Brittneys bike and the rest of our trip

Here is brittneys bike at born free five.   

and the left side

Jim brought his indian out too.  Its a 28 chief motor stuffed in a chassis that he made.  he won davenport 10 years in a row on this bike.  It is so trick and so fast.  You can start his bike with the rear wheel.  We did it a couple times at born free.  It was a lot of fun to share it with everyone.

 After born free we went over to our friend George Hood's place to work on the bike.   It ran good, but it had a palpatation of sorts.  it seemed to hit 9 out of 10 beats when it was wound up.  I assumed it was the magneto,   so I called up Dave at Morris magneto and asked him to make one for us.  He made a prototype zev mag for Dave Kafton's cannonball bike and it worked flawlessly.   so I figured we would put one on brittneys bike.  George helped us out on it.

 Here is the new mag.  It is pretty wild looking, but it really works good.

 this mag has a cam that rotates and the points are stationary,  which is opposite of the original zev style mag, which has the points rotating.  

We drove 1000 miles straight through to Jim's shop in Colorado to get the bike finish tuned and dialed in for their elevation.

 here is a pic of Jims and Brittneys bikes in Holyoke colorado, which is where they practiced

 Here is Fast Jim trying out brittneys bike.

 And My lovely wife

 Brittney and Jim got over a 100 laps in and it was a good practice session for Brittney before Wauseon.  The track in holyoke is 3/8 of a mile and really rough,  so they werent able to go super fast, but it was still practice

 I am very excited to go to wauseon for the real races

 The truck doubles as a bike stand

 After Holyoke, we went back to Jims place and advanced the timing.   IT doesn't start with the back wheel any more, but it is sooo fast.  The rest of our trip was good, we drove back to south dakota and are back to work doing fun stuff with old bikes.  Ill post more on that in the next day or two

 Here is a photo of a painting that I just got emailed to me yesterday.  A fellow named Reed White, took a picture of Brittney at the Viking meet and made a huge four foot by six foot painting of it.  He told me hes going to have it at the Minnesota state fair.  Go check it out if youre in the area.

born free five bike and event pics

 after 1800 miles we made it!!!

 the show was absolutely amazing.  it was 50 percent bigger than last years show and absolutely packed. it still had a mellow laid back feel to it even with all of the people in attendance.

 I had a lot more fun at this years show than last years,  I think it is because I rode my bike from South Dakota to California to attend it.   Born Free is the best show in the country if you can make it to the show next year, you should really try to do it.

 i dont know whos bike this is but it was pretty fun looking.  It also looks like it just got pulled out of a barn

 This was a really great looking knucklehead

 Trent's shovelhead was very cool

 Andre from arizona made this amazing dual carb intake   His bike was very nice

 Duane ballard really builds a perfectly done digger style japanese bike

 This was Janeeves bike for the builder invite. .It really has a cartoony/stylized and fun feel to it.   It seems very refreshing and fun.

 man o man.  Good job bobby

 Thanks for all the support Loser Machine

 This knuckle was from chicago and was my favorite knucklehead at the show.  It is so nicely thought out and finished

 narrowed nacelle

 This bike was built by a japanese guy who has a shop called hogkillers?  It was a really nice bike

 Here is Georges old desert racing two cam.  This bike looks like a ton of fun to ride

 I really like this knucklehead it looks like a lot of fun

 Chucks henderson won best preserved or most original.  IT was a really nice long tank four

 This bike was so nicely preserved

 This clutch set up was so clever

 This bike was phenomenal.  OLD STF made it, and its soooo clean.

 This is Scott Jone's son having fun on my bike.  Scott won best in show with his neat panhead.

 just a couple of first year bikes hanging out on the beach

 Erics wheel in the sand

 I had to put some sand on the circus wagon's front wheel

 Coast to coast Eric

 Me and the Pacific Ocean

 A guy from South Carolina rode this bike to born free.  Lock made the exhaust

 This is tom fugles bike, it is so trick and nice

This is a pretty amazing bike that my friend George put together.