The Day the Bridgeport Came to Live With Me

The lengths we go to to feed a cobbling obsession. Dale and Bob brought the Bridgeport down from the northside of Detroit and David and Dan rigged and offloaded it.

The elegant little Logan looked good next to it but it was replaced shortly afterwards with the 14.5" swing South Bend...

Snow- NW Ohio Style

Nothing messes up an old barn with a northern exposure more than a Northeast howling wind and four or five inches of snow in NW Ohio. Five foot drifts and no snow at all around 'em... Gimme the UP any day...

And the Hacks Keep Coming...

So after all the rest, I stumbled onto this one. I was looking for a decent cone shovel for a regular rider this summer and quite by accident stumbled onto a 1980 FLH with a factory hack. The color and the hack mural fuzz the line of dopey, but overall things are promising. I was just loosening up a little room in the barn too. Oh well....

So Did I Ever Mention I like Sidecars?

To date, I have only ever had one sidehack bike (bringouturdead-see top picture) licensed and on the road, but I have started and stopped several projects. I bought a hack from Alex in New York that was to go on the original '70 Goose. I sold that to Brad and bought a newer velorex 562 hack from a local shop. Then to finance the Indian project everything was sold. Last winter I picked up the '71 Ambo and later at Davenport bought what seemed like a great body for a hack. Just this fall I snagged another old Hack for it also.
That's where I was up through the weekend. Then yesterday I travelled with Tommy up to the NW Detroit suburbs and came home with a rather unintentional '80 FLH Harley with an OEM hack. I'll give that its own entry after a blast from the past on current hacks and hacks of yore....

This Doesn't Happen Often Here...

I can tear stuff apart but it isn't that often one goes back together. The Chief is pretty well a Chief now...

The Powder Special Rides Again!

After burning up the motor in my 99 Arctic Cat last winter, I finally got around to getting it running again this weekend with Tom's help. The most integral part of the help I need lately is a boot in the butt to get something done. Tommy provided that along with a ton of project assistance along the way.

So to the chagrin of tree-hugging, hand-wringing environmental do-gooders and much to my delight, the Powder is once again making blue smoke for everyone's enjoyment.

Good news for the machine tools!

Getting my mill fired up has been on what seemed to be a permanent delay as it waited for me to find or build a phase converter to run the 3 phase motor.
One appeared on the local Craigslist and I scooped it up today.
We may get this thing going yet!