The Black Hills... Off Season... Sturgis - Part 1

My Loaner... Thanks Ricky!

Empty... Sturgis

Sturgis Motorcycle Museum...

Mike's...

My luxury accommodations...

Legends come in all shapes and sizes...

Baddest kid on the block...

Wedding Casual...

Black Hills Beer Stop...

Wedding Prep... The stage is set...

Wedding Photographer... Ken

God damn... The Preacher Man...

Groom and Preacher Man

Waiting for wedlock...

Empty "Biker Bars"

Posing with my ride for the week...

With Carl

Framed view of Mount Rushmore

Ricky on his '49

With Ken Nagahara

Birthday surprise...

The Bride!

With the Newly Weds!

Ricky

In the Black Hills working on an Indian...

Big Storm Coming...

Great place... in Rochford SD

Corner of Rochford and Rochford...

Time to bolt!

More pics to come....

The Race Of Gentlemen 2017 - A Few Quickies

Weather Great, People Great, Bikes Great, Cars Great.... 

Event Great... more to come

1939 Knucklehead Finished and On The Road!

Ready to start!

Fired right the fuck up!

Yes!

Yes!

...and Yes!!!

First Bar Hop....

Running like a champ!

Love that stance!

The siblings are getting along just fine...

1939 Knucklehead... I Can See the Light!!!!

Sunday early AM start...

Ugh... my favorite... I can fix!

Starting to light up!

...in the rear

Had to swap the relay out... guess which one works... Yup! the crusty one of course...

Getting to these trouble makers

Oh yeah...

...and ... done

Fitting the tanks and dash

Air nozzle...

LIGHT IT UP!!!!!!!!

Horn and light wiring... left side

Horn and light wiring... right side

Got this old coil working... it gave me a scare but all is good!

1939 EL Build Update - Getting Closer!

Primary all buttoned up...

Tail light, rear crash bar and rear stand catch

Tool box permanently mounted

Floor boards and front crash bar

Cleaned up the switch

Coil testing

Coil mounted

Horn assemblage....

Sexy!

Horn assembled and mounted

Love it...

Getting into the wiring...

Yanked a nice left side (large) petcock out of a set of UL tanks... it's perfect except the threads for the line are cockeyed... should be fun trying to straighten those out!

Haven't updated the Blog on 39 EL progress lately... getting a shit load done. Above are some highlights... grabbed a bunch of hardware from Old Dude at Oley to help finish her up!