It has been said that out of great struggle greatness can be forged. In reality, however, often times it takes a helping hand to change the lessons learned from past struggles into something truly impactful.
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This was a milestone year, although it didn’t go as planned, it was still a killer trip. Races or no races, Wildwood knows how to party!
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Porky’s rain AND shine chopper show was a hit for the second year in a row. Never in a million years would you expect rain forest weather to be lingering in western New York.
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In the winter of 2016 Joshua Boggs began to strip down his 2004 Sportster 883. The bike had been lowered, and painted in his father’s garage with a few hand fabricated parts - but nothing that Boggs would say was special compared to where he wanted to go with the bike.
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The end of the build came fast and furious as Jimmi was setting a pace to finish the bike by The 1Moto Show in Portland at the end of April. But, with the looming deadline, a lot still needed to be completed.
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This update is more about what it looks like coming out of that dark tunnel and seeing color again. As the bike finished its fabrication and all the rust was removed it was time to send the tins out for paint.
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While we applied to be part of The 1 Moto Show back in October, we had frankly let it fall of the radar in the month or two following the fire. But word came that the bike had been accepted as part of the show. So now the question pivoted to - can we even make it in time.
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By early December we were beginning to see the bike take real shape. It felt it was only a matter of weeks before we could send the tins out to paint, paint the frame, and begin working toward a final assembly. But, with every build speed bumps got in the way. Only this time those speed bumps had nothing to do with the build itself.
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The fine details are what makes or breaks a custom build. Each design choice has to work in concert with each other. In this week’s blog we look at some of the obvious, as well as little noticed, details that have gone into the 1963 Triumph build.
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Last week we learned more about Jimmi, and his approach, and this week we take a look at the starting point for discussing the build, and the early frame work in order to get the bike to a starting point to work from.
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In our first installment of the 1963 Triumph build blog we introduced you to the bike, and its many quirks. Now, we want to introduce you to the builder taking on the project – Jimmi Davies. Long time readers of THE TON may already be familiar with the name Jimmi Davies. Afterall, his bike Slingshot was one of the first bikes we featured back in our first issue three years ago.
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Part of me has always been fascinated with Triumph motorcycles. In my younger, and more formidable years I was intensely obsessed with youth culture. Throughout the 1990s I walked a fine line in many circles as someone who was at once both a “mod” and a “rocker”. We colloquially called such people “mockers” in the pacific northwest.
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“It started a few years back as a bunch of garage nights," says Jeff Hoge, one of the founders of the Tacoma Breakfast Club."
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As a kid living in Olympia, Washington in the early 1980s one of the marquee events of the year was the annual toy run.
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“It started a few years back as a bunch of garage nights," says Jeff Hoge, one of the founders of the Tacoma Breakfast Club."
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The Vicious Cycles, or Vicious Cycles MC is a band that blends garage, pop, rock and roll, and punk to form a sound that seems like it could only have been made in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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"The idea of covering this race in any press sense was absurd." - HST, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
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Audio Landscapes explores music makers, producers, retailers and more. In this edition we present an interview with Mastodon.
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