Have you read about the 555 yet?

These guys are our type of guys… check out their rules:
1. 1975 or older motorcycle
2. can only spend $500 TOTAL on purchase and restoration of bike
3. 500cc or less engine size
4. Every man for himself (This was tossed out the window and it became ‘No Man Left Behind’)
5. No Interstates
6. Portland, Oregon bound

From Knoxville to Portland on a pre-1975 CB450? Fucking RIGHTEOUS!

Here’s some fun stats they have posted on their website about their ride:

Number of wrecks: 6
Number of times bikes have seen the ground: 9
Number of fouled spark plugs: 54
Miles covered thus far: 4100
Times rags have sucked through carb/engine/exhaust: 1
# of engines split: 2
Max speed attained: 90
Police investigations involved in: 1
Hospital visits: 1
Snow storms ridden through: 1
People who’ve told us they owned a 450 years ago: 1,555

Number of women interested in us: 0

These guys are rulers, check out the site for more about their adventure and pics.
http://www.thefivefivefive.com

Ian Barry builds some gorgeously simple british motorcycles.
Clean, elegant and tough all rolled into one. A functional work of art some might say.
Check out the his work on the website for his shop: Falcon Motorcycles

I get excited about retarded bits of info like this: a place to get all your bolts and a solid price with good service online. Newyork Andy turned me onto boltdepot.com and their website is just brimming with everything you might need. Seriously, they just have a crazy amount of stuff to flip through - I foresee an order coming from the knucklebuster compound heading their way soon.

www.boltdepot.com

A few weeks ago I posted a link to a aluminum polishing tutorial (click here if you missed it). Martin from Sweden sent me a link to another aluminum polishing how-to that you can check out here: More Aluminum Polishing. It’s not as detailed as the first, but its solid, quick and easy to digest info. When it comes to spreading this type of info, I’m a firm believe in more is better, so check it out.

Cool flickr gallery chock full of pics from the Harley Rendevous between 1981-1983.
Lots of cool bikes and tons of not safe for work pics to dig into. You love it, I know.
And yes, I revel in the irony of posting the pic above to this post.

Check out the pics here: Harley Rendezvous Pics

Here’s a pleasant bit of linkage to satiate your aluminum polishing desires. Nicely done walk through, with plenty of photos so you can learn how to make all your al-loo-min-ee-um bits all pretty and shiny. Mmmmmm shiny.

Dig into it: Polishing Aluminum How-To

Scooters Performance has a ton of pics from the V-Twin expo posted up.
The Zero Engineering production bikes are smokin’ and they’re now available stateside. Killer bikes, although way too rich for my blood.

Dig into it here: V-Twin Expo 2008 Pics

Courtesy of Nardi
From: http://www.caferacer.net/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6582

Is it me, or are there more people building Triton’s these days? Maybe I just never paid much attention to it, but there seems to be more people jumping on that train. Cool by me cuz I dig checking’ em out. Here’s a blog by a brit chap living Seattle. He’s in the process of documenting his build - a 1956 Norton Dominator featherbed frame with a 1958 Triumph T110 650cc motor - bitchin’

I dig checking out the process and progressions others go through with their build. It’s always motivating when you’ve got your own build going on (or even dreaming of a build) and I dig seeing how other folks find solutions to the inevitable issues they face.

Rock it: http://tritonproject.blogspot.com/

Just a quick list of some websites and blogs you should check out if you haven’t already:

Max Shaaf’s Blog: http://4qconditioning.blogspot.com/

Chopper Dave’s Blog: http://www.chopperdaves.blogspot.com/

Church Of Choppers Blog: http://www.churchofchoppers.blogspot.com/

Lowbrow Customs: http://lowbrowcustoms.com/

Hoodlum Blog: http://www.hoodlum.dk

Coop’s Blog: http://positiveapeindex.blogspot.com/

I want your skull: http://www.iwantyourskull.com/

Got a cool blog? Email me the link or better yet, post it in the comments section. If I dig it, I will post it in the next website round up.

Not too long ago I posted a link to a website / podcast called Biker Radio Magazine. Ken - the host - puts on an interesting and professional show that covers a fair bit of ground when it comes to motorcycles. I like the fact that many of the shows have a D.I.Y or “learn how it’s done” element to them. Anyway, after I posted the link I emailed Ken to let him know I gave his site a plug and that I dug what he was doing. When he got back to me, he let me know that he was diggin’ the vibe here on knucklebuster and asked me if I wanted to be on the show. I love talking shop, so I was all over it. That show has been posted online this morning - dubbed the fabrication show.

To go off on a tangent for a second - I think it’s funny that I’m on the “fabrication show” because I’m such a rookie when it comes to bike building. From the beginning, this site has been about sharing knowledge and inspiration. That might sound kind a little lame and new age-y, but that’s essentially what it boils down to. From sharing tech tips and how-to’s – to showing off the work of do-it-yourself greasebags, my hope is that what people get out of this site is knowledge and inspiration. Hopefully folks learn something new here or are inspired to go wrench in their garage, or just get psyched to see a bitchin’ bike some other greaser has built thousands of miles away. In building this site, that’s what I get out of it. Everyday I’m learning something new about bike building or getting psyched and inspired by some sick motorcycle that was built in someone’s basement/shed/barn/living room. At the end of the day, I know and can do a lot more things myself when it comes to bike building than I could when I started this site - that alone, makes it worth doing to me. So while I think it’s funny that I’m on a show about fabrication - especially when the other guests are professional bike builders, with lots of experience - I also think it’s really fucking cool that some punk rock kid who’s still learning the ropes can get up there and represent the backyard builders and guys who are just learning as they go. Viva la fucking greasebag.

Anyway, go check out the show, and if you feel like letting me know what you think, drop a comment below. To check it out, go to the shows page and download the fabrication show, my segment is first.
Here’s the link: http://www.bikerradiomagazine.com/

From the mailbox: Cooperboy checks in with a link to a low budget chopper forum he’s put together that looks pretty cool. Impossible for me to read since the whole thing is in Dutch, but I was able to navigate around and check out some pics. These guys are of the same mindset as we are here - they just happen to speak another language. Unless you can read Dutch, you might have a bit of trouble reading this site, but it’s easy to navigate around just like any other forum.
http://www.chopperstyle.uni.cc/

Wild psychedelic paint schemes? Yosemite Sam Radoff has got you covered.

Go to: http://www.yosemitesams.com/ then click on Custom Paint and bikes to see some wild choppers.

groovy man, groovy.

The idea of metal casting has intrigued me for a long time. When I stumbled on backyardmetalcasting.com it made the idea seem much less difficult and actually quite do-able. Tons of do-it-yourself projects from making you own furnace on the cheap to mixing molding sand to the actual casting process. There is so much info on the site it would take days to get through it all, plus a bunch of mini-books available for purchase (priced reasonably). While I probably won’t be getting around to trying this myself anytime soon, I’m definitely putting this on my “to-do someday” list.

http://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/

Been out of commission for the past couple days with a case of food poisoning - not fun to, to state the obvious.

In my down time, I noticed that out pal the Flyin’ Dutchman has started up his blog again, make sure to go check it out for lots of sick-sickle photos.
dig it here: http://www.fdphoto.blogspot.com/