Americas Got Talent

Seattle Cossacks will be on America's Got Talent 5/15/2012 (NBC - 8pm Pacific time). 

Look at one more 90 point '36 Knucklehead sit motionless on someone's F-ing mantle or see real bikes get ridden the way they are supposed to be. Just watch it goddammit!

More Oley GP

There is a nice writeup over at Smoke & Throttle on the Triumph GP Flathead Rob sent me photos of.

Jim Nelson RIP

Jim Nelson RIP. What a great photo.

Bitsa

I've posted pictures of this bike before. It's a total kludge of parts from some hardy parts pile but I wouldn't change a thig. I just want to jump on it and ride the piss out of it. Kudos.

Daniel Statnekov

Flathead Rob was asking me recently if I'd ever met Daniel Statnekov in any NM vintage motorcycle circles. Daniel is pretty active in the AMCA community and a avid collector/historian of early H-D race bikes. I understand he lives in the Tesuque area. I've never met him but while poking around on his web site I found this great old photo of him on his pre-unit Triumph (1961).

Motorsport

7833 Lomas Blvd., N.E. Franchised for just about every British car sold in the U.S. in 1959: Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Jaguar, Austin-Healey, Austin, MG, Morris, Rover, Land Rover, Triumph, Hillman, Aston Martin, and, last but not least, A.C. Ace-Bristol (that later, with a Ford 260 V-8 under the hood, became the first Shelby Cobra).

Incidentally, I got to see a pretty exceptional local car collection today. '65 GT350, a later GT500 originally purchased in Albuquerque, an original 289 Cobra, an original '66 427 Cobra, etc. The Boss 429 and Sunbeam Tiger were offsite at the time.

Holeshot

Merrimack

Not sure exactly why but I always sorta preferred "Monitor Cycle Center" esthetically. Incidentally, are civil war jokes too random for a motorcycle blog?

Atomic Generator Shovel

I was up at Trent's this afternoon and saw this Shovel he rescued from an East Mountain barn. Started first kick and sounded great. He sold it as a as a commissioned Atomic build while I was there.

The Pan behind it is coming along nicely too.

Stockers

I saw this bike over at the Stocker's blog. Pretty damn cool thus far. It sure would be cool to have a deep enough parts cache to build a bike like this. I even like the TLS front brake.

'47 Triumph T100

Currently on eBay. Pretty sweet.

Forty-Five