Building Choppers with Brittany & Jacob Conard! #435
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What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Fast Life Podcast.
On today's episode, I'm sitting down with Jacob and Brittany Canard at their home down in Wembley,
Texas.
And we're talking about building bikes, choppers to be more specific, and the fact that Brittany
has entered to do the Built Well People's Champ for Born Free 16, I believe, or 17.
I can't remember.
Anyway, more importantly, I had a great time talking with them.
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Let's get into this podcast.
Hey, guys.
You ready to let the dogs out?
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So the only thing scary about doing it like this is I think everything's working.
Like I have no actual like thing going on.
Like even in the middle of this podcast, I'm like, let me just stand up and go check.
Just like the OCD kicks in.
Like if you left your house and you want to make sure your oven was off or some
shit like that.
You know what you need?
You need a little mirror behind it so you can see it.
Yeah.
I have a screen that I can turn and like watch it.
Oh yeah.
Like right now that I'm running off the battery.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I've been, you know, when I came into the podcast last summer or right before the
summer, that was with my kit that I was trying to put together to go on the road.
Okay.
And so that was pretty refined.
I had that camera and I had a small little recorder that we set on the welding table.
Yeah, that's right.
Well now, like I said, with these new microphones, I'm hoping that I can get the audio
quality that I'm after with just the camera and these microphones and I can do up
to four.
And then bam, that's my whole podcast.
That's it.
So it's like.
Is that the max these have?
Like on one channel it's four?
Four, yeah.
It's not bad though.
So I bought the kit that comes with two and then you had to buy two extra.
So it was still like 600 bucks for all these, but it's still like for the amount of, especially
going to a chopper now, like I have less space to travel, you know.
Yeah.
That's, I traded camping equipment for camera equipment on my.
It's not that bad of a trade though.
No.
I don't like camping.
That's right.
I don't like camping.
I fantasize about it, but like if I did do it, but I don't like it, I like shower.
That's why.
Yeah.
Once or twice a year you fantasize about it and it's like usually like the coldest
parts of this.
Yeah.
I want it.
Yeah.
Fast camping.
I didn't want like 40 degree weather.
Well, good to me.
Perfect camping weather is like nights in the fifties, days in the seventies.
Like the day you can, you're in, you can BT shirt or sweatshirt if you really
want to.
Yeah.
But for sure, sweatshirt and a beanie at night.
Yes.
That's why.
You know, actually my reasoning for it too is just the fact that I either want to be able
to shower or I want it to be cold enough where I don't have to shower.
That's it.
Yeah.
Because like when we go back to like when we've gone to Wisconsin to visit my mom or
like go up north or somewhere it's cold, you can go all day because like you don't
sweat or smell weird at all.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's probably what it is.
But yeah, if I sweat and I'm hot and I wake up in a nylon cave, fuck that.
Well, yeah.
I mean, traditionally you don't really camp in the summertime if you live south.
See that's what fucked me up because living down here, that's the only time we would
go camping when I was a kid would be like summer and it sucked.
We go to the river or like, you know, one of the river parks or South Texas or something
and like, it was like the most miserable times of year now that I think about it.
Yeah.
It was never prime season.
Yeah.
Well, it is what it is.
See?
Child trauma camping.
Dude, I didn't the first time I ever camped as an adult was Giddyup.
Oh, shit.
And that was on a moto camp thing.
And it was like Giddyup was perfect weather because it was late March in Texas.
And so it's cool outside still at night.
You can have a campfire.
That's always a good testament.
It's like if you can have a campfire and you actually want to sit around it, then
it's good camping weather.
Yes.
That's good.
Like I'm kind of agreed.
Yeah.
I'm still always bummed.
I miss like the prime Giddyup days.
Like I was just barely had a motorcycle getting into it in the last years.
Like the first one I really went to with any sort of knowledge of anything.
And then it was like kind of a shit show.
And then it was gone.
And it was like.
This is kind of like not to spend too much time on this.
We have a lot to talk about in our short time.
We have to do it, but it's really hard.
Like you really have to be aware.
You're not aware, but you just have to be a tuned in to.
We never know what we're doing right now.
That is technically the good times.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
It's always in hindsight.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Always in hindsight.
Yeah.
You don't know you're in it until you're out of it.
And it's gone.
But if you think about it, whatever you're doing and you're stoked about doing
and you're excited to go to maybe it's party at the pin or born free or a
build, then that lets you know that it's like it's that thing for you.
The same way Giddyup was for us.
First coming up in all this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That makes sense.
That is true.
Yeah.
Cause there's a lot of times that like even at party at the pin, I was like,
dude, I'm just grateful to be here.
It's just, it's nice to just filing once you have a plan set and you finally
get there and you're like, this is amazing.
You're like, I'm having a great time.
I don't care if we're getting a coffee right now or if we're talking about
bikes.
I'm jealous of her enthusiasm sometimes for like real simple things like
that.
Like I still, I mean, I'm always excited, but she has like a
type of it where like everything's new right now and kind of still.
And it's like, she gets off the bike.
She, when she, if she hits neutral rolling up to the house and able to
just stop without having to get it back like into neutral, like if she hits
it rolling and into the driveway, perfect.
She gets off the bike and like dances and shit.
Like just that simple thing.
I'm like, kind of.
Well, in a sense that's kind of what I think of like after you've had
time working in a shop and then you get an apprentice and they're
excited.
Yeah.
You know, something, it's their enthusiasm that kind of makes you
think about what you're doing and you get excited about what you're
doing.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
She, like her enthusiasm for it got me wanting to like ride more
because I was bad about taking time to ride because I'd always be
like, no, I have to like make this or build this, you know,
whatever, something else.
I feel like I'm wasting time if I'm not doing it.
And then, yeah.
And then she was like, no, I want to ride.
And I was like, okay, sick.
Let's do that.
Let's do that.
Yeah.
I'm setting my time for to be at Lindahl 445.
Beautiful.
All right.
Yeah.
That's a, I mean, so we picked up last time we were here or I was
here.
We, we sat down the garage and then you came on and did the
back half of the podcast, which we had on Patreon, which I
loved actually.
The garage shop.
Yeah.
Cool.
And you were just starting to kind of, I mean, I wouldn't
say just starting, but you had already started dabbling in
little welding here and there.
You know what I mean?
Like doing some little projects here and there with them.
So, and we're about a year and a half removed from that now.
What do you think is like your, well, first off, I think a
better thing to do is let's talk about how this build came
to be.
This new, I mean, people's chant build.
How did, like, where did this thing come from?
Where did this thing come from?
So, the weird thing is when you get sober, there is a, one of
the thought processes or things that you come to is you want
to create.
You want to create things with your hands.
I've been wanting to create for a while, but I didn't have
the means.
I didn't have the knowledge.
I didn't have the experience.
So once I started writing, going to more and more
shows, asking better questions, learning a lot of things
from him.
Oh, God.
Just watching him come in, like just yesterday, we had two
friends swing by Ryan and Graham.
And like we got to put a front end together.
I was like, well, why does that bearing bigger than this
bearing?
So like you're learning a lot of things that are on the
fly.
And it's, it's not like you can go take a course that's
like an 18 chapter course on choppers.
Like you can't do that.
Even though Pangea's book is quite well.
It helps you kind of get there.
But yeah, I started to create and I looked at Jake and I was
like, I want to try.
And it just started as an itch.
And then all of a sudden this itch kind of became like a
little mini obsession.
You started on Facebook marketplace.
Then you slowly start to, you slowly start to get more
and more towards the goal and the idea of like, okay, I'm
going to create something myself.
And then as soon as I bought the motor, I was like,
what's fucking go?
Like I was so excited.
Even though his bike was on the lift at the time for
Born Free, I think really what came out of this was just
like watching a lot of the chopper shows, different
bikes that I liked.
And my style was a lot different than his style was
like in a lot of different, a lot of different ways where
I was like, yeah, I want like a quality running bike,
but I kind of want to look a little bit old and
crusty every time I even get off the sporty.
Yeah.
He's like, can you clean it every once in a while?
I was like, I don't know.
Like don't disrespect my baby.
But I think the idea just really came from the spark
wanting to put my hands on something.
I was having a really good time with it and I really
wanted to create.
And then now I was like, cool, what kind of bike
do I want?
I started playing around with like silly themes.
I remember him making fun of me for it.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
She's like a full girl theme type shit like horror movie
this or something else.
I was like straight OCC stuff.
Just like, I just went out like the scream queen,
the final girl.
And I still have that as like a little baby theme
that's on my spreadsheet.
Yeah.
But it's like a custom license plate idea.
Great.
Yes.
The rest of it.
Yeah.
But I really was drawn towards like more of like
the seventies styles.
We have a lot of the easy writer mags that were here
that were from 71 to 79.
I liked the lower seventies like anything below 75.
I really enjoyed.
But you can clearly see a shift in colors and shapes
and sizes of things as you go along in the year.
So it's like you have your like mid seventies and below
like early seventies is like, you know, beige carpet
and funky stuff, you know.
Yeah.
And then you have your mid seventies where it's kind of
coming out of that.
It's a little bit more modern, but then you have like
78, 79 is like Prince colors and just purples
and sequence dresses.
And then you start to see things that are not
necessarily on the bike, but the things that
change with the bike with the times.
So really, honestly, I just I said, I like the idea.
I'm going to go for it.
And I'm just having a really fun time just learning
from a fire hose.
Yeah.
And also, like it kind of we never had like a
overlapping hobby really like it was always
doing bikes and all that shit was kind of like my way.
That was like my hobby and like my getaway.
Like I was like, no, that's mine.
Everyone stay the fuck away from it.
Leave me alone.
And then kind of like slowly creeping in with
the riding that I actually kind of, I mean, it
worked out for the better.
Like it made our like the relationship better
made hanging out like gave us something to do,
you know, like kind of got on like a better
page just from that, which was sick.
And then yeah, it's cool.
Like getting to like, even though I'm not the
best question answer, like, you know, it's
still fun being on like, oh, yeah, like
here's how to do this or, you know, but I
think it's just it was like talking about
the other day, like I'm also like self
taught with the majority of stuff and I
had to learn the hard way a lot of
shit.
So I don't really know the way to teach
people how to do things.
I can teach you how I do it.
But like, yeah, it's probably not
the best way to go about it, you know,
because like, yeah, I just I got in there
was just trying.
I didn't have someone be like, oh, do this,
do this.
Yeah.
Like I always seek out information.
Like if I like unrelated but related,
like say if I if I need to make this
in graphic design, this cover for this
DICE magazine, then I'll I'll seek out
the tool like the OK, let me see how
to make this in Photoshop or
Illustrator.
Yeah.
Through like YouTube and, you know,
just it for Google.
Yeah.
So that's kind of like how I I've always
taught myself things.
But, you know, granted, that's, you know,
I started doing some of the things I
do before YouTube.
Yeah.
So there was that aspect of, you know,
working in the shop and asking people.
And I think that's where sometimes it
gets difficult because we're so far
past that like not a lot of people
have like apprentices or people
coming to shop to just want to be
around it, you know, so I think
we don't like I had a kid that
started coming to my shop.
I met him at the bar.
He's a bartender during the night.
But three days of the week, he doesn't
work so he can come and work.
And he was really wanting to work.
Every day was another fucking problem.
It was another this, it was another that.
And then, but for me, it was like,
I have to be at the shop between
this time and this time on these
three days in case he shows up,
you know, because I want to stand up
like I'm making myself available for him,
but he couldn't do it for me.
So I was like, dude, it ain't gonna work out.
No.
Yeah.
No, you have to be committed.
I think that was one of the biggest things
is once I was like, cool,
if I'm going to dive into this,
I'm the full two feet in,
like we've got to do this and like
there are going to be times that like
I'm not going to work the way that
Jake wants and then vice versa.
But the cool thing is, is like
again, back in hindsight
that we were talking about the good old times.
Yeah.
The quality time that I get with him in the garage,
I can't get anywhere else.
Like he just watching someone who's really good
at something and they love doing
just seeing them thrive and being able to
teach you or tell you about something.
Even though I may not ask the right question,
it's really cool to see him light up.
And then I get all that quality time.
So it's really nice.
I mean, I know we've talked like
we've had lots of really drunk conversations
with us three.
So maybe we won't have that as much.
I don't know.
Anyway,
the whole like
ecosphere of y'all's like relationship
coming together through like your
coming into his world
because I remember when this all was taking place
like two years ago.
You know what I mean?
And you like you were saying earlier
finding like a love for riding and finding
your own friends group within the
space of motorcycling.
Like how do you think that is in like
what would you say to couples out there
kind of looking for that kind of
pull for each other in this space?
Does that make sense?
I don't know what kind of question I'm asking here.
Yeah.
I'm looking for relationship advice.
Yeah.
I'm also going to check this while you aren't
thinking.
Um, I don't know.
Like what like
advice?
I mean, it's not
I would say advice.
I would say
I think one of the biggest things,
especially for me,
I don't come from this world.
Like I have no idea.
I even said,
I think on the last time we were talking
about it, I was like,
I thought this was his thing.
So like I would,
I would let him do his thing in the garage
and then things like that.
And I didn't realize
all I needed was an invite.
And I think a lot of the dudes
want
a person to be interested
in what they're into.
And I think that's,
it's huge.
So do women.
Yeah.
Um,
I really do think
a simple,
you should come check this out,
even just walking into the kitchen,
maybe your girls
drinking a glass of wine or something.
Come check this out,
bring her more into the conversation.
It's easier that way because
it's so,
how do I say this?
It's, um,
it's uncomfortable for us because we don't
exactly always know what's going on.
But to like feel included
or invited into something.
Yes.
Invited into something.
And then all of a sudden you're like,
Oh, that's how that works.
That's kind of cool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And just being open and interested,
there were times where
I knew that like,
Jake and I had gotten an argument,
but I would just walk out to the garage and then,
yeah, yeah,
I'd be nervous and scared,
but I'm like,
what's the worst that can happen?
Like he's going to get mad at me
and tell me to leave the garage.
And I would just sit out there with him.
Yeah.
And he wouldn't talk to me necessarily
maybe for an hour.
And he just come and kiss me on the talk before
and he's like,
thank you for just sitting here.
Yeah.
But it all kind of happened at like a,
a weird time too.
Cause like we were together so long
and just kind of came to like this weird,
not an impasse,
but like we just kind of realized we,
as a relationship,
we're kind of like not doing great
with each other in a weird way.
Like you get so comfortable
and everyone's do,
like we're kind of doing our own thing.
She's working that I'm doing this stuff
and I'm getting more into motorcycles.
And we just kind of saw our path like go like this.
And we didn't realize it right away.
And like by the time we realized it,
it was like worse than we wish it was,
you know,
like we're just kind of getting by,
but realize like, fuck it.
Like, like unfortunately it was like,
God, we're almost just kind of roommates.
And it was like, this sucks.
We got to fix this.
And it was either like,
okay, do something about it
or do something about it.
Like it was, you know, like,
and, um,
but it kind of like,
kind of airing out all our shit.
Like talking about all our grievances.
It was same time shit happened.
She stopped drinking and that helped a bunch.
Cause one of my biggest things was like that part,
you know,
it was like a bothering or a pain in the ass thing to me,
but like,
but just through history,
just instances, you know what I mean?
Like not as a whole.
And then,
but it just kind of worked out that way.
And then like with the riding and then we're like,
okay, fine, common ground,
working on our own shit,
like personally and together and being
super open about it.
Like just super uncomfortable conversations
about all scenarios, anything, you know,
and like,
well, we were right together,
like what,
13 years at that point or something.
It had been a while, you know.
And it's always the rule of seven,
but you just don't realize like you're like,
you just get so complacent and like comfortable with someone
and like, you're just going by, you know.
And also I like,
I was in the middle of a job.
I wasn't fucking happy yet.
Like, you know,
like it just kind of
was sold to be something else and wasn't it sucked.
And I was kind of miserable.
And yeah, just like,
it just kind of everything came to a head at that point.
I feel like you coming out on your own,
like you did at the time, probably,
you would have a lot more confidence in it,
especially having the relationship that you guys have now,
where it's like helping, right?
I mean, for sure.
For sure.
That's kind of the direction I've,
me and my wife have been going.
And I took a lot of that from
you guys hanging out with you guys last summer.
And then when I'm on the road all summer,
just in my head alone,
just overthinking in my life, you know.
I found a way to kind of pull my wife into this.
Like, let's start this separate thing
of our business that's ours together.
Yeah.
That way you can do vintage clothes
and we can, like, whatever we sell
is going through this channel.
That works out great.
You know, what, and then you're the barber still
that you do that,
and then I'm still the fast-life garage
and whatever the fuck, right?
But when we go to Born Free
or Mama Tried or Texas Hills,
like that booth is ours.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
That's our place.
So it's same for you guys.
I enjoy going to these places with my wife now.
It makes me feel like,
like if I put a pop-up up,
I want to be hanging out with my wife in there.
Not like, I don't want to take it to Born Free
by myself, you know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
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Yeah, it's now that it has worked out the way it has,
it is a lot of fun.
That's funny,
if I douche up somewhere,
people ask where she is.
Or something,
and now that she's into it,
people are excited to ask questions about her being into it to me
and then when they see her and I'm like,
yeah, this is cool.
Yeah, just do enough of it now
and like, I don't know.
But yeah, it's great now.
It's helped a lot.
I mean, also like you getting into the fabrication
and building your own bike,
I've been saying this for a long time.
A lot of people think I hate women.
I don't.
It's kind of like,
I just haven't found the best way
to articulate what I'm trying to get at
and I think that every time I bring it up,
I hang myself.
I'm going to try one more time.
I think that like the path that you're taking
to learn this stuff is the path
that most of us have to take.
Yes, you even said it in your post,
I do have the luxury of having Jacob as my husband, right?
Yeah.
But that's neither here nor there
of you sitting in that garage
and doing the work, right?
Correct.
There's millions of shops out there.
There's millions of people
that would probably teach
and it's just,
it's a weird barrier
that I get for a woman to walk into a shop.
But I think that after you've gone through this process,
I think you'll be able to help a lot of women
who maybe want to go that direction
and learn the hands-on to a deeper degree of,
you know, of stuff.
And I'm,
all I've ever been trying to say, articulate
is that this shit takes time to learn
and you have to respect the time
that it takes to do it.
And if you do,
you'll be respected by everybody.
Yeah.
Nobody wants to see somebody
get something handed to them.
No.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
And that's kind of the only thing
that I think that most people bitch about
in the bike industry
or any of the male trades
that women have come into.
Yeah.
That's the only thing that people complain about.
They just want to see equal effort.
You know?
Yeah.
I show up.
Not just bolt a gas tank on
and then hit a thought pose real quick
and then that's your pose.
Like that's the amount.
It's like that's not,
okay, like there's a...
Also can we talk about
how terrible I am at a thought pose?
It is pretty funny.
You are...
I am socially awkward with cameras sometimes.
And he's like,
he's like,
I just need you to...
No, not that.
Sorry for...
Yeah.
I always tell her,
like I'll,
she'll be like taking,
like I'll take a photo of her like behind her bike
and she was working on it
and rolled out from like,
look tough.
And like the way she does
is like comically tough.
She goes like,
like that.
It's so funny
because she would just like,
meh,
like big dumb smile
and like,
and it was just,
yeah, it was so funny.
It is.
I, I don't know.
It's,
I like the pictures that I,
that people take of me
whenever like,
I prefer those when it is me
just with a big smile
and having fun.
Instead of this like,
is this the right angle of the head?
No.
If I do the serious straight face,
it's like purely ironic
because I'm immediately laughing
or doing something stupid
otherwise.
And like, I know it.
So like those little serious photos
are just kind of like a funny,
like I look at them
and I kind of laugh
because I just know it's not
my natural state.
Yeah.
I just tell people I'm just like,
I'm up it.
Like it just.
So,
Jacob,
what's your thoughts on like the
whole people's champ,
like vein into this world?
Like you've gone through it.
Now she's in it.
And I know that you respect
the process quite a bit.
So what do you think about that
makes it like a great opportunity
for people to
I,
I think like,
like for me,
it like just pushed me to do a lot
more than I was granted.
It was like,
I mean,
that year you did it.
Was that the twin cam one?
The sports.
It was the first year actually.
Oh,
you did.
I didn't even make it past noting
or yeah,
the show was canceled due to COVID,
but I didn't make it past the
first round of voting because
people hated,
believe it or not,
people hated sports.
There's more back then than you
know,
they've gotten to be a little bit
more loved.
But yeah,
no one,
it really did not go well.
It was,
so it just didn't make it past
the first round of voting.
I was stoked to make it in,
but then I still finished the
bike,
but I still,
I was doing it like very normal,
like when it was just for myself,
it was like more bought parts
and putting on,
and I was making what I could.
And then when I got in People's
Jam, I was like,
oh, fuck this,
I'll just go like all in
and do all this shit,
you know,
like go super far with it.
And then it just,
I don't know,
open up doors and like life
and like my brain of like,
oh, I want to do this now.
So I did People's Jam the
second time.
And then it,
yeah,
well,
there wasn't like,
met a lot of people from it
and just also showed me
that like,
oh, I really love this shit too,
but it was,
yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, I think it just kind of
like pushes you
because like the bike
I entered People's Jam
with isn't the one I finished
with basically.
Like it is essentially,
but I was like,
oh no,
like I'm on this stage kind
of to show people
like what I can do
or whatever.
So like,
you know,
just naturally push you further.
Yeah.
And then like hone your skills
more, you know, like,
it's like, all right,
I see these people doing this,
then like,
I'll do this.
And like,
yeah,
I don't know.
What do you think,
like, what's your,
in the process of stuff
that you've been learning?
What's been the hardest thing
for you to pick up,
you think like?
The hardware scared me
until yesterday,
but I have a bolt gauge
chart for that now.
So that's great.
Oh, it's so funny to be
scared.
I'm like,
is it just because it's
overwhelming because there's
so much there?
I think it was overwhelming
because it was so much
and sizing and sizing.
And if it's course or fine
or how long the bolt's at,
I had straight up asked
and I was like,
how do you know these things?
When you take it apart,
you'll figure it out.
But like,
there'd be times
that I'd be putting on a part
and he was like,
you probably don't want a bolt
for that.
You should write it down
your list.
And I was like,
I don't know what to write
down.
Both that goes middle
of bike above transmission.
I think the biggest,
the scariest part was
and it still is like,
when I put this together,
does this bike run?
Oh, we all scared.
Oh, yeah.
That's not the hardest thing
to learn.
Like what's like the,
like a tool that eludes you
or a technique or something so far.
The hardest tool for me
that's been new is the grinder.
No matter what discs you have on.
Like the die grinder
or the hand,
like the big like quarter.
Like the little one
you were using yesterday.
Yes.
Yeah.
Like a hand grinder.
Like a two inch roll-up
disc style one.
I think one of the biggest
things is once I got done
with the welds,
I went over to the grinder
and he was having to teach me
and he'd have to do,
he'd pull a ghost on me.
So he'd sit behind me
and he was like,
now you see how the feel
of this or whatever.
But there would be sometimes
that my hand naturally bevels.
So all of a sudden
he was like,
no, then you're cutting.
You're not?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it was very difficult
for me to learn
while I was doing the frame.
So when I had to pick up,
back it up yesterday
for the primary,
he was like,
hey, you got to use the grinder.
And I was like,
and I just had my own
like affirmations
going in my head.
Yeah.
But there's something
that clicked yesterday
that helped a lot.
He goes,
small movements.
Small, smooth, slow.
It's not like this jittery thing.
Like you're just...
I just thought I had to get it done
like right now.
It's like a watercolor brush.
And there's like,
oh, oh, oh, I can take my time.
No one's behind me.
No one's expecting this.
I think people forget
that you have all the time
in the world.
And just, yeah,
slow down.
Yeah.
Slow movements.
Keep your hands steady
and don't forget pressure.
Like you're not
even pressure.
Pressure.
I feel like wrist,
like, I don't know,
strength.
Yeah.
It's like,
because I mean,
we were talking about earlier,
even using like the...
Dude,
it's not a lathe or a mill all day.
You're like...
Yeah,
getting kind of thick
over here, boys.
Yeah.
Farmed thick.
But it...
Dude,
it was funny though.
That was probably the hardest.
She hard-tailed her own frame
before knowing how to use
a ratchet with it.
Like...
She's a phenomenal wielder
already.
It was a thought
that didn't go through my head
at all though.
It went through my mind that, like,
she didn't know how to use
the majority of hand tools,
which was like a hilarious thought.
Yeah.
Just because,
I think also because, like,
if I just see something,
I'll be like,
oh yeah, I can figure how to use that.
Yeah.
Like, I kind of get it.
And it's not that,
because I forget that
she's not from that world at all.
Like, it's like me
looking at a spreadsheet.
That's her looking at a pair of pliers.
She's like,
I don't understand the difference.
And there's five of them.
Like, what is this?
And but yeah,
she used to use a ratchet
when she just already hard-tailed
and metal-finished her frame.
I'm like,
I taught you the wrong way.
It was like that.
We should have started
with an Ikea furniture set.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, because I actually
gave him a butter knife
and a flathead screwdriver
or something like that.
Yeah.
I knew what an Allen was.
And then he was like,
okay, you got to figure out
what size the Allen.
And he goes,
it's probably this
and probably this.
And you're like,
how do you know that already?
To be fair,
there's a lot of people
in the mode.
They work with tools every day
and you can't get the difference
between Imperial and fucking,
you know, metric.
And it's like,
I think it's right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
So it's,
you know,
my little brother used to
the same.
She was like,
you know,
there's three different sizes
of Phillips heads, right?
Just at least three.
I had no idea.
And then you're like,
that fat one does not work
here.
That little one does not work
in the fat one.
That's why this is stripping.
You know what I mean?
It's just frustrating when,
you know,
so much like when you
get on a bike or whatever you
want to say,
so much of your problems is
because you're too lazy to go
back to get the right tool.
This kind of fits.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm going to go ahead and
try to get off with this.
And then it strips.
And then it strips.
So you use a 14 millimeter
instead of nine sixteenths.
It's like,
it kind of fits.
Then it strips it out.
And then it strips.
Or you...
But then it's funny because
there's,
I mean,
there's award winning
show bike builders
that have never
hard to out of frame.
Yeah.
So in the fact,
it's like,
it's just,
it's different.
That whole builder,
you know,
like that,
the definition,
the thing,
it's like a,
I,
I think we all have our,
it's kind of like God, right?
We all have our own version
of whatever this is
and whatever category,
whatever attributes fill up
that,
that category in our heads,
but,
because I've,
I've no people that aren't
necessary fabricators,
but their vision of how they,
you know,
almost like the conductor for
the symphony,
they bring everything together
and it just like,
that's a beautiful bike.
The angles work out so well
and you're like,
yeah,
this is a good vision.
The reason why I see that side
of the spectrum
and could,
in my head,
give that dude
some kind of credit as a builder
is that I've seen
some of the most talented
fabricators in the world
cannot figure out
how to hone their skills
to make one cohesive
looking thing.
They'll make like one part,
that's incredible
all this effort into it
and then they'll make
another part
and then they don't make
a fucking sense on the bike.
You're like,
you have so much skill
you just don't have,
you don't understand
anything about portions
or like,
design aesthetics or any,
like it's just,
yeah, I see that quite a bit
and it's always kind of like,
I'm like,
oh, I wish you just,
you should have stopped.
You stepped back.
The thing is like,
if you carry this,
this,
this idea that you're
always a student
in every category,
you might be a better
fabricator right now
but you can learn
more mechanics.
Or maybe you're
more mechanically inclined,
you want to learn
how to communicate.
Well, those two things
are both necessary
to build a bike, right?
But there's also aesthetics
and style
and all these other things
that come into play
that you can also acquire
as a skill
and I think that's the goal
is that we're trying
to add more to our box.
That way we can look
at a bike
and know that's a canard bike
or a,
you know,
Joey Cano down there
or something,
you know,
people will have a style.
I know a lot of mechanics
that people call builders
and I'm like,
that dude couldn't fucking
get power coding
to look right on a bike,
you know what I mean?
He could build that motor
and balance a crank
but that's about as far as it goes.
But that's like
the place for everyone.
I think like
a lot of it,
like the way she's going
about it too just has to do
with like how I
went about it
where I just kind of like
was thrown into it
but I had to like
make all this stuff
to even get to the motor
in there.
So fabrication is always
in front of
mechanics for me.
Yeah, yeah.
You're an extreme
end of a fabricator.
Not extreme like,
let me
hold,
like figure how to say this right.
I wouldn't say extreme
end of a fabricator
but I guess because
like what I'm thinking of
is a lot of motorcycle
building these days
is taking an existing frame
and modifying things
versus you're in there
just bending your own tube
and fixturing
and going to town.
Yeah.
So.
Within eight hours
from
thought,
bend,
weld,
he'll come in
and be like,
I started a new frame today.
I'm like what?
Okay.
And there'd be sometimes
that he's like,
I made a coffee table today
and you're just like,
what?
But there's things,
yeah,
that stuff makes sense to me.
It's not even like,
I love it.
Like when I'm doing that
shit, like it's not,
I don't know.
It's like dumb work.
Like I'm not thinking about it.
It's like,
it's like a flow state maybe.
Yeah.
It's like
digging a ditch to someone
where you don't have to
think about shit
because you just know
you're shoveling, right?
Like,
I don't know.
Yeah,
it just goes.
I do it,
but I'm also doing it
in a garage I set up
and like,
to some people it might seem
like some things are a little
odd,
but to me and the way I work,
like,
I can just move
and everything's in like
the spot where I'm like
the most functional,
you know?
And,
I don't know,
it works,
but I just love it.
It's fun.
That's like my
stress relief though too.
On the,
on your born free bike last
year,
like you,
you started,
you were using a normal
frame,
like a normal,
cheap frame.
And then,
that bike obviously wasn't
supposed to be a
born free build.
No,
it wasn't going to be.
It was going to just be a
bike that you had wanted to do.
Yeah,
that was,
that was her fault too.
Cause we just flew out
to born free last year
just to like go to the show
since I didn't have a
bike in it.
It is kind of my fault.
Well,
I wanted to do it
anyway.
I was thinking about it
cause I felt,
I already had FOMO,
but like,
Grant came up to us and was
like,
he's like,
so you're ready to do it
and I was like,
oh yes and that.
And I was like,
I mean,
yeah,
kind of,
of course I'll do it.
You know,
I didn't like super have an
idea,
but I had already kind of
like started dicking with
that bike just cause I
wanted like a swing arm bike,
something to,
not really just
fun to ride around.
Yeah.
And then yeah,
so when I committed to
that,
I was like,
I felt dumb using the
stock frame.
It looked perfectly fine.
It looked great,
but I just was like,
it was that I know,
I was like,
cheap,
just doing it that way,
I guess,
or maybe just to me.
I was like,
no, I can do more with this.
So I like,
yeah,
made all stainless swing arm,
single down to swing arm frame
and all new stainless,
like nest style swing arm
and then that just snowballed
into fucking everything else.
But again,
I'm so happy without it
came out though.
I'm glad I did it
cause I'm more happy with it.
Yeah.
It's like you exuded
some,
some ideas that you had
and,
you know,
how that might play
into the next bike you build,
like blending,
you know,
the old
and the new flavor
that you brought together.
And it's also,
I was just kind of like,
like playing to my strengths
a little bit,
like the shit I do a lot,
like I weld a lot of stainless,
like whether it's bars
or all the parts I make
and shit like that.
So it's like,
I can polish stainless
in my garage
and weld it
and do all this texture.
And so it's just like,
yeah,
might as well do that.
And like,
I know I can do it well
so do that.
So a lot of it's just,
it's like that.
Like,
I always say,
like,
I always tell her,
like,
it's when people talk
about shit,
like it's,
I feel like it's really easy
to not be wrong.
Like when people are like,
oh, you always think you're right.
It's like,
well,
you can just don't
talk about shit you don't know
and it's pretty easy
to not be wrong
all the fuck time.
You know what I mean?
Like,
don't talk out of your ass,
don't talk about shit you don't know
and I just make things
that way.
You know,
and like as I learn
something new,
I do that and do that
more just like,
this bike has more sheet metal
work on it than I've done
personally on another one.
You know,
I've taken a gas tank shell,
made a tunnel,
modified little things here
and there,
but like,
this one definitely has more
extensive shit than that,
especially with like,
I,
like I made that
nest fender that's on the back
or like nest style fender,
but it's all steel
and it's all actually
like,
not shitty molding,
like it was actually all done
like sheet metal.
You made the headlight
thing too, right?
Like you modified that.
No,
the headlight brow,
that visor is from Tom Fork
in Japan,
but that's kind of what started
that whole thing.
That was like,
with the stock frame
and everything else,
I had like the stock
fiberglass nest fender
and I had that brow
and those were like
the two main pieces
and everything else
in between was kind of like,
whatever,
like it was just going
that way
and then that
just led into like
the design cues
for the tank
because I was like,
I need to mimic
a dash,
because I love the way
like a dash looks from the side
on like FXRs
and stuff like that,
but I didn't want a dash.
I was like, oh,
I can just like
cut and manipulate the tank
and do all this shit,
like,
and make it practical
so I also get more fuel.
And I was like,
well, that's it
because it's starting off
like two and a half.
I feel like dashes
really help bring
some dimension to the tank.
Yeah.
Now, when you have like
a sporty Frisco style,
sometimes I think
it could be okay without it.
Yeah,
because it's very so high.
Yeah.
At the same time, man,
like if you could find
the right way to do it,
maybe a rib down the center
or something
that kind of like ribs
widens up into like
a gas cap or something.
Yeah.
And from the side,
if you look like the top
of the brow
to where like the top
of the tank,
the tank would have just
like crowned over
and went down like
the sporty thing.
But all I did was
kind of like
just find the tangent
and have it come out
a little bit
for a flat landing
for the cap.
And then that's where
it like scoops down.
So kind of like
reverse mimics
with the fender.
But,
yeah,
it's kind of like,
but everything
that started on that bike,
like everything got built,
it was like through two frames,
three gas tanks,
two fenders.
Yeah.
Only one oil tank though.
I mean, the salmon
had two oil tanks.
Yeah, it did have a lot.
Oh, no, no, no, no,
oil tanks.
I'm sorry.
Two gas tanks.
Yeah, three gas tanks
because the one
that was on the original frame,
I made one,
wasn't happy with it.
So I remade the one
that's on there now.
Whenever he's unhappy with the part,
he'll like sleep on it,
give it 24 hours.
And I definitely remember
the shower conversation.
Yeah.
He was like,
I'm stressed.
And I was like,
okay, walk me through it.
What's going on?
And he was like,
the gas tank,
it's horrible.
It's fucked up.
And I was like,
you just spent like 12 hours on it.
And I was like,
I could only imagine
how that feels like
being stressed out
and being like,
I wanted this part
to work so much,
I need to start over.
Yeah.
And so he did.
Once I fucking lock on
what I don't like about it,
you know, it's crazy.
No choice.
That like,
that conversation happens a lot.
Like, like,
I get a lot of people
that hit me up.
They want me to paint their bike.
But then somehow
I get wrapped up into confirming
or saying,
I don't think so
on all the parts
they decided to buy for their bike.
So it's like,
people need like a validation
of acknowledgement.
And a lot of times
people will go
certain directions on their bike.
Like,
they'll get all this gold parts
and they got these gold parts
and they don't match.
Oh, no.
Like, hey, man,
you should probably
recode those or go a different direction.
Like,
I already spent the money on them.
Like,
then like,
time, money,
it's like,
if it isn't working,
it ain't working.
Like, you know,
sell it, figure it out,
like recode it, do something,
you know?
But I did notice that
like,
there's plenty of times
in certain aspects that,
you know,
you just got to start over.
My FXR,
I just finished.
I am not good
at making anything
wise,
but I can kind of piece together
and exhaust.
Well,
I was piecing together
and exhaust.
And...
Sick.
Hell yeah.
She's out.
I'm bored, too, buddy.
She's out.
She's so asleep under there.
So I was bringing this,
the rear pipe over
to make that,
you know,
front pipe to come around
and it was that too much
of an angle.
And I kept seeing it
and I kept seeing it.
I was like,
you know,
I'm gonna keep going.
So I spent a whole
hour and it was almost
ready to go to the collector.
And I just,
same thing,
I slept on it.
But it's like in my head,
it's like,
if I get a sleep on it,
I already know it.
I'm looking...
Yeah.
Me sleeping on is
me hoping something
in life changes
that's completely mystical.
But it's like,
I already know
the fucking answer
to this whole thing.
So...
See, I sometimes
I'll spot something
and it depends
if I'm maybe like,
it was just a rough day
or things were like,
really fighting me.
I'll be annoyed.
So I know I'll have
I'm gonna remake you tomorrow
and then I'll walk out
the next day
and I'm like,
okay, I was just hitting it.
I had a weird shadow on it.
I'm cool.
Yeah.
Or it's the other way
and I walk out and I'm like,
nope, still fucked.
All right,
I'm cutting you in half right now
and just do it.
But I found
I'm much happier
if I just like,
not.
Cause like,
you're either gonna dwell on it
and it's gonna bug you
or you're not gonna be happy
with the bike.
I did that with the salmon bike.
I left some shit
just at a time
and I was like,
I fucking regretted it
so I was just learned like,
just cut it.
Cut your losses.
Who gives a shit?
Like it's only metal
and like
materials aren't that expensive
in general,
you know,
like most of the time
or raw materials.
Like,
you know,
it's a lot different when
it's unpainted.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Once it's painted,
that fucker stuff.
You're like,
well,
I'm gonna have to live with
this in some sort of way.
Yeah,
there's that aspect.
I'm kind of worried
that there might be some
things that I'm gonna have
just for time aspects.
We got literally like,
three weeks.
It's not that long.
Yeah,
they're for sure will be,
but that's also,
I mean,
I've had to do that.
We got three weeks
and you're further long
than I am.
No,
no, no.
And thankfully,
it was because
I am proactive
and I don't like
sitting on things.
Yeah.
When I'm committed to
something,
he knows not to give me
the idea.
Like,
whenever we're like
he knows,
hey,
it's an idea right now,
Brett,
we're gonna talk about the idea
because I'm a very
action-based person.
Yeah.
So once I'm committed
and locked in,
oh,
I had my sheet made.
I had the types
of parts I wanted.
I started looking
through books,
started getting a
better vibe.
And then all of a sudden
I'm like,
order this,
order this,
order this.
And so I had a stack
of parts.
So once we came home
from born free
and the lift was free,
it was game over.
Because I'd been
actively doing it.
Yeah.
But.
Yeah,
no one saw the
spare room full of parts.
Like,
I mean,
wheels,
tires mounted already,
like up against the wall.
On the bedspread,
it's just front end,
like everything laid out
nice and neat,
like,
I don't know,
like a Lego set.
Like it really was
just like,
all the
shit collected
and these parts
she wanted,
like,
and I was like,
get all the key things
you want,
and make the rest
or fill in the gaps,
like,
you know,
and kind of work around that.
And if something was
a really kooky idea,
I was like,
maybe hold off on that.
Yeah.
I was like,
you're going to change
your mind for sure.
And she's already encountered
it.
She'd look at it
and be like,
ah, fuck it, right?
We went through three
different fenders.
The first fender
that I picked,
I was like,
oh,
that is going to look so
cool.
I'm so happy
that I bought
the seat
and the fuzzies.
You're like,
yes,
the seat is the thing.
And then
you go to put on the fender
and then the fender you bought
just
gives too much flair,
too much
It was wild how
of something
and the wrong direction
that you just don't see.
You can't really describe it.
You're just like,
it's not going to work.
Yeah,
something's off.
And so we pulled it off.
We ordered two more
for throttle addiction,
two trailer styles.
And
we put one
and two on
and,
I mean,
once you put it on,
it was like Cinderella shoe.
You're like,
that's it.
That's it.
I'm done.
If it's perfect,
that's exactly what I wanted.
And then the second one,
we were going to shift it back,
but he was like,
I kind of like it.
Can I keep it first
project?
I think you're going to
make it out of a
I'm using for an oil tank.
It's like a ray radius
with rounded edges,
but it's like flat
and I'm like,
shit,
it'll be a good oil tank
at some point.
Are you scared
you're going to become
one of the things
I make for myself
or I do that?
Like I really enjoy
making them
because it's always
like,
I don't know.
I feel like there's
like a little bit of
like advancement in it
somehow.
I mean,
is it
would it be a bad thing
to be the old tank guy
or the handlebar guy
or the
no, because you
transmission guy
because I know
exactly the
shit I need for him.
Like
I can just
make these parts
like I've already made
like soft draws
for a chuck for
like,
do them really efficiently
and then I have a positioner.
So I just chuck it in
the positioner,
hit the pedal
and just down at the move
just well.
Yeah, you got that
that thing to just
and it just
all you got to do is dial
in the settings
and like,
dude,
shit comes out so nice.
Like just use your
strengths to your
advantage.
That's all I've been
doing with it.
But I like them
but it's the modern shit
like they have
and fittings
built in filter
like,
you know,
all that sort of stuff
even the way the lines
come out of the oil tank,
it's like,
it goes like supply,
vent,
feed
and the way
if you run the lines
right under your transmission
or wherever,
they feed into an oil pump
and they never have to
cross each other.
So they all run parallel
so it's like very nice
and clean
and I have a drain
on the
side under the filter
so when your bike's
leaned over you can just
pop the drain open
and like,
you know,
like it just kind of
it's thoughtful I guess
or at least like in my
head it's thoughtful
and I've ran that
two years now
and it hasn't even
ever come loose.
I see so many people
with aluminum and oil tanks
that fucking rattle loose
missing bolts,
bungsbrake
and it's like
shit doesn't have to be
made shitty like that.
Like I don't
I don't know.
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You know the exhaust
you made for your last bike
for Born Free
and then the one you just did
for the Raining Man.
That kind of reverse cone
looks so good on there
like the
Thunderheader style.
The JC Thunderheader.
My boot like Thunderheader.
Yeah.
You probably get it faster
and you get it from
Thunderheader.
It'll probably last longer.
That's one of the things
I'm banking on is that
my shit won't break.
It looks good though.
But also at the time
they weren't even
making a stainless one
and then
it was funny like right
as I like finished it
I remember put out a post
being like
stainless available now
and like.
Yeah.
But then I was like
nah I kind of like this
better.
But you heard it
it sounds fucking good.
Yeah it sounds good.
The reason I wanted to
hear it because I think
on my bike
I'm going to do
a similar muffler
to what I've been doing
on all my
all of my bikes
here.
I haven't really ever heard
a shovel head with a muffler
on it.
It's always straight pipes.
Oh yeah.
That is very true.
I love the way it sounds.
Yeah.
It's like it's
pretty like deep
and it's got like
some dirt to it.
But I think that
the little reverse
and like the tip
really changed it.
For real.
Yeah.
Like it
I don't know what it
I don't know why
but it did it
and those cones
I made those myself
like I found
like a cone pattern
and then
just been like
just like to
press them all in.
Yeah.
I need to get like a cone.
So
the cones I
I usually go to cone
engineering.
Yeah.
Like my pipes
and so the cone
that I've been running
on my
both FXR
is kind of a big
it's like a four inch
outlet
two inch inlet
and it's
like
it's a little
like one of the big
mouth ones.
So it has the real
short reverse cone
where it's like
it has no reverse
like it's just a cone
it's like over 20 inches
long.
Oh yeah.
So I want one that's
like three
or three and a half
and like
one
or like two inches as well
but it's like
like 16 inches
or like
something like that.
I might have one.
I have a couple in the
garage.
You do?
Before you leave.
Yeah.
I could donate to
the cause if you
want one of those
but
because I bought
because here's
here's the thing
Amazon has
I've looked in
scenes of shit.
I was like
I'm a muffler
because I
it was 50 bucks
and I was like
I'm kind of broke right now
if I put all this money in it.
I've since rebuilt it all
but this
so I had it
the busted one
I took off my old bike
I had and I set it up
next to my
new bike
I'm like
I might be onto something
here.
Yeah.
Little sweep up
got the
got the things
I bought another one
of the $50 ones
that I might have to
modify
and reweld the perfect
robotic well
on Amazon.
I remember
I was like
if that was a
dina if
no it wasn't a dina
the drag
there we go
the drag tube
didn't get here in time
we had an insurance one
from Amazon
it was over
drag got here
in time
Oh no
no luckily
Lee
I had a tube
but I didn't hear
from him that night
and he texted me
like later on
and I was like
you know what
I found the tube on Amazon
has okay ratings
I was like
$12
I was like
but it's overnight
like it's gonna be here
in the morning
I was all
I'm gonna do that
just in case
in case he's like
oh I'm sorry
I don't have one
but I remember
like being at a shop
and he had like
a ton of shit
probably pretty good
and then luckily
luckily had one
and I was like
fuck it
at least like
you know
it would have got us by
but we probably
would have to change it
at some point
That's what's hard about
like the whole Amazon
stuff is like
there's a big brand on there
that you can kind of like
attest to that
but it's like
the evil empire stuff
y'all seen all the
and fitting stuff
is that stuff any good
dude all the
and should I use all that
bike is off that
it's all from that
evil energy or whatever
like it was just
a cost effective thing
I tried to use
I was trying
I tried to use
a lot of shit from like
vibrant
or ace race parts
because like
ones I think ace
maybe Canadian
or maybe NorCal
something like that
but I just like
their stuff
but what I ran into
it's like they would have
a couple of these fittings
for this size
and then
not in this size
or not the style
or bend I needed
like for whatever reason
I don't know why
but evil energy
just had literally
every option of bend
it's like
if it took all the options
all the other companies had
and had it there
and then it was also
easily available
within like a couple days
yeah
so being on time crunch
and all that
I was like I mean
fuck it
yeah some of them
there's a couple of
fittings
that are like
the anodizing
but it's like
I don't know
I'm probably the only person
that notices it
I did a running a lot
of their brake line
their black
steel braided line
because the different stuff
that I usually use
has been out of stock
in America
oh shit
yeah I noticed that too
that's why I used their
I used the stainless braided
stuff
and just
AN3
like black AN3 fittings
but everything I used
for the oil lines
I used for the brake lines
because it's all the same shit
yeah
and just did that
and like
like it's
and it's it because you just
make it all the exact size
you want
and like
it wasn't black
I wish it was black
and I bought black line
but the black line
maybe just due to like
the cheaper nature of it
like the black line doesn't
work with the AN fittings
the AN3
the housing on
it's like too big
and doesn't fit
yeah it's like a 316
or something
it's something different
like it just
was what it was
but
yeah
I mean
yeah fuck it
like if I need like
weld bones for my oil
I can order those
like 12 packs of them
or something
and like
they're fucking
they're the exact same
like
well with Amazon
I follow this
very weird bumper sticker
I saw when I was really young
I know
I know this sounds really funny
this is really weird
but the bumper sticker said
don't buy a group on
for brain surgery
for tattoos
or for parachutes
and I use that rule
with safety items
tires
tubes
brakes
right
yeah
things that are going to be
how much is my life worth
my life is worth $450
right
you're like cool
yeah I can make that
I can make that expenditure
but I always
live by that rule
of the tattoo
brain surgery
parachute
don't buy a group on for it
like back in the day
when everybody
buy group ons
for massages
or facials
or whatever
but that's
that's kind of the rule
I stick by
when it comes to like
Amazon
or any other cheap purchases
I'm like
does it affect
and then
make a decision
we saw bumper stickers
that change our lives
in different ways
mine was if it has
sticks or tires
it'll cause you problems
that's fair enough
yeah
yeah that's a good one
that's a good bumper sticker
yeah it's just
it's kind of like
you know
one of my
good friends
it works in like the
the industry of like
you know
when they work
with a lot of suppliers
like China or whatever
yeah
I'm not going to say who
or whatever
like the middleman
or whatever
yeah like the companies here
but the products are made in China
which is a lot of stuff right
he was talking
telling me how the tariff thing
like how it
company
like certain companies
in our industry
have such a margin
over their product
that
the
the amount of money
that's being applied to like
say
say this product costs
500 bucks
yeah
well
like for $60 a piece
and
they're trying to sell you
and they got to raise the prices
10%
because
they're raising 10%
on the $500
right
not on the $60
that they're spending to get it in
which is only like
six bucks
on their end that they're paying
but they're making more
so it's like
a lot of that shit going on too
yes
I don't
I wouldn't say in the motorcycle
industry
I'm saying more over a
broadly like
in all of
consumable
products and stuff like that
that was like the shit
they even tried like
pricing shit
and they're like
it's harder to get prices went up
and then they just never
went down on certain parts
and you're like
why is that
you know
I wish things were more like
gas prices
how like sometimes it's like
fuck man
can't do this too much longer
then you get that 250
you're like
head around Labor Day
yeah
because they expect the road trips
to happen
you're like
we're going to give you
special pricing for Labor Day
or it's just like
driving from here to California
it's like
$2
$2.50
$2.50
$5
gass stop
you stop at the last gas stop
and there's in the first town
at the at the last town
yeah
so you stop at the beginning
of you but not the last one
or
you know
courts Smile
yeah
yeah like even like
on the me
you're like
I've kind of sworn off
of that I see like
they have some just
violent like
stuff went up and just
This is suspicious like that doesn't make sense. They're purely just banking on people's like ignorance and convenience
Yeah supply shit. There is a convenience factor to it. Yeah, but this is like really gougie. It's gross
So yeah, it's fine new places to go. That is true
I noticed it like because you know buying the stainless tubing and I would get my merge collectors from one company my
Tube from another company and then cones from one company. Yeah, because
First off some of them were so archaic in the way you got to order that you got to like call and have
Yeah, I call them just yep, just call I'm getting a rapport with the dudes on my AJ's here
I need another cone set up. He pulls me up. Yeah, has it
But I noticed it like the merge collectors that I would I started using were like 35 bucks
They're 90 something dollars now in the course of two years. Yeah. Yeah, so that was I was like that's a lot dude
Yeah, and but like yeah, and then of course, it's just pure supply and demand if you're the only person that's located in Texas
Doing this if you're the only person located in California doing that like I've understood the supply and demand
functionality around chroming in different states
Like we can't chrome any anything here without your first born child going to the Cromer
If you would like, you know your whole bike done or lots of parts on your bike done
Yeah, where California's like it would be cheaper for me to fly to California to get like my lowers done
If I wanted them get them chromed and fly back than it is for me to do it here locally
Well, or like there's a process. It's outlawed here. So you don't get better chroming in California
So that's why there's like a few places in America. They can do that the triple the big triple chrome
Yeah, the triple chrome stuff that looks like medical copper. Yeah, so there's a chemical that's banned here
They they're trying to ban it everywhere and a lot of California chrome nowadays is actually in water Tijuana Tijuana
Okay, yeah, even the shops that are in town. They'll just drive the tea
So they kind of have a fixer that'll go across but the problem is sometimes you never you're not guaranteed if it goes across
It comes back. Oh
There is Cromer's there though, but I mean there's Cromer's around town
I mean like I said, you gotta you gotta think there's some places that are grandfathered in
Yeah, but a lot of these places that do chrome they do production for like
The the faucets and the fucking, you know, those other things in the world that are really available not like
One set of lowers, right, right and I'm very new to this
So there's like a lot of stuff that like I'll take in through conversations or like over over here
And then I love having conversations like this where you're like, well, it's actually because of this you're like, oh
Yeah, I was like, okay, my mind's been changed
So if you're making like if you're a company like a wheel company
Then you send 10 sets of wheels to get chrome that way you're not paying $500 a wheel because you yeah
That's that's a big cost to pass on to the customer. Yeah, I mean
Because if let's just say we're buying wheels from Lindal and they're to grant a will and then if you want chrome
They what's an extra thousand dollars for chrome. That's yeah, that's not gonna be sold. You know, I mean
Yeah, yeah, it's always like higher quantity lower cost
Powder coating and I don't think it really works that way of paint because it's just more work. It's just more material
It's different. It's like it's not the setup. It's just like if you machine a part
Yeah, one parts three hundred dollars, but if you want 30 of those, they're $10, you know, I mean like it's okay
So they're like hardware the more hardware you buy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah unless it's ARP then it's expensive all the time
Going up. Yeah, that's how that's it's just I mean
I always feel like whatever Harley's putting out is what the opposite is in the aftermarket
So when Harley everything was coming chrome, we all went powder coat
Yeah, and now there are things kind of blacked out like everybody wants chrome and then the success is that eventually
there's way more powder coders out there than our chrome shops as we all know and
Because there's like I think most of us has had a bike done before in our heads
We kind of know a range in which we're gonna pay to get some wheels powder coated and then chrome wheels is like
I don't even fucking know if we're gonna be in the same tax bracket. No
Maybe it's five hundred dollars. Maybe it's five thousand dollars. I had no idea. There's no real gauge to go off of here, you know, yeah
Yeah, I
Don't know. I'm just not like a giant fan of chrome. I know you're not like stainless
I'd rather polish it and suffer
Well, see I feel like the polishing for especially like the chopper thing
It's like it'll kind of tarnish a little faster
It'll kind of patina a little faster and then it'll give you like a nice
Comfortable look and feel for me that like I don't I can't physically
Like I'm not into like making things look like fake. Yes, Tina. Yeah, but if it happens
But if it happens, you know, I'd rather leave it like that
Yeah, like if a if a nice stainless pipe like burns in all nice and gold and tapers out
You're like hell. Yeah. Yeah, I want to be that dude. Like I can't ride anymore. I gotta fix that
Yeah, yeah people that obsess about polishing their pipe. It's like it didn't look that good to be in with them
I can worry about it. Yeah, I I was very set on
My bike being a very rideable bike like I want to ride my bike and so for that
I also if it's too shiny if it's too nice sometimes I have a hard time taking it out of the plastic and
I know that about myself. So I'm like, okay
I need a little dirty a little off like there's something to it where I
Feel more comfortable going out for a ride like the sporty sometimes
I like a little little more dirty because I'm like, I'll just jump on the ride and go and then all of a sudden
He'll like wash it randomly one day and he's like, okay
Don't screw anything up and then like I get to the gas station and put a microfiber cloth
I on an exhaust. It had had a different exhaust on it for a little bit
Pogco sent like this like two into one like old like Dick Allen style one and it was sick and like sent one to try it out
And run it for a while. It was like it was awesome. Super grateful for that, but I
It always felt a little
It's like it sounded great and everything but like I made that other pipe so specific for it
So I always knew it go back on at some point
So when I was doing the I put new wheels on I like put those Lindahl rocker wheels on with new tires
kind of like sprucing it up to go to
party at the pen and
Then I was like, I'm gonna put that other pipe back on it, but I cleaned it up
I'd like you know took some like mothers polished to it and just got off like some oil stains
And you know a little bullshit like you would do had it all nice and not clean but like it was nice
It was nice put it back on she goes and rides it around stops to get gas the same with an hours of me finishing it and
Spaces out tries to like wipe gas off like the pipe or something
With a microfiber and just melted it to the front pipe and I was like I
Was like
Enraged because I had just spent all his time doing it and it was so nice and that bike in my head
I always tell her all it's yours right now, but it's still my baby like that bike will always come back home
Like it's still my favorite. It's why he's so for me to first bike. Yeah, I always give a shit
I'm like, yeah, I finish your bikes. I can have my sports. They're back
But even though it's just it's like the community bike leave a friend comes into town
That's all it'll be for something like that, you know, but it's old faithful
But just that was so funny and I was like, but it also like was like a lesson to not take anything like I
obsess about shit. I like
Take try to take care of things the best I can then be clean or you know until and even if like
It starts looking shitty. It doesn't have to it doesn't have to like look shitty or be shitty, you know
I just take care of things take care of things
But that was like it took me back down a peg. It was like, you know what you need to not take this
Well, I've noticed and I have a close friend. He's probably listening. I'm not gonna say his name, but like
Sometimes I feel like he's so anal about things that
He doesn't get a chance to enjoy it because he's so anal about the minute things that aren't really gonna affect
But it's gonna affect him in his head. So that's why I know that I know
That's why he's yeah gonna go and do it all right, but I don't know like to me
It's like there's got to be a level of like fuck it, you know it to ride bikes
Yeah, you're gonna build it to build it to show it to you know the art artistry in it
Then I get it but to me
There's a level between it being really badass and me being able to enjoy it. Yeah. Yeah, I've I've had to find
I feel like I've actively tried to find a balance and like it's gotten better
Like even like even the brand new bike it has a tiny oil leak. I've tried to fix it
I don't know where the fuck it's coming from like I know the area. It's coming from
Don't understand. Yeah. So, you know what it kind of just is what it is
Like it's I'm just not even I'm getting better about it
I was way more like anal that type of shit before where like one little thing was wrong
I know I have to fix this right now. Yeah, and I'm getting I'm getting a little better
I mean, I I'm not saying that like you should be like nonchalant like not care
Because then you'd be like every other chopper guy, right?
Yeah, but you know like some level of
Some level of like, you know what the point of the saying is to enjoy it and have experiences on it
And if that's not
You know if that's gonna blow this motor then yeah, I don't need to ride it
Yeah, but if it's just gonna leak a little oil or
Whatever fucking send it also if it is something like that like for me because it's that motor
And I had so many issues with it to begin with the fact I smoothed it all out
It's running like you saw it actually starts like
Then
I'll take it. I'll take that little oil leak because at least it's that
But I also didn't I didn't have it down to the cases and responsible for every aspect of it
So I have to realize I don't have all the control. I would have like if an oil tank
I made had a leak, you know, that'd be different then I would obsess about that like hard on myself, but
Yeah, that like yeah, whatever it's kind of I'll take it
If
Yeah, it's the first one that leaks out of like everything. So it's yeah, we'll be fine after the pain in the ass
It was like fine and like I
Am such a sucker. I I'm a terrible liar horrible liar
Like I I just don't I don't like it weighing anywhere on my consciousness
I like being able to be very genuine and transparent even if the conversation is hard because I knew it
He was like, don't you ever touch this to a hot surface as like cool
Shit and then I just texted him and I said just rip it off. You got to get it done now
Like she totally ratted herself out though
She didn't have to that day because she was still going riding after it
It was like right when she left the house like the gas station like five minutes down the road
And it would have burned off by the time it ever got back and I never I never even
I barely noticed when she got back
But it was just fine. She felt so bad and ratted on herself and like I did but it was yeah
But like I said, it actually was like alright. I need to not stress this shit so much
Or like not worry about it like kind of there is something in your place
He was mad I could tell because like as soon as I got the text back
He was like are you kidding me?
And then I got silent and I was like I knew that he was like restricting himself from being mad at me
And I was like it's okay. I was like shit happens. I make mistakes. That's how we learn and
I just went back on the road. I like didn't come home all sad or anything. No, I just took it out for a ride
I was like we're gonna ride this off and yeah, I was just grateful did my little baby loop just testing out the new wheels
Getting to feel for him because it's a little bit more. I would say like
Easier to maneuver like the tires a little bit different
Compared to the there was a nine spoke on it or nine
Well, it wasn't that the tire you just have like avons on it and like they're soft and kind of have their own little
They've tracked different bad like in a road. So all the events that you've done so far with him like which one
What's the event that you love the most so far?
Yeah, I'm trying I'm trying to take all the events into like it's hard to compare them all because y'all
different yes
But which one which one speaks to you though?
I
Know I know
Mama tried has probably got to be the favorite and the reason why the venue is great
They do a great job like
propping up a lot of the builders and things like this
It's still a lot of fun. It's loose. There's not this
Pressure this deadline that a lot of these builders have to get to it's usually all the builders bikes that are already put together
And it doesn't necessarily like you have to build the bike for competition
It's I made this bike because I wanted to I was screwing around in the garage. It took me four years to make, you know, I
Really enjoy that show for a lot of different reasons, but it just showcases
The variety of riders is the best way to explain that it does have the better variety
Yeah, all in one place because they pick only like a hundred bikes each year
I think or something like that because that's what they can fit and it is a very wide range like
It's just like a bike that gets
Year that we were in it. Yeah. Yeah, there was just yeah, there's crazy bikes sometimes like it's cool
I like that about it like they yeah, they do it right and also the fact
There's not the pressure of like you don't have to stick around there all day
Yeah, like they set it up like this cool little gallery to where people can just come in and walk around like you don't you're
Not pressured to like sit there and have to talk about what scares me about that event
Is it how busy it is now? It's like I worry that they're gonna like it's gonna get too packed for
Enjoyment because I'll be honest with you like I like getting there the day like setting up
It's seeing not everybody and seeing the bikes and seeing the vendors and it's kind of like when the show's on
I don't want to be there. It doesn't get busy. It does get really busy
We go up in the balcony and like it's sick to watch just like everyone move around and like what they look at and shit
But it's cool. I also I'm a big sucker for when events not just a variety of writers
There are a lot of people that drink and don't drink
Yeah, and mama tried did it really well where I had a full lanyard a drinks and I got liquid desk sponsored it
So it was like I could have eight liquid desks all weekend and I tried every single variety
So it was like still allowing me to like kind of be part of the action
No way, but not drink. It was just really great. They just do a good job. Even though like the flat-out Friday thing
It's like so sick like they you know like the whole little sweet
They set up for everyone like in the show and like the food and shit like you're just I think that's one thing that I
It's just cool me like I have some ideas for events
But being a part of like mama tried and then like even one weren't you were you a part of the thing in Galveston with
Yeah, yeah when when they put us up in the hotel
That like I've never felt like so like to me like those little small nuanced things is what like really makes you feel like
Appreciated. Yeah, you know, it's not so much that you have a grab bag full of like goodies
It's just like the dinner or
Access to this or whatever like those kind of things mean a lot in my yeah, and there's there's definitely
I mean, there's very few shows have been a part of that. I'm like I'm just kind of like
They're like, oh bring this bike and
That's it. Here's like a shirt cool
And like but like their whole thing is like charging ticket like heavy-priced or tickets and all this shit we're like
Like you're basing a whole show around bikes and shit people are bringing but like you do nothing for the people that build it
You know, it's kind of like just so I don't have anything to do with
Those type of shows anymore, but yeah, just I and it's not about like not about getting free shit. It's just like that's not
You're kind of focused on the wrong thing like you're just doing it till I make money
You're that or you're trying to prop up like your own shop that is responsible for putting it on. Yeah, yeah, and
It's a I mean, it's not a fucking secret. I tell anyone I'm just talking about hand-built show
Like I I do not like that show and I was a part of it one year and just not it's not great experience
It's just it's revival kind of like jerking themselves off about like a bike
They might do that somewhere BMW never be able to ride
Well, I feel like they can have someone paint it at the show and then all the rest of the bikes are just kind of like
So far away from hand-built then you're bringing in like Porsches and Ferraris that just rich dudes can fucking own and who gives a fuck
So the show's gone so far away from any sort of like respectable thing that it used to be like when I first got in
Sick, I want to have a bike and hand-built then it turned into like I
Never doing this again. Like they even just the simp the one simple thing that broke it for me was the year I did it I
Couldn't they wouldn't give me a ticket for her for whatever reason and she was about to buy a ticket and luckily someone at the ticket booth
Just like nice who she was and knew me and gave her one for free
But she was gonna have to buy a ticket. I was are you fucking shitting me like yeah
Like 20-something dollars to get in there, but just the fact of like you walk around my wife
Yeah, I take it and my bikes here for four days or however
I'm like the whole thing set around people walking around this and you charge it all this and then like I don't know
It just it's not about perks
But there is like a certain aspect of that and I was just like so it's gross
What's more of an experience to be a part of it when that's kind of like their whole world
And then like the way they're doing in LA and weird shit like that they're just kind of like
I don't know it's whatever, but like it just feels like they're kind of like praying on people that are
Dumb enough to bring their shit to it for free. I don't know. I think there's enough events right now, you know personally I think that
We don't need more. There's better examples for sure. Yeah, like I mean I've just been like
Mama tried venue alone fucking incredible, but then there's like little shows like burnouts. Yeah burnouts
It's so amazing. I love that show. Yeah, even Joey show at the Lonesome Rose. That shit's cool
That's like I like all this stuff like having you know, you're your little ones that are kind of like more regional based
But man like you can you can find yourself really easily
Seeing yourself as the only thing you do on motorcycles is trailer to this event to this event in this event in this event
You never ride anywhere. You never get to go. I mean
Not that that's a bad thing, but I get it like if you
You go to Idaho and you ride fucking Lolo and all that stuff. I get it like you're still doing it
I'm still you gotta say I'm still come to terms with throwing my bike in a trailer
Totally understandable. I I know that I'm not gonna hard tail across Texas to get me nine hours outside of El Paso
And be like cool. I got another like
You know tend to go to just reach Cali. I know that about myself
On the low rider. Yeah be a piece of cake. Would it be fun? I don't know because it rides like a Cadillac
So it's like it's a different. It's a different feeling. Yeah. Well, I feel like it's now
I'm gonna experience that so point of this bike right is yeah, I think it's I think that you just can't ride
The old bike like you would ride the low rider right and then you ride it at a pace
You just got to have more time
So instead of me being like, okay, I'm gonna be in LA to you know
I'm gonna leave now and then what is it to Monday?
So Wednesday morning. I'm eating breakfast in Venice Beach. That's not a thing on a chopper
Yeah, on my roguelite or a low rider steerer my FXR chopper. Yeah, I can just blast out there and be done with it
But so this one I have to go about it in a different way and to me. That's that's the challenge in it
Imagine of like finding a way to do something hard
But still do what I love the most about motorcycling is which is traveling on it
And if I I got two trips planned one
The big one doesn't work then the local one's gonna happen and either one will be pretty cool
But it was cool because also like it might make you slow down and like enjoy it. That's the point
That's what I want like maybe instead of going from here to fucking Tucson or something in a day
You're like stopping in smaller cooler little spots. They're like, oh, yeah, like shit
You just normally like blast pass. I want to do a Northeast trip really bad around fall. That's like my
That's mine nor star, right? Like you're like, I want to get to a point where I
Take my chopper I get up there and I hit like there's three particular
I would say stops. Yeah, there's sleepy Hollow, New York. That does a big haunted hay ride
Yeah, Salem Massachusetts 30 minutes outside of Boston. Yes. Yeah, love it. I've been there so many times
I flew I flew in and then there's
Then there's the city's up for these flowers that these go up. Yeah. Oh, no
This was the weekend we got back from party party the pen
I was like cool things are coming out, but the third stop Laconia, New Hampshire. They have the biggest jack-o'-lantern carving contest
But there's these beautiful
That you should take yeah, but those worlds you're gonna have to take guess what you're gonna have to take them on the
Weekday so like I want to take like a two week off
Where you would do those on the weekdays. Yeah, and so you don't run into the tourist
Transactions and things because I've done the touristy Salem on Halloween. We went one year. Oh, yeah, I've missed it
It's like Marty girl is 2 a.m
Sixth Street at 2 p.m. In the afternoon on Halloween. I'm everybody's dressed up. I mean, it's a it's a blast
Don't get me wrong. It's just something that's just like you experience it one. You're like, that's enough
Yeah, what uh, I have a photographer buddy that goes up there and like
Basically, September because right now all colors are starting to kick off
They're starting and in like Vermont and you know Maine and all that and then he'll he'll follow it down
Back to Texas and he you know cuz he photographs like what a dream everything
And I've always thought that'd be so sick to be able to do a ride like that
Because they have a fort they have like a apps or you can look on the website
It'll show you where peak is at what time like the trees like yeah, you can track
They were farmers all my even well even in Tennessee like we hit some spots that like they get a little more up in the hills
Yeah, and like a little bit more color like yeah
Just going down a road like leaves or like somewhere starting to fall other leaves are changing
You're like, but then you get down back in the valley and like it's back to green
You know what sucks is like when I see those fall colors and you see like that one tree
That's just a bright yellowish orange. You're like fuck man. It's sick. I'm like, I should wait
I can't paint a bike fucking orange yellow
It's like it's just with this one color that like as I get older. I'm drawn to like I'll show it
Just did the yellow bike and you send me a picture of it and it's awesome because his daughter did the painting on it
I don't know if you know that buzzer so sick
It's in a skull or stone or something like that. I'm like, dude that yellow is like fucking fire, dude
I would how what is the difference between that yellow and gold?
I mean we get to that point. It's like you start to turn it a little bit more and more like the yellow that I love
I have it saved off an old car. Okay. It's a 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner
Oh, it's called Bahama yellow and it's just the right amount of mustard
But not too much like it's just oh, it's so hard to not banana yellow, but it's like so if you there's there's
I might be just talking to you know
You already know this
You have two directions. You have green and you have orange like a red and green. Yeah, so red is like the chrome yellow
That's gonna be more of your
Like almost like going towards the orange spectrum and then green obviously is gonna be your lime
So you're gonna be more bright sun sun
Okay, like a like a banana. Yeah is more green like lime yellow and then orange is more that direction
That's where I like merry-golds on the orange side. Oh, yes
Yeah
I'm a big sucker for warmer colors. Yeah, so like burnt. Yeah, like your burnt oranges
You're but of course born in October. I like warmer colors. My favorite season's fall
Like I'm just naturally drawn towards these like warmer
Color assets. Yeah, the orange orange everywhere. There's orange everywhere
She wonder what do you what do you think people experience more? I think we gotta wrap it up after this one
Yeah, what do you think people experience like are they if you're live here? We've had these we have these not all these summers
Are you more stoked for fall or spring?
spring
Fall and spring
You'd be more for fall
You know what you're gonna say that like like say I like to follow it and cools off like when it starts to cool
I'm like fuck finally
But there's also that transition like I don't mind it
But I hate it that those days where you can't you have to have a jacket
Yeah, and
You can't wear it all day, but you need it with it. It's a look cute
I have to wear a jacket sort of problem. We're just like well
I have to bundle up because it's gonna be freezing, but by the afternoon. It's like 85 and you're just like I'm sweating
Yeah, it's I like wearing long sleeves
Yeah, it's my favorite time of year. I I think I love fall like when summer hits around here
There's something in my body that just becomes seasonally depressed where it's so incredibly hot you're like if I want to go ride
It's just okay. I have to do it really early in the morning or very late at night. Yeah
We got lucky this year with the yeah, we got mild this year. Yeah, it wasn't too bad. So
All right, so how could you like as far as the people's champ?
They don't vote till when February February so just basically gotta follow you that way they can see what's up
And then they vote through the the people's champ website or website website website website
They follow along through the through Instagram
That's like we're all like everything all the postings and shit's gonna be but then yeah
They'll post on their website. Okay, and then follow at the beacon. Yep. Yeah, yep. Yep at the beacon
Looks like bacon, but just take out the yay
That is funny. I never thought of that
I always thought it was a bacon to be honest with you because I'm dyslexic. I just put it in there
It's not there. I just put it. Yeah, it's good bacon. Yeah, do that. It'll be calling. Yeah, it'll be cool to
To watch yeah, and fun. I'm trying to record as much as I can I literally just put the camera up
I put it on a time-lapse
And just try to take pictures. I'm trying to find this new
Obviously, this is all new where I'm so excited to get started on the bike
But then I'm like fuck I gotta record myself and yeah, the balance of the balance of it
I haven't worked it out just yet, but like yesterday
I just put it on their time-lapse and I just let it go and we had a blast for like an hour
But at least it's something because I feel like it's also the proof to fight that like
That I'm not helping build her bike too. It's like even a fucking time-lapse that doesn't show any detail
But it shows that like she's doing almost all of it
Like I poke in just to make sure she's not losing the digit and I'm like yo
What is it nine and a half fingers? Yeah, nine and a half fingers in a bike that runs
Don't have to be all ten just nine and a half. I'm good. You'll give you some character if you lose half a finger. It's fine
Yeah, so just follow us at the at the the beacon and then vote
February 9th our
Submissions like our updates our big updates are due like what does the bike look like as a whole right now?
Yeah, and then February 13th through the 16th voting
I'd also say just follow them in general and like see if it's something
You think you ever want to be a part of like
Enter any time submissions are open like if you think you got it enter you never know like they might just like your idea
Or they might like you or what you might bring to it
And like it's not always about being like the craziest builder or like just be honest talent sometimes just yeah
It's like the passion for it even like it's kind of nicely. Yeah, see where it leads you
Yeah, I'm like, oh no, it's a good. I think it's a good stepping stone or something to try out
I'm excited for when I saw you entered I was like hell, yeah
I knew you've been working and learning the craft and things like that had to check with a godfather first
But I typed up the submission. I was ready to hit submit and I go let me check and I walked outside
I like shown my submission and I was like look I'm not asking for permission. I'm just I need I would love to have
Support if you're in and he was like fuck. Yes. He was like, I'm so in I was like, but if you do it like you better
I hold it in too high of a guard to like let you fuck around with it
So you have to understand like what you're getting into
From what it personally means to me and that like you're doing this if you're doing it. So
I'm excited. Yeah. Well, thanks guys. I had a good time
Thank you. Thanks for coming in. We need to need to do it more, but you know, yeah
I'm also coming. We'll see you at born free with your life born. Yeah, maybe
You'll be done ready might not but you'll be done
Thanks
Want to thank Jacob and Brittany for hanging out with me during the day
I really had a great time kicking it with them having this podcast and
Lunch and all the good stuff. Thank you guys. Also, hopefully you enjoyed that and
Just to give you guys a little heads up of what's been going on
I've been sick. Yeah, that's it's been kind of tough
Doing podcast and getting all this stuff out to you guys in an orderly manner
Yeah, the weather's changing here and there we got this build for born free that has been absolutely
Just taking everything out of me to be honest with you in a good way not bad way good way, but
That's what's been going on
More details on that probably in a podcast coming up soon
Don't forget born free is happening
I think we're about just under three weeks away the pre-party for born free is going down in
Dallas, Texas at
Legendary Stokers Dallas. We are hosting it. We have hosted it since day one and
It's gonna be a good time
Wednesday the 15th of October come out. We got giveaways from thrashing built well lindall
Kabuto helmets a lot of other cool stuff LFG Dustin's gonna be in the house emcee in the vent
We're gonna have a little mini riding bike show a couple trophies and awards for that
It's gonna be a great time. So
We'll see you there and we'll see you on the next episode. Peace
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About this episode
Building choppers takes on a personal touch as Jacob and Brittany Canard share their journey into motorcycle customization. Brittany discusses her entry into the Built Well People's Champ for Born Free, revealing the creative process behind her bike build and the challenges of learning fabrication. The couple reflects on their relationship, the importance of shared hobbies, and the experiences gained from various motorcycle events. With a mix of humor and insight, they emphasize the joy of creating and riding, while navigating the complexities of building a bike together.
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Jacob and Brittany Conard. Brittany is building her first chopper and competing in the Biltwell People's Champ for Born Free 16 next year. We also got to catch up with Jacob, fresh off his Born Free 15 build, who is now working full-time in the garage building frame bikes, parts, you name it!
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