This is what my back yard looks like.
Can you guess where my bikes are kept? I make sure a path is there so I can get them out even if the snow is not all gone :).
Come on spring,
Later
PAWS
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Snow
I guess I should not really be surprised by a snow storm coming through the great white north in February, but somehow I think 25 cm is a bit much, it was just starting to feel like we would not have to shovel again. On top of that my 30 + year old snow blower has decided to finally roll over and die.
This is what my back yard looks like.
Can you guess where my bikes are kept? I make sure a path is there so I can get them out even if the snow is not all gone :).
Come on spring,
Later
PAWS
This is what my back yard looks like.
Can you guess where my bikes are kept? I make sure a path is there so I can get them out even if the snow is not all gone :).
Come on spring,
Later
PAWS
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Drifter
So pictured above in the title bar of this blog is my last bike, it is a 1999 Kawasaki Drifter. I sold it a couple years ago (yes I need to update the photo, I'll get to that this year), and I think it may have started me wanting to get my old bikes back, I still miss riding that one.
I had a lot of custom leather work that I did on that bike, Tank bib, mud flaps, side tool bag, grips, braided leather on the levers and a rear fender bib. While I was working the motorcycle show in January the guy I sold her to came by, I immediately asked if he wanted to sell her (I had to try :) ) he said no way, but maybe if he ever got his Harley, I told him I would be interested if he did. We kept talking and he let me know that the Fender Bib I had done for him (I took the one off I had on it, I didn't think he would want one with PAWS on it) had fallen off one ride this summer. So I volunteered right away to make him a new one, this worked out well for me as I now have an email address and a point of contact. You know just to keep in touch, in case he ever wants to sell, I'll keep asking, maybe he'll sell it to me just to stop the harasment.
Here is the progress of the custom fender bib for HillBilly. I hope he likes it.
Started with laying out the outside boarder pattern:
Then the tooling was done, I kept it simple, sometimes that is the best:
Next came the dying, he said he may paint the bike a flat black so I thought I should get some black in the design:
Finally the lacing, this takes a while but I think it sets my work apart:
I'll let you know what he thinks.
Till next time,
PAWS
I had a lot of custom leather work that I did on that bike, Tank bib, mud flaps, side tool bag, grips, braided leather on the levers and a rear fender bib. While I was working the motorcycle show in January the guy I sold her to came by, I immediately asked if he wanted to sell her (I had to try :) ) he said no way, but maybe if he ever got his Harley, I told him I would be interested if he did. We kept talking and he let me know that the Fender Bib I had done for him (I took the one off I had on it, I didn't think he would want one with PAWS on it) had fallen off one ride this summer. So I volunteered right away to make him a new one, this worked out well for me as I now have an email address and a point of contact. You know just to keep in touch, in case he ever wants to sell, I'll keep asking, maybe he'll sell it to me just to stop the harasment.
Here is the progress of the custom fender bib for HillBilly. I hope he likes it.
Started with laying out the outside boarder pattern:
Then the tooling was done, I kept it simple, sometimes that is the best:
Next came the dying, he said he may paint the bike a flat black so I thought I should get some black in the design:
Finally the lacing, this takes a while but I think it sets my work apart:
I'll let you know what he thinks.
Till next time,
PAWS
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