C@D Report

A somewhat remarkable day at Coffee At Dawn today. Justin burned the midnight oil to finish significant fab work on his bike to make the ride this morning. Here is version 2.0. I didn't hear a single shreaded testicle comment today.



Then Justin, his Buddy Tommy & I then ran Triumph fleet up the mountain. Tommy is still ironing out a few bugs out of his Triton (it has less than 100 miles on the clock) but the thing is simply really nice. These pictures don't do it justice. It's just built from the coolest collection of parts. The detail is pretty impressive.



As we arrived... Somethings you only see at C@D. Breeding and Co, general buffoonery on priceless motorcycles. I'd never seen a Vincent ridden of a curb before today.



Pretty healthy turnout too. You can't tell from this picture but they were parked 3 deep pretty much the length of the parking lot.



Ducati row. Ran into Norton Mike up there too.



Interesting car day too.



Austin Healey 100M. This car has made several appearances here. "Too Many Projects" Tommy is busy building a stroker 351W powered 100-6, a VL springered Triumph bobber & who knows what else. I couldn't get him to fess up to how many bikes he actually owns...



Triumph Trio.



Finally, my choice for coolest bike of the day. 250cc Parillia Racer. The guy that campaigns this (seated below) was super cool to talk to. I'm not too sure what this was running on but from the exhaust fumes I'm pretty confident it wasn't pump gas from Allsups.

Church Car Show

V has been pretty terrified by the idea of car shows ever since someone started a car with open straight pipes at the at the Rumblers show last year. I mentioned that there was a GT40 down at the Church show today. He couldn't resist checking it out. Brave kid, I'm proud of him. Oh yeah, it was sunny too.

CB360 Cafe

This one over at Pipeburn is sorta cool.

1968 Triumph Parts Book

I've needed a 1968 Triumph Parts book for a couple of years now but have never gotten around to buying one. I finally stumbled across one here last night. The factory parts books have nice exploded views of every single system on the bike and list part numbers for every individual part. It's really useful for a '68 because there are several one year only parts. The GAMBA site seems to have lots of other useful stuff too.

Hot Rods

I'm a little ashamed to admit a couple of times recently I've caught myself thinking maybe I'm starting to think hot rods are lame. Kinda bums me out to be honest. Then I see something like this and realize, F*** that, they rule! Maybe its "cool kid" car fashion that's lame...

Lurkingclass Garage

Pictures of "Lurkingclass" Pete's home shop. How pathetic is it to be 40-something years old and still envious of someone else's toys?

For Norton Mike

"You know how fast you were going?"

Cafe of the Day

I'd love to see a picture of this one from a different angle.

Johnson Motors

Johnson Motors might be too obscure a Triumph reference for a few of the folks that follow this blog. My daughter is just too cool!

Helmet

Bought V a helmet that fits his monster melon better today. He really wanted a blue one but it wasn't in the cards (couldn't find one that fit). Almost looks like his and mine were meant to match.

Pre-Unit

Somewhere in Pakistan