Mama Tried Weekend

I like driving sometimes. 

Mississippi River, Iowa side open - Wisconsin side frozen.

This girl had her Triumph Cub, waiting for carry-out.

Races were great as usual . . . Jared Mees and Cory Texter battled until Mees pretty much ran into him to pass . . . bangin' is racing I guess ?

Michael Lichter was there doin' his thing . . . he also had a show at the Iron Horse Hotel with stories and commentary about his photographs.  I was gonna say hello, but he was kinda busy, tryin' to make

some money . . .  so was Kurpius.

Some guys fell on their ass . . . but it was pretty decent mostly. 

Nathan made it . . .

Hux checkin' out Keith Ulicki's bikes and leathers on display in the lobby.

 

in the stands . . . being "Instagram'd" and don't even know it !  Hey Rich !

The Mama Tried Show in Milwaukee is the best motorcycle show I've ever seen.  I haven't been to Born Free . . . but this show is really good - and it's great catching up with all the dudes !

It's the motors I like best . . .

 The best display of bikes today - anywhere in the world.

Itchy's new orange Kawasaki . . .

 

 

Roger Reiman catches a little air . . .

"Twins" will once again run the TTs and Short Tracks in 2017.

1998 with Resweber

Carroll signed my 1961 American Motorcyclist Magazine that day . . . it was a Saturday.

Joe Leonard's on Television !

The Marten Brothers

This stone wheel was used in founder Joseph Kelly's flour mill here on the bank on the Cedar River.  After the mill closed, the wheel, being really heavy, nobody wanted it.  It laid on the bank of the river for almost 20 years, until these Marten Bros decided they could use it to shrink and stretch wagon wheel tires.  Huh?  It's been on this "Andres Patio" for as long as I can remember.  It be difficult to find someone to make you a stone wheel like this today.  Concrete maybe?  But this is hard stone formed from a larger rock.

I'll need a can cooler . . .

Last Millenium

Ironworks: June 1999

Gary Scott won at Des Moines (1979)

From the left: Jay Springsteen, Gary Scott (thanks the fans in the crowd) Miss Camel Pro Series Lynn Griffiths and Ted Boody.  Dr.Pepper (Mid-Continent Bottlers) were big sponsors that year.

Ty Cawley - Nat'l #92

Who is Ty Cawley?  He had a national number in 1978-79 (No. 92).  Altoona is now sort-of a suburb of Des Moines, Iowa.  In his day, Ty was fast as hell to earn a national number !

Spring Cleaning the Cabinets

I've got more stuff I save for some reason, but today I threw out a pile of Cycle News, old crap . . . but I still save all the "good" stuff - Like this photo of the Corbin Race Team with #31 Ken Coolbeth Jr. of Warren, CT and #43 Joe Kopp of Mica, WA.



He's an old photo copy of me on a Yamaha Enticer at Eagle River ready for the Junior heats.  This photo was taken by Ted Trainer, a very competitive local snowmobile racer (who should have been a professional)

America's Least Wanted

1. This record rips.  2. I get a lot done in the shop listening to it . . . and 3. I don't care what they say about Whitfield Crane, I choose my own friends.

Early Hydra Glide

I pieced together an early set (stock rake for rigid frames)

but, it was kinda Fuk'd . . .

 

1. Fixed stem and threads

2. Stripped paint, roughed up chrome

3. Acid etched

4. Primed & painted

5. Sportster Buckhorns (made into one-piece bars)

6. Drilled & tapped for switches

7. The destroyed lower Timken removed

8. Lower stem repaired

9. Fork Stops repaired

10. Fork Caps repaired

11. New lower Timken installed with dust shield

12. Painted everything

13. Stainless top plate repaired

14. All special top nuts, and parts, etc deburred and fixed

15. All mock-up assembled.

16. All the parts were kinda cheap (for a good reason)

17.  Everything was kinda Fuk'd

18. Good now(but I missed a lot of TV programs)
19. Damper parts plug the hole - and look cool