Aftermath and First Post Sandy Ride...

Every other road around here looks like this...

Put the boys to work... (One of Four and Two of Four)

Reconnected! Thank you cable guy!

Been breaking my ass all week and finally got out for a little ride today after getting some clean up and reconnection done. About half the roads it seems are still blocked by down trees and power lines. A lot of people still without power. I got lucky and ran into the power company guy and showed him which line was down causing my outage. So now I have power. I also got the cable guy over here to reconnect me and I have Internet /cable again! One of Four and Two of Four were home so I put them to work...sweet!

Oh Sandy...

The view from my door yesterday morning...

My poor '94 Ford Van took a bit of a beating...

Fixin' stuff...

Hurricane Sandy hit us hard in the PA, NJ, NY area Monday night. I had some issues...trees falling on my vehicles, siding ripping off, water coming into the house, etc. but nothing I couldn't deal with (still no power). Others were wiped out...especially along the shore. Still waiting to hear from a few that are cut off on barrier islands...

My thoughts go out to those that are less fortunate....

Hope to hear from friends soon.

T.R.O.G - The Start and the Finish

Early Saturday morning test runs on the beach before the crowd's arrived.I knew I shoulda used a dust ring on that drum and oh that poor rear chain...Billy pointing and laughing as I went axle deep with the Knuckle...

Me and Billy settin' up for the last run of the day...

Sorry about the over-posting of T.R.O.G. but the pics just keep on coming...these came of the Jalopy Journal. I Need to do some serious maintenance on these two and get back to building bikes....

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=717724&page=54

The toll of the T.R.O.G.

The Zapper...when wet

True Grit....

Broke the left tank upper front mount on the Knuckle....

had to safety wire and wire tie it...

I think it's gonna take a little more then this to get the salt and sand off these things...

The Race of Gentlemen - Ride the Wave!

After this run the Wico magneto continually shocked every inch of me while riding! 

Oh and by the way...This was the most fun you can have!

This pic was sent to me by my friend Dawn a professional photographer who attended the event. She took hundreds of photos and you can check them out on her Facebook page at the link below.
You need go to the Facebook page below and click on the link for The Race of Gentlemen that for some reason says page Cannot Be Found...but it is there. Once in you'll need to log in with an email address and first name. Great photos!

http://www.facebook.com/EyeOfTheBeholderInc

The Race of Gentlemen - Part ??? Lost track and mixed up

Well it is The Race of Gentlemen!

Ladies and Gentlemen Mr. Joe Oz

Pepper rolling down on Uncle Frank's Scout

Joe Oz got so exited his new Pace Maker blew a gasket 

(not kidding!)

Matt pre-crash...looks pissed....

We gave the Crashing Cubans the prize of the day!

Billy graciously accepting for him and Matt. 

Matt crashed and dislocated his shoulder and broke his collar bone!

Stretch running that sweet JD

Found this pic of the pre party Friday...Epic as the kids say...

 (got this on the internet)

Look at the line of photographers! (got this on the internet)

I ended up working the race...it was great!

Got this one off the H.A.M.B.

Matt eating it in the sand...off to the hospital...

Got this off the H.A.M.B.

Clean up at the end of a spectacular show!

There is now so much video and so many photos of this event on line that it's insane. The crowd was estimated at 3000 and everybody was filming. This was such a great event to be a part of. I'm still buzzing from it! some of these pics are out of order...enjoy 'em.