing here in NorCal. Watch your head. These are the odds of hitting your head in these spots on the helmet.

Throwbacks Thursday

Throwbacks are back at it this year with Throwback Thursdays!! Every third Thursday at Paco's Tacos in Grass Valley, California, USA. Bring your vintage bike down for some brotherhood and talk of thing vintage motorcycle related...or whatever you wanna talk about...just show up!!

May I see yer ID?

There sure were a lot of braces in the mouths of the 18+ crowd. Not enough earplugs.
If you want someone to stay out of yer roadcase, write "Rifles and Acid" on it.
It was a good week with some of Rock and Rolls tour veterans.

Let's Ride...

Less than a week away...Tune up that old Cycle and come out into the sun.

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.

Making Movies

This is one of my favorite shots from a video Eugene shot for Corey, with Brendan and Shrewgy, and me tagging along. The two of them riding side by side and then they split and I'm in the middle. The two of them on newer Triumphs, and me on the vintage Triumph chopper. 

The free spirit known as Ashley was kind enough to grace my bike with her presence at the Dirtbag this year. I'm glad Kent had the mind to take a picture of her on it. It certainly distracts from all the bad welds and crappy paint.
I was charged with the task of getting her to the event this year, and yes, she was fully clothed when we got there. What happened after we arrived is a blur.

Thank you Ashley and Kent

MITTENS!

 This is why