If you cant buy what you want....

Made me an air cleaner. Well I finished it up last night. the only thing that had me held up was the element. I decided to use one of the old wire mesh ones I had hanging around.

Off to Port Costa for the afternoon. Maybe I'll bring my camera this time. See you there.

all waxed up...

and nothing to do.
     I spent the day with my dad, getting him motivated. His 56 still needed to get a carb put on it. He got the tanks off and found out the right one was cracked and brazed it (all fixed now). He has to make a throttle cable bracket for the new Bendix and it should be done. I spent most of my time watching him work and cleaning the surface rust off of the chrome. After I finished up with his bike I went to work shining mine back up, not much to it.
     I heard that there was going to be a bike and car show down town tonight, WRONG, but I wasn't the only one that showed up. A half dozen cars showed. I decided to go for a put around the marina with my daughter instead.

me and my girl, Memorial day 2007

Flea Market finds

Went to the flea market for the first time this year and came away with a couple of vintage helmets. The bigger one has a 1966 U.S.A.S.I. sticker in it the other one has a leather liner. Not bad for ten bucks.

This thing caught my eye with the flames they are raised.
When I looked closer someone put them on with striping
tape and then painted the blue micro flake over it. 

How should the air go in?

I took the engine killer off the Shovel and put the super E on but I didn't have a small air cleaner ( I hate those teardrop S&S ones ). So I got this crazy idea to make one out of an amp gauge face plate off this three faze generator we are scraping. Here are some shots from the garage tonight, almost done.

face plate and a old piece of brass scrap 

I need to put a filter element in and rap the outer screen and on it goes.
It's going to look bad ass, I like the glass window on it.

 

Ariel Square 4 Chopper

Ariel Square 4 Chopper, a photo by Sometime The Magic Works on Flickr.

for sale. send me a email if you are interested I'll pass it along.

The Panhead...

in its final form for now, I think? My mom worked her magic on these pics, you can find her on flicker or her blog ( sometimethemagicworks.blogspot.com ) these are all high res HDR photos they can be made into full size prints.

Chrome

I got my header and sissy bar back today the chrome came out great. I could have prepped the header better, I can see the welds. Live and learn...

My mom took better pictures Ill post them later.