Ride to Skate, Memorial Day, East Coast Machine

Ride to Skate was epic.  I only shot a few photos but you get the idea.  It was an unbelievable showcase of motorcycles and cool stuff.  FDR is still the best skatepark on earth in my opinion.  If you can skate that place you can skate anything.  It's east coast roughness at it's finest.  Big thanks to Joe Zito and all the peeps that make this happen.  And big thanks to the dudes that built this Temple of Gnar.

Met Steve from East Coast Machine at FDR.  Real good dude.  Check out his blog for some east coast chopper creativity.

http://eastcoastmachine.blogspot.com/

I went to Collingwood flea market to pick up some foam and spotted this MG34 at the Army/Navy store there.  I don't know about you but I love machine guns.  Not too often you get to check one out.  Some little kid was a historian on the thing.  Told me he learned it all from playing video games.  Needless to say, I wan't impressed, ha ha.

Shane and I went for a good ride on Memorial Day which ended with a gathering of the Speed Metal crew in Asbury.  Good times.  Yes, that is a Harley Davidson golf cart.  And that's cool.

When you ride Triumphs, you get oil on your back.  If you ride behind them, you get oil in your face.

It's slow going on my bike build due to work obligations and endless sunshine.  I did bend up this sissy bar out of stainless.  Hopefully, it'll hold a skateboard nicely.

as spotted on the GSP last night driving home from work.  Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

...and the Mets finally get a no hitter!  It only took 50 years.

Fuck yeah. Let's go Devils!

FDR

Pics, etc... are coming.  Get some at http://seafaringdistribution.tumblr.com/ for now.  What a great time. 

Ride to Skate 666. FDgnar. No excuses.

http://freaksquares.blogspot.com/2012/02/ride-to-skate-6.html?zx=cda88ee3f9b8dd9f

motorcycles, beer, cheesesteaks, pool block, no excuses.

Fender mounting and head steady. Ride to skate.

Gotta keep it tight, right?

Fancy bungs.  The coped angles were fun.

It's that time of year again.  Sunshine, motorcycles and small wave boards.  Twin fin Chris Birch on left and higher performance three fin by Rich Price on right.  

My cat got mad skillz, yo

I was driving into work when I noticed this graffiti on the landlord's office.  Draw your own conclusions. 

Stainless headsteady.  Really industrial.  I like it.  Too bad you really won't see it when the tank is on.

I plasma cut some engine mounts.  I'll powdercoat them later.


Remember, ride to skate at FDR this sunday.  See you there.

Triumph progress. Updates

Damn, I forgot to update the blog.  I just realized it's been over a month.  Well, I've been busy.  Work, house, riding, skating and we actually had waves again.  I've also been in the shop working on Kate Moss (the Triumph).

Remember that blocked sludge trap?  

 New sludge trap

Nice Rods!

New bearings all around.  Heat up the cases and it's easy like sunday morning.

New Valves and springs and fresh valve job

Took a break to go Skate Fairfield in April.  This is the only photo I took.  Since I forgot to post in April...happy belated 420, dude.

Fresh trans build

Took a break to ride my shovel for the first time since last year.  New S&S, new tires, new fishtails, full on king of the highway old man status.

New clutch basket.  Yep, there's 20 little roller bearings in there.  Didn't know that.  It was fun crawling around on the floor.

Primary.  all fresh.

.60 over pistons.  I'm glad those stupid plastic rulers finally came in handy.

Took a break to hit up the antique market.  Found these beauties.  These are books for those who don't know.  Sorry for the sideways pic.  Just lie on your side for a second.

The unholiest of unholiest is when you're building your motor and you drop something small and metal in the case.  Let's just say that happened.  So, you gotta shake the bottom end around until it moves from under the crank and then go fishing with the magnet.

Took a break to read the Spanish newspaper.

And there it is.  Almost ready.