TROG POSTPONED DUE TO HURRICANE!!!!!!!

All tickets will be honored next weekend and if you can't make it next weekend, all tickets will be honored next year. For those already in town this weekend, we are working on throwing a party for you. Details to come. #trog 
Hotels are working with us and will do everything that they can to accommodate. 
It's supposed to be a beautiful weekend after the storm has passed. 
Mother Nature has been rough on us racers this year, but we won't let it stop us!! 💪🏼🏁

Yosemite 2015 Group Shots

Lunch Day 3 Group Shots...Columbia State Park

Yosemite Road Run Update Coming....

More to come...

1947 Knuckle Intake Leak Nightime Road Repair

It was a great night for a ride last night...I'm tooling along a dark country road on my White 47 Knuckle when outta nowhere it starts running shitty. I hear this weird popping like when it pops through the Carb BUT it's coming from the left side of the motor and I can feel the hot air hitting my leg???? I think Fuck maybe a head gasket...I put my hand down there and realize it's coming from where the Intake Nipple Rivet should be in the front head...I pull into a dimly lit closed old motel parking lot for further inspection... look's like they have a bulb out...creepy...OK back to the story.

Back in 1983 or so the intake nipples on this motor had been installed using Allen set screws. I never paid it any mind and they worked...above is what it should look like (rear head)...

Here is what I found...Fucked...the set screw had backed out and went Bye Bye...So I'm thinking, Can I plug that up with something? I couldn't get a real feel for the size but hell, where there are threads, something threaded can go...I have no tools except my Leatherman and no spare parts. 

Hhhmmm maybe a primary cover screw will work...I unscrew it and stick in the hole...Nope too small...Now let's see what else can I remove with my Leatherman that might fit...

I walk around the bike a few times searching for a threaded part to cannibalize...Hey, I can try the 1/4 screw from my floor board extension...Nope still too small...so my trial and error tells me I need a 5/16x24 thread...I know my shifter rod end pivot bolt is that thread. Let me give that a try...

With my trusty Leatherman I remove the 7752 nut from the shifter rod end to see if my deduction on thread size was correct...

The fucker threaded right in...Nice! It worked like it was made for it! The shoulder stopped it from going in too far and provided a nice seal around the hole...But now what? I searched through my pockets and guess what I always have hanging on my key ring???

A spare master link of course! Worked like a fuckin' charm (shifting was a little sloppy) but I was back on the road and finished out the night! I might just replace the shifter bolt on the linkage and say fuck it...

1946 Knucklehead...Prime Problem...with a Big Fat WTF?!?!

My old dependable '46 Knuckle was not starting as easily as usual...it seemed to require a couple of extra prime kicks to get going...I ignored it for a while and then on Saturday I decided to see what was up, expecting maybe a clogged fuel strainer. I popped off the air cleaner cover and...Oh Shit! No wonder the M-74B wasn't sucking gas on the choke kicks...now the real question...were did the fuckin' parts go???

On the left, the choke disc I just pulled outta my carb and on the right is what it should look like...there's a lot missing...the steel disc, the steel spring and the brass pin...all MIA!

I took a peak down the throat and saw nothing unusual clear back into the intake manifold...

Now I'm sure there couldn't be anything in there since I put about 50 miles on the bike just the night before...BUT just to ease my mind I decided to do a little exploratory...My telescoping magnet broke long ago so I whipped this up out of a coat hanger and part of refrigerator magnet. 

Wait a minute! Holy shit! From deep in the front intake chamber!!! WTF!

How the fuck???

Well I guess I gotta go deeper...

Off with the Linkert...

Hhhmmm... preformed a digital probe and didn't feel anything...

In with the magnet...what in the hell!!!

Are you Fuckin' Shittin' me??? WTF!

The steel disc...just floating around the intake valve area waiting for an opportunity to wreak havoc! OK now the intake has to come off so I can search for the brass pin...

Hhhhmmmm...not in there...

Not in there...

Well the brass pin is nowhere to be found...could it have dissolved from the heat and blown out the exhaust without hurting anything??? Could it be the one part out of the three that actually did fall into the air cleaner and out of one of the slots in the air cleaner backing plate??? I guess I'll never know...WTF!

She's all back together and running sweet! Sucking fuel like a champ on prime kicks...I put another 100 "trouble free" miles on it over the weekend....all better....'til next time...