1972 CB350

On Sunday night, I headed up to Nyack to have dinner with the rents. I've been watching my dad rebuild the carbs for some time now and it was finally ready for a ride! Bike started right up and without hesitation I looked back at him and said, "it'll be fine....."

About 5 miles into my ride, the rear started feeling squirrely, you know the feeling...FLAT TIRE! I slowed the bike down a few hundred yards from the nearest gas station and walked it there. brand new tires, must have pinched the tube or something. all good, added some air and rode back to their house.

I forgot how much fun it was to ride a bike like this. Sitting upright, suspension that works, nice and lightweight and the roads at night in the suburbs can't be beat. Dark, nobody on them, trees hanging over the lanes, just really beautiful.

the twins are the way to go if you're going to get a Honda. Now, if they could just figure out a way to eliminate one of the carbs and make it even simpler...

Kyuss Lives and the Sword Rules

my Friday night. rock. roll. Kyuss. the Sword.

never thought I'd see Kyuss live. Sure, it wasn't the full original line up. But the music and the show was perfect. And the Sword, they just need to release a live album because you can't capture their sound on record/CD. At least not that I've heard yet.

photos for the future and from the show

On Sunday I had the amazing opportunity to meet up with Michael Schmidt to have him take some pictures and shoot film of the shovelhead. He used to see it as a pile of parts back in california when he was filming/shooting Kim for his sportster build, and now got to see a complete motorcycle. We took a few laps over the bridges between Brooklyn and Manhattan and then found a great little wall to shoot the stills in front of on Flatbush Ave in Brooklyn.

We were losing the light very quickly so hopefully the pictures come out as planned. Let's just say we had a ton of fun with everything from locations to wardrobe...photos to be featured in an upcoming issue of Dice Magazine.

Go ahead and check out Michael's work here.

back to the invitational:

since I only carried my iphone, AND more importantly, there were people with nice cameras at the show, I didn't really take many pictures. Here's a few links to some great pictures of the bikes that were at the Brooklyn Invintational:

45 Degree

Chop Cult

again, it was a great weekend. Great to catch up with friends from southern california. Great to see Walter and the rest of the Kickstart crew and great to hang with the NYC/Brooklyn crew of supportive dudes and dudettes.

Amazing Weekend

It was a very so-cal weekend in BK. And I mean that in a good way. It was also very East Coast autumnal, in a good way.

Brooklyn Weekend

...So let's chopper! Picked up Kim from JFK last night and headed to the Kickstart Cycle party at Lone Wolf in Bushwick. It will be nice to have some company in town for the weekend.

Great times catching up with friends old and new, California and New York. Tonight is the Dice event and then tomorrow the Invitational. Oh and the temperature feels like fall all of a sudden. Time to explore Bear Mtn!!!

Yep.

0 miles per hour. How do people do this everyday?

Fuck North Jersey

There's a reason to live in a city without having to drive to work.