Monday, December 31, 2012
Friday, December 28, 2012
Monday, December 24, 2012
Friday, December 21, 2012
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
The Patriot Guard
We respect and admire the work of the Patriot Guard. Burying a loved one is hard enough without someone using it further their own pseudo-religious ideology. Below is a link about the Patriot Guard and the fine work they do as well as a link to contact info for the westboro baptist church.
contact info for the westboro baptist church
contact info for the westboro baptist church
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Monday, December 17, 2012
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Monday, December 10, 2012
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Something new for Wednesdays
We decided we want to dedicate a day of the week to legal stuff. We'll try and post things pertaining to your rights as an American, as a rider and/or patch holder. There is a lot going on out there with motorcycle check points, mandatory helmet laws, profiling and club discrimination. When you talk to anyone that rides, they'll eventually say something about "riding free". That freedom needs protecting and the first thing to do is become aware of what's happening both in your community and around you. You can bet your ass that if the states that run motorcycle check points get away with it, it's just a matter of time before it starts happening where you live. It's not just something happening to someone else and it sucks to be them.
Up first is a pair of videos about not talking to cops. We've all heard (either directly or from TV) "anything you say can AND WILL BE HELD AGAINST YOU in the court of law". Be calm, be respectful but most of all, be quiet. Don't try to reason, don't try to out smart him, don't get lippy, just do yourself a favor and shut the hell up.
Watch for the link to part 2 where a retired cop talks about the tricks he uses to get people to talk. - Sean
Up first is a pair of videos about not talking to cops. We've all heard (either directly or from TV) "anything you say can AND WILL BE HELD AGAINST YOU in the court of law". Be calm, be respectful but most of all, be quiet. Don't try to reason, don't try to out smart him, don't get lippy, just do yourself a favor and shut the hell up.
Watch for the link to part 2 where a retired cop talks about the tricks he uses to get people to talk. - Sean
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Monday, December 3, 2012
Saturday, December 1, 2012
The Redhead Rides Again
Last summer at the cabin run I noticed my bike was making a washing machine kind of sound. When we got back to town I asked Nick to listen to it with the stethoscope to see where it was coming from. It didn't seem to matter where we listened at, the noise just seemed to come from pretty much everywhere echoing all over the engine.We asked Nick's dad Bryan to listen. I knew it was fucked when the guy that's been building bikes longer than I've been alive scratches his head and says "I've never heard a bike make that sound before".
So I took her home and parked her for the rest of the season. Whatever engine work we were going to do this time around was going to be done at the shop on the bench so I pulled the top end and yanked the whole motor out.
What I found was some serious scoring on the piston skirt and the cylinder walls. Not good.
I took the motor down to the shop and Nick took the bottom end apart and found a few more things. Chunks of shiny metal in the breather cavity, a small chunk of metal chipped out of the crank pin and a nice chunk taken out of the bearing cage.
A complete rebuild. Fucking hooray and stuff.
We sat down and looked at the options and decided to go with an S & S 89" stroker kit and give it a 561 cam. The 561 had a little more lift to it than the SE-11 cam I put in it previously so we also upgraded the valve springs just to be safe. Since we were already in the heads we re-ground the valves and put new seals in even though the ones that were in it were less than a year old.
Yesterday I took the day off from work and we put her back together. I got down to the shop to find Nick had already put the motor in the frame. So I set to washing out the inner and outer primary covers so Nick could get the motor properly aligned and lock it down into place.
Once the primary was in place and full, we wired up the ignition, timed it, spun it over to get the oil into the cases, mounted up the intake, Mikuni and RB Racing exhaust. Adjusted the clutch and throttle cables.
It's important to understand that when my ride went down, my Bastard brother Jason let me ride his Sportster Sport, his backup bike after he bought his Dyna Lowrider. It's a shorter bike with low rising T-bars, mid controls and dual front disc brakes. For the last four months I've been more or less cooped up riding this thing, cussing it for feeling like a squid bike, learning the hard way to respect those dual discs, but grateful to be riding nonetheless. Getting on my bike in the pouring rain was a bit of a re-adjustment. I guess the old saying of "it's like riding a bike" holds true because it wasnt more than a couple miles and it all came back. Stretched out legs, arms and head held high. I was home again.
Now comes the hard part: rolling off 1000 miles without rodding too much while all the new parts break in.
There are more projects to come. Jason tore his Dyna down and sent his frame to Bryan to be chopped. Tommy has some piston slap in his Dyna and Nick...well Nick has the anti-christ of RevTech motors. So as we start making some progress on this stuff, we'll post it.
If ya cant ride safe, ride fast. - Sean
So I took her home and parked her for the rest of the season. Whatever engine work we were going to do this time around was going to be done at the shop on the bench so I pulled the top end and yanked the whole motor out.
What I found was some serious scoring on the piston skirt and the cylinder walls. Not good.
I took the motor down to the shop and Nick took the bottom end apart and found a few more things. Chunks of shiny metal in the breather cavity, a small chunk of metal chipped out of the crank pin and a nice chunk taken out of the bearing cage.
A complete rebuild. Fucking hooray and stuff.
We sat down and looked at the options and decided to go with an S & S 89" stroker kit and give it a 561 cam. The 561 had a little more lift to it than the SE-11 cam I put in it previously so we also upgraded the valve springs just to be safe. Since we were already in the heads we re-ground the valves and put new seals in even though the ones that were in it were less than a year old.
Yesterday I took the day off from work and we put her back together. I got down to the shop to find Nick had already put the motor in the frame. So I set to washing out the inner and outer primary covers so Nick could get the motor properly aligned and lock it down into place.
It's important to understand that when my ride went down, my Bastard brother Jason let me ride his Sportster Sport, his backup bike after he bought his Dyna Lowrider. It's a shorter bike with low rising T-bars, mid controls and dual front disc brakes. For the last four months I've been more or less cooped up riding this thing, cussing it for feeling like a squid bike, learning the hard way to respect those dual discs, but grateful to be riding nonetheless. Getting on my bike in the pouring rain was a bit of a re-adjustment. I guess the old saying of "it's like riding a bike" holds true because it wasnt more than a couple miles and it all came back. Stretched out legs, arms and head held high. I was home again.
Now comes the hard part: rolling off 1000 miles without rodding too much while all the new parts break in.
There are more projects to come. Jason tore his Dyna down and sent his frame to Bryan to be chopped. Tommy has some piston slap in his Dyna and Nick...well Nick has the anti-christ of RevTech motors. So as we start making some progress on this stuff, we'll post it.
If ya cant ride safe, ride fast. - Sean
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