Rite Of Passage, The Baja 1000 Ep. 1

1st place class 21, 11th O.A.
(I use spanner wrenches on spanner nuts)

Cha-ching

Bixby Moto mini z50 sidecar tearing up Venice Beach death dealer II (Dav...

two strokes make me so horny

Need sound effects damn it!

FTW video of the day

https://vimeo.com/79442426#at=1343
Dont forget to check http://ftwco.blogspot.com/ for the motorcycle video of the day.
for four wheels- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf7EkNq0ZdM#t=41

Shit in da shop

 It is that time of year.  Racing circuits have wrapped up, at least for me. Although I have been talking with a friend about ice racing his built to the hilt honda. But that is every month in January and I am going to be a bit occupied getting hitched to the woman of my dreams in the middle of said month.  A race wedding weekend perhaps?  I better pick my battles wisely. Which brings me back to my point. This is a time of year to plan next year's conquests. What races to plan. What bikes to build. What motors to rebuild. Progressive modifications.   Shop time. ruminating. Dreaming and scheming.

 Pikes Peak entry is open. My wallet now funds more than just racing so I better find some way to turn an over abundance of bikes into cash and in turn into entry fee. (one fair priced used motorcycle)  and preferably a early practice weekend on the big hill (one more fair priced used sickle). And what of building a new race bike? Stepping out of the 450 class is intriguing. A twin cylinder big displacement or vintage in line four super bike sounds like a lot of fun... 

 What I should do is take care of the race bikes I all ready have. Why reinvent the wheel when shit is all ready rolling. I think it is all to easy to be a consuming ugly american and forget  how good what we all ready have is. I am thankful as fuck. nuff preaching. I think I have been able to accomplish what I have racing because I like to make the most of what is available to me. And I have more than enough to keep me occupied. I keep thinking about getting the ol drag bike kawasuki  back to Bonneville. I do have more potential entry fees for sale...

 Did some prep work on this Baja 1000 race bike and it brought me back to preparing my own bikes and planning the logistics of what is one of the most crazy, fun, and demanding adventures there is for a speed freak motor head. I still find cacti pricks oozing out my fore arms once in a while. Fuck. Good luck to the 111x boys. It will be needed.

Start penning in your 2014 calender plans, keep the shop occupied, and the gears turning. It is how dreams become realities.

10-12-13 30+ Main

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AMA'S Flat Track Racing Young Matadors - Jay Springsteen

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Gone to a new home

Another winter project I need not. $2500. runs. rides. needs love. Update- (SOLD)

happy halloweener

Driving around north texas taking pictures of shit on my phone

Last weekend was the last enduro on the Rocky Mountain Enduro Circuit. It was also co sanction with the Texas club. Them are some fast AA texas racers so I was happy to top ten both days. Specialy caus I aint been in the knobby saddle much this summer. I been siping cold ones at flattrack races mostley. workin in my motor bike shop and werkin on my speeliing-gammer. I am just trying to see how many red dotted lines I can make under what i type. what else can I say. I like to write or type stuff on here and just nice to find the time between motorcycles and making love. blow up them sorry celly telly pics and see if you can see what I see. way of the road. piss jugs. van life. hops not health food. Junior Brown. Travis mother fucking Tritt. s'way she goes. good pure living brothers.

winter project

I have got me a 1984 Honda XR500. Customer wanted me to fix a bent shift fork but didnt want to pay the bill. Now im stuck with it. First thing is get it a license plate, then.... Maybe put a Kawasaki tank on it, perhaps street tracker it, super moto? Also you can see the little XL175 peeking through behind this tall steed, both are in line for some winter shop chop and destroy and rebuild.
These other builds

are inspiring:

Texas carnage asada

I don't condone sickness but since the flattrack season is now over I feel obliged to share this broken leg epic. Go to flattrack.com to see all the pic sequence and read the story of what went down in here.

...Sorry. Cheers!

Van canvas

Sticker art by: lord Mick, aka muke, aka 273, dirt box rager rag licker booger dumpster throttle ninja lady pleaser cool guy.

And now I would like to take this moment to thank my sponsors

What can I say? This shit aint easy, It aint cheap, and it wouldn't be half the fun with out people who I can call both support and friends. Weather it is tire and entry fee money, a place to stay, a legit team jersey, exposure, experiences, or just good ol plain comradery. Thank you.

2013 has been a great year of racing. Dirtquake 2, Pikes Peak, and some really good dirt slinging knobby action. Finally starting to get a bit comfortable going fast and turning left as well.

Less than a month before Pikes Peak entry opens. They are trying to make this a high exposure race and in doing so raising the entry fee to over $1000, keeping the ugly grass roots racer who has duct tape racing boots, ugly old leathers, and a vintage conversion van with a rowdy pit crew from being able to race the last real road race course in the U.S. of A.  Well fuck that. I am racing!  I am thinking about making up some t-shirts to do some fund raising with. Would anybody be interested in paying way to much for a t-shirt?

Dirt biking

Run Baja!

weird shit that goes on in Newbold's Motorbike Shop

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