Genny Shovel for Sale

Know anybody looking for a good Genny Shovel? Here is one all fresh and rebuild with polished stuff and plated hardware. Includes SS E Carb and manifold as well as oil pump. CALIFORNIA TITLE INCLUDED. Mismatched cases but both are 67-69 cases. Email me for the price.

Dave Frost and Tyler Malinky...HOT!!

Frosty was our magnanimous umbrella...um...girl at Bonneville this past year. Truckdriver, motorcycle nerd and all around super guy. Frosty has been with us at the Salt for three years now, or just two...I forget.

Four Aces and Punk Rock

OK I never was much of a Punk Rocker, always dug a bunch of random Punk stuff, but was always more of a Merl Haggard, Classic Rock kinda guy. But hey, the stuff ROCKS and Yuppicide is one of your crazier punk bands. Apparently there are a whole giant ton of Punk rockers into vintage bikes, though (imagine that!!) Steve Karp, formerly of Yuppicide now of Speed Twin plays guitar and has a bad-ass Triumph. Note the best in the west sticker on his Guit-Box on Tour in Europe. Get some man!!

Tony and the Indian Crew in England

Usually when you talk about Indians in England, you gotta talk dots on foreheads, curryed rice and tandoori chikin, none of which I have any problems with at all. But we ain't talking about that sort of Indian. Tony Carabine of the Indian Trading Company in the UK has had me ship I cannot even remember how many old and newer Indians to England. Tony buys a pile of parts here and turns them into really nice machines over there. He has a cool collection of all sorts of neet stuff including a three wheel car powered by a V-Twin JAP motor featured in an earlier blog. Go Tony, check him out here http://www.indiantrading.co.uk/

Cycle Nerd #4 Sign Kit

I first met Kit at the old Long Beach Swap Meet, not sure how long ago. Where deals and friends are made. Kit was putting together a Triumph from a pile of greasy parts. We horse traded, we kicked tires. Kit built the motor BY HIMSELF, yes it can be done. Fast forward a few months and Kit has this far out, super clean, understated Triumph custom. Talk about garage built. He nailed it. And yes, he rides it too. Slab City Riot a couple of times, Beerbooters in San Diego from Redondo Beach. Lots and lots of miles. Now he is building another one. Sign painter by trade, Kit knocked out the badass artwork on my van. Kit showed up at a local watering hole when it ws 30 degrees in a tee shirt too, props! Kit is doing it and he is a super nice guy to boot.

#5 in the Guys that DO STUFF BLOG

Ok, you have seen press on Chopcult.com about this guy recently, but I am not sure enuf can be said about one of the hardest charging, yet humblest dudes I know. Tyler Malinky of Lowbrowcustoms.com. Tyler has taken a business as a sign painter and turned it into a world powerhouse of motorcycle parts sales. But that aside, Tyler just has this wierd attitude about him. He works on motorcycles!!! He told me once, well I am gonna sell Harely parts on my site, so I better learn to work on Harleys. So he hauls off and is building a Panhead. Last year he made a freakin Bonneville dream come true by building and racing his own bike at the Salt Flats. You don't know how many times I have heard that guys are gonna do this and just never seem to get around to it. You know why? Beacuse it takes a major, major commitment to build a Bonneville bike. It takes a sack full of 6 pound nuts, damn it!! I built his motor last year, but you know what? He is building a whole nother bike this year and doing his own motor!!! The dude rocks, LowbrowCustoms, truely where the action is.

Blogs: Do-ers and Dreamers

I been trying to update my blog more often. I figured nobody cares about them, but my internet savvy friends say do it more often. So I checked out some other people's blogs to get some ideas and I came up with some depressing news. Most blogs SUCK!! Not because they are not updated, but because they are updated with crap. Seems like for the most part two kinds of bloggers exist. Those that post a bunch of random pics of the past and present but never really do anything except...well, post a bunch of random pics of past and present. The "my favorite lunch spot" legend in your own mind blogger comes to mind. "Ooooo, look at the hamburger I am having, it is the BEST hamburger on the planet and I, I, I am so cool, way cooler than you, for eating it. Don't you wish you could be me and eat this burger?" Then there are those that post a bunch of pics about all the cool shit THEY are doing. Cause they seem to be the only thing going in Po-dunksville, Nowhere where they live. "oh look at the cool bike I am building, look how IMMMMMPORTANT I AM." "I am gonna have ten bikes for sale at the Born Free show so you can buy a bike from me that sucks, but is cool cause I say it is cool. Watch for updates on MYYYYYYY bikes and how cool I am."

So anyway, I decided I might just look like the other dipshits out there if I post too much about what I, I, I, (ME ME ME) am doing. So here goes, the Wes White blog series about guys who are DOING shit, not just posting copius pics of 70s bikers and other dumb crap.

1) David Bird: David has probably been welding since before there were TiG Machines. He makes Hardtails and full frames for Triumphs and Yamahas and sidelines in freakin hotrod chassis (chassi?). He rocks and he has a bunch of jigs for the stuff he does. I been to his place, he is the real deal. He has also NEVER, and I mean NEVER had a complaint about his work or his work ethic. Legions of junior welders have come and gone (anybody remember Casey Tallon?) promising to have the next greatest hardest core hardtails for Triumphs. Well David has them, nobody else. Why send your money to a guy who is not gonna be in business in 6 weeks? Send it to David (through his retailers) and be guaranteed he is not gonna get behind and you are gonna have to ask for your money back or call him out over the internet. Dig it bitches.