HANDBUILT SHOW STEALING MOJO

One corner of the Handbuilt Show; the Fuller Hot Rods Norton Commando, plus Roland Sands new Indian, the Revival J63, etc

AUTOMOTIVE WHEEL - HANDBUILT SHOW: STEALING MOJO, My article on Austins Handbuilt Show, put on by Revival Cycles (full disclosure; my Cannonball partners) is up on CycleWorld.com, with some great photos.  Heres a teaser, youll have to click on the link for the rest...

The gorgeous HRD-Rudge, restored by Herb Harris, which I rode at the Quail Motorcycle Gathering last year...

"By now, everyone’s heard that Austin is an oasis of cool in the middle of Texas, but to this seasoned bi-coaster, visiting for the recent Handbuilt Show was a very pleasant surprise, and a little humbling. While busy growing our beards, Austin stole the mojo once animating Williamsburg and the Mission District, which are now dominated by people w ith, like, real jobs. The Handbuilt Show, in its second year under Revival Cycles, is planted in East Austin, a Hispanic neighborhood with rings of gourmet food trucks circled like wagons in vacant lots every quarter-mile, or even closer.

Jeremy Cupp, whose LC Fabrications #7 Speedway custom won Peoples Choice; a crazy-clever machine mating a Buell Blast crank with a Ducati cylinder head, plus a ton of clever details, like a foldaway kicker for the Triumph gearbox (with hydraulic clutch adaptor)

The Showâ €™s in a large warehouse with an open yard beside, but the interior is air conditioned, while the yard features two excellent food trucks and the American Motordrome for atmosphereâ€"visual and sonic. The food and drinks aren’t free, nor are the T-shirts, but everything else is. Anybody could enter the wide-open doors, and it was still never too crowded, day or night, to slip in amongst the Wall of Death revelers and feel a 1928 Indian rock the boards under your feet, as horizontal rider Charlie Ransom snatched paper money from extended hands. That just never gets old."

Ma rty Dickersons Blue Bike - read about it here. 

The late Bud Reveiles Triumph chopper - an Austin legend, owner of Buds Motorcycle Shop, an amazing place of a type increasingly rare these days...

A tidy Ducati flat-tracker

Sporting around with Steve Kleins 1911 Flying Merkel, with David Borras (El Solitario), moi, Alan Stulberg (Revival). and Brittney Olsen (20th Century Racing)

Presentation!  A sectioned Norton Atlas motor at Herb Harris home

Revivals J63, which I reviewed for Cycle World

Who knew a Honda 250 needed a monococque chassis?

Lovely and Rudge-y

A sectioned Victoria Bergmeister engine at Revival

Late night builder chat and drinking session with Walt Siegl and David Borras 

Been there, done that, got the hand-built sweater.  Knitted by Dehen, the old woolen mill now reviving its old knitwear designs from the 40s/50s racing scene.  The bike is Max Hazans remarkable supercharged Sporster, which I wrote about for Cycle World...

Setting up our show of Wet Plate photos at Handbuilt - check our portfolio at MotoTintype.com

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