Underwood Deviled Knuck

Underwood corporate theme bike circa 1946.

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Looks like my Olivia is going to be featured in the Italian motorcycle magazine Riders. They promise to ship me a couple copies when it comes out. I think these will be the first published photographs for Sydney too. Kinda cool.

Cannonball

I spent a little time poking around the Motorcycle Cannonball site this morning. I noticed some new entrants in addition to those like Dale Walksler, Jeff Decker, etc. that I found kind of interesting. Wayne Stanfield (the 60-something 5 time winner of the Great American Race and overall motorcycle super-hero), 24 year old Iron Butt knucklehead and overall motorcycle super-hero Matt Olsen. Corky Coker (Thanks for the tires, man), etc. I'm really looking forward to this event passing through ABQ.

XS650

I'm thinking if I had an XS650 right now it would probably end up looking more like this than a bobber.

UK Rod

I need help from a good old car guy like Flathead45 on this one. Is this a "leaned" model A grill? Everyone runs '32 grills on their model A rods now. This is kinda cool.

"Hey, wanna see my 50?"

V is ridiculously stoked about the PW50. I've been watching for one for a little over a year. Every time one pops up that I can afford it's gone before I can get to it. Huge thanks to all the Seattle Uncles for their help!

Seattle

Having too much fun to supply much detail.

V got a ride in Sarge

Flathead45 & I rode the HD's to somewhere on the East Coast to watch the Cossacks perform. It was really fun but the WLA didn't like being passed around like a groupie.

Transmission State-of-the-art

Story goes several years ago, Rockwell International decided to get into the heavy duty transmission business. They were getting ready to tape a first introduction video, and, as a warm up, the professional narrator began what has become a legend within the trucking industry. This is reported to have been strictly “off the cuff,” nothing written down.

Greasy Kulture

This was a cool surprise. I contacted Guy from Greasy Kulture about where to find the magazine in NM and he suggested they'd like to do a feature on my baby. I need to get some current photos shot. I got a kick outta the Decker/Crocker comparison given my last post.

Hippodrome Studio's Rolling Blasphemy

Anyone sick of seeing this Crocker yet? Tough.



Speaking of Jeff Decker, I recently checked the Motorcycle Cannonball route/schedule and they will be stopping in ABQ. Jeff Decker, Dale Walksler & 75 pre-1916 motorcycles. Should be pretty rad.

Church Show

My neighbor Bruce invited me to bring the Trump down to a monthly show his car club is helping to organize (Bruce recently gave me a Triumph clutch puller left over from his Triumph days). There was some cool stuff there, I didn't take pictures of even 20% of what was there. Ended up running into Norton Mike there & my bike ended up parked next to his Ducati 1098 which was kinda fun. Olivia was very well received.

One of my absolute favorites, a 1947 Offenhauser sprint car.



Next up, met a really interesting guy named Lee that came in this '67 Sunbeam Tiger. This car is kind of a hot rod. Ford 302, hand fabricated steel hood etc. He has another with 9,000 original miles, probably the most valuable Tiger in the world.



Lee had a rather amazing story about "smuggling" his Mexican bride into the US as a young LAPD officer on the back of a Norton Commando. His wife later forced him to buy an identical Norton to restore and display in their living room. Apparently the guy selling the 2nd Norton wanted an unreasonable amount for it but Lee's wife talked to his wife in order to "see" that a deal was made.

Happy Mother's Day