Hanging out with my brother-in-law Ike.

Ike was over last weekend, and we enjoyed the nice weather by getting my old Toro stuck... twice.

We also had some good shop time builiding him a Derby car.

Cool bike...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280471349617&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT..................stupid price.

Classic Stuff....

...vintage Clint Eastwood, with some cool motorcycle verbage.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/104163/highway-patrol-motorcycle

1998 Harley Davidson FLSTS Springer Project

On or about the 4th of October of this year I acquired this 1998 FLSTS.

It had some transmission trouble, and I had a hanker en to build something.

I knew I wanted to chop it into some kind of old school bobber type thing, but didn't have any inspiration. After looking thru some books, I found this white, and green Flathead that the Harley Davidson Museum did has a tribute to the Booze Fighters Motorcycle Club, and there famous Hollister incident, which also inspired the Marlon Brando movie The Wild Ones.

I didn't like the idea of green though, and so my search for inspiration continued. I've always had a love for airplanes as well, and I was inspired by a famous airplane called a GeeBee. A racing plane from the early 30's made famous by its notorious danger, and a famous pilot, Jimmy Doolittle.

I had a plan, and if you have been following my blog, or read my previous posts you'll see the progression to what you see here:

I own a Harley Davidson...

....after spending 11 + years at a Harley Davidson dealer, one month before my departure I finally bought one. Now that I'm not in the business, it feels kind of weird to wear a HD shirt, and have someone ask me "Do you have a Harley", because I can answer yes.

Pretty nice lookin speedo...

....got the speedo done. What do you think?