thanks jesse.

westbound turbine blades, charity cases, bendix.

there's a row of cottonwoods a few hundred yards away from the missouri river. there's also a lot for the truckers to stage up in and a depot for the ford motor company up the street. it's a stones throw from the shop i work in and everyday at lunch time i park the ironhead under the massive canopy of those old cottonwoods, lay out a blanket, call my old lady to tell her i love her and stare off into space. this is the life.

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got every thing adjusted properly and i been riding the shit out of it today.

earlier today i tried to be totally hip and make a first start up video but failed so fucking miserably. it's ok because the chopper gods wanted me to be humble, later i rode the bike around the block for the first time in two and a half years with no video. i need to adjust the carb as well as the valves because she is running a little rough, regardless it's a good feeling to see your baby walk for the first time.

mounted new oil bag, plumbed, and wired up the evo. saw some gal dump her moped, and got drunk as fuck this weekend.

alot was going on this weekend: david allan coe, swap meet, gear grinders at knuckleheads. scored a early 70s ironhead frame, another cross sissy, and a 16" rear spoker with goodyear rubber and a fresh sprocket. swap meet was packed, more so than ever. i never seen a line 20 cars deep waiting to get in there.

i threw on the sissy bar i bought two years ago at the kc swap meet. look close, i had to flip the brackets inside out to fit the gay british sissy in there.

i didn't even think to take a picture of the new bars i made, i guess i was stupid with anticipation . but here's what it looked like after i put them on.

when i make something at work i do it at break time.

i had to sweet talk this deal into happening and i made out with a nice bike at the hookup price. it was love at first site, not as goofy looking as what most of these idiots are trying to get rid of on craigslist.

tuesday i bought an 78 ironhead and this was the first picture i took of it.

reposting is mostly for those on tumblr. but the exception is this awesome photo max schaaf put on his blog today.

when no one has a job and everyone is desperate and cutthroat, you can pay your employees less for the same work.

when consulting firms engineer ways to effectively disseminate american jobs you can count on the price of life to plummet.

during the later half of the 20th century it was cheap oil, nowadays it's cheap blood.