Nates bike

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I've got less than ten hours into this build and its totally a different look, feel, attitude and its a fun bike to zip around on. stay tuned to see what we do with it next.

Winter: gotta make your fun

We were going to go christmas tree hunting for cades house but he didn't get a permit so we just went snow shoeing.

Nates Bike

We got going on Mr. Woods bike this weekend got alot done. chopped the tail welded a new loop on new seat some tabs removed different bars. much more to come!

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Sneak peek.

Amy's Scoot!

we picked up this 1980 Honda CM200T Friday night. Good deal and its in good shape. Amy had never even rode before and did great didn't even kill it once. stay tuned to see what we do with it. its choppa time!

Stellar Radical Trumpet

Crazy original yet timeless Pre Unit Triumph. Knabbed this from Mike D @ Born Loser.

Lances sissy bar

Call me a Paulie Jr. (no dont) cause i'm webb'n it up.

Too much Heat

Watch those propane heaters...

slack'n

doing a shitty job keep'n up again sorry guys.

went to the salt flats with some good friends for my 21st we missed the racing so we just went back to SLC and partied it up

Jenga updates

finished the hardtail started the seat and fender/boattail.

Hotel Evanston

Cool part of my job is i get to see alot of cool places most people don't this is the old hotel Evanston.

Just riding

Nate and Nayda are the shit.

Deerkill3000

yeah...haha i shot a deer

Tattoos aren't that perminent.

So I was making mega progress getting the hardtail welded up on Jenga. I was grinding down some junk and the bike started falling over and i went to catch it and as i did that i shoved the angle grinder right into my arm taking out a good chunk of my arm and removing a bit of my tattoo..pretty bummed.

this doesn't show how knarly it is at all.

Bikes, Buds, and homocidal boxes.

out enjoying the Indian Summer with some new bros. Cade and I took a huge piece of cardboard to the face at 65+

Jenga

So last year my buddy Jeng decided he wanted a motorcycle. After some convincing from me he decided to build a bike. Cafe Racer in style. After some looking on KSL he found a '81 Suzuki GS550 in pretty decent shape for a good price and snatched it up. It was in decent shape but not quite running. Jeng and a friend soon stripped it completely down and that's how it sat for a few months.

I then gave him 150 for it loaded it up in the truck and brought it back to the Rapture Moto garage and there it sad for a bit...haha. Then i began to assemble the engine until I realize that the cases were destroyed. Not worth the effort to find new cases...Idea scraped it sat in the corner while I worked on the Dirt Devil, The Bottomfeeder and striping down the Harley. Now that all those projects are past and I started going stir crazy I remember this little scoot in the corner and then I remembered the best part. Its TITLED! so I dug it out and stared at it a minute. Decided to do something with it and the name was far too easy. Paying homage to its previous owner it will be known as Jenga! perfect haha.

First thing i did is lopped off the rear end tore off the swing arm and chopped off a bunch of tabs. then I was looking at it trying to decide what kind of tank i wanted to start looking for. the Back bone on this frame is wide and weird. really weird and then i got it....the frame will make a good tank so tonight i got the ball rolling and made tank templates and mocked up the hardtail

Magazine!!!

Cade and I along with the Lords of Loud and the rest of our TBR bros made it into the latest issue of Thunder Road Magazine. Crazy!

Dream Come True

So it may sound silly but ever since I was a little kid I've wanted a big red rolling Craftsman tool box. Its just like the Epitome of manly garage accessories...also i think it has to do with the T.V. show Home Improvement anywho. My old man scored me one for free. I'm stoked!

Anti-Lavapalooza

For those of you who don't know Lavapalooza is an event put on by the Local Harley Davidson shop. Its a ride from the shop up north to Lava Hot Springs there's live "tributes" to Hendrix, Marley and similar influential greats, camping and such but over the hill weekenders head to toe in black leather riding two wheeled chrome shops arguing with each other about who spent more money MoCo junk while they're ol' ladies are shaking they're saggy asses in chaps far too tight to awful attempts at classic rock covers are not the BSC scene...at all.

the boys and I wanted to go for a ride, just not that one. so in a spontaneous effort with little to know plans when all of those other folks were headed north, we headed south with our middle fingers up...quite literally at times. Time to blast up Blacksmith fork.

Ironically our journey began with a stop at Saddleback Harley I had to pick up a replacement bolt for my air cleaner that's been missing since the ride back fro Laughlin in April haha.

After that we split some lanes and mobbed through Logan and Hyrum and hit Blacksmith fork canyon. which I haven't been up for years and never rode a bike thorough its a blast.



My spark plug wire fell off while going through the twistys which worked out nice for cade because while i stopped the other guys kept going and his beanie fell off and i was able to grab it.

A ways up the canyon the road turns to dirt which we decided to navigate good or bad decision? I'm not sure. Adventure? absolutely.

the road was rocky, wash boardy, dusty and narrow. Not really ideal conditions for road bikes but of coarse it didn't stop us.

We putted our way down the dirt road, getting shaken to death, dusted out by oncoming traffic but I was loving every second with it. About halfway up the canyon there's a rad waterfall and pool with amazing blueish green water very breathe taking except for the greedy miller family fencing it off and putting ugly signs up and then filling it full of fishing tackle and garbage. Thanks alot.


















Cool little pit stop, back on the dusty trail. by this time my arms were getting that tingly feeling and my back was starting to hurt from the rough ride. I cant imagine how Brandon was doing it with only his levi vest between his ass and his hard plastic seat pan. Also as we were heading up a particularly narrow corner there was a rather large truck spraying a rather large wall of water across the entire width of the road as i was bracing for the unavoidable soaking the driver turned the water off....we were incredibly thankful and we let him know.

We soon reached the end of the dirt and the beginning of the pavement and asked some ATVers which way to Causey Reservoir and they told us to head up Monte Cristo Canyon which after ten or so miles we decided was the wrong way and we did an about face and headed back down. Monte Cristo is a beautiful canyon and an absolute blast on a motorcycle it is a must ride. we finally found the road to causey and when we finally made it there. Its as cool as everyone says.













Hung around for a bit scoped out some cliffs for jumping off of and made plans for camping in the future all sorts of good stuff. then a short scoot down to a little bar called the Red Cliff cafe pretty cool little place awesome burgers, nice people and this guy was playing Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan songs it was a nice little break. After a good lunch it was time to blast back to Logan.

We finished the ride out of the canyon into the little town of Huntsville and around the Clearview Reservoir very cool area and it drops down into another cool canyon Ogden Canyon which is a blast to ride but traffic prevented us for going fast enough to really enjoy it..well that is until Brandon made a very dicey pass around a bunch of cars in a tight corner. we stopped to take photos of the rad water fall real quick it looks like this.




didn't stop anywhere in Ogden, try to avoid that town as much as possible took the old highway into Brigham City which was a good decision because we got to see all the Classic cars from the Peach days show which was definitely a cool way to end the day. On the way through Sardine Brandon's CX500 became a CX250 as the spark plug wire started shorting out but he beat it into compliance and made it all of the way back home.

Great day, great fun, great buds cannot ask for anything more. it was the longest 150 miles of my life but i loved every bit of it. All of my mods held up to the punishment of the dirt road so i mark that down as a Victory and everyone was safe. This is what its all about.