Most fun race/event of the year!!!

Dirt Quake: Coming To America from SIDEBURN on Vimeo.

I am not sure what I will be able to ride this year but a Tommy's Triumph Shop sponsored chopper is being worked out...

Local series

Tomorrows early practice is canceled due to weather but check here for the reschedule

Tommy's Triumph Shop

Who the hell is that guy wearing a Tommy's Triumph Shop shirt?!

J&M TL1000

On VFT right now. 7500$. I bet this thing would scoot up Pikes Peak. I like skid marks.

Daytona Flat Track round 1 highlights from Sammy Halbert

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Fender Jag

I love guitars. Especially old ones. A guitar like a bike has a soul (i believe) or at least a story. a history. Something that inspires great interest in me. I collect these things because I am so fascinated by their energy. I also find such pleasure in reviving something that most would discard. Turning an old rat shit bike into a race winner. Taking a bicycle out of the dumpster and easily creating a device of immense fun. This old fender belonged to a close and bereaved friend of my fathers. Life is not always a golden chariot ride Perhaps explaining the condition of the once fine musical instrument. It has been in the condition seen for probably 30 years. It would appear he thought it best to router her out for some humbucker style pick ups. After spending the last few years trying to find the neck lost in a storage container of mystery and wonder (thats a whole nother story all together) I finally have all the pieces to start a resto job. Anybody out there have any resources for such a project? I need pickups and the knowledge to not fuck anything up. Anything worth doing is worth doing correct, however I cant see paying a shit ton for someone else to do it for me.

Other people's

I know, I know, I am just roaming around the net nabbing other peoples pictures. Inspiration is so abundant these days. motorcycles are popular. if it aint vintage it aint blah blah blah TZ750 flattracker is so blown out blah blah blah.... I want to ride one god damnit!!!

Scrambling

Back in the day yo

Live large, bust big. HUGE!

Vintage Hare & Hound Desert Racing (1967)...BSA, Greeves, Triumph, Norto...

Back when men were men, hair doos were good, suspension was bad, and a pit stop entailed a cigarette. If off road racing were still like this then I would still be an off road racer.

In Honda we trust. The saga continues.

My first motorbike memory was holding on to the cross bar of my Dad's 1982 XL250. That thing seemed so high off the ground. After graduating to the back seat I can remember him crossing a river that I would question crossing myself currently. Once his hat flew off and trying to catch it he crashed us in some grass. I thought that crashing business was rather fun! when I was three my parents split and it seemed like motorbikes were out of my future plans. However bicycles and urban bmx was the center of my life. When I was in 3rd grade I bought a 1979 z50 from my teacher for 20$. That was the beginning of a lesson that goes on and on and on... A clean carb is a happy carb. After so many attempts at cleaning the carb I stripped the screws out and never got more than a few passes of the driveway before the rust in the tank blocked the carb up again My mom decided I needed an upgrade. She spent a couple hundred on a 1986 cr80 that was a bit beyond half way clapped out. It was the middle of winter and it took me a few days before I could figure out how to get the premix soaked spark plug fouling peppy little spit fuck started. Then I had to learn how the hell a clutch lever worked. Despite the driveway being covered in packed snow I had so much fun that winter. I rode and rode and rode until all the teeth were rounded off the rear sprocket. little fucker would not go. took a while before I figured that one out. I was not born a natural mechanic. I had to learn the hard way. More like my mom had to learn. The bike ended up in the shop once a year for a rebuild after the kickstarter would stop working. It just would not move. After a few expensive repair bills my mom introduced me to the neighbor who rode bikes. He informed me of a thing called an air filter and described how it needs to be cleaned and oiled. He also took me to my first enduro. Being high (above 10,000 feet) and knowing of my throttle happy nature He let me borrow an old xr80 four stroke so I could learn the rocky and tree roots tech trails with a smoothness that my cr would have just brought tears on. After riding around on the ranch I would lean my bike up against a 55 gal drum we would burn our trash in. My Mom one day decided to burn the trash but never thought about moving the bike or telling me to move it. That resulted in another upgrade; A hot pink 93 CR80. Fuck, that thing was hot! I can remember it had purple anodized renthal bars and the first ditch i tried to jump resulted a blip of whiskey thottle endoed landing to face plant. Mom would haul me to the moto cross races were I got my first trophy. I grew. a 1983 husqvarna 250 that left many a scar on me. next, 89 rm250, 99yz250, 01 ktm250, and then the thumper revolution put me back on red. My first year working in a dealership and that 2004 crf450 was my first brand new bike. I was renting a small house with no garage but the old out house out back was just big enough for one shiny new red steed. Dropping bolts in the hole in the floor meant the bolt was gone and there was no need to look for it. Since then I have gone through six more CRF450s and two XR650s. a few air cooled xls and even a goldwing 1500. The old z50 sits front and center in my new shop. I wonder what the next red winger will be. On my work lift now is a 78 GL1000 and after rebuilding the carbs I can say Honda has a lot of peaches and cream and some of it is rancid ass fucktarded shit.

ICED2014 the Movie! (Bare Tire A Round 5)

Thats me in the white jersey... causing mayhem at 1:10. Why I decided to race a 400 pound beast with more horsepower than a tractor pull bro-dozer in the bare tire class is because i suffer from mild/severe retardation. Thanks to Phill and Mike Ranum for helping me with tires and getting me on the ice this year. Thats them out front of everybody else. Phill got water on his breaker points and dropped out. He also had bike problems in the vintage studded class earlier that day loosing his points lead at the last round. Vintage bikes. Nothing worth having comes easy. philosophy of uncle gnar.

On board with Sammy as he goes for the win at Salem

Did I mention I think Brad Baker is a pompous brat. Slammin Sammy is rad as fuck.

sack of taters

Melting snow, muscle bikes, mud, machismo dragrace

It smells good in here

Bailing wire prepped race bikes, 35 pound ice racing tires, fuel jugs next to the bench grinder. Removing the cobwebs, projects taking form. Oil soaked card board, burnt metal, Humming welders, rosin core solder smoke. Burritos, beer cans, and vinyl records.

days of our lives

Phoenix Dirt Escape

Mega huge BMX setup in the middle of the city

Wouldn't be a parking lot party without urine stains behind the front wheel of a van. Candy is free by the way.

cross training

What the hell else am I going to do when there is a shit ton of snow out side and it is colder than witch titties. ended up 4th in the old man a class after having 2nd in the bag and then getting sloppier than greased moose shit. This was my first time racing AX since 2006 when I went to the finals in vegas and had to move up to the pro class. Loc dog thought it best to hang it up until i reached age for the vet class. Word.