Arizona 2008 somewhere near Canyon De Chelly on the Navaho reservation.

Warren being Warren

Warren Jr. of Jr's Cycle Products July 26-27, 2012

Rainy night in Louisiana.  Alabama to TX to see the family April 2011.

Duane

Miss you Duane.  

Desert Doctor

June 27, 2012. There will be a time in eventuality when I will set this whole adventure to print.  Maybe even actual print on paper.  For now however, I will share the story, in photos, of the Desert Doctor.  A man who has gone by many aliases throughout his long career as a chopper witch doctor, the surgeon has built and seen choppers through the brutal, cracked streets of the windy city in the 1970s to their dry-air chopper graves in his back yard on the high desert of Utah. This was the Doctor.  It was at his invite that we came to drink his beers,  stand on his garage roof, stare at 40 year old cracked bondo, and listen to a few of his wild yarns.  Worth every second, we stayed until the sun crept behind the buttes of the Kodachrome basin to the west.  

Ariz.

Panoma California June 2012.

California

A bit more story.  Shawn Donahue  and Scott Craig were gracious to let Warren and I crash at their shop (Bronsonville which doesn't have a web page but info about them is here: http://www.chopcult.com/news/articles/bronsonville-of-pomona-california.html ) when we arrived in California at 11pm on Thursday night.  Invited builders had to report to the Born Free 4 show location to turn in bikes and Shawn was in the midst of pulling an all-nighter working on the Bronsonville genny shovelhead, but still found time to enjoy the company and extent his hospitality. We wheren't the only people there because Shawn draws a crowd with his good looks and humor.  John Tubbs (Dixie Goods) extended his hospitality at his home for the rest of my stay there as I crashed with my crew from Birmingham in Long Beach.  Thanks again John! Born Free 4 post next. 

Warren and Me ride to Born Free

By the time I took the first photo (which is the first one you see below) I had made it from Alabama to Denver.  I broke the seatpost of my frame in Kansas and rode 400 more miles until 3:30a.m. mountain time to get to Robbie's house with a ratchet strap holding my frame together.  With the help of Warren, Kendall and the hospitality of Dave, Justin, Daves Dad (SPEEDMETAL), and Robbie, we made the road by 5pm the next day.  Warren's welds held the whole way to California. The story will be written.  For now a few photos.  

Red Dirt Boogie Brother is Ready

Just built this.

Will ride from Alabama to ....

Take this stuff. 

Theme song.  

Hope I make it.  Wish me luck.  I don't have an Iphone or instagram or anything of that nature so see you in two weeks.

Ramble Tamble 2012.  

Josh Kurpius is talented.  His bikes rule and his photographs are astounding.  Check em.  joshkurpius.com