Be there or be square!!!!

R4YL 3.0 promo from Joel Hauenstein on Vimeo.

Chopper riding in NYC

Real bikers don't put it up for winter!!

Merry Christmas!!!!

I love me some Skillet!

I stole a...stolen photo

Stolen from Attack Choppers who stole it from Blood falcons...

Perfect Pan

Remembering the first time she fired up!!!

Don't laugh when here me keep saying, "No fire." I had a bike catch fire on the initial start up once and was ready for anything!

My kids found some of the pictures of me on 911

It was a tough time for me that day. I had been in a lot of destruction before in combat but the was the first time I had ever been unarmed and with no clear direction on mission. these are a few that show the utter destruction on Tuesday evening September 11th, 2001. These remind me of exactly what is important to me today!

Suicide Wheels!!!

Check out the guys at Suicide Wheels

GO FAST or GO HOME!

the direction I'm gonna take for the XJ1100

I absolutely love this bike on a couple of levels. The first is that this little xj550 is a mini replica of my xj1100 other than the shaft drive. Since he didn't extend the swingarm or go with a larger tire and neither will I, it is a non-issue.

Here is how his bike started...as a bone stock xj550

Even the frames are amazing similar. Only major frame difference between the 550 and 1100 is where the 550 double back bone bends down into "gussetts" the 1100 goes straight up to the neck. But as you will see in a little bit, utilizing the stock tank with a simple shell solves that difference as well.

He started by modifying the stock tail piece, cut down and molded to simply change the profile of the seat and creating angular shock lifts for the swingarm to raise the back end. I think a longer shock or even monoshock design will work just as well.

wanted to make it beefier:

Then, he found a donor R1 tail section that he could mold around the work he had already done:

Even with the stock tank it started to really take shape and grow some fantastic lines! But watch what happens with an empty and cut shell from a GSXR and molded to fit arouns the stock tank to maintain mounting locations and filler location

Bike turned out fantatstic after he pie cut the rear frame and fabbed a sub-frame and low perimeter rail to mount everything. Note, as well, the very nice stunt cage he fabbed, too!

Not a chopper, but a fantastic example of a chopped bike from start to finish and superb example of a thoughtout idea executed in a fine fashion! this will be the template for what I want for the xj1100!

Front Street Cycle

Shout out to Craig at Front St. Cycle...Great guy and great stuff! Hit him up if you need some quality pieces!

Little Evil Knievel In Training Goes Bad Video

Someone forgot to tell the little guy that you don’t always make the jump!

Little Evil Knievel In Training Goes Bad - Watch more Funny Videos

What to do with this?

Picked up a bone stock 1982 Yamaha XJ1100j

 and have decided rather than going the chopper route, that I am going to take this one the retro-streetfighter route. these are my inspiration:

Good deal from a good guy....

A good friend has his bike for sale. Good price, good guy. Tell him Shrek sent you:

'02 883 extra seat, bags and some aftermarket stuff. He's asking $2800 for it. I ride with him quite a bit and the bike runs great. He needs the cash. His number is (513)709-0298 and his name is Lee. Let him know you heard it from Shrek....

Gonna get back to postin' on this old blog!

Figured I'd fire up the old blog and get back into action with it. Same old, same old about bikes, grassroots events, building and the blue collar motorcycle scene!