Today was an eventful one! Early start to go with Jada to buy her new motorcycle, home for some work, then off again to Two Wheel Tuesday at Tom Young’s motorcycle museum heaven! Rose City Motorcycle Museum is, as Tom calls it, “Portland’s best kept secret” where politics, religion, arguing and shitty attitudes are not allowed. It was a good day in my lil world, and Jada’s too. [ See Jada and her new bike ]
Today is the nine year anniversary of my best friend Chris Herrin’s motorcycle accident. It was a doozy to say the least… We celebrated by riding around Sauvie Island and kicked back on the beach.
I’m stoked on my new Icon Airmada Stack lid and Justice gloves. Took ‘em out for a little while last night, so good.
The Portland Alley Sweeper was kick ass… the poor borrowed XS400 suffered one close call, two low sides, a bunch of mud, broken blinker, bent headlight bucket, broken GoPro mount… and I got a sweet bruise.
It’s every journalist’s (or wannabe journalist, if you rather) dream to get to travel and photograph their favorite things… in this case, the lovely Sasha of CafeRacerXXX sent me on a mission to photograph “Tesla”, a Triumph build by my friend Jeff Yarrington of Saint Motor Company in Maryland.
So, I bought this early 60’s BSA frame a couple months ago from a neighbor with the intent to start working on it when the Monster is done. I didn’t post about it because I knew I’d catch a whole lot of flack from people wondering why the hell my Monster has taken so long, and why I’m picking up new projects before the first is done. But let’s face it, if you’re into motorcycles and especially customizing them… you know exactly what is going on here. It’s got a Harley rear… Continue Reading »
