Bling

Soup

Friends new ride

Our fiend Alex just got his first bike. 09 Dyna Superglide. Sure beats the shitty honda I had as a first bike. Congrats Alex!

Built

Oil and Wiring and it's moving

sorry about your shirt walt...

a little love from our boys over at motoscum more to come

Chroming

Since I've had a bunch of people ask me about chroming in the last few weeks I thought I'd throw up some info on my experience. I used Hanlon Plating here in Richmond. I originally called and they told me they didn't do exhaust pipes or aluminum parts so I basically wrote them off. I called around to a bunch of other places in the area and nobody could even give me a price, much less chrome an 8 foot long exhaust pipe. I called my girlfriend's stepdad who's been around bikes a lot longer than I've even been on this planet and he told me Hanlon did his buddy's pipes. Long story not very short, I called them back and they said they'd do the pipes but wouldn't give me a warranty on the chrome which I didn't give a shit about anyway. I took them up there at about 3 in the afternoon on a Monday and had them back in my hands on Thursday afternoon. I definitely wouldn't say it was cheap at $300 for the two pipes and $20 for an aluminum top clamp for my bars, but I had to have the work done and they look awesome and it was definitely a good turnaround. For the size of the pipes I don't think the price was totally insane, but it was more than I wanted to pay.

I also took a pile of stuff back over there yesterday morning that included my sissy bar, top clamp for my triple tree, riser bottoms, headlight bracket, highway peg bracket, and a few little steel brackets and they quoted me $225 and said it'd be ready early next week. Again, more than I wanted to pay but I know they'll look good and when you weld on old chrome you know you're gonna have to pay the bucks to get it to look right in the end.

Hanlon is a shop that doesn't have a bunch of overhead and bullshit and I respect that about them. They seem to do good work and in a decent time frame. It's not the cheapest place around I'm sure, but its worth it to me to not have to ship it all somewhere or drive to Mongolia in my V8 van to drop it off.

Since nobody wants to see a post without a photo or video I made this last night from some clips from our New Years Eve get together and some other shit I hadn't used yet.

New Years Eve 2011-2012 from KW on Vimeo.

Night Moves

Worked until 12:30 last night. Things are starting to come together. Pipes look awesome with the chrome and I realized at the last minute I have more stuff I need to get chromed but I think I've got time before the paint is finished so Monday I'll take it back to the chromer. Here's a little progress report:

2 Years

We've been at our current location for 2 years now. Some have come and gone but not much has changed and I like it that way. Did some work this weekend and loose ends are starting to come together. We partied for New Years a little, too, and listened to the surrounding neighborhoods buck shots for the first few minutes of the year. Made some good cook smoke, too.

Kurt painted his frame this weekend, cant wait for him to get the bike all back together.