Last Saturday's Lunch Ride.

Last Saturday we went to Shono's for lunch. It's a pretty cool little Japanese place near my Gym. It's also a little farther away so we had a better ride and I got more pictures. I know y'all get tired of me posting the pics from the lunch ride, but taking riding pics is one of my favorite things to do. When you get truly tired of them, let me know in the comments. I may give it a break or I may tell you to piss off. Depends on my mood I guess.

Spenser is hungry and ready to go!

David rode the Panhead and since the kickstand spring is stretched and doesn't really work he has to use a loop made from zip ties to hold it up. Of course this takes time and everyone ended up leaving us behind so we rode out by ourselves. That's OK, I got to listen to this fine beast run.

You know you're tall when you make a Panhead chopper look small.

The man is loving this machine right now!

We found out that the rest of the crew stopped so Jesse could get some gas. His Sporty is apart for some much needed chopping so he borrowed Davids CB750 for this ride. Here he is pulling into the parking spot for lunch.

After lunch, I got ahead of everyone in the parking lot and got this pic as they passed by me. Stewie's new tank really grabs your eye!

The ride back.

I love riding in a nice small pack of cool bikes.

Stylin' & Profilin"

That pipe was about 3/4" from Jesse's leg. Shorts are NOT the preferred riding gear fro that bike.

We stopped for a slushy, we they did I just watched. he Panhead had a few issues, but all in all it was a good ride.

Primitive Cycles!

Met some guys at the Conte Kustoms open house from Primitive Cycle in Tuscaloosa, AL. These guys live up to their name! A month ago when the tornadoes ravaged Tuscaloosa these guys managed to get through it alive and mostly intact. However they were busting ass to get this bike ready for the Dixie Roundup so they were in their shop with no electricity and not much else trying to get the bike wired and plumbed in time for the show. They ended up not making it, but that was because of a vendor screwing up a parts order TWICE. It sure as hell wasn't from a lack of effort on their part. On to the bike, it's an old Honda 750 with a nice looking hardtail added to it, a round oil tank, a vintage mustang style tank with the old flush mounted gas cap straight from the old days, not a modern repop. The pipes are 4 into 2's and sound mean as hell. The rest of the bike is your basic chopper bad ass stuff. Killer king & Queen seat on a flat fender, drum brakes and a cool set of handlebars that really seem to work with this set up. Check out the pics here and see even more on their website Primitive Cycle.

Nice way to get the word out about the shop. Make it obvious who made the beast.

Good view of the pipes in this shot.

Those handlebars, the seat and that vintage tank really make this bike a standout in a sea of retro choppers.

As you can see no front brake is the way to go.

The guys from the shop showing some of the details to Spenser.

It's great to see some more local/regional shops get up and running. The more cool bikes around here the happier I become ;-) Be sure and give these guys a call or go by and see them.

Primitive Cycle
(205) 242-5537
Tuscaloosa, AL
www.primitivecycle.com

CB 750 Goodness

One of the recent projects I've been following is a cool CB750 chop. The donor bike was a mint bike that any purist would have cried to see chopped. This chop has been done in a way to maintain some of that purity while at the same time creating a BAD ASS chopper. The front half of the frame is original and the stock tank with original paint is still being used. From the middle back however, it's all chopper goodness.

The overall bike in progress.

Custom made from scratch oil tank with the main tank mount fabbed.

Check out this beautiful mount set up for the custom oil tank. This is only part of the mount. There are of course more than one mounting point.

From below.