Lost & Found - Multi Tool from Kentucky highway 23 outside Louisa, KY

While stopping to grab a swig of water on the side of the road, I stepped right on this cool old multi tool. The simplicity of it is what caught my eye at first. Granted it wouldn't work on many applications with tight corner or fittings but for random uses and a catch all tool, it was a damn cool find. Going to put it in my baking soda and electrolyte homemade rust bath and clean it up to see how it looks.

Lost & Found - Huge Cotter Pin from West Virginia railroad

This cotter pin is huge and quite heavy, definitely old and and its a solid cast piece of iron. If anyone has any clue where exactly this part went on the freight cars would be psyched to know about it. Found it on the side of the tracks sticking out the dirt in Thurmond, West Virginia. Amazing little town in Thurmond, at its busiest it had around 20,000 residents and the only way in was by rail. Today it has about 4 people left. wvepostcards.com/thurmond/

1300 miles of ridin' through North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio & Kentucky

What a great trip this turned out to be, but started a week later due to torrential downpours. Chief and Steve set out from Maryland and I met them just outside of Richmond, VA. We ventured through mountains, pastures, river valleys and flat lands through seven states. Only mechanical mixup was a slight oil leak on my rebuilt cams but nothing like a bit of roadside surgery with gasket sealer to get that fixed. Met some great folks and saw places in the country I never thought I would see and cannot wait to venture back. Do yourself a favor and get out and see what a great country we live in. Plus, the folks in many of the places we traveled could sure as hell use some tourism dollars to help them out, hard times in the hollers for sure.

The Harbortown Bobber (motorcycle DVD movie teaser, featuring Gearhead Records - Lords of Altamont's "Action")

Rebuilding cams with new tensioners

Had to tear down the bike to get ready for a trip and an overall 30k maintenance and damn did this take some time. Harley had a service warning on their cam chain tensioners about the chain digging into the tensioner. I bought the parts a while back but just kept putting off the rebuild. thankfully I did it just in time before a road trip as the tensioners had already exploded and there was just enough material left before the chains dug into the metal turning my beloved dyna into heaping mess requiring an entire engine overhaul Had to buy $100 bucks in tools and another $170 in parts and opted to stay with the tensioners instead of going with the gear driven cams simply due to cost. The gear driven cams will cost about $650 and then if a shop was to put it together, tack on close to a grand in service work, screw that hombre! The upgraded tensionsers are supposed to be of a higher quality material so we shall see. Bike sounded good when I fired it up, now a test ride tomorrow to check for random engine rattle or noise, but should be good.

Favorite photo of the week

found it an old issue of Outlaw Biker from the 80's...

Big Mountain Run - From the folks at Cycle Source Mag and the Limpnickie Lot

from Nine Pound Hammers myspace:

Limpnickie Lot & Cycle Source Magazine are having a party, and you are invited… It’s called The Big Mountain Run 2009 and kicks off on June 18th. The Cycle Source Magazine and the Limpnickie Lot Builders present the first annual “Big Mountain Run” in Tennessee June 18, 19 & 20.

Three days of camping, white water rafting, riding the Smokey Mountains and music featuring national recording artists: Nine Pound Hammer. Vendors as well as food will be on site and the whole deal is just $10, for a day pass, $20 for two and $30 to stay all three and that includes your camping.


And if all that isn’t enough, we’re throwing a bonus round: Make it to Tilley’s Harley-​Davidson by noon on Wednesday June 17th and you can leave with all of us on a two day Gypsy run. We’ll be stopping the first day at the Wheels Through Time museum in Maggie valley for a private tour of the best motorcycle museum in the land. After camping that night, we’ll hit Deals gap that next morning where we’ll take on the Dragon, the Cherohola Skyway and finally drop down route 315, ending at our camp and event site in Reliance.


The campsite is the Hiwassee Outfitters in Reliance TN and it sits right at the edge of some of the greatest riding in the whole country. For more information, maps, local hotel info or to purchase your advance tickets, go to

www.​limpnickielot.​com


YouTube promo video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVv1JkPph9c

quick home made floor boards

On trips with a lot of miles, pegs just suck. My leg tends to cramp up on my brake side, as I can rest my left left on my primary and just aches. So why spend several hundred bucks on a new set up when you can spend about 20 bucks at Lowes and make some simple floorboards. I used angle iron, perforated steel and grade 8 bolts to make these suckers. In a perfect world I would have had a tig welder to make everything super smooth but I just have my Hobart 140 mig set up with no gas, so it had to do. Works for me and will allow me to not have leg cramps on 500 to 800 mile days from now on.

the webstore is finally live, take a look!

http://shoprustyknuckles.com/

more parts with fresh paint

just need to start all the paint work on the tank and final painting of panels and frame with graphics, hells yeah.