Blanton Cycle Supply #438

Hey, what's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Fast Life Podcast.

On today's episode, I have a pretty good time waiting for you guys.

Brooks is someone that's well-known in the FXR and the vintage motorcycle scene.

You see him at SWAT meets all over Texas and probably outside of Texas as well.

Great dude.

Always, he's came through for me many times.

My FXR frame that I got to do the FXR chop I got from Blanton, so he's a great resource

to get cool shit.

In this episode, he tells us some badass stories, man, and he blew me away on one particular

story that follows kind of like the lines of a force gump.

If you guys have been listening a while, that's like one of my favorite movies.

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Now, let's get into this episode with Brooks and special guest, Main Drive Cycle.

Let's go.

Hey, guys.

You ready to let the dogs out?

Fast life, car, cast life.

You were just talking about this before we started going.

I don't really know where to start.

I do know that, like, that was your mom this weekend, right?

Yeah.

She's fun.

Yeah, she's a blast.

Sometimes too much of a blast.

As far as Born Free Texas 4 was concerned, were you happened to watch her or was she still

parenting you in that situation?

No, so she's actually, she was super, super good at Born Free 4.

Oh, she was.

Yeah, and years past, I've definitely had to keep an eye on her, but this year she

was real tame, you know, just kind of hung out, wasn't anything I had to worry about

this year.

Yeah.

And so does this come from, like, a family of motorcycle activities and motorcycling?

Yeah.

My mom, 100% used to it, she, you know, married my dad.

They were married for 36 years, so she was always at bike shows, and then as soon as

I got old enough to start doing it, you know, she'd come with me, so it's been part of

it for her.

It's nothing, nothing that's going to surprise, you know.

36 years.

I mean, shit, that's a sheet.

So always out in East Texas, is that where y'all originally from out there?

No.

So she met my dad in Dallas.

My dad actually owned a construction company, and she was married to another guy that had

a jewelry store, and my dad was remodeling it.

And it's funny, because, and we didn't even, we didn't know this growing up, but my

oldest brother and my sister are both from a different dad, and, but we were never

raised like that, like we didn't know, but they were from, they were born in

South Africa.

Damn.

So, like my mom, yeah, so well, and there, and my brother, I mean, we all kind of got

that Middle Eastern look to us because my mom's Lebanese, but she, her first husband was

a Middle Eastern too.

So my brother got a lot more of it than I did.

And so growing up, everybody would be like, you know, what the hell, how come he looks

so much different than y'all?

And I'm like, I don't know, man.

That's my brother.

Like, we don't know any, we don't know any different, but anyways, my brother,

when he was like two years old was in that jewelry shop, and my dad came rolling

in to check on the job or whatever.

And my dad was always, you know, didn't really care much about anything, but he

always loved kids.

And so my oldest brother was in there playing, you know, doing whatever.

And that was the first time he met him.

And he told the grandpa, he was like, Hey, I'm taking the kid with me to the

lumberyard.

And the grandpa was like, okay, you know, whatever, no big deal.

And so my dad loaded my brother up for the first time, took him to the

lumberyard, well, in the middle of them being gone, my mom comes back.

And she's like, Oh, where's, you know, where's the kid at?

Where's Rocky at?

And the grandpa was like, Oh, I sent him with Bill to the lumberyard.

My mom's like, who the fuck is Bill?

And he was like, Oh, that's the guy that runs a construction company.

And so she just loses her shit.

My dad comes pulling back up, lets my brother out.

And she's like, don't ever fucking touch my kid again.

Just starts going off on my dad.

And he was like, I was just taking him to the lumberyard.

I didn't think it was a big deal.

And it's like, Oh yeah, you mean you kind of kidnap somebody's child.

Not a good thing, but after that, it's funny because here in both

their sides of the story, but my dad chased her for like a year and

she was still married to that dude who I've never met him, but never heard

anything good about him either.

My dad finally couldn't get her to go out with him.

So he asked the guy out to go out dinner, her current husband.

And his story was he took him out to eat and was like, Hey man,

I'm just letting you know I'm going to take your waff.

You ever heard those stories of the dudes like we'll walk into like a,

I heard about this a long time ago and it's kind of on the same subject of that.

Because it was one of those like, what would you do situations?

We're like, say we all rode to, we're in Florida.

We're going to Daytona and we're at a cafe.

And some dudes just walk in and go, hey, is that your bike out there?

Well, we're taking that.

Yeah, it's the same thing.

It's kind of like, is this a joke is actually coming out or, but it's like,

do you, I mean, it's such a like a bold thing to do.

Like, yeah, it's kind of like the whole, I'm the captain now thing.

Yeah, from Captain Phillips or whatever or something like that.

I don't know, but go ahead.

So that he, you know, that happened and he ended up taking my mom out after

that and they ended up getting married and I'm one of five kids.

And so my dad, you know, he had a lot of history with the law and

going to jail prior to that, but he had his first kid of his own, you know,

my middle brother, whenever he was 35.

But after that, you know, we moved to Sanger until I was two.

And then my dad's past kind of, you know, he had a long history in the

Metroplex area and he was trying to get out of that scene.

But Sanger wasn't far enough.

And so my mom was like, hey, like we can't, we can't raise our kids around this.

Like, you know, these guys are, these guys can't be coming and

crashing at our house, you know, while we got all these kids here.

So that's how we ended up moving out to Canton.

And we got there whenever I was two years old and, you know, never left my mom.

How much has that place changed?

I can't, for those listening, it's kind of like our antique vintage town of Texas.

Yeah, it used to be, but it's really not, like you're saying, it's changed a lot.

Like back in the day, it was, and I, you know, I say back in the day,

which is nothing comparison to the history of first Monday.

But, you know, you could go up there and get anything.

I mean, it was lawless.

Like you could go up there.

I remember being eight years old up there and I bought a fucking alligator.

And that's Texas, baby.

Yeah.

And they were selling pet alligators and it wasn't like anything.

I mean, you could literally get your hands on anything and they had those ring toss games.

So we'd be up there, you know, seven, eight years old.

You win a ring toss game.

You're coming home with a damn switchblade.

Yeah.

And that was what first Monday was.

And you could find anything, you know, it was just a bunch of junk.

You could find cool shit.

But now it's like a bunch of fucking wholesale shit that

people order online and then they bring it over there and unbox it and hang it on a rack.

Like trinket stuff.

Yeah.

And a bunch of t-shirts.

And I mean, there's still some cool shit to be found.

It's a Stanley Cup.

Yeah.

For the most part you go up there and you're like, man, this is like, there's nothing here I couldn't have ordered on Amazon.

Yeah. Yeah.

And it didn't used to be like that.

And there's still one side of it.

It's called Dog Alley.

And, you know, it's the old side and you can still find some cool stuff over there.

But it's nothing like it used to be.

I mean, used to it was just like a garage sale that you could never finish walking.

But if you really think about that, I mean, this kind of ties into what you do now.

But my FXR might set it best years ago on the podcast.

He said, because I think people in the FXR community were given a certain guy in the scene shit about finding going and doing the work and finding the things that people want and then putting it up for sale for more money.

Right.

And but what I'm getting at is it like, if you think about what that that show what first Mondays in Canton was, it was like people that found cool stuff.

And there was no marketplace or Craigslist or these other things to come and do that.

You went to these flea markets and things like that.

It's like, but now especially over the last 15 years, maybe 20 years, eBay, you know, like the whole concept of finding antiques, it kind of took on a whole new shape.

I think that originally came from, you know?

Yeah, for sure.

And I mean, and to me, there's there's two sides that like I, you know, you can ask whatever you want.

And it's either going to sell or it's not, you know, that is what it is.

But, you know, at least on my end of it, like, I still want to have people come back and be happy with it.

So it's like, if you're going to do that, you got to you got to price stuff, at least fair.

Yeah.

And it's like, I'm never going to get on there and like dog somebody for asking way more than I think something's worth.

Like, you know, you can ask whatever you want and you'll either sell it or you won't.

And that's cool.

But if you're going to do it repetitively, you know, like I do, then it's, it's something where you got to find a middle ground where it's like, OK, you know, I obviously got to make a little money off it.

But I also want them to leave feeling like, OK, like if I need anything else, I'll call that guy again.

Like I don't feel like I got screwed.

Yeah.

So and I think that's and I know who you're talking about.

And I think that's where a lot of people take exception with that.

Once again, it's like, whatever, man, if he's got the following and he's selling it, then yeah, you know, a lot of people were given, you know, like they would always give Elvis all the shit.

Right.

Early days of the FXR kind of revival thing.

And it's like at the end of the end of the day, I grew up here in Dallas where we had a shop called Mr Motorcycle, which was like more like metrics, sport bikes, things like that.

And basically whatever, pretty much everything in there was like half price.

So if you needed a new computer, well, it's 350 bucks.

Like you don't really need them that much for every once while you fuck up with like a battery charger or whatever and you fry a computer.

Well, it's $800 brand new from Suzuki.

So that's still a deal.

It's just one of those things that you don't want to have to buy.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

And it's finding the guy who needs it too.

Yeah.

And that's where eBay comes into play.

Yeah.

Because I actually had a issue like that or a circumstance like that with ignition modules like a year ago, you know, the stock ignition and modules that to me, like, I'm never going to use that.

You know, I'm going to put a dinosaur or whatever.

I'm going to get an ignition, a full ignition system and put it in there.

So I had just boxes of these stock Evo ignition modules that were of no use to me.

And I did a shop clean out and I was like, and I'm throwing these things away like I'm never going to touch these.

Yeah.

And so I threw away like probably 60 of these modules.

And then the next week, Kevin McCurdy calls me and he's like, Hey, man, I need an ignition module.

And I'm like, you got to be shitting me right now.

And he's like, no, he's like, do you have one?

I'm like, I just threw away like boxes of them.

And he was like, dude, you know, those things bring like 100 bucks on eBay, right?

And I was like, no, I didn't.

I couldn't imagine anybody would ever want to pay $100 for that when they can just replace the whole ignition system.

Yeah.

For what, 300 bucks?

Yeah.

And so and I ended up having some, some spares and I gave that one to him and it got his bike running.

But that was like, and that was even after I'd been doing this for quite some time.

That I remember that was like a big eye opener to me because I'm like, it goes back to that thing.

It's like, just because something is useless to you, like there's somebody out there that needs it.

Yeah.

And they don't have access to shelves full of parts where they can go pick through stuff.

You know, it's a dude with one bike with no spare parts.

Yeah.

And he's like, okay, I need that part, you know, and to me, that box of modules was absolutely junk.

And I was like, why am I wasting shelf space?

Yeah.

But then Kevin called me and he was like, dude, you're an idiot.

I was like, you know, I started looking.

I'm like, yeah, you're right.

I am an idiot.

Yeah.

But the eBay thing, didn't that kind of like get kind of difficult with all the fees and stuff that eBay started charging it?

Did you ever play the eBay game much?

Oh, yeah.

And I've got an eBay store now and I still do it, but I put on there and I'm really open about it.

I'm like, if you're willing to call me, then you can buy whatever you're looking at on eBay for me for probably half what it's on there for.

Yeah.

Because, you know, you just, they eat you alive with fees and it's, you know, it's the name of the game.

It is what it is.

Everybody's got to make their money.

Yeah.

You know, it is.

It's, there's a lot of things that I don't even put on eBay that I like, I'll take pictures of.

I'll start to list it and then I start calculating what I'm going to have to ask for it to cover these fees.

And it's embarrassing to me to even ask that.

And I feel like a lot of people don't understand that they don't, a lot of the end user doesn't realize how much fees and stuff is calculated on that stuff.

And it's, if you think about all the shit that's on eBay, if they were just getting a penny, one penny from each transaction, they're billionaires.

Yeah.

So why the fuck does there need to be 50, 60, $70 charges?

And they ran out so many buyers like that.

Like if you talk to a lot of the guys that used to have eBay stores, they'll tell you they're like, that's why we don't do it anymore.

They got greedy.

You know, they, they want, they want so much money out of every transaction and it leaves it to where the person selling it has to either A, ask a astronomical prize for what they're selling or B, not make any money at all on it or lose money.

Yeah.

100%.

And it sucks.

But so I put on all my listings.

I'm like, Hey, you know, I'll put my card on there.

I'm like, if you'll call me and especially if you're local and you want to drive out like nothing that's priced on eBay is even close to relative to what I'll actually take forward if you'll come up here and talk to me.

See, I was looking for a twin cam drive train recently and there's quite a few of them on there, but it's like one of those things.

I'm like, man, how like, I wonder if you'll cut me a deal if I can get, you know, they're wanting $2,500 for a 2013 twin cam six speed, the whole kitten caboodle.

Like maybe it'll take 18 or 2000.

I'll drive up and pick it up.

Yeah.

And I mean, especially if you're picking it up, it'd be, they'd be a fool not to just because they're going to end up getting close to the same amount of money if you take, you know, take the fees out of it.

And then on top of that, they don't have to deal with creating it, shipping it, any of the headache of that, which is by itself.

I mean, like ever since I started that eBay thing, I'll, I'll get off my other job and I'll come home and it's just straight nothing but packing.

Yeah.

I mean, I have to just pack nonstop.

Hold on a second.

You need to tell them about this child labor that you got going on at your place.

Oh yeah.

You got a toddler that's been doing packaging who's already learning how to be a hustler.

Yeah.

Tell them about that.

Fucking puts in work.

Tell them.

I got to deal with my son.

He's three.

And you know, he, he's always in the shop with me.

Yeah.

You know, asking to help this Nat run Tate doing whatever.

But I've been trying to get him, you know, in the mindset of earning money and not everything's just going to be bought.

Yeah.

And so I got to deal with him now to where I pay him a dollar a box.

And so he'll come out in the shop with me and I'm like, all right, we got X amount of boxes to pack today.

If you help me get a dollar box, man.

And now this kid is fucking rolling.

I mean, he's got his backpack he carries around.

It's like Floyd Mayweather with his little dollars in the back.

And he's just got all these $1 bills in there.

It's like he just left the titty bar and he, he buys, you know, whatever he wants.

We'll take him up to the store and we'll pull out his backpack full of ones and he'll pay the lady and we roll out of there.

And he just, he keeps it going.

And in the mornings I'll go out there and he'll, you know, he'll wake up and can I watch cartoons?

I'm like, sure you can.

You ain't gonna make no money watching cartoons.

Dad's going to the shop.

He'll look at it and he's been asking, he's got everything toy story, but he doesn't have Rex, a dinosaur.

And so lately he's been like, I want Rex.

And I'm like, well, you got some boxes back then, dude.

And so he'll think about it and he'll look at the TV and look at the shop.

And he's like, yeah, I better get out in the shop.

Yeah, dude.

That boy's going to be an animal.

Yeah, like Rex is $40, dude.

He's not cheap.

Hustling animal.

Brooks is planting the seeds very early with.

Dude, that's smart though, man.

Baby Beau.

That's such a better, I mean, I would, I would think that's a better, you know, trait to have.

I mean, you're not really robbing him of a childhood.

He still gets to enjoy his toys and his games, you know.

And, and he's, he's making a choice.

You gave him a choice.

Yeah.

Hey, you want to get that toy?

Yeah.

Cause he knows, I mean, it's like, you can, if you want to sit inside and watch TV, I mean,

you can to a degree.

I mean, if it gets to a point where he's been watching TV for a few hours and I'm like,

all right, dude, we're done.

Like, we're not doing this, but you know, I always tell him, like, if you want to make

money, you've got to come out here and pack parts with dad.

And he's like, okay.

And most days, I mean, every now and then he'll have an off day.

But for the most part, he gets out there and I mean, don't get me wrong.

For the most part, he's throwing tape around like a wild man and I'm like, I got to

pack this.

Yeah.

But it's, you know, the whole purpose of it from my end is just making sure that he's

got that, you know, idea that it's like, Hey, you know, if I want something, I'm

not just going to ask for it.

Like, I'm going to have to do something.

Yeah.

And we still like pretty much everything he wants.

Now we'll ask him, do you have enough money for it?

And he'll go in there and you know, he, he can count to like 20.

Yeah.

But he'll go in there and grab his ones and, you know, he'll get to 20

and he'll quit and he'll be like, I got $400.

And I'm like, no, you don't.

You don't have $400.

But you know, it's just his concept of numbers is off right now.

So yeah, but it's, it's, it is probably definitely going to be the kid at

school with like suckers in his backpack.

Oh yeah.

You know, fun dip or something like that.

Yeah.

I'm buying them in the bag and selling them, you know, one by one.

It's like, y'all going to Costco?

Yeah.

I got 60 bucks.

I need to re up.

I did that middle school.

Yeah.

Man, I was just, I never, I never had a hustle growing up.

That's the thing, man, is it's, you know, we, and once again, ours came back

and that's one of the ways that, that's one thing I will say that

first Monday did that was great for me personally was dad was always doing

construction up there.

And so we made a bunch of connections and the family I was talking to you

about earlier, the Perkins, you know, they would always put me to work

from like 11 years old.

I would go up and I'd run their sandwich stand.

And then his dad owned a, it was called Mimi and Papa's place.

It was nothing but resale.

And when I say resale, there was nothing off limits.

I mean, you could go up there and buy a couch or a Corvette.

Yeah.

There was, they had everything.

But when it got done, you know, we would work all day in that sandwich

store and then when it got done, we'd go down there and we'd move

all their furniture and pack it all up.

And, you know, they were paying us 15 bucks an hour cash at 11, 12 years old.

It's pretty good.

Yeah.

And so it gave us a lot of opportunities that, you know, I don't

feel like other towns necessarily have just because, you know, it was like

I said, back then that was kind of a wild west.

Yeah.

And you could go up there and you could, you could make money.

I mean, there was no, there was no excuse to not make money

because there was too many things to do.

But, and then, you know, my dad's land was all full of

houses and so once I turned like 14, we started cutting down trees and I

would start building benches and I was selling cedar benches for like 400

bucks.

Nice.

And so, you know, it got to where you could make real good money up

there.

But, you know, now it's, it just, like I said, it got taken over

by the wholesale thing.

Yeah.

Just like everything is now, I mean, to an extent, you can

still find some stuff for the most part.

Yeah.

Born Free, we had a, we had a guy, it was kind of a debacle

thing.

We haven't set up to where that entire ridge hill that we're on is

ours and for our friends, right?

And so when I pulled up, this old camper was there and I'm like,

who the fuck is this?

And it's like, you want to be an asshole, not, not, especially not

the first day.

It's like, we're going to be here for the next four days.

I'm not trying to make an enemy of this guy, but he's not

supposed to be here.

And so, I have Grant helping me out.

We worked it out.

He, we pushed him as far in the corners as we could.

He stayed there for two days, anti-social.

He was already kind of pissed and then he packed up and left

like Friday night, right?

And we're like, we could have had this space, dude.

Like, you know what I mean?

But the point of what I was getting at is that he had some

kind of like whole thing is like vintage and he had this old

like pulled behind camper that's like a small one.

They look like a two bike trailer kind of thing.

And he had this whole aesthetic, but it was all new shit.

Right.

It was all like new hats with sayings on it and little

stickers and, you know, laser cut wood things.

It's like, there's nothing vintage about what you're

selling right now.

Yeah.

And that, it makes my question on that stuff is how do like,

how does it even make it worth it for them?

Cause I can't imagine there's that many people out there

that want to go spend the money on things like that.

And so it's like, by the time you pay your fuel and your

cost of setting up and your spot and all that, like

where, where does this come into where you come out on this?

Dude, go down.

Walks at you where I live.

You go downtown over there and you see these prime

spots that could be full of like cool restaurants, bars,

you know, like lively and it's full of antique shops.

Not the cool antiques it like is now more popular.

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I mean, I would ask you this more than I would tell you this

because I'm kind of ignorant to it, but like

Oliver from the cut rate kind of

educated me on this, how it's like

his antique or vintage is the way he likes to say it

is more, you know, his childhood

and just before his childhood.

So he's, you know, he's kind of a 70s baby.

So things from like the mid to late 60s

into the 70s and 80s is kind of like

his idea of old school shit.

I grew up with my grandmother,

that's how I know about First Mondays out there in Canton

is because they all did the whole

when someone dies, the state sell stuff, right?

They would set up, sell things off,

do the whole First Monday deal.

Well, my grandmother's world of antiques

is like pre world world, world war stuff

and, you know, kind of more rustic, you know,

farmhouse kind of shit, right?

And I feel like that kind of has been replaced now

where most people want like the mid century

modern style things and stuff like that.

And I forgot where I was going.

I was explaining the question so long.

I forgot where I was going.

Oh, because it's so popular, I think

that some people want to be a part like they,

you know, like think about me, women don't have hobbies

and it's like, okay, maybe I can get into vintage.

It's like, but they don't really fucking care.

You know, and so then you go to First Mondays

and like, well, I don't really know any of that stuff.

I don't know why that's $400.

But that little thing that looks brand new,

but it has a cool logo that looks like it's from like,

you know, the the atomic air or something.

I'm gonna buy that.

Yeah, it's the entry level.

Yeah.

And I think, I mean, to what you were saying

about the world war versus, you know, mid-century stuff,

I think a lot of that is just, you know,

the group of people that were around to remember

the stuff that was collectible from the wars

is just shrinking.

Yeah.

And so, you know, it goes back to the nostalgia thing.

I mean, people are always nostalgic

about from their teenage years,

their early 20s, stuff like that.

And those people are just gone

when it comes to the world war stuff.

And that's why I think all this 50s and 60s stuff is,

you know, it hit its height,

but going forward, you know,

it's gonna be going down.

And then it's just gonna be, you know,

all of a sudden we're talking about

collectible shit from the 90s.

And it's like, wait a minute.

I think clothing wise, we're already there.

But I mean, there's also the other aspect

that Corey and I both talk about a lot

is where like 70s was kind of like

when things changed from being,

like I have a fridge from 52 down there

that's working really great.

There's not a lot of 70s fridges run around

that are working too great.

You know what I mean?

You roll the dice even forward

or you roll the thing forward.

It's like...

Well, and Harley's a perfect example of that

because that was like the decade

where things being truly mass produced

really happened.

And that's exactly what happened with Harley.

Like if you look at the production numbers

from Harley-Davidson for the late 60s,

going to the mid-70s,

like it skyrocketed.

And that's why AMF got such a bad name

is because they were just trying to pump out

as many bikes as possible

and quality control went out the window.

And, you know, that slap side,

anything generator 69 and older

is worth so much more money.

And Harley bought AMF,

or AMF bought Harley in 69

and owned them till 81.

But in those years,

they tried to ramp up production so much

that they just got horrible, horrible reputations.

And that's why shovel heads, you know,

in their own right, just got terrible reputations

because when they were brand new,

they weren't worth the shit.

See, that's why you're having problems with your shovel.

Blame that on AMF.

No, let's not do that.

Yeah, they must have a connection with SCD cases.

Sh...

Minor technicality.

Was it you that was telling me about the oiling hole

being plugged up on a factory case?

Was it somebody else?

Might have been corn-free.

There was somebody that said they pulled apart an engine

and the oiling hole was like three-fourths blocked off

and a set of factory cases that, like,

it had never been apart.

And it was just another...

Starving oil the whole time.

Yeah, starving the bottom end,

but it was just when AMF bought them,

it was nothing but numbers, you know?

Even the low-produced models

still got so many more of them were made

than the slap sides.

Yeah, there's...

You know, just like tapping into, like,

my, you know, just living life

and being aware of, like, how culture kind of, like,

moves and shifts and changes.

When I started noticing, like, the chopper craze,

kind of like the vintage chopper craze

kind of getting big and like breaching the mainstream,

which is kind of where I was kind of hanging out at,

I started realizing that culturally

there was such a draw to, like,

a lot of people wanted 70s styling.

I mean, logos on brands were going 70s style.

A lot of the AMF stuff, you would see it in things

that weren't even motorcycles, you know what I'm saying?

It was such a popular style, you know, that little...

Simpsons' old logo had it on it where it's like those that...

The stripes?

It reminds me of Reese's Pieces,

like the little colors from that, you know what I mean?

But you see all this stuff happening

and I feel like it's starting to kind of,

you know, to tie it back in with, like,

talking about the mid-century stuff

and, like, products and furniture and things like that,

did I feel like once plastic became the god of, you know, products,

it was kind of like after mid-century...

mid-century might actually introduce plastic

into a lot of things, right?

But it was kind of, you know...

It was more that Bakelite type of glass than the Hurley.

They had a lot of fiberglass, too,

which I've read and got into.

Fiberglass was a big part of the furniture-making stuff in that world,

but there's, like, a huge...

To me, like, that style is kind of timeless,

as opposed to, like, you know,

a shag carpet would look good in the van,

but do you think it'll look good in the Sprinter van, though?

Like, I don't know if it's gonna work, you know?

Not just that, man.

Shag carpet holds a lot of memories.

I don't know about that stuff.

I'm a big van guy. Love vans.

Yeah.

Not a fan of shag carpet.

I'm not the cleanest dude in the world,

but that's some dirty shit.

Yeah, some might call it baby gravy.

Man...

Yeah, well, I mean, it wouldn't...

Yeah, it hides shit.

That's good.

It's gross.

I mean, there's nothing else to it.

It's fucking gross.

You get, like...

I bought my...

My dad was a VW mechanic,

and so, like, me and my oldest brother,

our first vehicles were Volkswagen's

because that's all we could afford.

Yeah.

And my dad knew he could fix them,

so it was like, that's what we're gonna get.

And so I was a big Volkswagen dude,

and I remember I was 15,

and we were at the auto swap in Canton,

and we were looking for my first car,

just looking around,

and we looked at this VW bus.

They were asking, like, two grand for it or something,

which back then was, you know,

a little high for what it was.

We needed everything.

And then this guy came over,

and he was like,

hey, y'all looking for a Volkswagen?

My dad was like, oh, maybe what do you got?

And he was like,

oh, I got a bus that somebody left out on my property

in Will's Point.

He's like, y'all want it?

You know, come look at it.

And Dad was like, what do you want for it?

He was like, 400 bucks.

And so Dad was like, load up.

Let's go look at this thing.

Yeah.

And so we drove to Will's Point,

and we get there,

and the engine was in the front seat,

and it was full of water ski equipment.

And Dad was like, you got a title.

And he was like, no, I don't have a title.

Dad was like, I'll give you 250 bucks for it.

And the dude was like, sold.

So we towed it out of there.

And by the time we got it finished,

had like maybe 1200 bucks in it.

And most of that was the brakes.

But I drove that thing all the way into college.

For real?

Yeah.

And like, I still got it.

Is it a VW bus?

Yeah.

It's a 69.

Those things are worth a lot of money.

Yeah, now.

Okay.

They are now.

Back then they were just still kind of like,

and I mean, they were worth some money,

but they still were.

You got the one with all the windows all around?

No, hell no, I wish.

Those things are high dollar.

But I've got, and now me and my brother

between the two of us, we got six of them.

Nice.

But my first one was a 69.

And it had pink shag carpet in it.

And I remember tearing that shit out.

And just like, I mean, just the airborne shit

that was coming out of that shag carpet

was so gross.

Yeah.

And it was like, oh man, like, and like I said,

I'm not afraid to get dirty by any means,

but I was like, I need gloves and a respirator

and a Tyvek suit because this shit is disgusting.

And there's no telling what was in that,

what was in that shit.

It was pink shag carpet and a bunch of water skis.

And it was a West failure, so it had closets in it.

Okay.

All kinds of shit in those closet.

There was a raccoon in there.

I see.

Just, I mean, it'd been sitting in a pasture.

Yeah.

That's what so many of those things got used as was storage.

Like almost every broke down bus you find

is just full of random shit from whoever owns it.

It's like nowadays you can get a damn,

you know, a storage container, you know,

like the shipping containers.

You know, those are pretty damn cheap, honestly.

Yeah.

But yeah, back in the day,

it was like that old rider truck becomes like,

let me go show you what I got out in the truck back here.

And it's like, oh wait, which truck was it?

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

But we did Wasi on last year.

And well, one of my buddies, Jim,

he knew this lady there that, you know,

her husband owned a business back in the day

called Arts Parts and he passed away.

And she wanted to unload some shit.

But I guess some of that guy's friends

had been kind of shitty to her after he passed.

Yeah.

So she didn't want to sell to any of them.

So she called Jim and she was like,

hey, you know, I'm looking to unload some stuff,

but I'm not selling to any of these guys.

Do you know anybody?

And so Jim threw my name in the ring.

And so I was like, well, we'll just do one trip of it.

I'll do Wasi on.

And then I'll go over to where her place was at,

which was like two hours east of where Wasi on was at.

You should tell them about Wasi.

Yeah.

What is it?

So Wasi on is like one of the biggest

vintage bike swap meets AMCA meet.

They do it every year.

I think it's into August.

Where's that?

It's in North Ohio.

Like we were like an hour south of Michigan.

Oh, okay.

We're up there.

But it's a good show.

And it's a AMCA event.

And Jim, my buddy Jim is from up there.

I mean, he's from New York, but he used to do Wasi on.

Like he did it many times before I ever even knew about it.

Yeah.

But so I went up there and did that.

And we went over to her place.

Her name was Karen.

We went over to her place to, you know,

pick through some stuff.

And that's exactly what it was.

It was like they had a building and there was two

roll up doors that were getting to this building.

And I guess after, after he died,

she was so upset with the lack of, you know,

so-called friends that came around to help that she backed up

two box trucks in front of the doors and just blocked them off.

And it was like, nobody's getting in here.

Nobody's getting his parts.

Like basically fuck all y'all.

Like, you know, he did all this shit to help y'all when

he was around.

And now that he's gone, you know,

that the example she told me was she had a waterline break

and she called everybody and nobody would come help her.

And so she was like, I'm done.

Like if this is, you know, so-called friendship.

And the women know, the women know how many times you say,

hey, babe, I got to go run and help out Bill over here.

And that's what she told me.

She was like, he was the type of guy that like people would

call him at eight o'clock at night and be like,

hey, I got to ride tomorrow and I got a bald tire.

Yeah.

And he'd go up there and unlock the shop and change her

tire.

And it's like, well, who's fault is that?

That's your fault.

Yeah.

If you let, you know, if you wait till eight o'clock

the night before you're supposed to go riding,

you know, you got a tire showing wires.

I mean, that's not, that's your fault.

That's the old concept of like feeding a stray cat though.

Yeah.

If you need the money to do that, you know what I mean?

Like, hey, I mean, I'll take whatever I can get right now.

I'll run up there and do it.

But yeah, if it becomes like the, if you don't set people

straight, like, hey, look, I'll do this for you right now.

But like this, we can't do this a lot.

Yeah.

And that's, that's what she described him as.

And I never, I obviously never got to meet the guy,

but she was like, he was always helping everybody.

And she was like, and she told me, she said,

I really thought that all those same people were going to be

around to help me.

And she said, and the only time any of them called me back

was when they wanted parts.

And so she said, I just shut it down.

Yeah.

And so I got lucky enough that she trusted Jim.

And Jim was like, you know, Brooks will come up there.

You know, he's not going to go pocket and shit.

Like he'll do you right.

And she was like, well, if he's good enough for you,

he's good enough for me to bring him up.

So I got to go in there, but it was back to what we

were talking about with the connex box and shit.

Like this whole place, like the building was completely full

of stuff.

And this guy did everything.

Yeah.

I mean, there was lays everywhere.

He had all machinist toolbox.

Like he had tons of stuff.

But there was all these connex boxes out back that were

just full of parts.

Yeah.

And so we were going through everything and I didn't know,

you know, what her idea of what she wanted for it was.

Like I was going to be fair with her, but like, you know,

there's a lot of people that have just watched too much

American Pickers and they think their evo is worth $50,000.

Yeah.

And it's like, well, you know, I can't go doing that.

Yeah.

So I was really hesitant to start pulling shit down.

But she was like, well, just make you a pile.

And I was like, well, I don't want to go taking all

your stuff off the shelves and then have to turn on

and put it back up.

Like, you know, give me some pricing so we know

where we're at.

Well, I made a pile in the middle of the floor and she

was like, yeah, I asked her.

I said, what do you want for all of this?

And she was like, what do you give me for it?

And I just kind of looked it over and I was like,

I'll give you seven grand.

And she was like, so, all right, cool.

So I went out to my truck and Jim followed me out there

and he was like, are you sure you're good with that?

And I was like, yeah, man, I was like, I've got,

you know, I've got room to make money on this.

It's fine with me.

Yeah.

And he was like, all right.

He's like, well, I just, you know,

I want to make sure you're not overpaying just

because you're, you know, worried about me.

And I was like, no, I'm not going to,

I'm not going to put myself in a bind, man.

I was like, I'm going to be fair with her.

He's like, okay, well, we got back and I ended up buying

a ton of shit off this lady.

And I had my truck loaded down like Sanford and Sons, man.

Like there was cargo nets over the back,

shit over the roof.

And I had my buddy with me and she was trying

to get me to buy more.

And I was like, I'd love to, but I don't have,

I said, I don't think I can haul a sheet of notebook

paper home.

Like my shit is as full as it can possibly get.

And so she was like, well, I got a trailer.

And I was like, okay.

She was like, you can use it.

And so I'm like, all right, well, you know, maybe,

and I'm like, well, how fast you,

and there's a 17 hour drive there.

And I was like, well, how, how fast you need

your trailer back?

She is like, oh, you know, two weeks.

I was like, I can't do that, man.

I was like, you know, I got another job.

I can't.

I said, there's no way I can turn around

and bring this trailer back within two weeks.

I ain't gonna lie to you.

I said, but I didn't have a enclosed trailer at that time.

So I'm like, why don't you just sell me the trailer?

Yeah.

And she was like, no, I don't, you know,

I don't want to get rid of the trailer.

Okay.

So I bought everything I could and we made plans

to come back and she already told us she was going

to put us up in her house.

We were going to stay with her, all this stuff.

And so we get on the road.

We make it to bowling green Kentucky.

My alternator went out on my truck with all this shit on it.

And so it's like one o'clock in the morning.

I'd already booked a hotel room in Nashville

because we had been at Wasian.

So we hadn't showered in like a week.

And so I was looking like I booked that hotel

while we were driving and I was so excited.

Man, I cannot wait to get a shower.

Like this is going to be great.

My buddy wakes me up.

Hey man, your truck's own service charging system.

Like shit.

What's it doing?

He's like, well, nothing right now.

He's just showing that.

Well, just drive.

We made it like an hour.

Dyes coast off side of the road.

We're like 20 miles from Tennessee border.

And I call AAA and they're like,

well, we can't transport across state lines.

I'm like, it's 20 miles.

What does it matter whether it's a state line or not?

We can't do it.

So we stayed on the side of the road that night.

The next morning I called Uber had Uber take me to Walmart.

I didn't know if it was a battery.

The alternator had Uber take me to Walmart, bought a battery, came back,

put the battery in the truck, started up, still showed the same thing,

drove it to our Isles, tested the alternator alternator was bad.

Well, I'm used to, you know, 200 $200 alternators.

Well, those trucks have smart alternators that vary voltage based off the condition of your battery.

I alternator.

Yeah.

So I'm like, I just need alternator for my truck, man.

He's like, okay, you want OEM or and I'm like, well, price me both.

It's like, well, the Ultima is $1,500 and the motorcraft is 18.

It's like, are you shitting me for an alternator?

Yeah.

It's like, I guess I'll take the Ultima because I'm not,

I'm not about to pay 1,800 bucks, not the 1,500 is that much better.

And on top of that, the core charge for my alternator was $30.

Not even $100.

I was like, are you shitting me right now?

30 bucks.

So we pulled my truck up on the curb and changed the alternator in Kentucky, headed back,

but the whole way home, I'm calling my wife.

I'm like, you know, I'm about to spend every dime we got because I got to go back to Ohio.

She has some like really good stuff.

Oh yeah.

She had a ton of stuff.

Like, I mean, and it was everything like everything from Knucklehead to FXR twin cam stuff.

Like she had everything and she knew it too.

I mean, this chick, like, so an example, when I was looking for Pan had, you know,

short reach plugs and she had a bunch.

There was a whole wall of nothing but OEM plugs in the boxes.

And so I'm opening up plugs and he had a lot of air Maki two stroke shit.

And so I'm opening up boxes and she said, what are you looking for?

And, you know, I'm not trying to be rude, but in my mind, I'm like,

if I tell you short reach plugs, you're just going to look at me like a dipshit.

So I was like, but I didn't know what I'll say.

So I was like, you know, I'm looking for the panhead, the short reach panhead plugs.

And she was like, oh, they're right over there on the left.

And I was like, wait a minute, walk over there and open up the boxes.

Sure.

Shit.

All short reach plugs.

Yeah.

I mean, this chick lived her whole life doing nothing but the rallies with her husband

and she knew motorcycles better than most men do.

Like by a long shot.

But she was fair with all the pricing and what she wanted for stuff.

Oh, yeah.

You know, she was super fair with it.

She just wanted it to go somewhere and she needed money.

And she was, she just refused to sell it to any of the people that, you know,

weren't around to help.

Yeah.

What was your whole intention?

Buying for your personal stash or flip?

So, and that's what I do with everything.

Like I've got enough bikes to where I can pretty much find something for my

stuff, you know, wherever we'll go.

And so I had a bunch of stuff that I'd picked out that I was like,

this is for me.

Like, you know, I'm going to set this stuff back.

And you know, a lot of it I was going to turn around and sell.

But she knew that and that was the whole game.

I mean, to be fair, I don't think anybody's going to go buy that amount of

shit and then be like, well, this is all for me.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, you're going to turn around and sell something.

I mean, they have it to sell.

Exactly.

You know, we're all in the same game.

And that's what like when people buy stuff for me and they're like,

well, you know, they act kind of sheepish about turning around and

selling it.

I'm like, listen, dude, if you buy it for me, I don't care what you do

Yeah, you know, it's we're all in the same game here.

You know, it's you're not going to hurt my feelings at all.

Yeah, if you get it and you get in a binder for whatever reason or

somebody makes you a stupid offer on it, take it.

You're not going to hurt my feelings any.

But so we make it back and I'm making plans to get back to

Ohio to buy the rest of this shit.

And then Jim calls me and he's like, hey, man, Karen died.

And I was like Karen like Ohio, the one that we were just at.

And he was like, yeah, what happened?

He was like, she had cancer.

And so all of that shit and I didn't even touch a tenth of what

was there.

And it's all still up there.

And they from what I understood, there was nobody to get it

all.

They didn't have any kids.

Yeah.

I wonder what it's like.

I mean, obviously would probably go into some kind of like

banking auction type situation, right?

Yeah.

I mean, I would assume that it would go with the property.

Yeah.

And it's just going to be whoever buys it probably isn't going to

have the first idea of what they've got.

Do you lay awake at night thinking about this?

All the time.

I mean, like what was like some stuff that was left behind it?

I mean, like full motors or just like?

Yeah, there was full motors.

They had several.

So this guy was really into building the Fatso engines.

The Evo bottom end with the twin cam tops.

Okay.

Yeah.

And so he had several of those in there.

And, uh, and then just, I mean, just stacks of heads cases,

like I bought like five ratchet tops out of there and I probably

left 20 more.

Damn.

I just got everything that I could get my hands on when I was

there, but I was in a half ton truck with no trailer.

So I was like, all right.

And honestly, even the stuff that I bought once we started

trying to stack it in there, it was like trying to play

retarded Tetris.

Yeah.

I was like, I'm never going to fit all this in here.

Like I didn't bring the truck for this, man.

But, you know, we got everything we could and I had every

intention, you know, she was such a sweet old lady and, you

know, gave her a hug and she was like, when you come back,

you're staying at my house, you know, I'm going to cook

for y'all.

I'm going to take care of y'all.

Yeah.

And we were like perfect.

And I told her, I said, I'll be back.

Those kind of people are tours.

Like if you get to go there, I mean, just imagine if

they pull out the photo albums from like all the

rallies and things.

Yeah.

That's that's the shit that I love is when they, when

you get comfortable enough with someone, they break out

the box and they take the top off and they're like, yeah,

this is my first panhead and this is my first FXR.

I'm like, oh yeah, we're friends now.

Yeah.

You know, and it and you know, that stuff's getting

fewer and farther between and another like perfect

example of what you're talking about is, and I'm

sure a lot of people know him as East Bay Dave

that was in Ennis.

He had a huge collection of old stuff.

But I bought a flathead is the one you rode out

of Chico, Texas, and it has WRTT oil tank, gas tank

stuff on it.

It's just super, super rare parts.

Race.

Factory race shit.

And the engine was locked up.

So we bought it, went through the engine

transmission, got it all running.

And now that's what we ride around at all the

shows, pasture bike, you know, whatever.

Well, I was riding it at Nitty Gritty last

year.

And I know Dave.

I see Dave waving his hat at me.

And I'm like, all right, you know, whatever.

So I pulled around and I pulled back up.

And he said, do you know whose bike this is?

I was like, well, I mean, it's my bike.

And he was like, well, no, do you know

who's bike this was?

I was like, no.

And he was like, I built this engine.

It's like, okay.

And he was like, this belonged to one of

my best friends, Newt Clemens.

And I was like, oh, you know, sweet.

And so he starts asking me questions of

what I've done to it.

And I was like, man, I've done, as far as

parts changing, I've done next to nothing on it.

I mean, everything that's on it is still what I got.

It's got a very like the one you, the red one

that you were kicking and everything.

Yeah.

It's got like a vibe.

I didn't want to change a thing about it.

Yeah.

And he was like, man, this brings back so

many memories.

I was like, well, do you want to go ride it?

He was like, hell yeah, I want to go ride it.

I was like, all right.

You know, take off.

And so he took off at nitty gritty and he's

riding up and down the roads and he's got

one of those old leather Harley Davidson, you

know, caps and he's waving it around and

air honking the horn and shit.

It's got one of those little bicycle horns

on the handlebars and he came back

and he was like, man, I can't tell you

how much that means to me.

You know, you let me ride this bike.

It's cool.

I was like, yeah, you know, anytime, dude.

And he was like, well, can I come by the shop?

I said, sure.

Well, couple weeks later, he calls me, he comes

up to the shop and whips out this photo

album and it's nothing but old pictures

of him and Newt in that bike and their

party's back in the Lubbock and just, he's

just going through the stories and he's

got a picture of that bike on a lift

and then the tanks hanging in the

rafters in the background.

And he was like, that was Newt's bike,

man.

He's like, he kept it forever.

Yeah.

And I was like, well, that's cool

shit for me to get the history on it.

You know, I'd have just seen you

had a swap meet.

Yeah.

So what kind of races was this bike

participating in?

This is a flat track or what are we

talking about?

So that bike was made for the Daytona

race.

And those bikes, the WR was the

factory Harley racer for the flat

heads.

But when they made it to the Daytona

race, that was a, I believe a 200

mile race.

Well, the flat trackers, they had

oil and gas in the gas tanks.

So they didn't have a dedicated oil

tank like a big twin would have.

Well, they were having to refuel and

all that shit.

So they, they, they ended up doing,

it was the first five gallon tanks

Harley ever made was for the WRTT

Daytona.

And they did a six quart cast

aluminum oil tank.

It was the only 45 that had its

own oil tank.

And then they did five gallon gas

tanks, flat side gas tanks so that

they could hold more fuel.

Was this total loss oiling?

No.

No?

Yeah.

But if you pull the cap off, it's got

a big spring clip with a huge,

like, like three inch wide filler

hole on the side of that oil tank.

That's the coolest freaking oil tank.

I've never seen one like this before.

But if you open it up, I mean, it's

like, it's like quarter inch thick

cast aluminum, like it is thick as

hell.

But all of that stuff is just

super, super rare.

And that's, I got it from a guy

that was doing garage door service

and he went and he got on a call

and that bike was in there with a

75 shovel head.

And the guy was like, listen, I don't

know how this guy ended up with this

bike, but he was like, I just want

him gone.

And that guy called me and he was

like, you know, I got these two

old bikes here.

I don't know if you were

interested in this dude didn't

know about bikes.

I said, send me a picture of him.

So he sends me a picture and I see

the tanks in the old tank.

I couldn't see what's this one

and I couldn't see that at that

point in that picture.

And I called him back and I was

like, do not leave that

motorcycle there like by that

motorcycle.

And he was like, well, I already

left.

And I'm like, well, turn around

and go get it.

And he was like, no, you know, I

got, I got stuff to do.

I can't go back.

And I was like, what did he

want for it?

He said, he said he'd take

five grand for the pair of them.

And I was like, dude, you are

killing me.

And he was like, well, I can go

back and get it next week.

And I'm like, I'm going to

miss out on this thing.

And I was like, man, I'll pay

you just please go get that

bike.

Well, it snowballed for like

three weeks.

I can't go back.

You know, they're not

available this and that.

So we ended up, it went on.

And I was just like, yeah, I'm

never going to get that bike.

It's gone.

And then he called me one

day and sent me a picture of

him on the trailer.

He was like, I'm heading your

way with him.

He said, I'm going straight

to your shop.

Thank you.

Yeah.

And so he came up to the shop

and he gave five grand for him

and knew zero about him.

Like nothing.

Yeah.

And I was like, what do you

want for him?

He was like, well, I want to

make some money on him.

And I'm like, yeah, I get

that.

What do you want for him?

He was like 7500 bucks.

It's like deal.

And so I bought him that

75 shovel was a piece of

shit.

Oh man.

It's always the shovel.

Yeah.

And so I like I immediately

put that bike up for $2,500.

Someone came and got it that

night.

And I was like, thank God

that thing's gone.

Yeah.

And so I had five grand in

that flathead and we went

through the engine.

And now I've, I mean, I've

got right around seven grand

in it, but it's like the most

fun bike and you can't go

anywhere on it.

The people aren't, you know,

smiling and taking pictures

with it.

I can vouch for that after

more years.

And my son loves riding it.

It's got that bicycle horn

and everywhere we go, he's

just honking it.

I mean, running that

sandwich out of air.

And the whole thing is like,

I have never ridden

a 45, which means I've also

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You were talking about that.

It's so freaking ridiculous.

You could damn near blow on

the kicker pedal.

Yeah.

And the thing starts and

this thing is, it's got

a linkered carb.

There's no accelerator pump

or anything.

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Just start kicking.

Yeah.

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Man, you know, we, you know,

Corey and I like going through this

process of building this shop

downstairs like that was probably

one of the hardest parts about it

and especially for me,

as all the bikes that I do

typically refinish to something more

new, like it's, you know,

I'm not like a patina, you know,

kind of sore of like making it look

like that, right?

But then you get these parts where

like, man, I don't know how to

like blend this together.

That's the hardest thing about

the vintage shoppers in my opinion.

So when you find something that's

just got like the perfect,

like look to it, it's like, man,

like you just leave it alone.

But how do you fix it up

to make it work but not put

something brand new on it?

Like there's a whole outside

looking in.

I don't think people realize the

complicated aspect of doing this

type of stuff, you know.

Yeah.

And you can only have them like that

once.

Yeah.

And that's the thing is you can

always refinish a bike.

Yeah.

If you like, I can keep that

flathead the way it is right now

for the next 60 years.

And if I decide on a whim

I want it restored, I can always

paint it.

Yeah.

But you can never,

ever go back to what it is

right now.

Yeah.

You can't ever recreate that.

And then me having,

and I got copies from Dave

of those pictures.

And so me having all that with it

it's like, I would never,

ever paint that bike.

Yeah.

There's no way.

It's just, it's killer exactly

the way it is.

And I cleaned out the tanks

and made sure all that shit

was spotless.

But like, as far as the

outside of it, that's the

best part about it is that

when you look at it it's

like, there is no fucking

way that thing runs.

Yeah.

And then you step on it and

it's just ready to go.

Step on it.

See, that's something I

think that Brooks and his

whole personality around

motorcycles.

He perfectly embodies this.

The fact that he embraces the

patina, the crust.

You know, you and I come from

a different side of motorcycle

and wherever we used to like

nice paint and show chrome

and all this and stuff.

This, he has absolutely zero

interest in this kind of stuff.

Yeah.

He's opened my eyes to a

whole different side of bikes

like, I talk about this all

the time.

But when I think about Brooks

and people from East Texas,

I didn't know.

You can ride Harleys through

pastures and that's what

these fools are doing.

You know, like.

Some of my we were riding out

there and born free in the

pastures about 430 in the

morning last one night.

We're like, oh, it's fun, man.

It is.

But you, you get cut across.

You know, like how, like when

you go to a Walmart parking

and that's supposed to cut

across the lanes.

You got to find a lane out

there and stay in it

because you start going across

the middle.

You'll find some, some.

It gets rowdy.

Dude.

Whenever I left y'all spot

that night, it was like

probably four in the morning

and I was on that flathead.

That flathead has no generator,

no lights, zero wires,

nothing.

I mean, it is.

It's literally an engine

and a magneto with some

spark plug wire.

That's it.

And I was pretty

sauced up and I took off.

Martini's or were you just

doing beer and whiskey?

I had a few martinis.

Hell yeah.

And I left there

and they were following me

on the Ranger because

I rode that flathead

down there and I'm like,

I'm a head back and they're

like, well, you ain't got

fucking lights.

And I was like, it'll be all right.

And I took off across the

pasture.

I was hauling ass

with zero lights.

And I hit a pothole

about knocked my teeth out my ears.

And I was like, oh boy,

I bet I better take it easy.

And I pulled back up

and my buddy Nick came up behind

me on the side by side.

He was like, dude, I was trying

to keep up with you to give you

some lights, but your ass was

just fucking gone.

Yeah.

And that coffee, man,

that shit makes you go.

Yeah.

Add a little vodka to it,

make you go and not think.

All gas, no brakes.

Yeah.

That, uh, yeah,

that shit was wild.

We'll talk about that

that whole shit in a minute.

But, um, you know,

like getting into doing all this

stuff, like how do you

transition, you know,

into like just selling stuff

at, at, uh, you know,

making these wood benches

and things like that to

getting into bikes.

And then they start to do

this flipping and the way

not flipping, but like curating

these parts from all these, uh,

these, uh, these places you find

it.

And the whole world of that,

like to me, I'm just now

getting into it a little bit,

not trying to get on, like,

the you or cheeks level,

but just like, I'm,

it's a habit of mine to look

on Marketplace every morning.

That's how you find that

sick ass, uh, uh, you see a

lawnmower?

No.

Oh, it's bad ass, dude.

It's like a hopped up

riding lawnmower.

But it's got a fucking,

it's like, I don't know

how old it is.

It's, uh, the,

the body's all custom,

but the 10s was going to, uh,

the guy that did it was a

fabricator.

So it's got like a,

it looks like a four wheeler,

but it's like a lawnmower

and it looks fucking tough, dude.

It's right up your alley.

It really is.

But like vehicle collection.

Same thing.

Marketplace, dude.

Like we're, I, I check

Marketplace more often.

First thing waking up for

bed, more than I check

what's going on Instagram.

As you should.

Well, how do you get like,

how does this like

transpire for you?

Like, man.

So it's like,

it's one of those things

where, you know,

you look back on life

and there's so many things

that happened that you

didn't realize.

Yeah.

Were taking place.

Yeah.

And it was kind of like

that with my dad.

So my dad was 99%

hot rods.

He always had Harleys,

but he was 99%

hot rods.

And so,

and we had to help him.

Like we were daddy

and we were daddy

like, we were daddy.

He's to always joke.

He's like, the only reason

I had kids was for free labor.

Yeah.

You know,

so we had to go out there

and help them.

And so.

You know,

I spent all

of grown up in

high school.

You know,

bench pressing

transmissions.

While Dad screaming at me

through the tunnel,

you know, go up a little

higher.

And I'm like, shit, man.

It's all I got.

I ain't got anymore,

but that's what

that always did.

You know,

he'd make a live

Cars yeah, you know kind of the same way I do get them and build them or get them running or you know, whatever and sell them and so

it just

Like watching that. I was mentally taking notes without ever, you know, realizing it

Yeah, and I was like, okay like and so I went to the old field

Like every, you know East Texas boy does it's like shit

You're telling me I can go make a hundred grand a year without a college education. I'm signed me up

Yeah, and I mean you can go make a good living out there

But you know the thing is and whenever I started out there, and I'll never forget it

I had a motor man that was super good, dude and the rest of my crew was full of crackheads

But that dude was a good dude and I remember we were working nights in the first night. He was like, what's your plan, man?

It's like, what do you mean?

He's like, well, I mean what what's your plan with this? Like where are you trying to go?

You trying to make a career out of it? What are you trying to do? I was like, man, I don't know

I was like, I just I need to make some money and

There's nothing else I can do with my qualifications that I can make this kind of money

And he was like, well, I'm gonna tell you right now. You got three years

He said you got three years to get in and out. He said because after three years

he said one

You're not gonna go anywhere else to make the kind of money you're making here without, you know

Any sort of degree and he said and two he said the shit that flies out here that you're gonna perceive as normal

Is gonna make you completely unhireable anywhere else

He said so if you're not wanting to make this career, he said I'm telling you right now

You got three years to get in and get out make your money

Yeah, do whatever you want to do get the fuck out of here and that always stuck with me and

I end up going to Amarillo and

I was working in boys ranch and that was the first time my dad got hospitalized and I remember I was, you know, eight hours from home

Dad got put in the hospital and we're like, you know, our family was always super tight-knit

And so when dad went in the hospital, it was like everybody fucking stop everything and I remember I was like eight hours from home

And I was like shit man. I don't like this. I don't like this being this far away. And so I came back

you know

We ended up it was it was a relatively minor thing with dad

But it just it struck me that I was like man, I'm out here too far away. Yeah

And so I went back to work in my tool pusher

The boss, you know, it was one of my really good friends and I was like, hey man, I'm done

He was like, what do you mean? I'm done. He's like you get another job. It's like, no

What are you gonna do? I don't know

Said but I'm fucking done. Mm-hmm. I'm going back home. He was like, all right

He's like, well, you know, if you ever want to come back

You know, we'll have a spot for you. It's like, all right

and I left and

That next week and I had all this money saved up from the old field that next week was like my first big buyout

and it was in Palestine and I went up there and I bought all this shit and me and dad were sharing a shop and

so, you know, we got to kind of do all that together and

That was when it kind of was like

All right. Well, you know, maybe I can maybe this is an option, you know, maybe I can do this

this was probably

2013 okay, well 13 something like that because I had a few years where it was just like I did the old field and then

for a year after high school, I was just

Fucking doing whatever I spent five months walking to California

You walk to California, you didn't I didn't ever tell you about this. I don't think so. Did I got a pee and then I want to hear about this?

Yeah, let's talk about walking to California

Oh, okay. All right, we'll pause on California will continue on something else

Well, I've been blown away by the stories, you know, we're just talking about Facebook marketplace

And you know, I'm always

Fascinated by like Brooks, where'd you find this one? What's the backstory on this bike or that bike?

There's been many a times

You've told me a story like you had your scrolling marketplace

You find something and you hop out of bed and you go in the truck like sorry, Brandy. I got to go

Yeah, where are you going? I'm going to buy a bike and that's the thing that people like and I'm not I'm not by any means

Discount that there are people out there that you know

really and like I said, this is not

They can ask whatever they want, but there's some people that'll go and they'll they'll put stuff back up from sale

I'm like, that's kind of crazy. But you know, whatever if you get it you get it

But on the other side of that there's a lot of people like what he was talking about that'll knock people

For going and getting something getting it running and then reselling it and it's like well, you weren't willing to leave dinner with your family

You know, you weren't willing. Yeah, you're paying the to go jump in the truck and go do it

Like you want the convenience of eBay

But with the prices of finding it in a pasture and it's like those two things don't go together

Like you got to choose one or the other like if you want the convenience of buy it now and click in a button

Well, you're gonna pay the price for that and if you want the inconvenience of like I told you the alligator story the other night

Didn't I wait?

That lady Miniola. No, I had a lady that she had a Sturgis

81 81 or 82 Sturgis and

she's pretty wild old lady and

The first question she asked me I pull up in my truck open the door the very first thing she says to me is do you have a gun?

Now I was like, that's a hell of a first question to ask me when I'm going to buy a bike

And I was like, well, yeah

Yeah, I've got a gun

Why are you asking and she said well, I got an alligator you need to shoot

And I was like

What the fuck

Ma'am, no, I'm not gonna shoot your alligator for you

And she says well, why not she said that there's an alligator in my pond

I said, well call the game warden, you know, like that's illegal as shit

and I don't feel like losing my job over shooting your alligator and

So I'm trying to load this bike up in the whole time

She's like

Dog in my manhood because I won't shoot this alligator for and I'm like ma'am

I don't know what to tell you. I'm not like I ain't shooting your alligator

And she said she had this little barn with like a lean-to on the side and she said walk around the back of that barn

Okay, so I'll walk around the back. There's two golf carts back there. She said you see that red easy go

I said, yeah, she said you shoot that alligator. You can have that easy go

I

Was like ma'am, I don't know what to tell you. I ain't I'm not shooting your alligator

I'll call the game warden for you. I ain't shooting your alligator

What kind of self-respecting man carries a gun is afraid to use it

I'm like, all right, lady. You're about to piss me off now. You know, just call the game warden

No handle this shit. Well, I don't want them on my property. I'm like, well to be frank

I don't want to be on your property anymore

So I bought this I bought the bike and the whole time I'm leaving out of there. She's just dogging me

You know that I won't use my gun

I was like, I'm getting the fuck out of here man. East Texas. Yeah, many ola

Yeah, and so I pull back up to the shop and Jim's there waiting and

I'll pull back up and I'm like, you ain't gonna believe this shit

Jim's like what? It's like I bought this bike and the lady wanted me to shoot her fucking at pond alligator for

and

He was like and he Jim's been wanting a golf cart for SWAT means and

I was like, yeah, like she told me if I shot her alligator

She'd give me that golf cart and he's like where the fuck she lived

I'm like, oh Jim. No, we're not doing this shit man

Jim was all about it and he's still to this day Jim's like, I can't fucking believe you left that golf cart there

Like dude, they weren't my job on the info and give it to Jim so he could go get a do a golf cart

This lady. Is it illegal to shoot something like that? An alligator. Yeah, okay

Yeah, I didn't know that. Yeah, you got a call you got a call again, especially at war out because like

Alligators aren't uncommon. Yeah, but it's not something you typically find in your pond

Unless you got some dickhead kid like me that buys one at first Monday and then grow up there

Like the pythons and the Everglades. Yeah, but I mean you still like, you know, like forks got gators in it everywhere

We have I mean, I'm you're here in Dallas a lot. We get a lot of those

We're we're seeing them more in our little lakes should here now. That's what I'm saying

It's not like it's not like Louisiana. Yeah, but it's not

Uncommon like you I mean those are prehistoric animals, right?

They I don't know what their lifespan is

But I would imagine like maybe kids like you just said buying these things at first Mondays 20 years ago

Yeah, and now there's now they're populating over here. Yeah, I might have shot my own alligator. Yeah

But I got the bike dude

He's got so many stories though about all the stories behind the bike

Oh, dude the hustling hopping out of bed driving fricking six hours gonna get a bike

I I could only I could probably only give you one story that's nowhere near the wall

Like the taming story that you've ever had but in my journeys of trying to find a good deal on the FXR

Took me to the backwoods

south of Branson, Missouri and

I met the guy at his tattoo shop in this small town and then I had to follow him

down dirt roads and

To a point for miles to the point where I was like going live trying to make sure

In case I was going to get murdered and taken for four hundred four thousand dollars or whatever

And I was so I was so freaked out by this journey to his place then once we got to his property it opened up

It was a beautiful valley, you know everything was legit, but I was freaking out, you know and

The bike was kind it was the SNS like 96 motor, but he didn't even clean it

It was caked in oil everywhere and I was thinking I was just gonna go buy something clean it up

Go a few parts on it and ride sturges and I was like man

I just can't if you would have cleaned it out about it

But the fact that you just left the whole fucking front front of the motor just dripped an oil that wouldn't have stopped Brooks

Not one bit. I actually prefer that way

Because at that point I'm like all right in my mind and this is legit. I mean I I

Genuinely prefer them this way because I'm like, okay, this person isn't cleaning the bike to try to hide an oil leak

Yeah, yeah, it's it's you can see

Everything like, you know if this thing had a real bad base gasket leak

Well, this guy clearly ain't trying to hide it because it's fucking caked on there. Yeah, yeah, like it's good

To your point. Yes, that is exactly what you want to drive the price down, but I was looking for something that was

Yeah, right ready. Yeah. Yeah. No, I get it

But yeah, no, we got we got a circle back to this whole walking to California thing

man, where does

First off, did you do it? Yeah, okay sick. Yeah, finish 50 miles straight on July 4th. Why like what was the mindset?

So I grew it like

My dad was super

strict

And we never got to do shit really like

Like we had a 10-minute phone rule. We were only allowed to be on the phone for 10 minutes and it was a house phone

Nice

We were only allowed to go to anywhere like anywhere once a week

And so growing up like all my friends were getting to go and you know do all this shit

And I'm like well do I want to use my once a week for this?

Like those were the questions that I had to like ask myself whereas everybody else was like well

I can go do anything like I can go do everything

So whenever I got like I I left my house whenever I was like 16

because me and my dad were just both

Buttonheads and I was like fuck this man. I'm out and

And my best friend growing up still my best friend Cody

You know, he was always kind of like

He was never a stoner, but he always kind of had that stoner attitude like he was super chill

laid back, you know, yeah didn't really

Want to go and do a whole lot whereas I was always like I was almost like the tweaker that didn't tweak

Yeah, I was like let's fucking roll like let's do this and he was like I'm good like let's calm down

But anyway, so I was living in my van

Bouncing back and forth between a Austin Kent and whatever I had a conversion van

right after

college

My brief stint in college

But you said you were 16 though like so did you stay no not when I did the walk when I did the walk

I was I got done

Whenever I was 18. Okay, so it was that summer or 19. Yeah, because it was a summer after I graduated

but

I'd been staying in that van and we would go back and forth to Austin and it was a GMC conversion man

That one was that was one I had after the Volkswagen

But anyway, I was in Austin and Cody called me and he was like, hey, man

I'm at Derek with Dairy Palace and Kent is like a staple. That's like the restaurant

He's like and we used to always sit up there and drink coffee

He's like I'm sitting up here at Dairy Palace and some guy comes walking in with an American flag and he walked here from New York

And he's walking to California. I

Was like really? He was like, yeah, it's like I told him that if you were here

You'd be his guy because you always want to do dumb shit like that

And I was like, well, yeah, that sounds pretty fucking cool. But you know, I'm in Austin

So whatever and he's like, well, check him out. You know, here's his website. It's pretty across America

I was like, all right sweet and the next morning I woke up my sister lives in Austin

I had breakfast with her and I told her the story that Cody told me. Well, fast forward like a month

I'm back down in Austin again and

My sister calls me and she's like that guy is walking down 35 and round rock right now

Oh shit, and she saw a sign and I was like, are you shitting me? She's like, no

I was like, well pull over and ask him if you need somewhere to stay and

So my sister's like, okay. He's like, I'll give him your number

And so she pulls over gives him my number. He calls me

He's like, hey, your sister told me you'd give us a place to stay. I was like, yeah, you know

We're having a party tonight at my brother's house. You can come crash with us hang out. So he comes over there

And we did you walk over so and that so listen

That's the funny part and he was so anal about this that he would mark the spot and

If anybody picked him up, they would have to drop him off at the same spot so that he could say he walked every single step

Okay, that was his deal

So I went and got him took him back

We partied he didn't drink or do anything

But he hung out with us all night. We talked, you know, what was his purpose or drive? So his was

To protest massive government spending it was after the stimulus packages and all that

Yeah, exactly. Oh, yeah, I'm sure he did

But I was beautiful bill. Yeah, it's the best

But I just you know

I'd never been anywhere at that point. Yeah, and I just kind of wanted to go

And so I picked him up and Austin was about as far as I'd gone

Yeah, I picked him up and we started talking and

I'm you know

Good and buzzed. Yeah, two or three in the morning and I'm like fuck this. I'm going with you

And he was like really? It's like, yeah

I'm gonna go. I'm gonna get my shit packed. I'm gonna go and my mom was there

My mom's a hippie, too. Yeah

in that next morning, I

Woke up and I kind of thought about it and I was like, no, I'm gonna do it

And so I was like, hey mom, I need to talk to you. She was like, I already know

Like what and she was like, I knew the minute you went and picked that dude up. I already knew

She was like whatever. I was like, okay

so I broke my lease in my apartment and

Tyler because I my sister had just signed for me to get that apartment. Oh fuck her credit. Oh, yeah

Well, mine too took me seven years to get rid of that shit

But and then I took a greyhound back out like I came back to East Texas

I got my backpack what I thought I needed which was completely fucking wrong. Mm-hmm

If you've never walked across

The fucking desert the things that you think you need. Yeah are not even close to what you actually need

Yeah, and so I brought all this shit and I just had to send it all back

But I made a walking stick super proud of that that lasted like three days. I gave it to some dude in Belmere, Texas

You can have this shit. This is the pain in the ass. Yeah got blisters on my hands. Yeah

Yeah, what the fuck do I need a walking stick for?

It's totally a movie thing. Yeah, but

Yeah, so we started he and he walked from Long Island, New York

But I met him just

West of Austin I took a greyhound from Dallas

I had my buddy driving from Canton to Dallas jumped a greyhound greyhound down to Austin

met back up with him and then

Spent the next four and a half months walking and we walked from West Austin to Santa Monica, California

finished on July 4th, and we walked 50 miles straight that last day

24 hours 50 miles. What was average day?

We would try to cover 30 miles a day. We didn't have that many breaks. We took a break in Scottsdale

And then we took another break in Coachella

But there was like a 90 mile stint between courtside, Arizona and Blythe, California that there was nothing

Like we didn't have anywhere to get water or anything. So I had the five gallon reservoir that I had in my bag was just full

and

Which made my bag heavy as shit

Which gets back to what I'm talking about about sending everything home because I was like like I brought

You know changes of clothes because you think you're gonna need changes of clothes

Well, it's not worth the wait and so I sent all that shit back and I wore it like I've still got a I've got

500 pictures of this trip on my phone. That's cool

And in every single picture. I'm wearing the same fucking clothes

Like I never changed never did anything

It was the same gross-ass white and green fuck shorts and an army shirt that I got for my sister

How did your feet do

Man, I was always barefoot so my feet were fine

You what no no no not on the walk. Sorry, but growing up like I was always barefoot

Okay, so my feet were already so callous that my feet were fine my knees took the brunt

What were the conversations like it was just y'all two walking, dude

So this guy was a big

Video game soundtrack dude, so he would listen to like Mario brothers and shit

So I was out there like, you know cast away just talking to my fucking self

So he just has like yeah, he just had his headset in I would just be you know talking yelling whatever

Whatever was going through my brain at the time, but we had what kind of shit was going through your brain

And the better thing because I mean that's I mean when we ride a bike across the country and you go through these

When you peel back these layers of the onion of your mind

That's like that's a sort of riding for eight hours

And then we go to the gas station and we break it up when you're walking like you're just alone with yourself

Yeah, and it was good. I mean a lot it

And like I said it kind of goes back to my childhood about never getting it like I always had a really kind of wild free spirit

But I was never allowed to do anything

Yeah, so it just kind of bottled up and then I feel like once it got to that point. I was like fuck this

I'm like there's nobody that can stop me now like I'm I'm free to do it in California

Yeah, this is the first time doing anything and I grew up, you know

Just romanticizing California and red hot chili peppers and shit and just listening to it

And I was like, you know, this will be the best day of my life when I finally make it to California

Didn't know it was full of hobos, but you know you kind of were at the time

That's true

fuck

Yeah, no, I mean I was I was

Like I didn't feel I didn't think about it like that at the time, but yeah, I was I was homeless in every regard, but yeah

Yeah, I mean it was just it was badass though. I mean, I don't I don't regret it for a minute

I'll be honest with you like when you said that like that's I've fantasized about that before yeah straight up that

I remember danger Dan he did a podcast early days and he was talking about going to like run to Raton or going somewhere west and

he like ran into a dude on a bicycle trip across the country and

He was like I vaguely remember the conversation of where that podcast went

But I just remember hearing that and then thinking about how I feel when I travel on a bike and how much I love

That feeling you know I'm saying and I was like man like and then of course one of my favorite movies is Forrest Gump

I mean literally like we as a group travel the country together finding the spots they ran in the movie. You know what I mean?

To me like that. I don't know. There's just like something kind of

Like it's I don't know it's like a real like you did it as a as a like coming of age like a becoming a man kind of thing

You know, I'm looking at it like as an escape like you know like into the wild like man

Maybe I don't want to have all this responsibility in life

Maybe I just want to go live on Salvation Mountain and say fuck it. You know what I mean?

Well, and I and I remember that like you saying the coming of age thing made me think about the conversation with my dad

Because when I told him I was gonna go he was like you're fucking stupid. Yeah, and I was like

No, like I'm gonna walk to California. He was like, well, what are you gonna do in this happens?

What are you gonna do in that? I was like, I don't know. I mean, I guess I'll figure it out

Yeah, and I remember we got into it about it and I was like whatever dude like I'm going and I remember him

Telling my mom because he was trying to talk me into it

But I remember him telling my mom if that cocky little motherfucker thinks he can do that then let him go do it

He's like I don't give a shit

but

Yeah, I mean we that's the thing is like

and

One of the biggest eye-openers about it and it's it's more so it's so much worse now than it was back then

but like the news and

Everything you watch on TV will have you believe like the worst of humankind. Yeah

but

Doing shit like that and just getting to go out and talk to people like in person

All across, you know, you know different walks alive like it makes you realize like even if you have super different viewpoints like

Most people obviously you've always got the shit bags, but most people like you know, they have a good heart

it's just a matter of

You know what they've been through and how they how they perceive life

Yeah, and that was a big thing there because even though like we got out there and we met some crazy sons of bitches

but like

All of them were kind of like, okay, like he's a good dude. He's just fucking wild. Yeah. Yeah

We had a guy that picked us up and I

Mean he was he picked us up in this old truck and he had a dog named scruffy and

He he brought us in this truck and I mean he was beating the shit out of this dog

Like he kept smack every time the dog did anything made a noise. He'd smack the shit out of it

They shut up scruffy and we were like

Damn dude, like dogs cool, but then he picked us up and we were just two homeless dudes

Yeah, you know at the point, but he brought us back and he had this hole. He had a single-wide

Trailer with a hole cut in the floor

With like a cast-iron pot that he cooked on

In the middle of this fucking trailer

Like a fire. Yeah. Oh, yeah

Yeah, he had a big-ass hole cut in the middle of floor and he had these chains with this big pot and he would cook like he

Cook cabbage that night and he let us stay in his house and we got up the next morning and

We were kind of like and I don't even remember all the weird shit

He did but he had a there was a lot of red flags

Where we thought I'm seeing Joe dirt in my head like, you know, there's the whole traveling to the it was a

Lot of Joe dirt. Yeah, and this dude was like

the worst character in Joe dirt times 10 and

We got in the back of the house and like we stayed there

I mean we did sleep one night there and he offered to let us stay more

We're like, yeah, we're gonna head out man. Yeah, I think we're gonna get out of here, but

it's just

Like the people that we met

It never

You know, you would you'd come across them and you'd find the weird things about them

But then you would actually start watching them and some things said you're like, all right

this like they may have a fucked up past or

Have a fucked up outlook on things now

But like there's some good in there

Like would you not say that like it just opened your your your mind to help like maybe empathy for everybody

It's where like you're not judging them based on like

How much they have or don't have monetarily and like what you see, you know what I mean?

Because most of the people that probably have the most money the most to give or offer or those people are walking on the road

I'm not fucking

changing my my

Direction in life to go do that and I mean obviously to like

Do you want to just bring some strangers in your home with your wife your kids things like that?

No, 100% and now that I have a family. I

Understand that viewpoint. Yeah, I do because I used to pick up hitch like after that trip

I picked up every hitchhiker. I saw yeah, like I never didn't pick up a hitchhiker and

Most of time

It's on my bingo card, dude. I haven't done it. Oh, dude. They were the coolest fucking people

Like if you pick up hitchhikers, you're gonna get the best stories. Yeah, or like well

That depends, but

Like we we went like after that the next year we went to South by with Cody's the same buddy and

There was these dudes on the side of the road and we picked them up and I was in a Honda Accord

To door sick. Yeah, what year? It was 96. Oh, that's a good one

I had a 2000 it was when they changed the body style, but yeah, that was a good car

My mom fucking swerved to miss a dead possum and totaled it sick

Yeah, talk about pissing me off. I did all the maintenance on that car that even the timing belt that was 600 bucks

but

Yeah, so we we like had these guys on the side of the road and I was like well get in where y'all going there

We're going Red Roof Inn, which was in Round Rock, which is where we were going. We're in downtown Austin and

I was like, well get in you know, we'll take you back and he was like man. That's 20 miles north of here

I was like, yeah, I know that's where I live like it's on my way. No big deal

I'll I'll take you and so they got in the car and we took them back north and

As we're going up there

We find out that they're in a band that's playing South by Southwest and one of their bandmates left us and the bet

They were from London and their band name was to kill a king

And so we're talking to them and they're like you guys come we'll get you in our show tomorrow night

Like come back down there. We'll we'll get you in we'll take care of everything for you

It was their first time in Texas and we were like, all right, we'll come back down

So the next day I called them. We met back up with them went down there saw their show

everything was cool and

Their guitar player was like, well, I'm gonna hang out with you all the night. All right. Let's fucking go and that night

Everybody went and got Texas tattoos including him

And it was his first time to ever be in Texas and it's funny because I'll go to their kill to kill a king page

And you'll still see him and he's got his fucking Texas tattoo on and it was just because we picked up a hitchhiker

So well that that it opens your mind to like doing, you know, maybe what it's considered to be wild shit

But that you know, that's that was part of culture back in the 70s 60s things like that

Yeah, but I feel like that people had a lot more 80s and maybe I'm wrong

I might be wrong, but I feel like there was a lot more respect for human life back then too

Yeah, I think maybe people weren't so aware to like the the possibilities like, you know

There wasn't a million murder documents documentaries on there wasn't

You know serial killers were like you heard about them through the grapevine. You know what I mean?

Yeah, I just feel like now people are so quick like and I'm

You know, I'm not

By any means against guns

But I feel like now people are like you'll see stuff where a fist fight turns into somebody pulling out a gun

Yeah, and it's like

All right. Well, this is like a father. This isn't this isn't supposed to be that like, you know

You can you can what my ass all day long and

We'll be fine

But the minute you start pulling out a gun is where it's like, okay, like where's kill me over this?

Yeah, exactly. Where's the line here? Where's the regard for human life? I just fight it out

I can definitely be mad at you enough to whoop your ass. I

Don't think I've ever been mad enough at somebody to actually kill them. Yeah to want to kill them

Yeah, like there's a there's a huge gap there that I feel like has shrunk now

I think it's a fear. Okay. I think people are scared to get their ass whooped and so they use guns as a way to

You know time out. There's this story. You told me about this guy who took your identity on Facebook

Mmm. Yeah, you did kind of want to I did kind of want to kill that guy

Yeah, he took a picture of my son though. That was the big deal. Yeah, he took pictures of my bikes, too

Which whatever but then I went and clicked on his profile and his profile picture was of my son

Yeah, yeah, you saw red. Yeah, and he was in Pennsylvania, and I was like, mmm

In I mess it. Yeah, I mess it up and told him I was like, hey, man

I'll probably kill you if I ever come across you like

That's that's crossing the fucking line, dude. Yeah, like so, you know kind of like jumping back into your your your walkabout

I

Get I mean, I guess maybe I don't know like I don't know you to the to the degree of saying like I

Mean there was obviously a reason to do it. You did it

Is there any kind of reflection on the other end of it that like you felt like you you?

Especially now as far removed from it is like do you think that it paid some kind of like a

How did it change you if that makes sense or how did it help mold you in the direction because it may like and it did a hundred percent

And it gave me a new

Perspective that like it really doesn't matter

What situation you're in like?

Shit's gonna work out like somehow some way like it's it's if you have any sort of

Grit and will about you it's gonna work out like yeah, we met so many people were like, you know

You'd get into a situation where you think, you know, well, I'm never gonna get out like this is fucked and

then somehow

somebody would stop and

You'd start talking to him like we had a guy that when we were in West Texas that we were completely out of money like

we had nothing and

I mean my family doesn't have any money. So it wasn't like I had anybody to call

Hey, send me some money like it was far from that and so we were just like fuck man like I don't know what we're gonna do and

we had a

Lady stop to ask us if we had water because we were out in West Texas and we were like, well, yeah

We got you know, we got some water, you know, we're and she was like, well, we own the gas station

That's eight miles up from here

She was like if y'all come by stop in okay

We went up there. Well, she gave us a job work in there

and

We got to work there make some make some money. They had like a little cafe

Washington dishes

Just doing whatever but we got to stay there. That was one of the breaks we took and we stayed there for a few days

and made some money and

It was just that was one of the first things where it was like man

It's gonna work out like is it not weird like just embedding yourself into their culture for a while

like I love that about like traveling on a bike and you stop in a small town and

I've said this on the podcast before like I'm sitting there with a monster and some powdered sugar donuts

And I'm watching this small town operate this this gas station is a main

Source of life for this town. Yeah, right and you're sitting on the side

You know, yes, I'll be just kind of watching the ebbs and flows of it, right?

But if you work it in the cafe like you kind of get embedded into the culture of it a little bit

Yeah, you get to see everybody that comes through and see the travelers and see the locals and you know a lot of the

Same people would come every and every day

Which being off 10 was kind of wild because that's like the wide open, you know, there's nothing out there

Yeah, but what town was this?

It was outside Kent. I don't remember the name of the town

You hadn't quite gotten past like the 20 merge yet. No, okay

But it's just that was like money quick dude

Well, dude, we started whenever the same time zone

Dude, whenever we left I had like 70 something bucks and that was part of what my dad will say

He was like, what the fuck are you gonna do like how dumb are you kid?

But it's kind of like a you remember knocked up remember that movie where you know what I'm talking about knocked over

Yeah, he like got into action as a kid and he got like 11 grand and it's been like 15 years

He's been living on 11

He's like I got about 1200 bucks left, you know, it should last you about two more three more years, you know

Yeah, I mean that's what it was but we

You know it just every single time cuz we ran out of money several several times on the way there

But every single time something happened. Yeah, and we got a little gig or job or whatever

You know working at gas station or then we ended up getting

One of the there's this guy from Alabama named Michael Golden

He got wind of us and he was like I want he's like I'm a PR guy like I want to help y'all

We were like, okay

You know, what do you want to do?

He was like, I'm gonna call the towns in front of you. You let me know when you're coming into these towns

And I'm gonna drum up support for y'all before you ever get there

We were like, all right. That's cool

And I'm still friends with him now

But and so he would call these towns and so once we got

Into like New Mexico and especially once we got into Arizona

We would roll into towns and everything would be set up for us. Yeah, like people would be waiting

I'd be like, we're gonna take y'all here and here. We're gonna introduce y'all to this

We got to go to the state capital in Arizona for a big

I don't I think it was something with gun rights that they had on the state capital there

But we went out there for that and like it just got set up to wherever where we went

People started so helping us big question here when they asked Kim. Hey, why are you doing this? Oh, well, you know

big government blah blah and they asked you like

So we went on Fox News twice yeah, and yeah, it's on YouTube it's a terrible

Yeah, it's all right I was I don't care

Um, but yeah, I mean that was I was just like I mean would you say when they asked you like hey

Why are you doing this like I was like he told me and I mean I agreed

With everything he was for I mean you're impressionable young. Yeah. Well, and I mean to be fair

Well, never mind

Yeah, like I was all for it, but it's just like I didn't know what I was doing. Yeah at the end of the day

For me it was like this is an opportunity to do something that not marry many fucking people do and

It's an opportunity for me to make it to California

Which is somewhere I've always wanted to go so I was like this is two birds one stone like let's fucking roll like let's go

Just imagine you going like yeah, well my dad said I couldn't do it. So look at me now

You never thought I'd be homeless in California motherfucker

Oh

Man, but no we made it we walk it took like four and a half months to make it from Austin to Santa Monica

We made it there and

There was a guy that owned so we started getting on news stations when we made it to Arizona

Like I said, we got on Fox a couple times and then when we made it to I

Don't know. We were in some town in Arizona and some news station from San Diego called us

We're gonna come pick y'all up

Do an interview with y'all take y'all back drop you off

All right, cool

So they did

We went over there. We did this interview

we get done with it and

The guy that owns a new stations like I want to take y'all out to eat like I want to talk to y'all some more

So we're like, all right cool

And so we went out to outback steakhouse with this dude

And you know it

And so we're talking to him and he's like so what y'all's what do y'all want to do when you get there?

Like what you're and like I said, dude

I was walking with me and him were we couldn't have been more different like as people and he was like

Oh, you know, I just I don't know. I want to you know, see the scenery and read some books

So and he did I mean, I'm not shitting you when we made it to California

He did nothing by hanging out in the coffee shops and read books all day

Which that was the last thing I wanted to do. Yeah

But so the guy asked me he's like, well, what do you want to do? I was like, man, I've always skateboarded

Yeah, I grew up skateboarding. I was like I want to serve

Never been anywhere I could serve. Yeah, I want to serve and he was like I got a yacht in Newport Harbor

He's like if you want y'all can stay on it

It's like hell. Yeah, I'm down. Yeah, he was like, all right

He's like, well, as soon as y'all make it just call me and I'll I'll set it up for you

I was like, okay, and I didn't know if you're serious or not. And so we went back to Arizona kept walking

Made it all the way there and we had like three weeks of just doing whatever in Santa Monica with different people

but then I called that guy and he was like, yeah, come down and

so we ended up staying on his yacht in Newport for like two weeks and I just did nothing but

TK's Frog House was the surf shop there and I went down there and

I started asking to rent stuff and they could tell immediately

I had no idea what the fuck I was talking about. Yeah, because I didn't and they were like

where are you from man and

I told them I just walked here from Texas and they were all like bullshit

No, seriously, and they were in the first one of the guys goes, let me see your feet

It's like, okay

So I pulled my shoes off and showed them my feet and from then on man

The whole time I was there

I didn't nothing but go up there and I would just hang out and drink with those guys till like noon and then we'd go surfing

And it was just and I've I've never I have never been back, but I will always have a place in my heart for TK's Frog House. Yeah

That place was awesome. Did you end on good terms with your walking partner? Yeah

Yeah, we still talk. He actually came to camp about a year ago. We went up there and he's he's a good dude

What's he do now? He is a filmmaker. Oh, that's cool. Yeah

And he he actually filmed the whole thing. Oh, he did. Yeah, and he was supposed to make a movie about it

But I never saw it. Yeah

Surprise he was willing to take on a

Passenger if you will he tried he he got several people to join him

I was halfway across the country at that point. He's like, man, if anybody wants to join me

And he kept getting people to join but they never

You know, they'd make it, you know

40 miles and be like what the mindset of like, you know, but I'm super interested and I just kind of said what I'm interested about it, but like

Like seeing the news stations all these other people pick it up like

There's some fascination I think with like people that have their everyday grind where they see that and it's some kind of liberation or

Yeah, it's nice to see people doing something that is that far outside of the norm and that was what attracted me to it as

you know

A drunk guy at two o'clock in the morning. Yeah, I was like, fuck. Yeah, this sounds badass. Like

You know, I'm sitting here talking about college and and I told my sister's real big on education and

You know, that's great, but like I told her from the get go. I was like listen

I don't know what I'm gonna end up doing but I promise you whatever it is is gonna have nothing to do with me

Getting my basics. Yeah

But she and my dad like I said he was always a hustler

He was still hustling when he was 60 years old 65 years old

That's how he made his living never had anything to fall back on never had our time it never had anything

And so my sister was always like Brooks. You're gonna end up the same way

You're gonna end up with nothing to fall back on no retirement. No anything

Because you're too stubborn to go and do something. I was like, well, that's fine

But I'm not going to college. Yeah, but I mean I would think that your dad had had, you know

His his family his kids. Yeah, and he did and he and in another way

It's like you just don't want to be a burden like, you know, hopefully like yeah, you can take care of at least yourself

Yeah, but dad's big deal was that every single thing he had and he he owned a fair bit of land out there

was paid for and

He would always tell my mom that he's like, yeah

You know, we've got all these people with nice houses and they're flashy this flashy that he's like all of them

Are in debt up to their eyeballs most of them

He's like, no, we don't have we have a you know

A little house that I built had a leftover materials from construction jobs and we've got our land

Yeah, but he was like, we don't know anyone anything. He said I can I can drop dead right now and

You own everything, you know, you got to take care of property, Texas. That's it

Everything else is paid for and so that's what he always told mom. He was like, that's my retirement

Yeah, you know everything I have I own and

It's I mean, it's true

My mom still owns the land and it's it's worth a lot of money now. Yeah, but when dad bought it

It was 700 bucks an acre

Yeah, and he paid for all of it. Yeah, so, you know, that was his mindset on it

But my sister was just you need to go to school. You need to go to school

I was like, yeah, I ain't fucking going to school and then she

kind of, you know

Made it impossible for me to not at least try and I went for one semester

And I think I might have the lowest GPA that's ever attended TJC. I had a 0.8

Yeah

You know, I'm I'm pretty old now and I'm so far removed from going to school

But like you brought this up and you know something like work McCorey of the last

Extensively this year, but over the course of the last two years

I've I've always understood like I'm not good at you know school math things like that

but man if if when I was in math if they pulled a ruler out and showed me fractions on a ruler if they pulled a

Micrometer out and showed me

Tenths

thousands on that and showed it to me on a piece of metal on this like I would I understand it now

I understand decimals. I understand

Fractions I understand all that shit now because of the applied at

Mathematics if you will of using it and I'm like man, I told my mom this two days ago. I was like man

I

Knowing this now if I I was scared of math growing up

But if I would have understood micrometer, I

Would have probably tried to pursue that

You know like machining and and and that kind of stuff in high school. Yeah, but aren't you glad you learned about chlorophyll?

Exactly

That's my fucking problem, man. That's what I tell my wife

I'm like they teach you shit that like if you go into a field where you need to learn about chlorophyll then let that shit happen in college

Yeah, you know, there's no reason for you to push that shit on high school kids

And it's like they do it, but they'll never you know

All these kids don't need to know about taxes, but they better fucking know about sunlight and plants. Yeah

Yeah, give me a break man like why don't we do something that's actually gonna help these kids once they get out of high school?

And that's why I told my wife was like I want to homeschool my kid because I want him to learn shit

that's applicable to life and

There is 80% of what I learned in high school that I have never ever used in my adult life

And there's so much shit

I learned afterwards that I never even heard of in high school that I was like why the fuck didn't they talk about this?

Yeah, this did a lot more for me than chlorophyll ever did

So the the devil's advocate of that you said homeschool, you know, my son's been homeschooled through his mom most of his life and

You don't learn social

Interactions and you

And especially nowadays and they are now day

Fuck nowadays nowadays

You you get kids that can like escape through video games and they're online friends, right?

And so they don't have these these awkward

Friends groups where they wear the wrong thing to school and all their buddies clown them

And they got to decide to fucking own it or fucking like, you know

Oh, yeah, I guess I'm being a little too too flamboyant right now a little bit too much

And so there's something with like there is the aspect of like, you know, one of my favorite movies

Have you ever seen that movie captain fantastic? Oh, it's you guys are both like it. It's like

It's about a father who's the mother passed away, but he's raising the kids kind of off grid

Super educated and then they have to come back to like society for something and they're all so

Smarter than the average kid

But they're like they don't know what a cheeseburger is they don't know what a milkshake is and so there's like a

separation between

Normal society and them where yeah, they're smarter

They're way more advanced in a lot of ways, but they can't interact with the world the same way

Yeah, there's that but you can also I feel like you can offset that and that's what we've made it like

That's why I've told Brandy like it's so important for me

To have him at the shows with me at the shop with me like everywhere

I am pretty much he's there that is the caveat right and I think as long as we can maintain that then there won't be that you know

Social gap because it's like it's not like he's I mean he is with us all the time

But we also take him out like I said to the shows where he's just you know walking around trying to hustle parts at born free

You know thinking he's gonna buy Rex when we get home

Yeah, and shit like that and it's like all right man like we just like for me

I I hate that like you know my son doesn't get the I

Said it to you earlier like he doesn't he doesn't know what it's like to have a group of friends where he's like excited for

Sleep over this weekend because all his friends are on the internet across the country

You know it do when I took my son to New York. I said this a million times

We're going through Staten Island one of his best friends lives there from playing video games

Isn't that wild and he's like I'm like hey, we're in Staten Island. Do you want to go see your buddy? He goes?

I don't care

I'm like the fuck like you don't want to see him. It's like no, why are you making this weird dad? I'm like

Yeah, so it's like it's such a disconnect or not a disconnect

But it's such a foreign idea where me growing up like I just you know like

Sleepovers was like the thing to look forward to on the weekend like dude. He just got Star Fox on

You know Nintendo 64

We're

That's my weekend. We're going to Chad's house and we're playing Star Fox all fucking weekend. You know I'm saying yeah

That was like, you know like the simpler days

Yeah, but the internet bill clean was getting jerked off blowjobs and we were playing Star Fox

That's what like but the internet personality thing has kind of caused that because people are

More in touch with that than they are, you know sitting down and having a conversation and it's exactly what you're saying

My brother's oldest son. He's 19 now, but he was really big into the online gaming and

His son was like he's a really good kid. Yeah

But his son

Every now and then would you know have a drink of beer or whatever like I was really getting out on the edge for him and

My brother has a cabin down by his lake

That's just empty. Well one night

my brother

Thinking he's doing his son a solid. He's like, hey man

Mom's out of town

Y'all can go down to the cabin do whatever you want to do, you know, you want to have a little shindig down there

Do whatever and his son was like, why?

My brother's like the fuck do you mean why?

I'm telling you like I don't know if I'm making this clear enough like you can go get some beer

And go hang out down by the cabin with your friends. He's like I

Can just talk to him on the headset

And my brother was like what the fuck is going on right now

But that's it now they're like why the hell would I want my friends to come over when I can talk to him on this headset?

Yeah, which is sad as shit. I mean

It's all it's all like it feels sad and I

Don't know there's like a caveat out of it, right? But like it's also

It's it's a new world going into like we're going into a new world in a sense of where we don't really know what that means

Like there is but you can't not have face-to-face interaction. Yeah, and the deal is as we can translate to their world

They can't translate back to this

There's I've seen some things where people are kind of studying or not studying. They're seeing a lot of like Gen Z

Wanting to go back towards older things like wanting to feel like whether it's film photography or

They want a flip phone or something less than like what they have right now

So there's and of course, this is a fucking like something I saw on Facebook, right?

So it's like how really it's a hundred percent fact. Yeah, a hundred percent. Yeah, it's fact-checked. Yeah

Yeah, but I mean once again, it's the thing. It's like

The only reason I could think of that they would want to go back to that and this is just purely speaking

Speculation is because you can't replace human connection. Oh hundred percent. Yeah, like there's nothing

There's you can talk all day long on the phone and on a headset and all of that and that's fine

But you're never gonna replicate that. Hey

Let's sit down and talk

Like me and you sit down talk bullshit. I'm looking at you. You're looking at me

There's you're not you can't replace that on the headset

So if you really think about like I got to grow up in the culture where we met in parking lots and look at each

Other's cars all night. I didn't have a drinking problem. I hadn't even done any drugs yet. You know I'm saying

yet

My now that was 20 years ago now like the kids that we had or should be doing that

But I think my generation is also being more like no, don't we going out there? Don't do that or whether it's culturally

like all the things that we love about like, you know motorcycle culture hot-rod culture car culture

custom culture in general

like it's it's the it's the bet it's the people that kind of like

Become the police chiefs become the the the Karens living in you know Karen you said her name was carrying up in Ohio

Yeah, God bless that one the Karens in the neighborhoods that don't want the the rice rockets or the you know

The CRX is going up and down the street. You know I'm saying yeah

And I think part of it's that and then I think there's probably segments to it

Part of it's probably that part of it is probably

You know, there's always gonna be that one up or you know

You're never gonna do it like we did it kind of thing and then there's people that genuinely care

And the fact is is that all of that and all the shit we even do now is

Inherently risky. Yeah, there's risks involved with it and you just want to not subject you want to take

That's the problem right do you take away?

No that thing like if your son, you know 10 years from now 15 years now

Tells you dad. I think we'll walk across the country

Are you your dad or are you you in that situation? I'm probably my dad. Yeah

Because because we're gonna apply all the things that we know about the life that they don't know yet, but it's that

That curiosity and that ignorance that that allows them to succeed in things that we didn't think they were possible

But also and learn things. Yeah, and that was a thing and what what you're saying

Whenever I told my dad I was getting a motorcycle mind you my dad rode motorcycles his entire life

Yeah, he told me that if I ever pulled up to his house on a motorcycle. He was putting sugar in the gas tank

He's like, you're not riding a fucking bike. I was like, yeah, I'm riding a bike. You're not riding a bike

He's like, I ain't I'm not bearing any of my kids. You're not getting a fucking motorcycle

I was like, well, I mean, I'm telling you right now. I'm getting a motorcycle

and

that like my first bike I got

Couldn't I could not come down the driveway with it. He wouldn't let me. Yeah, he was like, I'm fucking it up

You bring that thing down here. I'm fucking it up. I'm not watching you on a bike

Now somebody who did nothing more ride bikes his whole life and

Then finally after like bike three or four. He was like motherfucker. I don't think I'm beating this out of him

Yeah, and and then we started building bikes together

But before that you had a prospect dude, yeah

Before that he was not having a man. He was like, you are not riding the bike

But I think that's that's what I'm talking about is it's like

You know, there's so many goods with it, but like as an old man that's been through it all

I feel like you just weigh the risk a lot heavier because you know like my dad

like I said, you know

Went to jail did all that shit had gone through the wrecks. You know, he just don't like and that's all he could remember

Yeah, yeah, you know and not realizing that maybe there was a happy medium to it where you can

Have a lot of the good without all the bad. Yeah. Yeah, you know

We don't all have to go on fucking cocaine benders for weeks and going up in prison. Yeah, I mean, it's an option

That's not an inherent of like riding a motorcycle exactly next thing. I know you're gonna be doing cocaine

But but to him it was because all he could remember was man. We were always doing cocaine and riding motorcycles

It's part of it. Yeah, he used to tell me all the time. He was like, I got the first forester and here's your first eight ball

Yeah, he used to tell me all the time. I think I hold the world record for putting the most Corvettes up my nose

And my mom would tell she was like I was a poor kid from Michigan and I met your dad who was his fucking cocaine cowboy

Yeah, she was like, I didn't know what to think of him. Yeah, but do cocaine in the 70s. That'd be sick. Yeah

Oh, he'd tell us that all the time. He's like, I feel sorry for you motherfuckers

I mean not to like have a cocaine addiction in the 70s, but just to like

that's a dude

when I

Different topic but same same line. I get to flex every once in a while when I get to say, you know, I had sex in the 90s

You know what that's like, no, you don't

Just fucking raw dog in the 90s. I

Mean, it's a weird fucking flex, right? It's like that dude on my fucking thing talking about like

Whatever but like and then obviously someone can say well, I had sex in the 70s, dude

Yeah, it was a carpet. Yeah left it all in there. Yeah

So there's like there's all that shit, but I don't know I

Think that it's hard it right. I ask I question. It's

How much of like culture are we also stripping away from kids?

Because we're trying to be over protective because of how much access to information we have and so we're kind of more worried

About things even though that this should always existed. We just we see it now. We understand it because the internet

There's always been crazy shit going in the world, you know, it just never felt that way because it wasn't front and center

Yeah, you know log on to your phone and watch it all. Yeah. Yeah, that's true kids walking down the street

I used to be three miles from my house when I was a kid at fucking seven

Seven dude, but once again that also goes back to the there was less people back then too and there was I and I

Like I said might be wrong

but I feel like there was more regard for life back then and people looking out for each other and people like, you know

Looking out for kids and then now and this is a whole other topic

But now you've got the the fucking epidemic of child trafficking and shit now

Yeah, to where like I think about that with my kid all the time

To where you know, you look around and you're like do I want him to you know

Go bullshit with people and have a good time. Absolutely

but you know

How do I know taking fuck this all up, right?

Because we don't have those set of skills

You know not to the degree that he does allegedly yeah, but that's you know, there's just so many more worries now where it's like

You know the shit that's going on now like yeah, there's a lot of shit like you're talking about

It's like well, this has been here forever. We're just seeing it more but on the flip side of that like

You know the child trafficking thing. It's like has this always been this bad. I don't think so. Yeah

Now we got you know kids getting snatched up everywhere and it's

It's scary. Does that does that stuff come across your radar and what you do for a living like as far as like

Man not that much

You're a firefighter for the people listening here. Yeah, I don't I don't get to see it that much

I mean we we see

You know a different side of

Child abuse sometimes, but I can't recall really any

Altercations where I didn't like knew there was a child trafficking situation going on

But it's just and I

Feel like once again, this is a fucking rabbit hole that could never end, but you know, I feel like mental illness now is

a lot more prevalent

because it's so

Medicated yeah, and it's like the first thing that happens the first thing anyone wants to do is throw medications at it to have all these side

Effects and the next thing you know you're on another medication for the side effects to that first medication

And then all of a sudden you got some crazy asshole shooting up a school that's on six end of the presence

Yeah, yeah, and it's like

You know we these are and I don't have any

Solitude I mean it's not like I know any answers to it, but it's just things that I look at and I'm like

Did we always have this like I don't feel like we did

We definitely didn't but we also didn't have access to information

So I once again had a long talk with my mom the other day and I was like, you know when I was growing up

The word depression didn't exist. So when I felt depressed or I was in a in a depressive state

There was no like

Definition it was just a mood. Yes

100% yeah, it's like I'm sad, you know, like I didn't wallow in this word, right? Okay anxiety is another one that I never ever

You know I heard the word but never it didn't become prevalent

Until I maybe the last seven years of my life because people around me said I have anxiety and then

They're like, oh, do you have anxiety right now because like I'd be having anxiety attack

And I'm like, I is that what that is? I just thought I was freaking out here

Like I didn't know like I don't want to be trapped or or like

Maybe defining a feeling by a word that other people have makes you feel

Like you can like maybe

Just wallow in it, you know, like that's what I was about to say

So I feel like it's like and this is going to come off really bad and probably pissing people off but

The term depression and I'm not like I'm not saying that depression isn't a real thing

But I feel like it's such an easy way to cop out

Yeah, and be like instead of trying to solve any of your problems or just realize that sometimes humans are fucking sad

Yeah, you know that that's part of life

It's well, I'm depressed and there is just nothing I can do about it

And you just throw your hands up while I'm depressed. It's like

No, man, like everybody has shit that happens

Like you can get and I'm not saying that depression is not a clinical thing

But it's like I feel like so many people at the first sign of you know

Trial in life they they label it depression

So that they can completely absolve themselves of any responsibility and say there's nothing I can do about this

This is a medical problem and there's absolutely nothing I can do to solve this and that's never the case

Yeah, you know, you can always

Do shit to better your position

Well, it's it's a lot of suffering

It's a self-awareness is the one thing that I think most people need to focus on the most is

Okay, if I feel depressed, all right, it's my responsibility

Now that I understand that I'm in this state to find ways out of it

Yeah

To help yourself don't do things that put me that keep me in this state

If if it's a group of people that when you're around puts you in that state

Unfortunately now you need to separate yourself from those people and maybe change your social your social circles

The things you consume the things that you put in your body the things that like the things you listen to the music like

Yeah, once while like I just want to be I want to get into my sad boy state with some good fucking, you know

Nutshell, you know Allison chains. Yeah, get the heart strings going, you know, that's not a first date song

You know I'm saying it's something that you know, I think a lot of us especially if we had any

Years in the 90s probably like

You know, we never did any wartime, but fuck rooster fucking sings that that thing for us doesn't it?

Hell yeah it does

and that's

That's the thing man is I feel like it

That's what i'm getting back to with that everything's labeled now

And I feel like it absolves people of responsibility and at the end of the day even if you do have

Something going on, you know, it's still your responsibility. Nobody

With some exceptions, but truthfully like you shouldn't expect anybody on this earth to care about you more than you do

Yeah, so it's ultimately your responsibility to fix

Whatever the fuck it is you got going on. Yeah, you know

Depression's a thing. Yeah

But I feel like we've watered the word down

Yeah

To where anything that makes you sad is well, I'm depressed now. It's like no, you're not depressed

You just had a bad day like get the fuck over it's like you said earlier about like when you're you're walking it's like

Things always work themselves out. You know if you if you can be still long enough not to fuck it up worse

Things will kind of rubber band back and put yourself out there and that's the biggest thing is putting yourself out there

To fuck up and to get yourself in those situations where you're like fuck man. I don't know what I'm gonna do and then

Shit always works out

And then you carry confidence out the other side of that that you never had before because you're like man

I got myself in a fucking bind there and guess what? Here. We are living the good life

You know, we're on the back side of it and you look back and you've got this

Confidence about life because you're like I've put myself in situations and I've got out of them

I've always I've always wound up on the top side. So you're not afraid to put yourself in those situations. Yeah as long as they're they're

They're aware of the fact that like in those situations

Decisions were made that put you in they're like

There's always a choice to be made in every situation, right?

And the choices you make ultimately take you out of those those spots, right? You don't want you don't want to tell people like

Hey, just

Life is this all work itself out. You know what I'm saying? Like just try to have no accountability. You know what I'm saying?

It's not that it's not right. Yeah, it it's uh, no and there's a risk versus reward too though like, you know

You take some gambles in life and you're like, man, this is gonna end up real good or real bad

Yeah

But if they end up real bad and then you can you know come out the backside and capitalize on it and you're like

See, I saw that shit

Well, it gives you some life confidence versus like I was saying where you're like, I'm you know, 55 years old

Let's try meth. Yeah. Well, there's no reward there

That's like a zero percent success, right? Probably not the gamble to take. Yeah

Probably sounds like the guy you were talking about before we started the podcast like trailer man. Yeah

He's a good guy

No, the

The that that particular address your guy with the

Chair the chair that the shit in the chair. Fuck that guy. Yeah, no chance

Well, you know, uh

Bringing it back to motorcycles. Um, yeah now that we've solved the world's problems. Yeah, at least we

Not

How, you know over the last couple of years like how how rampant have would you say like the world in which you're a part of as far as like

Actually, maybe a better question is like

Is there a scarcity of certain things or is it all kind of like bullshit?

I mean, obviously like the older we get you you're talking like, you know

100 year old motorcycles

Knuckleheads even maybe some panheads may be hard to find but they're still out there. They're still in barns

There's probably one within 10 miles from here in the garage in a barn that we don't know about

You know what I mean? Yeah

So the truth is somewhere in the middle like you've got the guys that will have you believe

That they've got the only one frame that's ever existed on the face of the earth and you'll never find another one

And then you've got the other dudes that will talk about mainly older guys and they'll talk about how

Well, I mean back in the 70s. I bought one for $300. Yeah, and it's like

Okay, well, both of you are wrong because

They're not $300 anymore. Yeah, like they're way more expensive than that. But on the other side, it's like

I've found like and I I listened to all those stories and I had so many things that were bucket list items of mine that I was like

I'll never find that I'll never ever find that

and

Then just shit pops up and you'll get random ass phone calls

And like I never thought I'd be able to get a knucklehead

Ever and I got my knucklehead through a phone call from a dude in oklahoma city

They got wind

Of a knucklehead in long view that was coming up for sale

And it was 10 o'clock at night and I got my ass right out of bed and drove to long view. What is the uh

The concept of having a knucklehead like what what does that mean to you? Does that make sense? It was just

You know, we all set those goals and if they're not hard to attain then what are they? Yeah, you know

What is yeah, what's the point of a goal if it's something that you can go out and you know

Do before 10 a.m. And not think twice about it. That's a chore. Yeah, it's nothing and so, you know, I had

My first Harley was an 81 shovel head. It was my dad's

and

You know forever. I mean I even had a shirt that all I ever wanted was a panhead

and that was like

In my mind at that point in time

That was my end all be all

It's like, you know, if somehow one day I could just get my fucking hands on a panhead like that's gonna be

That's gonna make me so happy like that's gonna be it and then

I got my first panhead from a dude in Daytona

Delivered it to canton. It's a whole fucking other story, but

I got my first panhead

And so then it went to knucklehead, which was like

Unobtainium, you know, I was like, I'm never I'm never gonna be able to afford this shit

You know $30,000 for a fucking engine. Yeah, and then

I got that call

and I was like, well right out there and look at it and it's a

You know, it was it ended up being a guy knew really well

From the swap meets that had passed away and it was his old bike

And uh, I went out there. I looked at it

And I remember this story. Yeah, so the guy was like

The guy that ended up with it was like, man

I'll make you a hell of a deal. He had like seven bikes in there

He was like, I'll make you a hell of a deal if you'll buy everything

And I was like, man, I can't afford to buy everything. Was this the one where the kid? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so

This dude was always at the local swap meets old man

Super good, dude

Was never anything but good to me and he always told me that

he was gonna

Leave this 39 knucklehead to his son, which I never I knew his son, but I never really had that much to do with him

well

This guy passes away

and

I didn't know anything about it at the time, but all of his shit slowly starts popping up for sale

So I call his son and I'm like, hey, man, are you selling off all your dad's shit? Like, what's the deal here?

And he was like, no

um

My mom his stepmom he was like as soon as dad died. She shacked up with somebody else and gave him all the bikes

He was like, so they're all title in his name. There's nothing I can do about it

I was like fuck that sucks

well

So it was a 39 knucklehead anyways

um, I get a phone call from a dude in

Oklahoma city and he's like, hey, I just got wind of a

39 knucklehead that just popped up for sale in Longview and immediately I'm like

There's not two 39 knuckleheads in Longview. Like that's got to be the same bike

So I was like, all right, give me a phone number. So he gives me a phone number. I drive out there. I look at the bike

It's the bike

We're talking like original knuckleheads or a chopper. This was a chopper

Yeah, it was it was definitely a chopper, but matching belly numbers, you know, it's a 25 30 000 engine by itself

um

And so I get out there and I'm looking over the bike and I'm like, well, what do you want for it?

And

he tells me

15 grand

And I'm like, I'll take it

I was like, I'll be back tomorrow morning with the trailer and cash. I'll buy it and he's like, well, I'll make you a

Hell of a deal on everything

I'm like, listen, dude, I can't afford everything, you know, because there were several other panheads

all kinds of shit in there

and uh

So I get back and I call his son

Because I felt bad for his son getting dealt the card he did and he was supposed to have that bike

So I call the son and I was like, hey man

I found your dad's knucklehead

He was like, where?

I was like, it's for sale long view right now

And his son didn't have

Any money to buy it and I was like, you know, they want 15 grand for it

I said so

I said to be honest, I said either I'm gonna buy it or it's gonna go to Japan

You know, I said because that's where these are all going. I said he's putting it on eBay tomorrow

I said and it's gonna end up in Japan and you'll never ever see it again. I said

I can I'll buy it. I said I'll bring it back here

You know, I said and then if you ever get the money

You can buy it back from me

Because it was your dad's bike. I've got my dad's last bike. So I know what that means

And I was like, you know, I'm never gonna sell this bike. I'll keep it forever unless

You come up with the money and you want to buy it

And he was like, all right, you know, I really appreciate that man

So I go back out there and I'm talking to the dude and he's like he just keeps on

He's like, man, I'll I'll make you a hell of a deal if you'll buy everything and I'm like, what, you know

What's the hell of a deal?

And he's like, you know 50 grand and you can take everything

And there was, you know multiple pan heads in there like a bunch of other shit and I was like, fuck

All right, I'm buying everything

and so

We made the deal on that I called brandy

You know

Don't buy any groceries because we're broke

and

I bought everything and

Brought it back and started selling off some of the other shit to try to make some of my money back whatever

and

I ended up selling off all that other stuff and I got to keep my knucklehead and that's the only way I got that

But I never, you know

I never would have been able to just

Or I never thought, you know

I would have ended up in that situation, you know

To have that opportunity and to go over there and it was a and on top of it all

It was from an old man that you know

I had known for years and had bought tons of parts off of

And it's still sitting in my shop and you're still on this knucklehead

Yeah, I'll never go was this

Six seven years ago. So the sun never came up with money to

That's jason knows this story. So

I told the son. I said, listen, you can you can buy it back for me at any time

You know, this is what I paid for it. Well, I we rebuilt the engine

While I ended up with

Somewhere around $18,000 and it's something like that is what you know

I put into it after I bought the bike

So it's sitting in there. Well a few years goes by

And his son calls me and he's like, hey, man

Are you at the shop today? Yeah

I'm gonna ride over there. I got a bike. I want you to look at

Okay, what is it? It's o4 electric glide

It's like

Okay, what like why do you want me to look at this bike?

What's a super clean bike, you know

I just wanted to see if you you were interested and I was like, no man

I don't really deal with twin cams and shit like

I'm good

I'm sure it's a nice bike

And he was like

Well, I mean you told me I could get my dad's bike back. I was gonna

trade you for it

I was like

dude

I told you you could give me my money back

And then you could get the bike back. I was like, you can't like

That's a four to five thousand dollar bike

Like you can't bring that over here and trade me that

For the knucklehead that I've you know got 18 grand in now like

That's not that wasn't the deal and he just went off on me

And he was like you fucking told me I could get my dad's bike back. I was like, yeah

But you got to give me the money back

I'm like I can't just gift you the knucklehead

I paid for it. He didn't give it to me

You know, I came out of pocket for it and so

And I felt bad, but I finally I was like

You know, I don't have to sell the thing back to you

I just was doing it because I've got my dad's last bike and I know what that means. I'm like, but this is

You know, you're kind of treating me like your bitch right now

Whenever I had no desire to sell the bike to anybody, but you were the only exception because it was your dad's motorcycle. Yeah

So

Me and him got sideways, but I just told him I was like, you know, all right, you know what

Fuck off, dude

You know

I tried to make the deal to where you get it back and then you you're gonna come at me with this bullshit

Yeah, trying to trade me at a

Oh for twin cam, you know an 88 inch twin cam for this knucklehead

Like I don't know what to do with that needs a cam chain tension. Yeah for sure

Yeah

Something that I would have fucking rode in a pond

Yeah, what um

This is maybe a good question like what like do you have a desire to have a panhead or any of those older bikes?

Like as far as like

What's your take on it? I've had one

I mean, yeah, you had the panhead. Yeah, and that kind of scratched my itch

and it's

They are fun to own and to ride, but it's just ultimately

Um, I think I'm just more of a new age kind of modern

Does it does having a motorcycle where you know, there's a higher desire for it?

Like always in the back of your head that there's a price tag on this bike

Hundreds where it's hard to enjoy it. I was talking to somebody at born free about this

I was like the absolute best chopper

That you could ever build is a cone shovel

Because you can beat the piss out of them. You're not sitting there thinking about your, you know, $10,000 engine cases that you can't replace

Parts are still out there

The cone shovel is like it's old enough to where it's still your old tractor engine

It's got so so many similarities

But you're not stuck in that price range where

Everything that breaks on this bike is a thousand dollars. I mean, like you said, they've ramped up production so much in that era

And then you have options like std and delkron. I think it had some for a while, right? Yeah

So it's like and you can just beat the piss out of them and if something breaks

It's like, all right, let me go rummage through these totes at a swap meet and I'll find something for probably around 50 bucks

You know, depending on what part you need versus a knucklehead

Where it's like, okay. Yeah, right side case is you know a grand

Yeah, you go bust something on a knucklehead and it's like, oh there goes your fucking 401k

Yeah, you know, they're not even funded like the few times that I rode mine

It was just

Kind of pointless

What's your intention with that knucklehead then nothing just hold on let it appreciate value even more

I don't know man. I like I always wanted it and it was kind of a benchmark for me

And then I got it and then I realized that it's not fun to ride because all you're doing is thinking about

If something breaks it costs this much money and then I was like, yeah, that's kind of what I wonder about, you know

With say the pre

Knucklehead stuff like all that old j was it jw or jd jd stuff like all

like

So that stuff is surprisingly

With some exceptions like a lot of the stuff prior to 36 is actually cheaper. For real. Yeah, and like

Which is the opposite of harley because typically early the you know, the older it goes more expensive it gets

But like you get back into like the vl stuff

Um

You know the early 30s stuff like that like a lot of that stuff is actually cheaper

Um

And a lot of that stuff was total oil loss system. So there's a lot less

You know rideable on today's roads shit like that. So I think a lot of that contributes to it

But like for example, I've got a 34

vl case vld that um, I've had it for like five years if that were

a

36 or 37 knucklehead case

You know it'd be

$7,89,000

And I've had that thing on ebay for two years for 400 bucks. Yeah, and it's got perfect VIN numbers

Nothing wrong with the case. Nobody wants it. Yeah, you know, it's just it's in that weird range

And it's kind of I tell everyone the same thing with frames with generator shovels because they're in that weird range

where

They're not

They're still electric start frames

But they're not VIN numbers. So they're not titled. Yeah, so that's uh

It's not the drop seat frame. Exactly 65 to 69. Yeah, the drop seat range there's 58 to 64

So 65 to 69 are those weird frames where it's like

Yeah, they're technically older, but they don't have a VIN number

So they don't have a title, but they're not drop seat and they're not rigid

So they don't have that old value. They're just kind of that mutt. Yeah, it's stuck in the middle

Like a 305, baby. Yeah, they just they just bring less money

You know, you can't it's hard to unless you find someone that's restoring that bike

It's just kind of hard to to get anybody to want those things. Yeah

Not that you can't get rid of them. You just don't get good

I don't know like I

Obviously when I started dabbling my toes into this water, right

All the modern dudes like when what's next at panhead and knucklehead. I'm like, I really don't have a desire

Like I appreciate them and I think they're sick. I mean a cone. I mean a generator shovel will be sick, but like I'm not

I'm I don't know

It's not the motor that like I'm so in love with it's the experience of the way the bike is set up, right

But I've always said like look man, like I feel like

If something in my life happens the universe if you will puts a panhead in my in my hands or you know

Probably never but a knucklehead then I need to assess that situation to see what it is because I'm I'm a gift guy

Like when someone gives me something that you give me this

30 years from now

Yeah, I don't remember. I think it was easy rider cycles that gave me this thing back in the day

You know what I mean? Like I'm a hoarder of like, uh, you know, trinkets and gifts and things like that

so

I don't know man. Like I just don't I'm not seeking. I'm not looking at a panhead every day going

This is going to give me the street cred. I want you know what I mean? Yeah, but also like not to

Just credit it at all because if I was building a bike and the idea was to build a panhead and a

SNS panhead came available. I don't give a fuck if it's a SNS or original Harley

Yeah, and they're and they're you know, there's both sides of that and I've always been the

More on the OEM side, but that's just because

Like 90% of my obsession personally with this stuff is the history of it. Yeah

And it's like I love like Jim is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to hill climbers

Because new york was really big into that stuff

So Jim will send me all these pictures of these old hill climbers setups, you know with these massive

Massive-ass rear sprockets on them stump rudder sprockets. Yeah

And it's just all these people and they you know, he's got pictures of these people on knuckleheads just

Climbing up these hills and he'll send them to me and he's like this is where I'm from

and

It's just coolest shit. And so all that history goes into it

And so to me that's the only reason and I've got nothing against like I've had a few SNS panheads and they're great

They're fun

They run awesome

It's like having a cone shovel but with a pan

But to me it's like half the fun is looking at your engine and being like man

I wonder what the fuck this thing's been through like I wish I could see

Some of the stories of of this bike leaving some of the places it's been, you know

Like my first panhead was my 48 that I still have and I'm like I wish like hell I could

Go back and just look at some of the stories that this thing came off a lot

Yeah, when it came out a lot and then how like that when I got it

I got it from a guy that owned a machine shop and he said that

Some dude traded it to him for work Yoda when he went to prison

And that was back in the 70s and he said it sat there that whole time

His name was George Quinn. He was out of florida and I traded him a 85 evo with a sidecar on it for it

And the night before I traded it to him. I ran the sidecar through a bar bar fence and fucked it all up

Sick and I called him and I was like, hey man

We got a problem

He was like, what's up?

I was like, well

I had like seven people in the sidecar last night

And I couldn't stop it in time and I ran it through a bar bar fence

He was like, oh what it do

Well, I mean it's bar wire. It scratched it all the shit

And he was like the bike's still running. I'm like, yeah, the bike runs fine. He's like, I don't give a shit

It's like perfect. Oh, yeah, this is exactly but this is the guy I need

Yeah, and he showed up. Well, you remember you remember when fxr mic got that uh, the crusty glide

That that was probably my first

taste

Of being friends with somebody that had such a shitty looking bike that was cool as fuck. Yeah

I've got his twin. He's got the twin. You got the twin. Yeah, I've got the 87

It's like this very very similar condition

But I remember the the last giddy up he brought that down with the sidecar and it was literally

The entire giddy up was just literally fxr mic doing laps at the campground with people in the fucking sidecar

And I also rode in the sidecar, which was my first time ever being in a sidecar

That's pretty sketchy dude when he puts it up on fucking

Takes the wheels off

But they're on leaf springs man. They bounce like a sun bitch

When uh when danger dan borrowed it to go across the country on the uh to go to the congregation show

Yeah, god, you know, it's crazy. It's like just doing just the podcast sphere

Of dallas fort worth with dan mic you you ever everybody like

There's fucking netflix documentary stories. You know what I'm saying? Yeah

Yeah, I've got a uh

73 shovel with a sidecar. Oh, please please tell the story of how that bike was advertised and what year it was supposed to be

This is it got put on craig's list as a 49 harley

With a sidecar 49. Yeah, and I was like, it's a shovel. Holy shit. Yeah, it's a 73 show hood

allegedly

um

And so I messaged the lady and I'm like, hey

And it was uh, it was

Either five or six thousand bucks. I don't remember one of the two

And I was like, hey, and so I'm thinking this is a 49 hydroglide with a sidecar

Yeah, and I'm like this is a big money bike like this is gonna be good

And so I'm like, hey send me pictures

Okay

Never sends me pictures. This went on for two weeks. I'm like, hey, I'm ready. This was in north north like far north arkansas

You can get and I'm like, hey, I'll come by the bike

You know, I just kind of need to see what I'm looking at here

And she just will not send me pictures. She keeps telling she will she won't finally

I was in my brother's pool at like four in the afternoon

And I'm like

Fuck it. I'm just gonna drive up there. Whatever

So I mess around like just stewing on you for two weeks. Yeah. I'm like, give me your address. You know, I'm on the way

So she gives me her address. I'm getting my trailer ready. My wife is six months pregnant

Sick and I'm backing up and she's like, what are you doing? It's going to arkansas

What are you doing there? It's like I'm going to pick up a sidecar for our new baby

You know

The fuck else is a baby gonna do but riding inside a car

And uh, she's like well, I'm going with you and I'm like

No, you're not. Yeah, she was like, yeah, I want to go with you. I'm like, it's not a good idea

And she was like, why I was like because I don't know where I'm sleeping. I don't like it's already late afternoon

I'm rolling out like at six hours from here. Like it's just not a good idea

and she was like

Like I want to go and I'm like, all right, whatever. I don't care

And so we've got my utility trailer. Just you know, pipe top trailer

Yeah, and we're rolling and we got I got out of there late and so in my mind. I'm like, well, I'll just stop at k river campground

Sleep there

Drive the rest of the way

We pull up to the front and there's a table at the very front out by the road

Which I'm like, what the hell is this and I pull in

And they're like, well, there's a club event

You know, it's club members only tonight

And I was like, listen man, I just need a place to sleep

I'm literally just crashing and rolling like

And they're like

Well, what kind and I told him I was like, I'm going to North Arkansas to get a bike

What kind of bike are you going to get? It's like a 49 panhead with a side car

And they're like, well

It's gonna cost you 20 bucks

That's fun. It's like I'm gonna I told him I said I'm gonna park in that far back right corner

Away from y'all like I promise I won't bother nobody. I'm just trying to go to sleep for a few hours

Like I said, my wife is six months pregnant

And they're like, it's gonna be 20 bucks. I'm like here, throw them 20 bucks. We drive back there

and

We get back in there and I'm setting up our pillows and you know bedding on this trailer so we can sleep outside

And I got everything set up my wife's laying there and I finally get back there. I put my pistol under my pillow

I'm going to sleep and I'm like almost passed out and my wife's like Brooks

It's like what?

There's something in the woods

I'm like, yeah, I'm sure there's a lot of fucking shit in the woods

We're on a river in the woods

And I lay back down and she's like

Brooks it's getting closer

I'm like, oh my god. Like it's fine. Like

Just chill out

It's okay

I lay back down and she's like

Brooks, it's right beside us. I can't sleep no more

And I was like, what do you want me to do?

I was like, do you want me to get up and start blasting this fucking armadillo with my pistol

Or in the middle of a club event and I'm the only person here not in the fucking club

Do you think that that's a good idea?

Because I'll go kill the shit out of this armadillo if you want me to but I'm telling you it's a fucking bad idea

And she was like she just gets quiet

And I lay back down and I was so amped up. I was like, fuck it. I can't sleep anyway

I was like, just get back in the truck. We're leaving and we packed right back up. I rolled back out of there

She fucking passes out in the passenger seat and I drove straight through the night

And we pull into this town in arkansas and I pull into a little breakfast diner

And I wake her up and I'm like, hey, we're here

Let's go get something to eat and she's got her feet up on my dash staring out the window and she goes

Yeah, I don't think I'm cut out for camping anymore

I was like, yeah, you think so

And so we roll into this ladies garage and we roll it out and it's a fucking

Sparkling burgundy cone shovel with a factory sidecar on it and I'm like

This ain't a 49. Yeah, and she's like she argues. She's like, yeah, it's a 49

It's like no, man. It's not

She's like, well, I got the title that says it's a 49

I'm like, go get that

And so she goes and gets the brings it out 49 f l title

And I'm like, well, this don't match this bike

And then I go and look and lo and behold

There's a 49 f l win number on that

Engine highly altered

And I'm like crooked. I'm like spaces or oh fuck. I'm like, this is uh

This is not what you think it is, but that's all right

That's okay. I just want something for my sunderide in. So I bought it. We brought it back home

And that's been my boys ride. That's cool up until this flathead mind you. This was a

Factory sidecar. So it was super valuable. Yeah, it was it was worth the price that it was worth

Yeah, it was worth what I paid for the whole bike just sidecar

but I took it out on the trails one night with Mike FXR Mike and the uh

At yellow rose canyon and we got it fucking buried just completely buried back there

Sweet of that like it was so good. See I saw him for this much time at the corn dog line

Yeah, born free this year and

I don't know man that I would have never gotten the FXR as it wasn't for him

You know I'm saying like he's been a shaman of mine for so many years

Uh, but when I you you had said or one of y'all said the FXR Mike's

You know, you said you gave him the keys to the shop

Yeah to just go get on a on a rt or something you had at the shop to come out and

Yeah, because he he called me and he was like you got anything I can ride. I was like, yeah

Rod my 64 or marty, you know, whatever and he came out and we messed with my 64 a little bit the day before

and then

We started up

And the generator light was on and I was like, hmm

It's like, well, I need to test the charging system and make sure it's charging before you try to make that

Right on it. Well, I tested the charging system and it wasn't putting out at all

And so I called him and I was like, hey, man

It's like, you know, you can come get the rt or you know, whatever

But the 64, you know, it ain't charging. He was like, that's fine. So he went out there and

He got the rt and that was the first time

I mean, I haven't rode that thing since fan dango a few years ago and he jumped on it and

Wrote out to yellow rose on it and that's like like I said, that's kind of like the twin to his 86

You know, old crusty the only the only jockey ship bike

I've ever ridden is his his shovel head white and black one. Yeah before that like

I remember we traded bikes on the way back from giddy up in like 17 or 18

And uh, I wrote his from like lem passes to hyco or some shit on the way home one day

So it was all highway. It wasn't like I was going through the city jockey shift and I remember we did a podcast

I used to live in downtown dallas and we we would do podcasts in my uh, conference room for the apartments

Like it was like a business center. Yeah, and we that was our that was the studio dog and that we would do that

and um

I remember because it was like a I think he made it to was kick only or something like that or yeah, yeah

And uh, we were going somewhere to Hooters or some shit and he like died in the middle of the street and couldn't get kicked over

It's like fuck that. I'm never doing that shit. Now look at you. Yeah

I don't remember what bike it was but he came out there

We were going to pigsty one year out in wilts point and we went to the gas station to fill up and we swapped bikes

And I rode that white and black shovel. It might have been my 68

I don't remember what it was but he rode my bike and I rode his out there

And I remember it was just you know

None of my shit is nice painted at all

And so being on a bike like that. I was like fuck now. I know I hate this. I'm still not done with that paint job

By the way, he he was supposed to bring it back so I could pinstrike the flames

It's still like we're we're going on like seven years now where it's like still just birch white and black flames

And pigsty is not the place to bring a nice painted bike

That's cool right now. Yeah. Yeah pigsty you went out to that

I think you were telling me like I went out and hung out with these east texas dudes

Oh man, that was my eye open experience about east texas boys and how much different is that from cajun culture?

Well, you know, I I wasn't into harleys when I was you know growing up in south Louisiana

But no as far as the culture. Yeah, people like to drink

They like to eat good food and you know, just have a good time

But this whole thing this pigsty is

Revolving around pastors and harley davidson's and I show up on my freshly restored

84 fxrt and brooks is like, hey corey. We're about to go riding this pastor. I'm like, well, cool. I'm gonna ride on my bike. He's like

I don't think you should do that

We did our we did our our goatweed races every year

So he had a back pasture that was you know, waist high goatweeds the whole fucking thing

And that was the whole kicker of it all was it was dangerous as shit because you couldn't see what was under the weeds or

Where you were going or anything and we're all going back there for our annual goatweed run

And uh

And

Fuck I forgot what I was doing. Well, we're going in the pasture. Yeah, like I was going to take my 84

And you're like, nah, I got this shovel head you could ride instead. Yeah, I had a 84

Shovel out there and we're going back 84 shovel, which is rare. Exactly

He had the 84 evo. I had my 84 shovel and his you know, his fxrt was

Fucking mint and he's like, all right. I'll follow y'all back there. I'm like, no way, dude

And he's like, yeah, I'll follow you back there. I'm like, no ride my bike

And he was like, no, I'm good. I'll ride my bike back there. I'm like

You don't want to do that

And he's like, I mean, it's fine. I'm like, no corey. It's really not trust me

Just ride my fucking motorcycle back there and he's like, all right, whatever

And he gets on the bike and we go back there and there was like this

You you went into a trail that was solid trees and it was a sand pit

And then you popped out on the backside of this trail and it was a wide open pasture with nothing

but just waist high goatweeds

And we would just drag race across the pasture through the goatweeds just one after another

And as soon as we got back there corey licks me. He's like, I would never have brought my bike back here

I'm like, I told you

Dude, I just feel like the type of fun that brooks and his people are having on harley's

Is what they were made for in the first place. These bikes were made for good times like they're having

You know, not worrying about

Oh god, I might scratch or drop my bike. Who cares? That's that's all of it

I mean that's born free this last

Past weekend that we were at it's like, you know, you you shine it up and you get it there

But then when you get it there, you know what then I just want to fucking ride it and I'm

Me

I'm drunk as shit and if this thing kicks over

Yeah, it's going down something. Yeah, that's the problem with the flat heads. It's always gonna kick over. Yeah

You know, like that evening eventually turned into uh, see brooks also has

He's he's big in the motorcycles, but he also has a collection of strange vehicles

I'm a long vehicle connoisseur one of which is a freaking full-size school bus

44 passenger so that yeah with all benches removed. There's no seats in it other than the driver

Yeah, and basically so that evening ended up there's probably 20 of us standing in the back and just

Fucking hold on for dear life man for dear life and we're riding through the same field

And more and we get a school bus high centered on some kind of levy or it was a pond berm

I was trying to jump the side of this pond berm with everybody in there

And that some bitch just it went over the edge and just dug in and I couldn't even open

You know the swinging doors on the side because it was so dug in the dirt

So the front wheel was about a foot off the ground and just spinning and we all had to bail out the emergency exit

Sick

Yeah, it's uh, you know

This is the kind of stories that I would hear hanging out with like these texas boys like

Big Will Cody chants, you know dirty larry

In jacob. It's like the things they did in high school. I would have felonies for

I would have a record to the point to where I wouldn't be able to get an apartment. Yeah, you know I'm saying

But nobody's gonna call the cops out there. Yeah, it's like no, that's just kids being kids

It's freaking fun like everybody's out in nature having fun

And most of the fun that I've had with brooks typically ends up with something getting stuck

Hell yeah, and you need to go get help to get towed out. It's it's a it's a recurring theme

There was a story where apparently cody b

stole

a bus from the school district and they went and

Just terrorized the town in the school bus

And then left it somewhere and you know, nobody ever got in trouble for it like

That doesn't happen in the city dude like you suburbs that no, dude

It's on the news. Yeah, dude like these gang bangers

You know like wow different out there, man, it's a different kind of fun

I just drove that school bus a few days ago. It's still good. Yeah, so she's ready for the next one

So long vehicle connoisseur like what's what's up? What else is in the arsenal? Oh

I've got a

limousine

That I bought

No, shit don't go too deep. Yeah

I my wife went up north to visit her family and

she was gone and

We decided that we were gonna go out on the buddy's boat that night and uh

He had a boat in rock wall and

They were all partying still and I was done. So I was like, well hell I'll go

Pass out on the back of the boat and I just told him I said just wake me up when we get back in

And you know we can leave whatever because I rode with them

Well, I woke up the next morning

Everybody was gone including the owner of the boat except for one other dude

That was sitting up front making margaritas with a captain's hat on it's like nine o'clock in the morning

And I'm like, man, I'm I was supposed to go home

And so I'm calling my buddy that owns a boat and he's not answering

And I'm like, hey man, I rode with you, you know, I need a ride home

And he was like

Not answered not answered. Finally. I was like screwed. I'm just gonna get me an uber back to canton from rock wall

and I was like, I'll just leave so I call this uber and

They're, you know on the way and while they're on the way my buddy calls me back

He's like, hey man, sorry

And I'm like, dude, where are you at? He's like, I'm on the way back to the boat

I'm like, I already got an uber and he's like cancel it

It's like, no, I'm good. He's like, no cancel it. He's like, we're going up to uh sideways on the lake

We're gonna play cornhole up there

and I was like

Okay, you know

whatever

And so we go up there and we're sitting there and we're playing cornhole and

BS in and I get on marketplace

We find this limo

And guy had it listed for three grand

And I'm like, damn, that's a deal

and

And damn that's a deal

And so I'm looking at it and uh, did you cross references as being a deal to any other like not at all?

I just knew if I can to get a limo zine for three thousand bucks. Yeah

I mean, I'm a fool not to yeah

And so

But you know, you got to hit them low and so I'm like, shit, I'm gonna offer this dude two grand

If you if he's gonna take two grand, we're going to get this and I already told everyone

We're going to get this limo zine now. Yeah

And so I offered him two grand

And he comes back and he's like, I'll take it

And I was like, well shit boys. We just bought a limo zine

So we're getting ready to head to south dallas to get this limo zine

And I didn't message him back again because you know, I'm trying to get my ducks in order so we can get down there

And then he messaged him back again. He says I'll take 1500

I'm like, what the hell like this guy sucks at negotiating

And so I'm telling everybody else. I'm like this dude just said he'd take 1500 bucks like we got to go get this thing

and

So

I'm once again getting everything said you probably said 12 and I'm there

Well, and I'm I'm trying to get everything set up and he messed with me again says I'll take 1200 dollars if you'll come get it today

and I'm like

This guy just keeps going lower and so I'm like, let's go like let's go get this thing and and then I'm like

All right, wait a minute. Like this is getting kind of sketchy. He went from three grand to 1200

Well, I've got a buddy that works in the task force and tyler

And so I get a picture of the ven number and I sent it to him

And I'm like, hey man run this for me because I ain't trying to get pulled over and get grand theft auto on the way home or anything

And he runs it and he's like and he's he runs harleys for me all the time

Yeah, so I sent him that ven number and he messes me back and he's like

Brooks, why are you buying a limo zine?

And I'm like, listen, dude, I just need to know if it's clean or not

And he was like, well, it's clean

He's like, all right. It's all I needed to know. So we go over there

We get there and he fires this thing up and the catalytic converter is cut off of it. So

We get in this thing to go back down and we're just straight up

I mean, it sounds like Dale Earnhardt going down 20 and this giant ass limo zine

And we get back in canton and we're rolling around picking everybody up

You know just balling in this shitty ass Lincoln limo zine and

Did it have like the the little thing on the back?

Deck lid with the something like a little bird thing. Yeah, yeah

It's got a wraparound couch in the back and it had a full mini bar on the passenger side

Damn all the glass is still in it. I mean every 1200 bucks $1200 for two grand

I would have bought that for sure. I mean you can't afford to not buy

When people come to Dallas like when they come to the podcast they fly in like my whole deal is like

I want to show them something fucking weird and fun. Well, let me tell you buddy

I'll be your huckleberry. You want to park it here? We'll just keep it. We'll keep it maintained for you

You know what I mean? Brandy will be stoked. Oh, yeah, Brandy would love if that thing was gone

Because yeah, she was she called me that next morning

and

She was already like with her family and in bed than up for so

We hadn't talked on the road like she's she's gone. He's on his on his own and she was like

She called me that next morning while we were playing cornhole and

She was like where are you at?

It's like I'm in rock wall

It's like

What are you doing in rock wall so early? It's like well, I never went home last night

And so she was just immediately, you know not happy with me

And so we hung up and we didn't we didn't talk anymore

And then she stayed the rest of her trip there and we she hadn't talked to me because she was mad at me

After that was when the limo purchase happened. Yeah, so I never got a chance to tell her

We weren't talking

And then she comes in dfw and her friend picks her up and

She pulls up to the shop and fucking limousines there

So she's like super not stoked now. Yeah

She's like whose limo is this?

That's ours, baby

And so to this day she has never been in that limo and she

Fucking hates it like it reminds her of that and she's like

The last thing I told you was to not go party and what did you go and do?

You went out and slept on a boat and bought a limousine in south dallas

And drove back and we pulled whenever we got back

We went up there used to be a bar in canton just outside of town called wind down and we pulled up there in the limo

and my mom's there

And we pull up in the limo and I I bought this uh this bow tie

and white gloves

And so

I'm cruising around I had board shorts on with no shirt and a bow tie and white gloves

Yeah, and I pull up and you know wind down is a very like

It it was supposed to be a wine bar, but it quickly turned into a just a redneck establishment

Of course like yeah

And uh and so we pull in and so of course everybody's kind of like damn, you know

Who's pulling up in here in a limo?

and then

It's not with no shirt on yeah, and then I I've got the window down and I'm you know, I'm playing uh many men 50 cent

Loud as I can

And I pull in there and my mom's like that's my son

Get out of that thing and

We're all having a good time and one of the local cops was there

And I sit down over there with them and I I genuinely was misunderstood on this

I thought like when you bought a new vehicle you had an x amount of time

To transfer insurance on it

I thought

And so we said mind you you've bought hundreds of motorcycles by this point and apparently wrote all of them illegally

But I told I sat down with that cop and he's like, where in the hell did you get that limo?

I was like south dallas

And he just looks at me immediately and I'm like I already had detective homerun at work. He it's clean

We're good

He was like, all right. I was like you got like two weeks to get insurance, right?

And he was like no

it's like

And he's looking at me and he goes you don't have insurance on that thing. Do you it's like

Not at the moment

He's like

Yeah, he's like you should go ahead and take that thing home to not brooks

But that's it. I mean we we never really used it for anything other than

Picking up people and riding around and it's been at my brother's house forever and he bought a school bus too

And not a short bus

Uh, he so yes too

He's got two as well. Like I said long vehicle connoisseur, man. Yeah

You can have so much fun in there. They are fun. Well, there's there's an aspect that you know

Adjacent to him buying that lawnmower. It just brings people together like oh, that looks like fun

Like I want to find something cool like that. Yeah, and where else do you have one vehicle that you can put 40 people in?

I mean, I'm just saying like that would be a great uber

thing

Super dangerous too though for real. Oh, yeah holes in the floor or something. Well, no, but I mean like one night

We were going around the shop in it and have a sunroof. That's all I care about

Oh, it's got a broken emergency exit. So the same thing

Yeah, it's a big hole in the roof. Yeah

But like you hit the brakes in that thing

And everybody just goes flying. It's like it's really good. It's like a Deadpool movie. There's people floating and shit

It's fucking it's terrible

So it is extremely dangerous like

If you like we had a few nights where we were we'd load people in it and we would go driving around my shop

And then just lock up the brakes

And I mean everybody I mean you would just have people sliding up into the front falling down the stairwell door opening

Like it's just dangerous as shit, but it is a blast and another thing about school buses is

They're extremely cheap. Yeah, because nobody wants to store a fucking school bus

Yeah, yeah, like people that live in neighborhoods like how I mean, how are you going to store school bus?

It seems like you get the junk from the city

Yeah, hell, yeah

So it's funny the the school bus that I that we have right now

my

wife's

Um, one of her family members actually stole it

From Fruitvale ISD

Went to jail for it

Got out of jail and then thought it'd be funny to buy the bus at auction the same one he stole

Yeah, he bought it from auction. It sat behind his house and then I bought it from him

So he stole the fucking thing from the school

And then I ended up with it

That's kind of like his panhead, but it was his dad's

Yeah, but that's it's just it's amazing how cheap long vehicles are

If you've got a pasture

I mean you can store this shit nobody else can so you can get crazy deals on limousines and school buses. That's how like a

Paintball facilities get started, right?

A lot of long vehicles some dickhead

There's a group with like softball t-shirts on for their paintball club and they're like fucking like leaning around corners and

Yeah

You really can't beat it though. Yeah

I mean

I think I gave like 13 or 1400 bucks for that school bus

The rabbit hole of like all right, let's just maybe help me settle this because you've been doing this long enough

Is marketplace not the best version of buying and selling you shit it is proof that jesus christ loves us

Thank you

I mean because craigslist craigslist was good, right?

But craigslist didn't have the profile aspect or the accountability aspect of yeah, you never knew what you were going to get with craigslist, man

Um craigslist is why like quick trip has a safe space, right? Yeah

Exactly, but like marketplace is like one of those places where like all right, this dude looks shady

He you know just you just started facebook in 2024

Yeah, but it's kind of like the candy in the storm drain if it's a good enough deal, you're still going to try it

Yeah, you know, it's a bad idea poke and pry a little bit and see if it moves or that's gotta look shady, but

It's a $2,000 fxr. I might give it a shot

the um

The funny thing is like uh, there's been fxr's especially earlier this year when I had money

There was like every day I was just like if there's something that pops up i'm buying it

I'm gonna you know, I want to deal. That's how I found the one. I yeah, well, they're in the

He'll grab one

Down um, you know the fxr that I got the one that I had built recently liqori

Um

That one was like it got posted for uh, $5,000, right and it was a 91. I think is what it is

I don't know the model. I'm not that much of a nerd about it. It's just like it's an fxr

I don't give a shit. I'm changing everything. Yeah about what it was. It's gonna be my fxr, right?

Five grand sighting scene I said hey look, uh, it doesn't run

Most I could do is probably 35. She's like cool. I'm good with that. I'm all right. I'm gonna come check it out

I go check it out

It's like we were saying like I'm in my head like I want to find an fxr where I can like

You know

Throw a couple dollars at it and then like I can go ride it to bike night have an extra bike

So when people come to town I can like put people on some bikes, right?

well

This bike was uh, not that it wasn't

It was a little juicy a lot a lot of things didn't work, but it had all the good shit. It had, you know, um

The right tank, uh, you know max good transmission things like that motor was good. I just didn't understand it like

Evos came with such a

Nasty run out from the factory. Yeah, I didn't realize that so when I when we when I did the the run out on that thing it was like

Something if you put it on a ma you'd be like this motors trash

Well, that was factory spec when we split the cases

That run out was written on the fucking thing from the factory

Like, uh, it was it was wild. It was like engraved in the uh, the uh, the uh, what is it?

Fucking thing the cream chest

No in the on the crankshaft on the flag on

Yeah, essentially

It was like, uh, it was written on it. It was weird. It was like

But but here's here's the thing is like the run out on the end where my tool checks it

Was gnarly but the run out on the uh on the bearings of the cases

Yeah

Was a different one and that was actually etched in the uh on the crankshaft

interesting damn

I don't think i'll pull that many evos apart down to flywheels. Usually they're pretty

Yeah

Hey, funny thing was uh, so renny had a 91 the same years kind of the same bike

And remember I went down to texas hills. I was like renny has an extra motor. He said he sells me for 600 bucks

So while we're at his shop, I was like, hey like you have a

Runout tool. You just check it real quick

Exact same run out as the one that I had. That's why I realized that it was fact factory spec

You know, I just thought he had a shitty motor too at the time

So then we go down the whole uh rabbit hole of like making this evo motor perfect. You know what i'm saying? Yeah

Man evo motors were meant to be not perfect

Dude, they they feel it's such a unique feeling

Like that motor down there like I actually love riding that bike

But it's like I I'm supposed to sell it. So I'm like trying not to like ride it too much and fuck it up

Fall in love with it too. Evos were like the perfect mixture of the old technology where

A set of wrenches would get you across the country across the country

But also

Machined well enough and new enough to where they were still reliable. Yeah, like they were that perfect

Mix of the two like you don't need

Scanners you don't need computer or anything to fuck with them like a set of wrenches will take apart

Most anything you need to do with them

But they're also not gonna

You know, they don't require like

A shit ton of love like you can beat on them pretty hard and just keep oiling them and yeah, you're gonna be good

I mean, it's also the motor that saved harley davidson, right from that

All that negative impact of the AM AM errors and the poor quality control and the next thing

You know, they came up with the evil and completely redeemed there because it was a hundred thousand mile motor. Yeah

Oh, yeah, absolutely

But I think wasn't it developed in conjunction with Porsche as well

No, that was no project was developed the entire bike

I thought they had done some kind of maybe like the endurance testing with them as well

I could be wrong. I mean, I have a book somewhere. Yeah, we'd have to read that. Um, I think it's at the house

Yeah, they did the the nova thing you're talking about and then Porsche also developed what just is much later, obviously

But the V rod the V rod. Yeah. Yeah forced it to V rod too

Which but anyway the evo is just such a freaking bulletproof

I mean my 84 rt

I split the cases that motor had never been apart before and

It had it that motor or that bike had at least 70,000 miles on it

Then the speedo cable had broke

So with at least 70,000 miles and taking apart that motor for the first time and looking at the cross hatch on those cylinders

It was beautiful. It was it looked like the motor had just been put together

But it was the first time I think that like newer people or like people in the motorcycles now they're like

They've had an m8. They've had a soft tail. Maybe a bagger and they kind of like want some new challenge

They're scared of all these older evos shovel heads things like that because of

a leak

A leak on a new bike is like, oh, I gotta fix it. I'm not gonna buy this bike till I fix it

You know what I mean as opposed to like

You know some of the you know

Early evos is like the chain oiler oiler, right? Like that was a it's a shit show

But it didn't mean the motor wasn't working. You know what I mean?

Right, right

Well, then like his I didn't even realize like until we started dabbling into the whole shovel head stuff

That his whole brand name is based off of fucking main drive gear on a four speed

And he told me the whole story behind that. I'm like

Yeah, well, you know

I was rebuilding a lot of transmissions and I was looking for something that was just I don't know simplistic yet

I don't know. I've got a point across and

Oh a main drive gear. What about main drive put them together

And the brand I think that rt was the first bike of years I'd ever seen

at southern throwdown

You didn't know me from any of the chopper era stuff at all. Wow

I am appalled. Well, I never got around

I

How dare you

Don't you know who I am

No, I remember seeing that rte at uh, all right, uh ag baby, let's go

Excuse the fuck out of me

Yeah, I remember seeing it up by the stage at southern throwdown and I was like, holy

Shit, that is a clean motorcycle and it was crazy thing is like the the year that the first year I ever dabbled into the chopper world

He had a panhead and I was still nerding out because I had just watched the the six over documentary where I was like watching

Max Schaff and all these dudes

Max Schaff in general that I knew from skateboarding a long time ago

but like I

I started getting into the chopper world and then max schaff gives him

His pick for the award and then for his panhead and then come to find out

I spent a lot of time at quarry's house in his garage, you know being learned

Right and then we learn you I see this fence around his house

And he's like, yeah, that's my panhead this whole fence right here is my panhead

I sold that panhead and put that money to just put a fence around my backyard like so lame and boring

But that's the most adult shit. I've ever heard in my life. I know

It's almost like, hey, uh, hey, uh, blaine, you want to go out today? No, man

Me and wife are going to buy a mattress. Yeah

Bed, bath and beyond if we have time. I'm really not sure

But

You know, that's what sucks is like you make fun of that and then you get in that position

You're like, well, I mean, I kind of do need a fence around my backyard

I do have this thing that's worth money that could solve that problem. You know

Yeah, that's uh

We live on a creek

out on kick a poo creek outside of canton

And that comes with its own challenges because

The bugs out there. Oh, but it doesn't ever flood or anything like that. No, it doesn't flood

But there's fucking mosquitoes that can carry your first burn for first born away. Like they are fucking

Gnarly out there goddamn fucking. Uh, what are those monkeys on goddamn, uh, uh, uh, jumanji. No, not that one, but uh

I mean that too the goddamn monkeys on, uh

Uh

total fucking

Wizard of Oz. Wizard of Oz. There you go. There we go. Yeah, dude. That's what living on a creek does

Yeah, I mean some of the shit I have like a

Alligator gar and stuff like that in there. Yeah. Oh, no, not in our creek. No

But we've so like I'm lucky as shit that I bought property next to the coolest old dude ever

and he's got almost 700 acres

and

He just lets us have free reign of it. It's his vacation place. He just goes out there on the weekend. He's the lawyer in Dallas, but

He just lets us have free reign of it. So like we kind of talked about

Selling it and building another house and then I told my wife. I was like, we can't leave this place like

We bought, you know our

Measly little land and ended up with access to 700 acres. Like yeah, we can't leave here

And so I take my boy back there and there's like six or seven lakes on it

We go fishing all the time and it's it's just like heaven and I'm like, I can't I can't leave here, man, but

The mosquitoes, man

They're terrible and my wife's like, what can we do to fix this? I'm like

Nothing

It's a creek like they're gonna be here. Yeah, there's nothing we can do about it

It's like living in the woods and bitching about sticks

It's just part of it, you know, it's part of the experience, babe. Yeah a lot of fire and pray for the best. Yeah

You know get over all that scared of deep shit because you're gonna be coated in off every night. Exactly. Yeah

There's you develop a new form of uh, you know, like a skin cancer because of all the off that's been applied over the years

Hey, well worth it. Yeah

Sign me up. Yeah

The old kick a poo creek cancer

Yeah, there's a man, it's um

I don't know what I would want to do if I was uh

If I was gonna buy I want land, but I don't really want that much land, you know, like I want enough land to have a shop and

I want land in the desert. That's just be real. I don't want to fucking mow that shit

I don't want it to deal with like the landscaping

No chance

You got a deep

Experience of of the desert through walking. Yeah, is that what I heard?

um

But to me like I don't I don't know like I just enjoy I love the landscaping maybe riding through it

Like I don't get to like take it all in the same way

But just think about everything that's out in the desert

Everything out there is tougher than we ever thought about being. Yeah

Like the desert is a harsh ass place

It's like fucking rattlesnakes. Yeah. No, thanks. You can see them though. They're like

Oh, yeah, you can nowhere to hide until the time you don't

No, everything out in the desert man is just like

It's just unforgiving so to live out there. It's like no man. I'm

I need to be I need to be somewhere with some water or a creek. Yeah

Yeah, being

Literally like a I was born a mile outside of downtown Dallas

Literally spent my entire life within this vicinity of the city. Um, I'm not a country boy at all like

I'm also not a city boy in the new terms of what city boy means, but uh in the old terms. Yeah, like I

I fuck around the city, but

I mean my first camp the first time I ever camped in my life was idiot

You don't you don't like east texas. I do I don't I mean, I don't my homies out there

We go to their house

We've camped in the yard things like that, but we don't like uh, you don't want to try to find land out there

Instead of the damn desert

Uh

It's been a thought 100% like it like the land out there is pretty. I mean, especially when you go to born free. I think that

You know, maybe we could talk about born free some from here, uh

When you're riding out there, I think that like you

Your association to land out here, especially if you're from Dallas, you don't think about going to east texas to ride

Right. Yeah, you think of hill country. You think of talamina. You think of like even pop

possum kingdom lake, you know what I mean

but

Even in this short part of that little video

I put out a going to born free that the ride the route that we take from my shop there

It's fucking beautiful

Even leaving here within five miles. We're in some nice rides

And head and south of there. There's so much more good shit, too

Yeah, you could see it like there is so much good riding out in east texas that and like and I didn't know and I've

you know, we went and rode

Twisted sisters did you know all the

Typical rides that everybody'd go do whatever and then I remember I was just sitting there looking one day

I was like, well, we want to try to find somewhere new and I was looking up the best rides in texas just

Google and shit and it popped up

315 from eatem to palestine, which is 10 minutes from my house. Yeah, and I was like

What like really and so one saturday and I'd never rode that road at all

Yeah, and every time we went to palestine we went down 19 took the typical route

And so I told cody I said, let's go check out this 315 go ride down there and see what it's about and it is freaking awesome

It is a beautiful beautiful ride

You just go take 64 out towards tyler hit 315 and eat them and just go straight down to palestine

And you're straight like you're on like almost a ridge back the whole way and it's nothing but wide open fields and pines

And it is just beautiful and there's nothing out there. It's just twisty

You got like one stop sign in between eatem and palestine, which is like 45 miles

Other than that it's just wide open curves and

Pastures and pine trees and then it drops you off right in downtown palestine

And then you just turn around and go back and do it again. Yeah, damn and it's beautiful

Well, even like I have I found a loop

around walks of hatch you where I get to you know

In in less crazier times of like, you know

Getting shit done

You know sun it's it's six o'clock sun doesn't set till eight. I'm gonna go home jump on the bike

I'm gonna do this like, you know

Basically it ends up being like 45 minute loop around, you know this part of

I'm cruising. I'm not I'm not ripping. It's not like a I'm not trying to race. I'm just like

I'm just cruising it, you know feeling it. Sometimes I don't wear a helmet just because I want to just

whatever

Sun starts to set it's fucking dope good setting

Uh, get back to the house. I just feel kind of like oh man, I feel

Just did a jog or some shit, you know what I'm saying?

And that's

That's what's another thing that's good about east tex is not that you know, you shouldn't wear a helmet

but

I feel much more comfortable out there

Just because like

It's not like it is here. Like, you know, I've

I don't ever ride to work

And everybody's like, you know, why don't you ever ride motorcycles to work? I'm like, it's because people here drive insane

You know, you've got to worry about getting your head taken off everywhere you go

And so every time I ride through dallas, you know, I do I'll I'll wear my helmet but out in east texas. I just

I'm pretty I'm pretty confident. Like I understand that I

When you're here, you ride more aggressive. Like you're you're kind of the asshole, essentially. Yeah

Um, and because of that it makes it a lot easier. So like when I when I go from here to bite night

I cruise until I get to colorado boulevard or whatever the street is colorado lane from there on out

There I hope there's not a cop and that's that uh, strokeers. No, they're going to uh, cold beer company

Oh, okay. So

Going there. It's like, uh, the thing is that like

The city planners and all their wisdom

Um

As someone's lived in downtown a lot of my life

Like I remember the way the highways were before and I felt like it was more efficient

And they made it to where like you're you're merging into one lane

It used to merge through two lanes and even though it still slowed down

It didn't merge it didn't create like such a backup as to one lane merge

I sound like a fucking old man right now. We're on a bike podcast back in my day

Yeah

But anyway, so by the time when I get to

The benefit of living on the south side of town is we have zero traffic down here

Like from here to downtown dallas

It's open. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie whenever you asked me to come up here

I was like, fuck dallas and then you sent me the address and I looked at it. I was like, oh, shit. That's not gonna be bad

Yeah, that's all right for he they're you know rock wall, you know

Up in allen area. It's like they have to like it's solid from corey's place to bike night downtown dallas

It's solid traffic

Just about all the all the time. Yeah, right

So when I get to downtown when I cross the trinity river like I literally just

Turned into california. Like I'm lane splitting. I don't give a fuck honk at me. Thank you

I you're you're gone out of my life and you know seconds, right? Yeah, and I get to bike night and I'm like, fuck

I'm like 30 minutes early, you know what I mean?

but

I don't know man. It's just like uh

I'm used to it and out here. It's like I'm cruising someone's go ahead. You know, I don't mind being behind you

I'm not there's no asshole shit out here. But when I get to dallas

switch

Well, that's what I was about to say. That's kind of how it always is out

in east texas riding and then it

Like we don't ride that much in the city like not as much as y'all do so for me. It's like

It's hard to flip that switch to where it's like, you know

You want to be a nice guy where somebody's got their blinker on and you're like, all right go

And then you're sitting there waving. We're like go like hey go

I'm trying to let you over go and then you're like, fuck it. I'll just go never mind like

Being a nice guy and getting me nowhere up here

Like trying to let people over and all you do is, you know, look like you're the dickhead holding traffic up

Yeah, and so it's just uh, it's

I don't know

My I don't transition well between the two and I do one a lot more than the other. Yeah, so I'm like

I'm good. I'll just even when we would go to giddy up

I would take like 19 down to palestine and then go and hit 79 and do 79 through

Buffalo and all that she like take every single back road. I possibly could just to avoid getting on

35 and dealing with the high 35 is gnarly. Yeah

going through austin austin's like

You lose faith for humanity like like the amount of dudes that I got called it in word once

Impressive. Yeah sick. Um, because I was lane splitting in austin and I was like

Is this what it feels like? I like this sucks, dude. Like

I'm not I'm white. You know, like I didn't even get it. You know what I mean?

But it was like austin's supposed to be the most tolerant place in texas

No, you put tolerance and then you put rednecks in the same place and there's like there's gonna be a

The the oil and water does not mix dude

Straight up and it's like a fine line where you're like you're on 6th street

All inclusive you go to 5th street or whatever the next street over. It's like yo, dude

That shit don't fly over here. You can take that shit over on congress or whatever the fuck, you know

um

Yeah, I don't

6th street got pretty bad

6th street's wild, dude

It's not even funny anymore. It's like there's so like

Like say if you like our buddy, uh, mikey that like runs a white horse white horse

saloon

it's kind of like the

I guess you would call it kind of like a hipster ish bar. It's kind of a honky tonk style

I wouldn't really call. I mean, I wouldn't say that like it's a hipster bar

Like they designed it to be that way. I think the hipsters chose that to be their bar. Yeah, does that make sense? Yeah, and

I mean, I've had some fucking great times there. It's a good time, you know

Homies me and my wife have had a good time there

But it's like you go to 6th street and you're just like immediately

It's like being on the strip in vegas like this this feels seedy

Yeah, but it wasn't always like that. No, it wasn't that was the only spot

For a lot of them down there for a couple years in round rock and we'd go down there a lot

And it was always like, you know, just a good time and then I don't know

It was probably five years ago. We went back down there and I was like, oh shit, man

This ain't this ain't my vibe. Like I'm getting out of here. Well

It like in Dallas we have an area called the west end district

I don't know if you ever remember that like when we were when we were going up the west end was kind of like

That, you know as kids, you know, this is kids like this was like the place to be had a planet Hollywood

It was like

There was kind of nightclubs there, but there was also like daytime shit like it was a great area, but the

The real estate aspect of it pushed so much

People out of it. It was so high and I think that's what's happened on 6th street is that you have

People that they need they need a festival in town. They need a rock rally need something to fill those streets with like tourists

You know, because most of the locals are not going to go deal with that shit

No, they've already found they're holding the wall bars on the outskirts of town and that's where they're going

Yeah, you know for sure

my mom and my sister both live down there and they my mom my sister doesn't ever go to a bar but

My mom she found like I think it was Don's depot or something that she would go to and it was like

That was like their place and it was like you're talking it's a little hole in the wall

It was you know a little bit away from everything and that's that's where she went because it was you know

Trouble-free go down there and have a good time leave when you when you frequent

Alcohol all you really want is a bartender that knows what you like to drink

That is the coolest fucking fill in the world you walk into when you like when I go to our bike night

It's like he knows the four things I might choose

What we doing today Jace Guinness, you know Montucky

Jameson, what are we doing? It's like so that feels good to walk into a place. It's like it's probably not the best feeling in the world

It's like hey, you know, it's all mine. You know, hey, but I appreciate it makes you want to spend more money there

Yeah

Yeah, six three

definitely, I mean we

We used to go down there a lot and then we ended up transitioning over to

I think it was fifth street. I don't know. It had like a little bit nicer on the on the

On if you go to the east side like across 35 on the other side, it was like kind of

Cooler dive bar kind of things going on, but if you went on the other side of sixth street towards the west

It was nicer shit

Yeah, maybe that's what I remember whenever I lived down there if you went on the east side of 35 that was

rough

like

That they but they gentrified all that we're good now. Okay

I'm glad I'm glad it worked out for them. Yeah, I probably won't go back down there

I bought a dyna one time on the east side of 35. Did it come with tall socks? You had a dyna?

I had a uh osik that back here osik super glad. Yeah, what was this transit? What was going on with your life?

I don't know man. It was a very short time

The funny thing that I was telling you guys uh me and scott from chemical candy are on the phone all day today

He came up to town about a dyna a couple weeks ago. Yeah from our buddy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so

Dusty ivy

Okay, I thought you meant hambrick. No. No. No. This is dusty is a harley tech. Okay, so

It it's funny because like those dudes in the chopper scene

Who I've gotten close with and I'm you know, we call friends like they're

They're all going to dinos and shit. Not even fxr's dude. They're just skipping

That whole phase and they're getting like dinos and sts and shit. Yeah, and uh,

And like I'm sitting here like on a you know, trying to ride a fxr chopper. I'm like, hey, dude

I'm ready. Let's go somewhere. Like they're like, yeah, let's go and I'm gonna be the dude holding them back

Right because I'm kick starting my bike and they're

It's a weird thing. It's like you're you're the chopper gods of texas, dude

Yeah, scott scott just couldn't believe like I can't believe how nice this dyna is

Man, I just hit a button and go I'm like, dude, it's a twin cam dyna. It's like it's nothing special

Well, dude, it's I think a lot more people are going down that road just because of the prices of them

I mean they have gotten so insanely cheap

Yeah, that like I saw a 14 switchback the other day

That had 5,500 miles on it

and

The lady told me she'd take 4,800 for it. Dude, not even not even that m8 low riders are

Less than eight grand now. It's it's you're insane. That's gonna be my next build after this. Yeah

Well, and that's what I've got that road glide that I can't freaking give away that, you know

Justin Kelly did a lot of the engine work on it

And it's all upgraded like it's had all kinds of stuff done to it the dnd header

It's got fueling cam chest in it, you know all that shit, but it you can't give the damn bike away

What year is it? It's a

14

Okay, so that's the previous fairing and yes, 13

Maybe it's a 14 was the year it didn't exist, right? Yeah 14's there's no roadline 14

Yeah, and then 15 the new really lights came out. Yeah, I did not know that. Yeah, so it was one year then

Yes, yeah, there was one year of road glide that they didn't exist because so

a 14

Street glide is the rushmore. So can bus all that shit. Yeah, and then 15 road glide is when they brought

They changed the whole faring style all that shit. You got the big ugly faring. Yeah dual head round head. Yes. Yeah hideous

Fairings this freaking thanks Gorman. That's why it's it's not as bad as the newer

Newer ones as far as like as far as size is concerned

But the problem is it like it's very it's 82 technology like the tour glide

And then in that year you have or not that far off of like you're right if anybody was interested in my bike

All right, I know you're trying to sell it. Yeah, dude. Nobody's gonna listen to this bro. 100%

But no, I just I've had it up forever and I finally was like forget it. We'll just ride it, you know, yeah, and so

You know, I've been riding it around

Just taking it on little trips doing shit. I almost wrote it up here tonight and uh

It's just one of those things where it's worked more to me than

What it'll sell for so I'm like forget it at some point

You probably just have to wait out the the trends, right? Because at some point I think that kind of bike is going to be such a high

Value thing or a value thing in general not make high value be questionable like what that is but like

you know in 10 years if uh

You know, maybe to back it up a little bit when Harley changed the body style of the new bikes

all the dudes that had like the

2014 or 2015 to 2023

road glides

that had

70 000 in it or 50 or 40 or 30

And all of a sudden now nobody nobody's gonna buy those bikes. Nobody wants to get the custom bikes

That's a it's a weird market that that happens with that shit

Yeah, and he and I mean that bike I did uh, I did a trade with uh, shone berks for

And got it and he had spent a ton of money on it, which obviously everybody knows you never get that back

Which I wasn't trying to

But I mean I can't get like

Even like a fourth of what he spent on it back minus the purchase price

Well, it goes to show like the audience

It's like that knows what they're looking at and what they're gonna buy for what they want, right? So

It's like saying the old iron horses and the the big dogs, right?

I was gonna bring it. You know, so when they have a worthless chassis

And maybe even a right side during drive transmission that nobody wants

But then they have an s and s 124

Or you know 113, which is all people are buying those bikes for essentially

I mean, there's probably maybe a little bit of parts here and there they can use ignition system carburetor

Maybe there's something they can play off. But when you have a front end, it's 45 degree rake

A frame that's a single down tube, but it's the size of fucking a coke can like it doesn't fit any styling that fits

It's it's time-stamped. Have you bought any of those bikes this chopper era, you know fat tire?

Yeah, oh, yeah

I bought several of them. Okay, because they all have market for it

Not at all. Yeah

Yeah, so I mean, what were you doing?

What was your plan the engine literally the engine and I would tell whoever I was buying it from listen

I am strictly buying this for the engine. There's nothing else on this bike. I want so you could get

Early 2000s chopper the heyday of the chopper era. Yeah, you can get a bike of that caliber for like under five grand

Oh, yeah

Yeah a lot so like the first one I bought there's a guy that owns a tow yard in canton

And uh, he saw me out riding and he was like, hey, I want you to come look at this bike

in my tow yard

All right, and so I go up there

and

I didn't plan on actually

Purchasing the bike that day like I didn't even know what I was going to look at. Well, we get up there and it's an iron horse

And it's got you know Baker transmission. Yeah, Baker transmission

113 s and s

super g-car

p.m. Breaks, you know typical

high-end

but shit-looking build and

I was like, yeah, man, you know, I looked at it and I was like, well, I was like, uh, you know

What do you want for it? And he's like made me an offer

And I was like, well, I was like, uh, you know, I didn't bring much money with me today and he was like, well, what'd you bring?

And I was like not enough

And he was like

I'll be the judge of that

And I was like, yeah, I was like I didn't bring enough and he was like, well, tell me what you brought

He just kept on and finally I was like

Dude, I brought 1,100 bucks with me and he was like you bring will you give 1,100 for this bike?

it's like

For a Texas job. I was like, I mean, yeah, I will

And he was like you just bought it

It's like how much was that thing you that was in the 30s, right? I have no idea 20s

like

Teen high teens to uh mid 20s and then you could you could uh accessorize them up

But he just wanted it gone. That's the same guy. I got that Volkswagen Jetta from that we drove in the pond

So, I mean, you're you're just looking at the value of the motor

You take the motor put it in a and it was that one was still a left side drive transmission

So it wasn't completely useless, but I mean if you take the motor out of these

Fat tire bikes you put it in a you know fxr or a custom build

What the heck can you do with the rest of that bike?

Nothing, but here but well

It's not garbage. It sucks

But who's gonna performance machine brakes?

They're still

84 to 99 mounts really so you can get rid of those. Okay, you got a title

Which in my world is worth something

Numbers yeah

And then you know if you've got the left side drive transmission

Then you've got a normal primary. You've got all that stuff. So all that stuff is good. I mean short of the wheels

Front end and frame, you know everything else is still there and if you get the bike for like I did

You know 1100 bucks. I've never heard of something that cheap. You're gonna cover all your

cost and then have a free s and s engine

That'd be a this is an idea for a build off competition we buy

Some of that tire era bikes and we'll see who can chop it up and actually turn it into something cool

But you're forced to work with that platform

You know, that's actually not a bad idea

You know, what also think about how many dudes like you're like

They cut their teeth in that era and they're still living off of that era and like it's a better get it

Yeah, it's a parody now. Like hey, we're gonna take this

joke of an era of a bike and we're gonna

Do what a horrible era to come up in this is what we came up in right like early 2000s

It it's not that it was a horrible era

It's just that like some people last on to like the worst parts of it

It's the same like if you think about the big world era

There were people that last on to that ass into that era as like that was the gospel for them

And it's totally missed a point in motorcycles like

As somebody that was a part of that world

I would say like the early part it had some coolness to it. There was something badass

But then it got really weird really quick and lost every bit of like credibility it had

right

With choppers the same thing with the tv chopper shit like when you have guys like lane and and larry and

You know, uh, you know all these other master craftsman's building. What was cool at the time?

You know

I was about to say that was the difference with the guys you're mentioning. I know it's those dudes

like

Regardless of what they happened to be building at the time like those were actually like super talented guys

Yeah, like they were they were really good at what they were doing

But then you also had you know the kit the kit guys

Where it was if it didn't bolt together

It wasn't gonna go. I'm gonna talk a little shit right now. Uh, the most talented dudes of that era

I don't think they were really into bikes because all of them are car guys now, you know what I mean like the bike

I don't want to name any names because like first off. I'm a little too drunk

To recollect but from the era of that

The most talented metal fabricators shapers

They were all more

Into the hot rod car culture and most of them are more known in that world now

If you know being still around

They dabble in bikes, but they're not bikers the way that like we think of indian larry or

You know billy lane or you know said, you know jesse james is more of a car guy as well, right? Yeah, if you think about it

Like I think it's just too lucrative, right? They can't turn down that big car money

Well, it goes back to like, you know when I when I first started doing this podcast and I just never understood the idea of how

You want to build this but you don't want to ride it

Like you're more into the fabrication and the customize of it not so much the experience on it

And I didn't understand that and I do now the car world is so much more

There's so many more people involved in that too. There's money in that. There's like there's no money in motorcycles, man

It's nothing for guys to get a car built and spend 300 400 grand

You know for these big balls. Let's be real guys a dude that can spend 100 grand on a motorcycle already has a couple hundred thousand cars

Yeah, you know what I mean?

Yeah

Okay

But like Travis

Bull

He had a guy that

He knows that bought a car from meekum auction that they had like a 230 thousand dollar bill on

on a 52 or 53 mercury and

The guy bought it at meekum and he just told

Travis to take it

Take it. Yeah, he said just he said I don't I've been moving it in and out. He said I don't ever drive it. He said just take it

It's a Travis has it at his house now and he's like

Shit, yeah, you know

Cooler than hell and I went out there and looked at it and it's all you know all the typical custom shit

It's got the wheel, you know the old fucking wagon wheel in the back that flips down to get in the trunk and it's got the

You know door handles are shaved. You got to reach in and press a button to pop the door like all kind of shit

But it's like whoever built that car spent

230 thousand dollars on it

And then to flex on people and then you're not even going to use it

Yeah, and then somebody bought it at meekum and then somebody, you know told Travis to just take it

Me and Travis went to luck. He's in it. He goes no

This is like you and I talk about it on every podcast like

Spending money flexing on people with how much money you spent on your build

It's meaningless like

That's that shouldn't be the reason or the motivation for any of these cars or bikes

Oh, because it doesn't matter how much money you have there's

Always going to be people out there that have way more than you do. Yeah, like that's a that's a battle you're always

I'm never impressed by how much you spent never

Yeah, that's kind of the that's kind of the telltale sign and we gotta wrap this up

We can we can keep going on something else, but we gotta wrap this one up here in a second

um

The the biggest thing that that I've noticed

Co Corey and I have talked about quite a bit at nauseam

Maybe in personal conversations. Not so much on a podcast, but

The world that wants to be in this world that only has money to offer no time

They tend to you know, they keep us alive like a shop like me. They keep us going

But unfortunately when it comes to the born free hang out around the fire

It's hard to include them because their

Their investment into that fire is not the same way as the rest of the people on the fire

And it becomes hard to acclimate

A world of doers in a world in a world of like investors. Yeah, you know what I'm saying and

It's not you're gonna talk about with those people if all they know is is paying the bill for it

The problem is that some of them can transcend and come into this world and like put themselves in that spot where their

Their money does not make up who they are

But there's other people that like when you when you're around them like man, like you can't you can't run you can't

Get too far away from your money

Because you have nothing else to show for yourself

Yeah, you know what I mean and that that's a fucked up thing to say, but it's the truth

You know and that's maybe one of the hardships of like I don't think it's a fucked up thing to say at all because it's like

I mean at the end of the day who

Even if you are a guy that has money like who wants to be a guy that's known that the only thing you're known for

is being able to pay a bill

like

Even if you're a guy that has all the money in the world

Yeah, but I mean like

Like as a man as men as a man if if if somebody says like your only attribute is that you can swipe a card

That might be the most insulting thing you could ever say to me

Yeah, like so it's like if that's your only attribute if that's the only thing that you have to hang your hat on like you suck

Yes

What I would say to that is it

If if if you're gonna swipe a card and then put insert yourself in circles with with uh, you know

Blue caught not that those dudes are not blue collar. That's probably the bad analogy, but like

You know if if you don't know the difference between sa and metric

But yet you have the baddest bike in this event

And but you want to hang out at the event with all the dudes that that are you know grinding trying to get to the top

You know, here's the thing is like

I

The bike world smells money

Right, if you have thousands of dollars and you're spending and you come to born free one time

It's the whole fucking the whole fucking bull knows. Yeah, you know what I mean?

And then next thing you know, everybody's your friend

All right, and they're all your friend because they want to oh

Hey, man

So you're building your first fucking panhead, huh?

Oh man, who's doing it man? Oh, yeah, he's a good dude, but you know

What do you mean, but I don't know man, you know

People get in like that's that that is the fucking telltale sign

I watch it happen in performance baggers big will baggers. I see it happening now where

dudes

They they get on fucking

You know

forums

They get on fucking group threads where all their other rich buddies are and they they talk and they're like

No, the best guys to do a performance bagger is this one brand that just started doing performance baggers a year ago

Uh, they used to build big wills and they used to shit on performance baggers until they realized that their their scene was gone

And now they're building performance baggers because they have no fucking place to go

And they're the best performance bagger builders. There is like we were doing this shit for so long, but these

I'm benting right now so

It's a bad chase and it's a bad chase, right?

That's the thing I love about old bikes though is that they've never gone out

They can't fucking they can't do old bikes because they don't understand it

Yeah, and you can always chase the fad

But you're always gonna be you know

You're gonna be playing that game where you get caught up on the tail end

You put money in the wrong build all sudden and all sudden the fad dies and you're fucked

You're stuck with your shit. You got a big duck with this inventory. Exactly. You got a big dog

You got the mastiff and you're screwed

And

And it's a right side drive like that shit don't work

Yeah, it's like they told me it was the most balanced transmission and rider thing

No, dude

It was a fucking cop out because they didn't want to do a jack shaft to get a fucking 280 on the back of their bikes

Yeah, that's the thing is you know the old bikes that's and I've

And you know, I'm not throwing names out there. So

I'll

Leave it at that. But there's been several other shops that have done the whole fad chasing thing

We've talked to and it's like, hey man, like, you know, there's a there's a lifespan to this

Like this shit's about to go out. It's like no way man. It's like it's like

Yeah, are you talking about the ones down the street from your shop?

No

I will tell you about that one. Uh

Don't say wait

Now I don't know who you're talking about. There's a couple down the street. Hey guys, use it on me

Hey guys, this was a great podcast. I want to think

Brooks Blanton for coming out and sharing these fucking crape. He walked across the united states, dude. What the fuck? Who does that?

Uh, I want to thank kori for coming and being the liaison of this conversation and all these good times

Um, we have shit to talk about and we're gonna

We're gonna end this right here

I want to say thank you

Well guys, I hope you enjoyed that I had a great time hanging out with these dudes

And uh, I want to thank kori for coming out brooks for coming out

And I want to thank my man

Moto loco tacos for running the cameras on this one

If you're watching the video side of this, which if you're listening to this, you're not

But anyway, we do have video podcasts if you guys are into youtube and wanted to see all this stuff taking place

Man, born free was a freaking blast

I hope you guys made it if you didn't I just posted a video

Kind of recapping our experience at born free texas if you look down in the description below

There's a link to our youtube you can check out that content

Also upcoming here in dousville orth

We have the texas motorcycle stampede coming up november 7th and 8th

Fort Worth texas at the legendary stockyards. We're gonna be down there showing off our bikes selling the rest of the t-shirts

We got from born free and uh having a great time. Hope to see you guys out there

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