Noot

Make your own . . .

I'm just gonna start making my own pistons . . .
can't find the ones I want.

These work. Punch out your screen and install one for better engine breathing, less gasket seepage and more power. 1. Punch out the steel screen 2. Grind and smooth out the remaining spot welds which are left behind. 3. I use a little "Right Stuff" or your favorite sealer down in the bottom of the breather. 4. Install with the supplied set screw through the bottom breather hole (add a little locktite) even though the screw can't go anywhere once the breather is in the case. I have a few for sale if you really want one. $35 Fits: '83 and earlier shovels, pans, knucks . . .
PS. I also like to 'square up' the breather hole in the case itself (I have S&S directions if you want specifics - I can fax to you if needed.

Tranny Rebuild

I think this has been one of the hardest rebuilds I've ever done? Lapping, surface grinding thrust washers, OD grinding shafts, heating, pressing, measuring, fitting, checking runout . . . a lot of little tolerances that were off and needed correcting. Giving stuff to people, trying to get it back. On the run, phone calls. Made my tiny brain hurt. Trying to do it in the garage with books, devices and tools that were foreign to me. Trying to understand why shit is binding, why stuff don't fit right? 1/2 of one part - and 1/2 of another. It still ain't done yet. Need shift rollers. (I had the old style that didn't use them) Fun times. (Hey, that's a 15" with star-hub in the background for a local dude's chop) Custom made brass jockey shift ball.
Get down with it !

I dig'her . . .

Neat motorcycle - but, her cute, little, perfect ass is right in the way
of the part I want to see . . . damn.

Parts Score . . .

Some guy cleaning out his garage . . .

1985 - Robert's dirt track comeback . . .

I think he rode a Harley XR in this one?
I know he did at one of them . . .

Here's why . . . The bottom line: Uncle Bob

I post a lot of Spina paint and stuff. You can see it here on rickynoot . . . Bob's a good friend of mine - and he's also been around the block in the custom paint world . . . you dig? I figure once guys like him are gone - they're gone, and we ain't gettin' any younger. I try to stripe all my jobs with "Spina-style-striping" - so it can kinda carry-on another generation. Bob sends me pics from his cell and I post 'em. It's kinda like being buds with Roth, Dutch, Watson, Mr. J, Bobbo, Magoo, Kelly, Coop, Jimmy C . . . can you dig it? The guys that are legends. They don't make any more like 'em. You diggin' it?
I can dig it !

Got Spina?

Dino's Lounge

Go check it out my Vegas friends . . .

Panhead Cylinders

Three are better than Two

Anybody Know ??????

What company made these risers? My buddy picked them up when he lived in California in the 1960s and early 1970s . . .

Quarter Twenty Four

Yes, there really is 1/4-24 . . . I wonder how many threads have been destroyed over the years with 1/4-20 bolts?????

Marion Owens Agrees

Two Are Better Than One . . .

STREETNIK @the SEMA Show

Yo kiddies, git down wid it on da STREETNIK, so don't ya be a dick or we beat ya wid a stick down by Dick Blick says Rick on his way to see a Flik at da Palms . . . huh?

Wow . . . The California Kid !

Check this . . . just got sent the top photo from the SEMA Show in Vegas. The real "California Kid" coupe. The photo on the bottom is Pete Jacobs, Ed Roth, Spina and Pete Chapouris . . . (California Kid is peeking on the left)

Mike Kidd

Hats off for running the dirt track program successfully this year. I think former racers do a better job than pencil pushers in the AMA. Morehead did a great job too . . . Thank You !

Two are better than One

Willard's dual engine shovelhead street bike. He fired it up for me. It sounds like a single engine when it's running - since they run with each other perfectly. After many trials and tribulations with this . . . he said it cruises around great. And gets lots of looks of coarse.

I likey . . .

Another 2 into 1 . . . I don't know . . . but, I dig it !
A reverse megaphone type-o-deal . . .
Cool seat . . .
Motor mounts . . .
Paint . . .
Etc.

Ready for Atco, Lions, Fontana . . . etc.

When do they open?

Arlen Ness Bridge

Our little town had it's historic suspension walking bridge destroyed by a flood a couple years ago. The city council voted to replace it with this thing (open last week) at a cost of about $4 million dollars.
Arlen would be proud.

Quality Service

. . . is hard to find.

Lake?

Do these things really work?

Blaine Cartwright & Co.

Nashville Pussy

Happy Halloween to you . . .

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery . . .

Delta

I only fly 1st Class - (actually this plane was a total piece of shit)

SU Eliminator

These make power !

Sexy AND Dangerous

The Jammer Products babe . . .

Just dangerous . . .

A "Toast" at Kung Fu

Went into Kung Fu on Saturday after I met Ricky in the parking lot for some ironhead Sportster swapping. I noticed the Danny Hanson tribute decal on the door on the way in . . . so, I had a Hamms and 3 tacos for a guy who probably wishes he could be munching on some of these delicious hard shells. Don't know who he was, or if I ever met him - but, he musta been a cool dude for someone to make a decal for him. Go Danny go !

Parts Run

Lookin' for parts, driving the backroads of our great state. We've all been "pickin" before the show ever hit the air. It's fun and a great way to see the country.

via Brown's Plating - Paducah, KY

Scott, Graham & Kidd get down . . .

Winfield - Watson

Hey Watson . . . we missed you man. In the spirit of Larry the show went on - bad ass rods and the legends who build 'em. Uncle Bob Spina with Maria & Roger O'Dell (Watson's friends from way back). Hey Spina - cool shirt. If you weren't there - you might be square?