Have a great Halloween!!!!

Time for some maintenance , apparently .

Last week the old '77 started making a slight grinding noise when I would step on the rear brake . At first it was just a hint of a grinding sound so I figured I had a minute to scare up some parts and get to it . Well 2 days later it was grinding with no brake , just rolling it made this sketchy scraping sound .

One of my brown brothers Oscar tells me " hey man , I have some pads & stuff if you need them . Maybe even a rotor for you " , so I get busy and start taking things of .

This kind of stuff is relatively easy . I have a good copy of the original HD manual and it shows exploded views and all the tid bits and small parts . It came apart quick & painless . . . that's when I saw this .

Yee haw ! I guess when you ride like the wind and you ride to live , and all that good shit , you tear through gear like crazy . . . hmm . Anyhow new pads & new rotor and it should be good to go . Here's the rotor , ala Oscar all cleaned up and looking good . I even got between the spokes and got the wheel all prettied up too .

As it turned out when I put the caliper back on , the piston was stuck and didn't want to ease up on the pads . After a few initial miles , the rotor was super hot and it was obvious that there was more going on that needed attention . Oscar tells me he'll give it a shot and rebuild it for me real quick like , because he has a few parts laying around that I don't have and it should be a snap .

Well as it turned out it was not a snap and when we got it put back on , a seal was leaking all over the rotor causing me to not be able to stop on command , which is bad . It looked like the piston got a little goofed up when it got pressed in and I think it ripped the piston seal . No biggie though as banana caliper parts are falling out of the trees around here these days , and it should be back on the road in no time .

It's raining today anyhow , so whatever . I'll ride to live later .

Eric sent me this

He said he's a faithful reader of my blog and thought I'd be interested in this , well yeah .

It pretty much rules !

Thanks Eric !

Things I love.....

Stuff you see outside of a tattoo shop sometimes .

Fip Buchanan's amazing 1940 mercury custom .

My friend Mikey is putting together this little store with the guys from Trophy Motorcycles

It's going to be a sort of vintage clothing / record store / bike rider gear, type of shop . He has lots of nick-nacs and stuff in there already , but he's going to have a full line of Loser Machine stuff as well as his own swap meet pickings . It kind of has a punk rock boutique vibe from the early 80's .

Everything looks good so far . I'm happy to see him taking charge of his shit and trying to make his own way . Support your local pack ratts and spend your money on cool shit !

Pack Ratt Records , 4952 El Cajon Blvd S.D. right next to Trophy Motorcycles .

Soooo who ya votin' for next year?

Big Sur......

We took the roads less traveled on Saturday, short blast to Soledad on the 101 then on to Metz rd. down to King Shity, over the bridge to Jolone rd. and down to Fort Hunter Liggett to head up and over Nacimiento-Fergusson then to the 1 and back north to Fernwood to camp, play a show and party down. All in all it was a great time..

Goin' on a little putt this weekend..

Gunna turn the one hour trip to Big Sur into a three hour tour. If you are in the area we'll be at Fernwood Saturday night....

Ya it is.......