Remember Jada...she's a peach. She's also had some shit luck recently. First...some assclown stole the plate off her CB175 whilst parked at a scenic overlook. Then, just recently the engine on the little beastie huffed it's last puff and needed to be replaced. AND THEN.......another (WTF!!? Is this an ASSCLOWN convention???!!) assclown STOLE for commuter from in front of her friggin' house. Fer REAL! Some dudes just need punched in the dick. Pass it around, lots of useful info here...let's find this D-bag and administer said cockpunch.

Here's a very cute puppy....because very cute puppies make me want to stab people a little less......

Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K. Well...good things anyway. It's been a while in coming but I have joined the team at a VERY good aerospace company here in town doing.....machiney things. It's a good gig with good people that I am really enjoying. I just completed my first week and thus far all is fantastic!

I made ends meet during the recent months in my own shop but it occurred to me that the truth is....I'm a machinist, I'm an artist and something of an inventor. I am not a business man. I can do it, I DID it....I just didn't like it. I see a strong future in this, the making of wacky one-off custom parts for all things wheelie. I really dig it and it seems like people dig what I do which is very gratifying, but the day to day slog of dealing with the 'office' part of it just isn't for me.

All is not lost though, not by a long shot. With the new job I am freed up(and far FAR better financed) to pursue some pretty neat projects. I will continue to make parts for people and build bikes but like they say in the old song.....
I don't do business that don't make me smile!

The greasy dozen bike is moving forward well, I will dig up some pics too....once I work up the gumption.

I expect that my personal projects will finally move forward..cobblers shoes and all that stuff. In the mean time, I'm doing nothing today but drinking too many coffee nudges, watching a movie and I promise to switch to Manhattans tonite!

Oh...here's a cool Jeep I just found!

I'm not really a Jeep guy, more of a big truck or sportscar buff....but you can't deny the basic cool here.

Ya know, come to think of it......maybe I AM could be a Jeep guy.......

Some more odds and ends.....

Simple milled Dyna coil mounts for a CB....something or other.

A simple indexible fixture for boring some custom eccentrics...

Hogging out the major portion of the bore work......

The finished pieces....because I'm miserable at taking pics while working the boring portion isn't shown but they're bored for a 25mm Ducati rear axle. These are for the Greasy Dozen bike....

An adapter to fit an Oregon Motorcycle Parts Reg/Rec unit onto a CB350. Made from some reclaimed heatsink material.

A fun pic I found on the toobz while trying to explain what the squishband area of a piston is....

The other reason I love springtime so fucking much!

 Fight less, fuck more. Ride motorcycles....you know, be good humans!

How's that for craptastic artwork? As this pic shows, the original version of the brake linkage would make for a very busy pedal when in motion as well as terribly inconsistent braking. By replacing the linkage arm with a simple cable nearly (if not) all of the wonkiness.....that's a word....would be eliminated. a couple simple bolt on "cable towers" to define the bounds of the cable, an equally simple clevis on one end and repurposing of the threaded adjuster on the drum end and you're golden.