A five-speed transmission means the bike has five gears. More gears can help the engine run in a better “sweet spot” depending on how fast you’re going.
“Sport touring” means a motorcycle built for both fun riding and longer trips. It’s usually more comfortable and practical for covering distance.
Car
Honda VFR 750
The Honda VFR 750 is a motorcycle made for both riding around and longer trips. People often modify it with extra storage so it’s more comfortable on the road.
Cams are parts inside the engine that control when the valves open and close. Changing cams can make the engine feel different—often more powerful, but sometimes less smooth at low speeds.
Polishing the cylinder head is about smoothing the inside passages where air and fuel flow. The goal is to help the engine breathe better so it can make more power.
At “40 miles an hour,” a crash has a lot of force behind it. On a motorcycle, the rider is more exposed than in a car, so injuries can be much worse.
Term
gliss plumbing truck
This refers to a specific truck involved in the crash, described by the speaker as a “gliss plumbing truck.” It’s relevant because the rider’s injuries and the bike being pinned are tied directly to that vehicle’s impact and movement.
The Toyota Supra is a sports car made for fast driving. People talk about it a lot because it’s powerful and there are many parts and upgrades available. It may come up in stories when someone is describing how the car performs or how it feels to drive.
“Spinal fragments” means pieces of broken bone from the spine. That can be very serious because it can damage nerves or the spinal cord.
Term
base fracture
A “base fracture” means a break near the base of a bone. If it “exploded,” it suggests a severe impact that can cause more than one piece of bone to break off.
Lane filtering is when a bike slowly moves between lanes to get to the front at a stoplight. People do it so other drivers can see them better and so the rider has more space around them.
Lane splitting is when a motorcycle goes between lanes when cars are moving slowly or stopped. It’s a common debate topic because it can help visibility, but it also needs careful spacing.
A “safety cushion” is extra space around you used to reduce the risk of a crash—especially when traffic is stopped or distracted. In the context of lane filtering/splitting, getting to the front can create more room behind the rider and reduce the likelihood of being hit from the rear.
Term
6061 all structural aluminum
They’re saying the frame is made entirely from aluminum that’s meant to carry the bike’s loads. Aluminum is often used in racing because it can be lighter than steel if engineered correctly.
Heat treating is how you “tune” metal after it’s been worked. By heating and cooling it the right way, you can make it stronger and more reliable for a racing frame.
Tensile strength is basically how much pulling force a material can take before it breaks. Frame builders test this to make sure the bike can survive hard riding and racing forces.
Term
61 cubic inch 45 flathead
They’re talking about an engine they built. A “flathead” is an older-style design where the valves sit in the engine block, and “cubic inch” tells you how big the engine is.
Term
one inch Harley front end
The “one inch” part is about the size standard for the bike’s front-end components. It’s basically what determines which forks/front parts will fit.
This is a motorcycle frame made entirely out of aluminum. Aluminum can make the bike lighter and can also change how stiff it feels when you ride and corner.
A racing cam is a performance part inside the engine that helps the valves open and close in a way that can make more power. It’s tuned for certain engine speeds, not just everyday driving.
This is a throwback style of motorcycle racing that tries to recreate the early days of the sport. The idea is to race in a more old-school, rough-and-ready way—almost like the original era.
They race bikes that don’t have brakes. The reason is safety: if one rider brakes suddenly while you’re right next to them, the other rider might not be able to stop in time, so the rules push everyone to keep a steady approach.
A “single cylinder” engine means the motorcycle’s powerplant has one combustion chamber. The host mentions “J models, JD’s 45s single cylinders” to highlight period-correct engine architecture—these engines typically have a distinct feel and sound compared with multi-cylinder bikes.
Concept
motor drone
The speaker says “motor drone” was what this kind of racing was called back then. The point is that motorcycle racing was a big deal and people traveled specifically to watch.
A banked track is a corner where the road is tilted. That tilt helps bikes stay on the line while they’re turning, especially at higher speeds.
Concept
murder drone
“Murder drone” is just a scary nickname for something that was known to be dangerously out of control. In the story, it’s because riders were going extremely fast and things were failing.
Low compression means the engine doesn’t squeeze the fuel-air mix as tightly before it lights. That can make the engine safer and easier to run on older fuels, even if it’s not as strong as a high-compression setup.
Cubic inches is a way to measure engine size—how much space the pistons move through. Bigger displacement can help an engine make more grunt, but it’s not the only factor.
Compression ratio is how much the engine squeezes the air-fuel mixture before it ignites. Squeezing it more can help the engine make more power, but it has to be done carefully so it doesn’t “knock.”
Term
Ricardo cylinder
A “Ricardo cylinder” here means a custom cylinder design used to help the engine make more power. The key idea is that it was part of increasing compression for racing.
Cam grinds are custom shapes on the camshaft that control when the engine’s valves open and how far they open. That tuning can make the engine pull harder in the RPM range you want for racing.
A board track race is an old-school race run on a track made of wooden planks. Because the track was built differently than today’s asphalt, the turns and speed feel totally different. The host is talking about how steep and fast those old ovals could be.
A banked track is a turn where the road is tilted. That tilt helps the car stay on the track when it’s going fast, because the shape of the turn helps push the car into the turn. So even if you’re sliding a bit, the banking can make it feel more manageable than you’d expect.
When you go around a turn fast, you feel like you’re being pushed outward. That’s what people mean by “centrifugal force.” In racing, it’s basically a way to talk about how hard the car is being pulled sideways in a corner.
“The pits” are where the race team works during the event. A pit crew is the group that helps with quick service so the car/rider can get back out fast. The host is basically talking about how you’d learn the process by being around the team.
The Geo Prism is a small, budget-friendly car meant for everyday driving. People may bring it up when talking about parts because it’s the kind of car that can be used for practical projects. In your quote, it sounds like it’s part of a list of vehicles or platforms they can sell items for.
It’s basically a joking way to say “you’ll end up living in a van because you didn’t follow the usual path.” These days, some people actually choose that lifestyle and build out their vans for it.
A magneto is the part that makes the spark for the engine. It’s a classic ignition system that can work well even without a modern battery-style setup.
Port and polish is when a shop smooths and reshapes the engine’s air passages. That helps air move more easily, which can make the engine feel stronger.
Big valves are larger openings for air and exhaust gases. They can help the engine breathe better, which can improve power if the rest of the engine is built to match.
A backfire is when the engine makes a sudden loud pop instead of running normally. It can be caused by ignition or fuel/air timing being off, especially during starting.
A fender is the body panel over the wheel that helps deflect road spray and debris. In a trailer tire failure, fenders can get bent or torn from the wheel’s movement.
This is an old Chevrolet truck from 1937. People like these as projects because they’re mechanically simpler than modern trucks, so you can often get them running with basic tools and patience.
That phrase describes the truck’s engine: it has six cylinders lined up in a row. The “216” is the engine’s size, and these older six-cylinder engines are often easier to work on than many modern ones.
That’s a manual way to start the engine by turning it by hand. It’s something you might do on an old truck if the battery or starter isn’t working yet, just to see if the engine will run.
Concept
road trip flip / buy-and-drive challenge
It sounds like a game where you buy a car or truck for not much money and then drive it a long way to see if it works. The fun (and risk) is that you might find something great—or something that breaks.
Term
bat phone
A “bat phone” in car culture is a flashy, often decorative accessory mounted inside or on the vehicle—commonly a phone-like device used as a showpiece rather than for real communication. It’s typically part of a custom interior/exterior theme.
Diamond plate is that metal with the raised diamond pattern. On cars it’s often used as trim or protection because it looks tough and can hide scratches.
The Ford Mustang is a sports car from Ford. A “fox body” Mustang is an older version that car fans often look for. In your quote, it sounds like the speaker wasn’t planning to buy that specific type at the time, but it came up in the discussion.
This is a 1991 Chevrolet Camaro, an older Camaro generation that a lot of people work on themselves. In the episode, it’s the car the host bought for his son to learn on and help fix up.
“Stick shift” means the car has a manual transmission. You have to use a clutch pedal and shift gears yourself instead of letting the car do it automatically.
Term
box body
“Box body” is a slang term for a squared-off, older truck or car body style, often used by enthusiasts to describe certain late-20th-century platforms. In this context it’s paired with “stick shift,” implying a classic, simple mechanical setup.
The host describes a car that’s been sitting in a yard for 10+ years and needs to be “gone through,” meaning inspected and serviced before it’s safe to drive. Long storage often leads to issues like stale fluids, seized components, and corrosion that aren’t obvious at first glance.
Term
managerial accidents
This appears to be the host’s way of asking whether the car has been in “major” accidents—i.e., whether it has significant collision damage. For a project car, accident history matters because it can affect structural integrity, alignment, and hidden repairs.
Floor pans are the metal panels that make up the floor inside the car. If they’re bad, it usually means rust or damage, and the car needs real body repair before it’s solid again.
The fuel line is the hose/pipe that sends gas from the tank to the engine. If it’s leaking or damaged, it can be dangerous and can also prevent the car from running right.
In an older car project, “wiring” usually means repairing or replacing parts of the electrical system—like broken circuits, corroded connectors, or missing/incorrect wires. Fixing wiring is often required to get lights, gauges, and the engine management system working correctly.
Term
350
“350” is a common way people refer to a specific V8 engine size from Chevrolet. The host is saying the project cars can use different engines, and one of them is the 350 V8.
Term
305
“305” is another V8 engine size people commonly talk about for older Chevys. The host is saying there are multiple engine choices for the project cars, including the 305.
“Cougar” in your quote sounds like a nickname or description, not a clearly identified Ford car model. Without more context, it’s hard to say which exact vehicle they mean. It may be referring to the vibe or branding of something rather than a specific car.
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And we're live what's up guys welcome to the last Wednesday night live on Thursday
next week we will be back to our normal Wednesday schedule and joining me as always the founder
of the wild style in the motorcycle build Derek Long let's welcome everybody join us tonight on
our regular Wednesday live this happens to be on Thursday I hope that we're we're making a good
headway on our swinging on through to why the next process that we have going on is that how
we're going there yeah yeah something like that good good I hope you really lowered your swing
cow and you are really getting ready for spring league or whatever yeah I'd already started
suck okay also joining us tonight as usual Franklin Franklin Grimes season four builder Frank how
you doing hey Frank good good good got it gonna need you to speak up a little bit buddy what Frank
and also joining us
season three winner and motorcycle wizard Javer what's good bud everything everything's good
everything's good now I do have to start this whole segment by saying Jay you were driving force
behind us doing this live with the idea of I'm gonna get you on here so you can talk because I
don't know if you know this but your writing is a little to be there's some things that I'm not
good off there's some tradeoffs you know I'm good at building bikes you want me to write a story
of not your man yep but I know from our you know meetings and being around each other you can talk
so like I was like you know what we need to start really breaking apart these stories everybody you
know doing that and I think if I got Jay on there and it was one of my thing or like just boring
example Jay bird I bet you I can get him on you can talk for three hours but if I ask him for
something right and I'm gonna get three sentences and it's that good what Frank oh okay
Frank's you must be doing Frank's like that yeah encounters oh well Jay bird let's uh so what the
audience know kind of who you are let's say your name age location ASL yes oh see the kids don't
know shit about that well I'm Jay Jay bird I'm from originally Arizona my shop is in Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania oh my god figure out how to do this on the fly I got it yeah what oh
hold on Frank oh man what a dick yeah no hold on Frank don't go it's I got it I
got it I got it man we are five minutes into this and it's already a cluster fuck and all because
of Frank yeah all because of Frank hey there she is hold on I thought you had important
boom there I do I still got to go for a test slap it started out of the change in the intermediate
jet and it turned into a whole a whole thing because then I found some broken stuff and then
that was more broken stuff I find that and then I screwed my paint up and you don't mind broken
stuff I didn't look for it it was like right there like I wondered why I'm like my one pipe my one
pipe is touching my other pipe that shouldn't be like that yeah we like it when your pipes touched
sometimes different different there's sometimes off camera usually though right no I don't know we
know I mean we have had no hits on it I mean actually like it's like a campaign to not have
that happen but you know yeah yeah yeah like the idea was like we're just gonna start randomly
sell you know sending you things over and again and then you'll have to pay us to
stop like it's an automatic included free thing but you have to pay us to stop
oh well Franklin Jay was just kind of telling us about himself introducing himself to the
audience and then you're coming Frank I figured you guys usually start late I was gonna at least
jump on say hi for a minute yeah well I mean now we gotta put Frank back after Frank
yeah well I don't know that that one
mm-hmm yep gotta love him I will say where this was kind of impressive I've never
you never yeah yeah yeah all right well yeah so
I live in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania motorcycle wizard by day mechanical mayhem by night I own
Lost Souls customs I raised sons of speed motorcycle builder for most of my life I don't really know
build off of that go to that next question how are you 35 so how did you go about getting
motorcycles when I was a young kid my stepdad bought me a mini bike and we'd already been
restoring classic cars and doing things about nature so you got this mini bike in a yard sale
little like 10 horsepower single cylinder solid frame mini bike that probably everybody had in
the 80s and you know I love that thing so I work with him every day after school he owned his own
business doing Omri model I saved up my money to buy parts and upgrades and get this mini bike
to go faster or at least keep it going so yeah my my origin when motorcycles all started with
that particular mini bike you know and that's what spawned everything you know growing up I was
like the bastard child everyone I knew was really a cars I was in the motorcycles was the only one
in Arizona that was really into that kind of thing and I just couldn't get enough still can't get
grandmother and after she passed away I had tracked down my long lost sister I think I was
like 17 18 at the time and I had bought a 1981 or 82 Yamaha SR 250 and I hit the road I took
that thing from Busby Arizona all the way up to San Francisco that motorcycle went all of 75 miles an
hour downhill and yeah that that's what got that started but by the time I think I was 18 or 19
I had moved up in bikes and I hit the road I was tattooing at the time so I spent the next
almost 10 years traveling the country tattooing and building bikes on the side
so you went across country on a 250 yes yeah so I rode that bike only for a couple years I outgrew
it pretty fast but the thing was so light you could literally pick it up to your chest
you know so like I packed everything that I could it had this king and queen seat on it
I packed everything that I could fit on that king and queen seat so I could lean back and kind of
chill and five speed transmission like I said 75 downhill if you were lucky and mostly on that
bike I stayed pretty local like to Arizona California San Francisco Utah New Mexico but
when I moved back from San Diego back to Phoenix I had got a Honda VFR 750 which was like a
sport touring model yeah and I put I built a contraption of wood and milk crates
to fill a tower of stuff and I put a pillow up on the gas tank and I've read that thing laying
face down for 10 12 hours at a time I rode that all the way to Pennsylvania
and sold it while I was here but then I flew back all the way to San Diego got my first Harley
Davidson and really started that loop around but first Harley was a 2003
883 I built that motor up to about 80 something horsepower and the person I bought it off of
in their garage I was like pouring polishing heads putting cams in it and really getting that
thing moving like with next to nothing but I wrote that until I moved permanently into Pittsburgh
hardtail sportster I was by the time it got here and I wrote that till I got hit by a truck
hit by a truck now there's a whole another story
hit by a truck of 40 miles an hour in Pittsburgh right on the 376 there's a bridge from the west
in it's called it gets on the highway it was February so I was riding during winter
snow on the ground and I traffic stopped I stopped guy behind me in the gliss plumbing truck
did not stop hit me 40 miles an hour on his phone the if this was me the plumbing truck
ramped up onto my back tire and
and pinned me against the seat which had folded the seat at a 90 degree angle that I was sitting on
but pinned me against the gas tank my shoulders bent the bars down and then um
um yeah somehow or another I had flipped around because it knocked me out for a few seconds there
and then I was pinned against his tire with my arm and against the bike with the other arm
and then I woke up to him trying to reverse off of me and holy so I had to shimmy out from under
the the bike and the truck before the dude ran me over with the truck and uh you know arriving in
pain after that subsided like people were running out don't move don't move but I was like if I could
move I'm I know I'm okay so if I get up I'm I'm fine you know so I got up adrenaline is a heck of
a thing and I'm like I saw the dude still on his phone and I'm like I'm gonna kill you
you know and I think he got the divide you know because I
he just like went and sat in his truck and then Lee's got there and you know they were like you
should go to the hospital and like I've got my firearm you know and some other things that I
probably shouldn't add on me at the time so I'm like yeah let's let's go let's go to the hospital
oh yeah before that uh I had dragged my bike off of the side of the road and then started directing
traffic because I didn't want an audience for my accident um but yeah ended up having a third
erratic vertebrae in my upper spine the base fracture exploded so I had like spinal fragments
sitting around and I broke uh a piece of my neck not too bad but I didn't even know it
when I went to the hospital they gave like the biggest burliest manliest nurse that I've ever
seen in my life to rip my pants off and uh I was like please get someone else
it's it's it's weird that I'm turned on right now but you know uh yeah ended up having
my spine and my neck broken at the same time I I thank God from that every single day because
I shouldn't have walked away from that accident but I was up moving and I didn't really feel
like a lot of pain from that until years later you know now like I have a bit of a slouch
and I mean we're always looking down at our phones and yeah that doesn't help me so I feel
that now but then nothing yeah that's crazy
yeah and I still jump on bikes and do crazy stuff so yeah gotta get back on the horse right
yeah but I mean there there's always this moment though that I don't think this will
ever go away I look in my rear view mirror as someone is barreling towards me and my butthole
Tucker's just a little bit okay so how do you feel about uh lane filtering then because I mean
that's like the perfect case for why ain't splitting not splitting filtering moving up moving up to the
front at a stoplight or between the car drain the lights the loud pipe save lives if you let the
the people around you know that you're there they're going to be more aware of your presence
like visually making eye contact with someone or just being loud enough so that audibly people
are going to say what the heck you know is that so yeah I 100% agree bikes should always be up to
the front so let everybody know right around your area for a safety cushion that you can
be safe you know you you've got a family you've got friends you've got people that care about you
you know and most people like we just said are right on their phones or right on some screen or
whatever not paying attention so make them pay attention yeah like what happened to you is
literally literally my biggest argument for making filtering legal I think I think it's
legal in California I know splitting is legal in California but I'm not sure if there's anywhere
else we're filtering you know when you're there to stoplight you know being able to squeeze up to
the front so that way you've got you know a little bit of cushion behind you I totally think that
should be legal I know Arizona you can no one's ever said anything in Pennsylvania to me about it
but I don't actually know the law and if it was illegal I still think I'm going to do it regardless
of what some American bureaucrat feels about it you know and they very very rode a motorcycle you
know so right well they rode one but it was on their family's property and it was a 10 horse
little thing so like hand in hand they know what you're talking about we're the people yeah people yeah
but so uh Jaybird uh I with people that are turning in stuff like that right now or I haven't
known before Jaybird won the wild stallions motorcycle build last year uh coming back again
this year um so you've already put together a bike this year and an all aluminum frame for
sons of speed is that gonna be the bike that you are going to all the way bring here you were
talking about making a whole another one so I'll just tell the whole story of that of that like
just to paint a bigger picture uh in 2025 I raced for competition distributing
in the sons of speed circuit down in Daytona Florida absolutely fell in love with it fell
in love with the people and it they really made me feel like family so from that race I had learned
so much about that particular circuit about that race and about that track so
when I got home I mean obviously I finished my wild stallions build and went home took the trophy
from uh Michigan which I'm trying to gonna try and keep it this year to the best of my ability
but um I wanted to build something that was like dead set on racing in that circuit I wanted it
to be the lightest possible thing with the most power within reason so I kind of set up on this
mission to design my own frame I used uh 6061 all structural aluminum to build this frame and uh
I went through like a lot of geometry processes a lot of different heat tree processes and a
couple different prototypes in testing you know in terms of like tensile strength and
heat treat and a bunch of different things before I even started this stuff uh but
one day I kind of was like all right I gotta start moving I've been working on this 61 cubic inch
45 flathead for some time which uh I'm side note probably the first person to ever complete that
engine build start to finish and have it run at set a from what I know of I set a record
for that engine at 71.6 horsepower and um which by the way they make 22 from factory but uh
where was I yeah so I drew on the ground in my shop in chalk and I started setting up like
some of the geometry that I know triangles being some of the the strongest geometry there is I
wanted this frame to look and have the feel of a 45 frame so it's single down tube you know
but I adapted the the steering neck to work with like one inch Harley bearing so I could put any
single any one inch Harley front end available but uh you know then I designed my own uh
trans plate for it moved the motor mounts and lowered the entire frame to get a lower center
of gravity knowing that a regular 45 frame has a higher center of gravity so that I could get
around corners a little bit better design the seat setup so like literally my seat is probably one
inch at its smallest point and maybe three inches at its widest point to hold literally one cheek
you know it I mean that bike's all balls snow breaks literally but um yeah the frame worked out
excellent I raced it uh February 28th I think it was this year and I ended up placing third
the experience took over is what got in front of me from other riders but uh I mean not to mention
I was on a prototype that kind of kind of was a little scary to ride but um yeah as far as I know
that is the the world's first all aluminum Harley Davidson frame I know there's a
one company that have made aluminum composites and apparently there's some other garage builders
that have done something similar with composites like part steel part aluminum and things in their
garages but I'm the only person that's ever gone 100 public with it for production which I'm still
perfecting that frame for production but I'll know probably by the end of the year on what I
need to change and how I'm going to go about doing it but yeah that that's this year's entry into
the wild stallions build um I worked with Andrew's cams to design and create and test like the the
very first uh racing cam 445 and uh this year that was the first time that that cam's ever been
ridden I'm the only bike in existence that has that cam in it so it's got a pretty unique uh
output of power now with that some speed that's something that's a whole another beast in itself
that's not like traditional racing that's like no all uh on there most of those bikes no brakes if
I'm correct and uh then you go and you're riding something that's 100 and something years old going
90 almost and they're trying to hold on to it so vintage outlaw racing especially sun's
of speed is like compiled up of like 20s 30s and 40s motorcycles uh one of the rules is
to have no brakes um and that's a safety thing you wouldn't think so but like when you're neck
and neck with somebody like that and if they stop and tap the brakes you can't stop fast enough to
avoid a collision so if nobody can stop it kind of keeps things copacetic so you've got to roll
through um which by the way uh reaching for a brake that's not there very unnerving um
but that's one of those things like building the bike that I did I wanted it to feel more comfortable
doing that so uh yeah people are racing uh j j models jd's 45s single cylinders of the 20s 30s
and 40s and it is in my opinion probably one of the most incredible races like
out there for people to do um especially to be a part of it like it it is amazing uh the people
the bikes the stories everything that comes together to to make that happen and to be able
to experience it it's words can't even describe it perfectly but I do have a youtube video in
which you can watch on my channel just Lost Souls Customs that kind of goes through a little bit of the build process and what it's like to ride that thing
shameful plug I love it but uh the uh
Sun's the speed series I mean it seems very interesting I mean I know why Detroit Randy gets into that so I see a lot of him posting on stuff like that and you know uh
Billy Lane's pretty much uh the biggest part of that if I do believe so well you see owner of that race yeah
yeah so uh getting that all out there and stuff like I definitely want to get like to be able to see these races but like
to to take a nod at like what that was back in the 20s and 30s that was some real crazy racing with the board
right tracks and all that like so uh interesting thing that you brought that up so what it used
to be called was the motor drone so like that was probably the biggest sport aside from baseball
football and everything in the early 20s so like people would come from all over the country just to
watch this stuff uh and like they were wearing literally paper thin leather helmets long sleeve shirts
and like what essentially was a burlap sack for pants um knee high leather boots and and that was the only safety gear that they had available at the time so
like they would have uh what I believe is a 45 degree bank track like Sun's Speed down in um
New Sumerna only has what I think is a 20 degree so you if can you imagine like yeah you're wide not a wall
that you know like that's quite literally
right there so like these things were getting upwards like 120 miles an hour on these like
J models and uh it became known as the the murder drone because like it was dangerous so dangerous
that even as a spectator you could be killed yeah and like people died quite regularly
boards popped out crashes flying out the side parts coming off going in there and it was still packed the
next you know time it was there they had to come in and literally like you guys are not allowed to do
this anymore because people keep dying and then the government had to put a stop to it because
there was at that time probably like 20 tracks and they were always full and there was still always
somebody that was getting ready to do it that's like that wrecking crew days and the Indian early
early uh days and stuff like that where that's just insanity you're going that fast on that bike
going at a side hill the with boards and nails and all that just popping loose and doing all that
from the pressures and like the the JD motor is a 61 cubic inch motor it was a low compression
engine at that time but guys were making custom pistons to bump up with the compression ratio custom
cylinders that they called them the Ricardo cylinder and uh they were like literally making
their own cam grinds to make these things go faster faster faster you know it was really
incredible what the people of the time were coming up with like and they didn't have near the amount
of technology that we do they they were just doing it yeah very respectable
yeah i love those stories that whole uh that whole going on really at that whole time period
i kind of wish that there was a little bit uh availability to see some of that stuff the 1920
30s and stuff like that i like that error of time yeah i just picked up a 1919 uh JD or excuse me a
model that i'm going to be putting together to race you know hopefully by next year
where does the uh so from us with Pittsburgh you know michigan ohio where's the closest
sunset speed race to our location so june 5th actually there's going to be a race with the
flat track association and billy lane mixed obviously with sunset speed uh and that's in
tennessee so that's the far side of tennessee i can get you the address here you said the fifth
the fifth yeah so yeah same time as we'll be doing i don't believe you'll be attending the
man's field area for party at the pen is that uh how i received uh
the idea that you're not going uh nope no i did that last year i had a great time doing it it
i don't want to say anything bad about that show because there's not really anything bad about that
show yeah i just uh i'm kind of kind of overdoing shows i want to go actually ride and have some fun
and do some things i spend so much time in the shop and i don't really get a lot of time to get
out on a daily basis ride these motorcycles like i want to you know racing is one of those things
that gives me a reason to be alive you know because it makes me feel alive it kind of forces you
between a wall and death you know and then right in between is is a clear site of how
beautiful life really is that's beautifully said thank you
yep no i so yeah i mean i would like to see one of these uh be able to kick it around
see your bike in action and stuff but obviously we will be there at that time
anything other races on that circuit coming through the area uh no the next one after that
is going to be back in um new somerna florida so but uh billy just bought that track so i think
he's going to be doing a lot more stuff like that it's only for me about a seven hour trip
so i think from you guys it's about the same roughly give or take an hour probably uh because
we'll run we'd run 75 you'd take what 65 over the east coast and down no from for me i take uh
the 70 i think yeah the 70s down and then down into tennessee
so how did you get involved with the suns of speed i mean this doesn't seem like something you just
hey billy uh i feel like racing man like definitely not uh
so tom banks is a local guy that's a part in local to pittsburgh and uh he was a part of the
sun's speed he was a racer for that uh he noticed some of the things that i was doing like with my
antique motorcycle restoration and what i'm doing in the shop and what i'm trying to build here in
pittsburgh and you know i guess more so on the eastern side of america building my company took
a liking to it we became good friends and uh we talked about racing a lot and i had expressed a
lot of interest in it so he owns competition distributing and he picked me up as a racer for
that year and that's how i got in made a lot of friends and uh you know they wanted me back so
very cool
now i'm pretty sure they got a uh display up there at the harley museum about the board track race
and we checked that out at uh mama tried when we were up there yeah the vintage would he have
the uh quarter wall and stuff which when you stand next to it it really does seem like it's straight
up yeah that was a circle that's only one little part of the circle yeah i i can't imagine what it
would be like to race like a 45 degree bank like that but uh i mean going that fast all the centrifugal
forces are going to keep you up and i would imagine that when you're already sideways
it probably doesn't feel as bad as you think it would no but i mean i'm also in that area of time
like people were smaller but their balls were so much bigger
yep but like micro plastics i guess we could blame that or something yeah yeah yeah it's the
five it's the 5g you know yep 5g micro plastic uh you know gluten gluten definitely the gluten
radio radio active wave gluten but yeah um man that uh that races uh been something that i've
been wanting to i've been keeping track of it for years now and just kind of like uh a bunch of
from the outside so uh i really think you can put together a a good pit crew you know maybe we can
actually talk about that and get you in the pits of one of those races or yeah i'm welcome to go down
to that track and practice down in Tennessee so it might be a good intro for that too yeah that'd be
great i go there and just hang out with you for the time period and i'd help you out so we could uh
i could watch race and all that it'd be a fun great time
hey billy's based out of Tennessee now isn't he yeah he he he bought that racetrack and moved
his entire shop into it real in one of the buildings on on the racetrack so
yeah yeah i think that's really cool i mean like think about it like as somebody that builds
bikes almost every single day i've got to go through the back roads of ghetto mckeesport
pennsylvania to go and do that he gets to go out on a racetrack you know and test the thing that he's
working on yeah yeah you get the uh um slide the door open push it out right around the track
come back instead of the oh i hope the cops aren't out today in this general area while i
run this bike that hopefully doesn't break down on me and then you find out then that your phone's
at home yeah the bike you've got to go test that starts every 50th kick uh huh yeah yeah and uh
then you just give up and you're pushing down a hill or and hopefully somebody comes
throw it in the woods i don't know what happened man
all right so what are you uh hoping to accomplish in the future
when it comes to your shop uh something to speed all that
so i'm really trying to get in right now to manufacturing manufacturing parts um there's some
some things that i'm working on that i'm not going to disclose here
because i'm not ready to release it yet but i will say i'm ready to produce some reproduction
frames like for racing i am going to be producing some all aluminum construction frames for racing
not just circle track or sun's a speed style racing but drag racing and so on so i'm
trying to set up something not only like for my website but like for production
in getting some of that stuff started so another thing that i'm working on is uh
well all that stuff is already started and it's i'm about ready to release all that like publicly
but uh i want at least like 50 of those frames like ready to be sold at a moment's notice
but uh something else i'm working on is i i do like rapid prototyping like um in CAD so like i
design parts like in 3d software and then like i'll go and machine those parts like in my machine
shop and then i'm trying to set up some patents and things so i can sell those to companies like
lowbrow and prism and things of that nature but that that's kind of the direction that i want to go
i'm never ever going to get away from you know restoring vintage motorcycles building engines
transmissions and paying homage to the people that got me where i am so far but uh i don't
want to be broke forever you know so um i really want to make some big money moves why my body
is still capable of doing hard physical labor so eventually you know i'd like to
pay somebody else to sit at a desk while i go sit on a beach or something
hell yeah i think that's uh everyone's everyone's goal should be at least
yeah you know i was having that talk a while back and it was like you know i just wish i could be
one of those people that are just like good i go to the same job all day i do the same thing every
single day i just do it i just can't like i can't do it so like but it seems like i'm always trying
to figure out this or i'm trying to do this or maybe and i wish i could just
be like oh i'm so happy with my one little thing that i do that they want me to do and then just
like ah look at this window yeah but you know i can't so like i'm always in thousand things in my
head and trying to search and like i don't know somebody that can just get behind that and do
that almost like a skill in its own i can't but yeah i understand you know that whole scenario
i've worked so many different jobs like in so many different fields like from truck driver to
you know the guy that calls you about your extended warranty and i thought you sounded
familiar while we're here i never could really really be in something my head was always off
in the clouds i wanted to do things that i wanted to do frankly like i was interested in things and
i didn't really give a shit what else was going on in the world i just wanted to to build things
that i thought were cool that brought me joy that brought other people joy you know and live a good
life that that's that's all i really care about yeah um the pursuit of happiness has become more
of a driving force than a paycheck of sorts in my last little bit um and
i did that i don't know 40 years ago people would shun you and they would tell you if you
don't go to school if you don't do this if you don't go work in a cubicle for the rest of your
life you're gonna end up in a van by the river now people are paying thousands and thousands of
dollars to live in a van by the river i really thought about like trying to start doing upfitting
on vans for that kind of thing because people are just buying you know how much they get in front
of those vans like a hundred grand like they're Mercedes i looked into buying one of those because
i thought it would be a good bike hauler like to build like a camper kind of set up in uh and
Mercedes isn't selling those vans with a warranty which is crazy to me so you you've
spent like what near a 100000 dollars for for a van that like breaks down all the time
and you have to pay out of pocket while making a payment insane like then on top of putting you
maybe 10000 dollars into building it for a livable situation you know like your mobile
wi-fi setup insulation a bed you know waste storage water uh list goes on i'm a short generator
yeah yeah no i've uh i've dove into that uh quite intensely because like i had the
2,500 van that i was running last year that i uh would sleep in the back of when i went to certain
shows and stuff like that and then i just got a 3,500 uh van with the truck or the body on it which
i plan on doing the same with um but i never really got like far enough in the van to like really start
putting up a thing i wanted to put like a little area seat sit down maybe a little water
sink and stuff like that with collection underneath of it and uh i just ran it until it blew up so i
mean we uh go and get another one though but uh that is like going out there and then plus like
i'd really like to get uh up to um uh damn it halloween um Salem i'd like to get up by
Salem for halloween but like you can't touch miles and before that city during
that time period because everything's like years out but if i could figure out a way to get somewhere
that i could stay in a van then i'll let you borrow the hat they'll just let me walk right
hey wait oh no never mind i seen the hat it's one of us
uh i've heard a lot of things about Salem and what goes on there doing halloween like all kind of
weird spooky things yeah i think that would be definitely be really interesting to check out
they uh i started uh following these two twins that had two out of there too and they do like
really crazy uh black and gray and stuff but their whole studio is just like a crazy
anger egg or ellen pose slash you know large uh purple candles yeah all melted all that blah blah
but um seems like uh oh my wife would like to do it too so like she's into that so
you can't pay for the uh it's like thousands of dollars if there is something available
up there you're in that time period but instead i'll buy uh that's you know a couple thousand
dollar van and uh do it outside the fucking park outside of somewhere the van is a rocking
don't come and knocking i guess uh it makes it so they can leave you alone right that's like
same as they do not serve
something like make it look like a like a work van yeah well then whatever you get out just just
put on the the uh the hard hat and the reflector carry around a clipboard no one's gonna start
like directing traffic and get some cones yep and uh i mean i have the whole
setup next thing i know i'll be doing you know city work on the um drains and stuff and nobody
leaving you've got an apartment down there yeah i accidentally get hired
like i don't want a goddamn job what do you got okay i'll go take care of it
so you entering a bike into the party at the pin you just going what's going on no i decided this
year uh all i wanted to do was ride in now i was going to make last year's bike a rideable
scenario so i don't know if i told you this i got a lot going on i forgot about it um and uh so i
just wanted to ride into the fenced in area in my opinion the fenced in area is almost as much as
a show as inside of the prison like honestly i liked outside better than i did inside
exactly and there was a lot more you know that and for some reason i don't have to pay twice to do
that like i can only pay once to do that which it's a whole another thing that uh you know
me and you might be able to have a conversation about later but uh you know i decided that i
would pay a one time fee instead of you know all the others and uh just be in there uh and
you know shake the hands and see the people that are riding other bikes in so um that is the thing
nick actually and frank you got one too right frank
frank yeah okay but uh yard passes uh i got a yard pass but for some reason i was the only one
at the time that got a yard pass they opened up extra yard pass today and you know now we have
yard passes which is great because i didn't get my original pass until like yesterday and uh
yeah somebody else got my other one but uh so now i was i was thinking they weren't gonna give me
another one so i was gonna be like dude just let me in and then i'll be fine i don't care if i park
in there nobody else got a yard pass so why would it matter and then like if i would have played
that not got my yard pass and they opened up yard pass and everybody else got a yard pass i'd be one
outside so what last year i was in in that show as an invite and uh that's when i put that 96 cubic
inch panhead in that uh teal yeah such a killer bike you still have that bike yeah i do yeah for
now real i've got to fund something else i'm sure but uh that bike all right so 96 cubic inch panhead
four and five h stroke three and five eights bore um the pistons i put in it are 11 to one
on compression ratio it's got a magneto uh port and polish head set up
big valves intake and exhaust that bike uh that bike does 120 without a problem
but the problem with the bike is that it's a performance engine with a magneto so
day two of party at the pen i was kind of like over it you know and like i was camping outside
i fished all night and i woke up that morning and i was like i'm i'm done i think you know
let's hang out for a while and then we'll wait kind of till the end of the middle of the end
of the day and they were like oh sorry you can't take your bike out and i was like fuck that i'm
breaking my bike so i fucking went and i got my bike and i'm kick starting in the back of the
prison and it fucking backfires and kicks that pedal right up into my ankle breaks my fucking
ankle and then the guy running the show is like oh you don't want to stay for the awards and i'm
like no i'm good i've already won in my heart you know and then he's like let me help you
kicks my bike one start starts first fucking time and i ride out until there's a fence so
i have to scale the fence and then go into the office and convince the prison to open up the
fence so i can get my bike out and then they open the fence and then i fucking escape from uh
from prison you know the uh the line of hey you can't take it until this amount of time
i think it was seven o'clock and i started seeing people running when they were starting
doing awards and i was like okay i got a three and a half four hour drive on it so like you know
if i have to wait and then fight traffic on everybody trying to get out at the same time
you probably just go back to the van and sit down and wait until like 839 o'clock to
even get back through so when i started seeing people running i was like you know what that
sounds like a great idea but then i couldn't start the bike so like i had to push all the way
from back around it like completely died i didn't take anything with me to start this thing up
and uh so i pushed it all the way around the prison all the way up down that damn thing to the side
i uh don't tell anybody i leaned my bike up against the side of their um party at the
pan banner and popped a giant hole in it because i couldn't i couldn't hold it up no more and uh
i was like sliding around the gravel and like i was like oh i'll just lay it here for a second
boom right through the side of it and uh so the kid there like watched my bike help me get it so
i could because i had a center stand on it and i couldn't do it in the gravel because it's like
sliding down the hill and uh again i went and freaking loaded up there and then it seemed like
everybody was loading out and it was still like an hour before you know you were supposed to start
but well i think they saw me like fucking spin and gravel all the way to my trailer you know and
they were like all right it's it's go time yeah yeah there was a consensus that like as soon as
somebody i don't remember who went but then everybody was like it's go like right when they
were like okay we're starting to do the awards and it was like okay let's get i think i would have known
if the guy the guy that was running the show heavily insinuated that i was gonna get an award
if i stayed and i was like now i'm good i don't need the helmet
i don't know if i would have or not i'm not saying i would have but
i didn't stick around find out what uh what happened to you on the way home derrick
not even on the way home i mean like on the damn ramp off the highway just south of the prison
like i got the bike loaded other bike go to jump on the highway which is like right there
and the tire on the trailer just completely shreds as soon as i get to 60 miles an hour
and the trailer's bouncing all over the place and uh so i ended up you know pulling it to the next
rest area like that destroyed the tire rim fend fendered all bent in and then like had a spare
but it wasn't good so i went in there and got uh some you know fix a flat and i just pumped that
thing full of it and uh actually it still holds there quite well like to this day i killed this
but it's still sitting over there full of fucking goop so i don't even want to take off
and try to see what's inside of there probably just a bunch of spray foam insulation looking
shit in there it's like i didn't run no flat thing but you know got home but uh yeah i think
that was horrible finally as soon as i hit 65 it just ate that tire and uh bent and everything
traffic going all over the place honking the horn at me like i'm you know trying to do this like
this is your fault how dare you drive on my road yep
so uh after i got the lecture and everything of all the angry people on the highway for me
shooting tire shreds 20 plus fleet in the air um you know i got home so i mean it wasn't the most
like eventful but a thing that i've happened in my life in the last you know year even but like it was
horrified
yeah tires blowing on the trailer are never ever fun ever
one time when i was a truck driver uh i had loaded up with a huge load of steel
and i had made a wrong turn into a college and this was like tight quarters college
and i had i had maneuvered through all these cars and everything with a 70 foot long semi-trailer
and then on the way out like the turn was so sharp and there was traffic coming in on this
two-lane road and i had to swing out and i thought i'd missed it and my trailer caught the end of
this tree and it bent the rim and made the loudest fucking sound that i've ever heard in my life
and i turn around and i look through the mirror and every student is like dropped to the ground
and i shifted as fast as i could to get the fuck out of there
you know and i was later pulled over and had to explain that uh no officer uh that tire blowout
was from a piece of concrete in the highway so if i go back there's concrete in the highway you
go and i'm leaving so yeah you go find it um i won't be here when you get back yeah you know and uh
i don't know if you've heard i uh i started a trucking career that ended on the same day
no
i uh i took the biggest box truck that uh pesky little rat to you and the same day that i took my
you know however the the absolute fucking fake test that they give you that like hey check check
check check check here now you can go drive the biggest truck off a pesky lot for your endorsement
and uh so i took that over to chicago and it was a
16 with what's the biggest tallest because it was so 13 foot tall and that so like
i am driving in chicago uh hours after getting my uh permit to be able to do so
in the biggest truck that i can get from pesky and for some reason the bridge is underneath
of the train rail in chicago isn't i don't think it's regulation i i don't know like i think i
could probably jump up and touch it and uh so just half of the truck just gone yeah you made that
thing into a convertible yeah so one of the tattoos that i'd still like to get in my life
is a pesky truck with the side of it looking like a sardine can like with the roll up and
everything and the you know the top of it curled back but uh yeah i mean i drove it from there
i got it out of underneath the bridge i called the pesky people and i was like hey i just destroyed
your truck and they're like where'd you get it from lancy michigan they're like drive it back
there and i was like no are you serious they're like yeah that's where you got it that's where we
want it so driving it home uh it was like the head stuff in the back of it but i had the uh door
down because i couldn't open the door so it was like a giant pocket of air that kept catching and
pulling me back all the way there so it was just like because all this pocket of air would
build up and then it would like burp out and i was just like constantly just getting drug down
i were somewhere around uh gary indiana area i had uh the cops pull up next to me and they full
lit me up uh with the spotlights on both sides because i had the side of the truck just flapping
against it and everything and uh they shined on me and i just went what do you want me to do
and they're like they did the same thing to me and then he just kept on going so i drove that
all the way back now that's not the best part of this story uh you know not in the least the best
part of the story is that my father's neighbor just happened to start working at pensky truck
like a couple of days before i'd delivered this truck back so he comes over to my dad's he's like
you wouldn't believe what this son of a bitch did one of these trucks he freaking drove it underneath
the bridge and all that and he goes yeah was it under a bridge over in chicago and the you know
he goes yeah how do you know that he's like his derrick did he's like oh derrick did that oh yeah
yeah you know you know the bridge and all that they were probably small out there what do you
know uh people started walking up to the van i yanked it out of that damn um underpass
uh squealing the tires till it popped free and then drove down four blocks and called the pensky
people to figure out what was going on so yeah so you know after that they wouldn't let me drive a
truck anymore like i would deliver a truck to the rental place that was down the street but i
couldn't drive a vehicle for that company anymore um i'm not i'm not missing it but you know it's uh
i found out that uh
you don't do that on your first trip don't take the biggest truck you can as a 19 year old kid
and or even like looking back at i myself wouldn't be like hey young child jumping this giant
truck and drive to chicago so like looking back it was probably zero issues i promise
yeah mistakes were made you know here's your gas card see you later oh and uh
that happened to be that after like i did all that i did like have to stay in a hotel in gary
indiana which was the shittiest motel six that i've ever had to stay in at all and i just got
done like fucking the truck all the shit so like uh i didn't want to be there and they had like car
she's not like car the movie cars like little cars all that your sheets were the ashtrays
whenever you see the ashtrays in a non-smoking hotel room glued to the side table
usually not a good place check the bed sheets yeah yeah so like uh
you know yeah it was just a great experience for a company that uh i'm glad i'm not a part of
anymore that um let me learn something i think pinsky has that like on-board video camera thing
oh i wish they would it be like a slow shot ride you know if you're like a the fair like going
ah well speaking of box trucks that reminded me of how many u-hauls i've stolen in my life
so like while i was uh moving all across the country every once in a while i didn't want to
ride a bike with everything i owned from one state to another so i'd get a u-haul i would rent it for
like three days in town and then drive it 2,500 miles and then leave it at some other u-haul
location uh they quit renting me u-hauls for some time they wouldn't allow that anymore
because i had done that a lot a lot but uh so i guess that like kind of segues in the next thing
so i just went out my my marketplace find right that's kind of what we wanted to talk about a
little bit yeah we'll have some marketplace discussions coming in now yeah we gotta bring it
up you know somebody had to do it might as well been the guy wearing wizard hat yeah well we're
surprised that you knew about it oh but uh so as one does you know you open marketplace on a daily
basis and you scroll doomlessly until you find something that you can't afford that you're
gonna try and buy anyway but uh i've been wanting like an old truck for some time so
like my bike that i just raced in sons of speed is a 1937 w so i got this wild hair
right out of you know where and uh on marketplace i was like i'm just gonna check out what's in
arizona for shits and giggles and i found this 1937 Chevy um they call it a g model big fender
wells and uh the thing is like 90 complete and look at the price it was like $2,400 i was like
no way let me message them and they're like well we'll take 2,000 and i'm like it's good send me
pictures of all this stuff i'm i'm you know almost 3,000 miles away i want to make sure
this is real before i buy a plane ticket yeah and i buy a plane ticket it was real i get out there
i get the truck running in the guy's parking lot by uh literally making a uh hand crank starter
this motor is a 216 straight six so i got this thing to run like very minimally in the parking
lot ended up tracking down a regular starter got it to run a little bit better and uh crazy thing
so my buddy texts me and he's like um hey i i'm i'm buying this truck it's a 12 valve commons
first gen uh and i'm trying to fix it up before driving back home and i call him up looking at
the pictures and i'm like there's no way he's he lives in maine so i'm like there's no way you're
texting me at two o'clock in the morning in maine you know with the sun out and i'm like where are
you at and he's like mesa arizona and i'm like where in mesa and he tells me where and i'm i'm
like i'm 20 minutes from you right now so we meet up you know and he just bought a truck in arizona
i just bought a truck in arizona and we're both from the east coast so we decided like let's let's
drive back and make like pretty cool adventure about it and uh so he didn't tell me he didn't
have a license at the time because of the law and uh so like we're like well let's buy a trailer
because we could just sell it when we get back for the same amount of money and then it'd be like
you know transporting the truck for free that didn't work out because of another facebook
you know there's there's two facebook people there's people that want to sell stuff and
then people that don't want to sell stuff and then you just get that like second finger you know
yeah but um yeah so he's like well let's rent a u-haul trailer and i'm like i can't rent u-haul
anything at all i can't do it so uh i'm like you're gonna have to put in your name
you know he's like all right that's fine so we get down to the u-haul place and you know like
you don't have a license this is an id you can't rent this u-haul trailer you know and uh he was like
you know i don't i'm sitting there like oh fuck you know there's our there's there's a whole thing
you know down the drain so i give him a fake name i'm like oh this this is my name you know
and uh it works but what worked about it is um we're joking with the guy which turned out to be
the owner of that place and like my friend is six foot ten Jesus you know he's got long hair down
to his nipples and we're joking with the guy and he's like man you should be like the owner of the
place was like man you should be in like wwe wrestling and i was like what would his name be
the underwear taker and that's what that was our end right there that's what got me the trailer so
you know he snuck us past whatever paperwork and got this 37 Chevy loaded up and
got on yeah yeah
oh that's funny yeah that's uh a great segue into the marketplace finds especially the wrestling
thing Derek kind of knows but before we go i uh into that i did like i heard that you were doing
that and i have a brother that's in uh tempe and i was like joking with these guys i was like you
want to go do a little buck uh so fly out there find something see we can get it home give everybody
like a certain amount and try to see what you can get we all fly out there and then be like okay
see you back home here's you know x amount of dollars i thought that would be better fun
you would be surprised what you could get for like three grand you know my buddy got that
12 valve first gen Cummins for $2,900 original paint and the things got like uh 90,000 miles on it or
something from what i remember the only thing wrong with it was like obviously the steering
because it's a dodge you know we just like went in between to the white lines like back and forth
the whole way back you know but um that that is really really a good possibility like no way
like that thousand dollar you know build buy drive thing like road trip what was that that youtube
channel um like the two guys would go fly off and guy get some muscle car and drive it a thousand
miles roadkill yeah roadkill yeah but i would love to do that that's what i wanted to do with
that 37 Chevy but like there was only one 37 Chevy part in all of arizona and i bought it for 15 bucks
nice you know i think that would be uh go out there figure out prank you good you want it
okay um but you know i think it's not i get blanked or something but um
it's like it's off but uh to get out there and uh get get uh you know get something and then try to
make it back you know i think that would be cool almost like uh a gamble or something like what they
would be cool if like one of us went out there to buy a truck or a van or something one of us bought
a bike you know what i mean and then one of us like bought a bunch of tools
we'll just go together you know like you guys right
yeah yeah
i well i'm from arizona so i got a bunch of friends and family
that could uh help facilitate some of that stuff and go look at some of these things
if if we decided that's like a possibility you know what i mean we'll touch on it more we'll
put a pin in it for right now nick you have some marketplace science now i know that you were
watching last week uh because you were mentioning down in the comments there uh jay that you were
seeing what we were putting up i didn't find one this week i have a different uh oh yeah you did
going on but oh i got a couple you know um the uh marketplace uh finds i didn't look up one
awkward marketplace find of the week but nick has done that for us this week so let's see what you
have going on i don't know one of these is from you let's see oh maybe boom no this one is from
yeah that's uh laru yeah you gotta you gotta send that to me that's uh
you know what you know i couldn't find a manual for this anywhere like climbers doesn't
put out the manual i just missing the market so i oh look at that patina oh my god
patina yeah so i yeah i don't know it it's just art like it's just because there's no motor on it
it's right there you can see them there's four yeah i mean okay yeah matt sent us that one
yep and yeah three grand for i guess some lawn art let's see what what's next unless you can get
this this look at that this so at that it's uh if you haven't seen go that's black jesus uh being
pulled up to uh the heavens above this mountain range and uh in memory of black jesus
what the fuck where was this fried one of the sidecar yeah so this is originally a piece from
and so i-75 you know it goes through detroit and all that and uh yeah just as you know mountain
range with black jesus floating up to the heavens and uh it was 200 bucks but it was like an hour
and a half up north it was above saginal even somewhere up there oh my god and it came with a
chair and a wheel yeah i mean the whole thing it's got the whole thing if you would have sent me this
i would have sent you 200 faster than fucking paypal would have let me get it
yeah i would have paid for the gas everything that is yeah memory of black jesus i forgot like
that you had that like i even like forgot about this and everything else that went on over the week
you kept saying memory of black jesus yeah you kept saying like no no i didn't i didn't have what i
said yeah you did like yes you did how do you not remember this i really didn't um you know
over the last week professional ring and that thing is like right down the road from
me that's what they use like three quarter inch plywood that's legit yeah yeah yeah that's not
all sun faded and everything this was uh a juggalo why home oh jcw center so god can you imagine 16
beers deep jumping off shirtless so just playing in the wind uh you gotta have a great name though
my dad actually built me the underwear ring the underwear yeah yeah back when i was like 14 my
dad built me a wrestling ring so i found this one on marketplace yeah actually i sent it to the group
chat and said uh hey mac go down and buy this for me mac is in falderville where's that
15 20 miles away from me was your favorite favorite wrestler what was that guy's name that
shook his ass in front of everyone rikishi yes oh yeah i do remember that the chinese yeah i'm such a
yeah i'm such a wrestling nerd like i will yeah i could talk for hours about wrestling
oh i was gonna say his name was rafiki but i was like i'm pretty sure that's the lion king
that is that is the monkey of the lion king oh this one look at this thing
wow yeah if i hit those what those headlights are like from the day i'm on
yeah that's like you can see into the future with those things well i mean there's gonna be
ships crew uh crashing into the rocks i mean holy cow oh my god look they're like they're tapered
back like way into the hood that's crazy it gets better it gets okay so you see look in the back
window are those pumps no right in between them you have a red bat phone oh my god yes there is
a bat phone in the back of this car it's hard out here for just just oh even the diamond plate
hitting yes and look at the hood latch or the at the end of the diamond plate at a jewel that is
that is some cheap dollar store hardware for your your kitchen cabinets
155 is a steal there's oh look at those things look at that oh did they spin
i maybe those look like spinner headlights they're not even so if somebody put that in there
yeah yeah they spin you can see they're on a little shaft right there yes that's what i'm seeing
now that's holy cow oh wow and the interior oh with the red mats that's what yes is that a
jeweled steering wheel cover red jewel it looks like it the east side of Toledo or
something oh shit where was it i don't remember where it was at the shag seats would would really
do it in because like those would be wet instantly those passenger seat
155 oh man alzip illinois well he came down from 165 yeah yeah i mean look at that right he might
as well like see the seats that's just a cover so that way you've got something real in the park
i don't know yeah i found that scroll one and that just blew blew my mind what'd you think
about that frank pretty wild huh yeah how are you frank you're silly but um over the last week
i did uh purchase uh i did get three vehicles in the trailer so i mean that's like
what uh how i forgot about everything else but you know a lot can happen a week when it comes to
marketplace oh yeah my wife was gone so i was just marketplace like
permanently because because of what happened man no not because what did you buy was it the trailer
oh no uh but i do have something to live in because of the van now so i mean like
just in case not saying that uh she's upset over any of these purchases or anything but
they got it in now i just don't tell mine about most of them
yeah no uh i i'm in marketplace and four thing even to the point where uh
probably right around there yeah i think it was mother's day sunday yeah it was mother's you know
monday sunday monday monday monday somebody uh doing a very good scam on me and got my my
motorcycle uh for a vehicle that was not worth or what it was supposed to be so um
um if anybody sees a blue and uh silver deuce up in the Harrison area uh in his name goes by jesse
he's gotta be blocked and everything but just i'd like to uh get him his key for that um bike that
he damn near stole away from me so um yeah uh if anybody sees it i just want to give him his
just want to talk so i mean literally like he pulled up in a vehicle empty on
gas uh went and i mistakenly read into a story he was going to go for a ride on it i was going
to go for a ride in the truck i had to put gas into the vehicle during that time period i was
putting gas in the vehicle he ran away got his charger came back grabbed the parts pile and
skirted down the road in a pattern of three minutes when it was supposed to be 15 so i ended up having
to get this truck that i then found out well title's not his name but i mean it's open but like i ran
around that whole area looking for that bike for like 15 minutes i couldn't figure out where it was
boy didn't let me know that i thought it was a separate charger it was actually him so he probably
just threw that bike in the weeds and then had a charger locked and loaded ready came through the
parking lot grabbed all those parts and skirted away so when i'm driving around trying to find
this dude for this freaking truck that's slamming in the gear and bouncing all over the place and
stumbling out with the number that he was incorrect because it wasn't his and uh all of this i realized
that i got shafted so i guess i'm uh but if you want to keep
he hasn't gotten in touch with me about i don't know why i don't you know seemed really weird that uh
he he decided to block me like three minutes after uh i seen this charger doing a burnout
all the way down the road in front of the car uh the place i was at um it's probably because he
didn't like the burnout so that was probably it um so uh we marketplace
mindful but i did you know like i got a great van that you know i'm gonna be able to drive and
stuff and you know but that's one thing like i was talking to somebody about it earlier i was like
i will lobe all the shit out of you all god damn day long trying to get something but i ain't gonna
rob you like i will pay you something and his dude fucking came out of nowhere and told me a story
and then fucking ran away with my bike so i mean like that's another way of thinking about it but
i don't know if it's illegal necessarily immoral probably you know but he got me so we just keep
going from there i guess and uh then i got a trailer and uh did i i didn't tell you the damn
story on the um on the Mustang dude that was like six years ago i stopped in some dude's
yard and i was like hey you got this sitting outside in your yard i was wondering if you
want to sell and he's like no that's my brother see but he is blind and he's like but he's in that
you know he's a veteran he's in a home and all that but he won't let me get rid of it
he's gonna come back he's gonna work on it and stuff so i was like okay this was 2019 2020 time
period and like i just got home from buying this van i get a call he's like hey you stopped in my
house a few years back i'm like jesus it was like covid bud i was like i'm not really in the market
for uh you know a 300 dollar you know well i didn't know at that time i wasn't in the market at that
time for a fox body Mustang but he's like well you know since you stopped i kept this number i
was really just trying to get like 300 bucks out of it and stuff and i was like okay well i can you
know i don't know and i even told the dude like no i don't have time for it but inadvertently
uh about you know five years ago when i stopped ads about this i ended up buying a 91 Camaro and
i said to my older boy i want you to work on this with me and after you get old enough i want you
this will be your car he ended up too much work to it but and that's since i bought him a car
to work on so when this came up it was like i had to do it because i couldn't think of a cheaper car
to give to my son and the dude had a fucking brand new title for it just got in the mail very well
taken care of until uh the brother parked it inside of the thing and i made the boy do it all i said
you're gonna be you know talking to the dude you're gonna load it on the trailer you're gonna
wench it on there you're gonna do all that it's gonna be your thing so in that aspect i spent
300 dollars in a lot stupider ways so you know he gets kicked out of it he washed it the whole next
day vacuumed it all out i thought i caught him in his plate cussing in there frickin acting like
they were driving it for like three hours you know so it's just a little too far you know
stick shift box body but you know like yeah so i told him that you know go ahead and do some talking
right because he you know you're gonna have to start talking to people and blow a blow he's kind
of a quiet kid and all that and uh so his question that he decides to ask is because we're looking
at this thing let me tell you it's been in this yard for 10 years plus it's the fenders do have
there's no real holes in the floor but you know the interior is matt clint the frickin i
lifted up the spare tire it's like brand new in there it's gonna need to get gone through but it's
solid and i fired it off a spray and it went so all good and uh but he decides to ask this guy
hey has this thing been in any managerial accidents that it had to get
i'm like dude we're looking at a 300 dollar car with a hole in the door
we don't need to know the car pass but we brought it home he's gonna go through it hopefully and
you know keep some uh good stuff on it and you know i just like i was really happy that that dude
reached out to me in such a long time period and uh that's wow you know so and i did buy
the camaro for i got a 91 camaro for my older boy and i got a 92 fox body for my younger boy
so i mean they can work on those and do whatever they want with them now you know like i can help
them and do it and they do have work that need to get done to them um but that was the point
like the boy's 91 camaro uh needs floor pans put stuff in it but i'll teach him how to well grind
there's wiring needs to get done um fuel line needs to fix stuff like that but you know a 91
camaro when he gets it all done and stuff plus i gave him two motors he got a 350 or three uh
five uh three in there that he could either choose from so now it's gonna be one's gonna get one and
one's gonna get the other so um and uh you know unless if boy wants to say to a true ford motor
because i don't have one of those because i never thought i'd own a ford but
that just happens by a trailer that uh is in fair condition that uh had new tires and stuff like
that and then got robbed the bike for a $15 truck that barely made it home well you know what though
like uh karma's a really big thing you know even if you never see that bike again i'm sure
something's gonna come along it's gonna be way way better it's gonna fill that hole yeah yeah well
i didn't even have to like do the trade that was like one of the the the thing like i already got
my van for hauling and i already got my trailer that's what i had my bikes up for so i essentially
only did this deal to make sure that my wife had a vehicle to drive on the winner so that's why i let
this dude get me because i i wanted the deal they were like looking back at it there was red flags
say like we're there but i like yeah i trusted him like i didn't think i was yeah like we were
literally in the middle of nowhere like nowhere and like when i go to bigger cities like flint
detroit lansing i'm watching for that all the time i'm lying to me i watch for it i think
everybody's telling me a fib and i allowed this kid to fit me and he fucking got me so um in essence
i mean if i could just like lock the ignition he got the bike he won but you know that's it see you
later that's dark it sounds like it's like six foot tall but isn't that thing like uh
there come on
yeah definitely sounds a lot bigger than he was yeah
with the buckies yeah yeah the bucky shirt
they uh kelly rob's wife i went over there put uh tigers on the hot dog cart that we got and uh
they got a little dog her and the daughter now and they just go and uh go to the little kid section
and like buy them like two t-shirts put on them and just run around it was like something
motorcycle garage with you know it was a green shirt they got at walmart for like fucking you know a
kid but we we take her to the shop every once in a while last time when she was there i posed her
up on the lathe so it looked like she was working the middle well kibble's ain't free
yeah right you better earn that bacon yeah yeah hey begging strips for no begging
but uh so this year you're
yeah uh i didn't even get into the second bike then i'm gonna be doing but um yeah i'm definitely
gonna bring that one if i get the second bike done i'm not gonna i don't think it's fair to
enter it but uh i'm still gonna bring it nice that's fine so this year if i we're gonna expand
more on the wild stallions motorcycle show side of it where we're gonna have some custom bikes
inside of our area on top of our builders boat bikes so with that being said if anybody's listening
along in the midwestern region uh nick do you remember frank frank what when when is the show
again frank on this night they're 29th yeah that's right frank august 29th 2026 uh owasso
michigan uh we'll be having the wild stallions motorcycle show and the motorcycle build finale
on top of we are a part of owasso vintage motorcycle days so make sure you come on down
you're gonna place your boat for the build bike which is if you remember j it's as easy as a
drop in the bucket right you get a ticket you decide what bike you want you drop your ticket
in the bucket we count that ticket for your boat and it is a 100 popular boat scenario
so if you want to vote for your bike that you like in the build competition downtown owasso
august 29th 2026 and then we will also have the other bikes there for display customs and stuff
like that that didn't necessarily take part of our build series but it's a custom aimed motorcycle
that will be shamed now when i say that i'd like to aim it at a vintage custom bike because we are
part of a vintage show in essence but if you have a um non-custom vintage bike we also have all of
those categories open also on our owasso vintage motorcycle side also uh multiple things going on
in owasso at that time on top of our event on top of the farmers market that will be going on on top
of the you know other things there will be a classic plane uh show going on at our local
airport so they'll also be doing plane rides in you know older planes and the last time i went to
this thing they did have some fighters out there that were for display and stuff like that now um
they just pretty much started those things to let you just see them but for aviation history that
is also was a cool thing that i did a few years ago and i haven't touched on that show in years but
it will also be going on same time um and if people are flying in to go to so maybe you can get
yourself down to a downtown area and uh be part of our festivities too um we're trying to get as
many people into the downtown owasso area for our show this year um trying to call it shut the town
down with thunder all around so um i would like them to uh be like yeah hey you guys are doing great
but like you know there were a lot of mothers and hiding their children's eyes and grandparents that
were really maybe maybe you go build a bigger show you know but i won't do that until somebody tells me
so maybe that's how i do it and um we are also looking at uh other things uh vendors also um i
know i got some going right now but vendors for owasso vintage motorcycle days and or in our square
for the wild stallions show um go ahead and you can reach out to me for either one of those um
and uh i know that uh we'll be looking more into some vendors for the show some other
aspects of it and um the underground gambling done that we're not telling anybody the secret
password to get in it's most cash rides how do you know nice dammit okay well back to the drawing
board and we're gonna have to figure out a different route but be a fucking wizard asking for a friend
yep but uh yep so we're looking at a good year um still got uh multiple things in the
works i'm trying to get accomplished before that time period of thing also um all of our
builders that are listening along right now jayber um make sure we have updates to me so that i can
get them in will you send them a copy of this video this is my update it's just transcript
well this whole time i've actually had this court reporter sitting next to me so that's
really good you're getting three sentences yep um but uh we will have that so our next uh
you guys remember all of our written updates in month not monthly fashion but every so often gets
put into a magazine that we like to call here in michigan it's under roads magazine of michigan
and uh right now it's uh promoting and i had uh jody get at me uh just yesterday the day before
saying uh hey you want me to mail your ride card another reason i'm glad i didn't get rid of both
of my bikes because how am i supposed to win this one if i don't have a way to take this card
anywhere to get it in on that so make sure you follow along with uh june's copy of thunder roads
magazine of michigan the best god damn michigan based motorcycle magazine period
say it say it every week best michigan motorcycle
thunder roads magazine of michigan the best michigan based motorcycle magazine period
so started to start to roll uh with it um i didn't know how i was gonna do that at first like
i don't know if you've been following along with technical difficulties that much but uh
we're still we're still working on the politicians which you got yeah
yeah it's the mountain dew it is uh i'd like to thank my sponsors mountain dew and uh
um kfc taco bell and uh everything enjoys liquor store and uh mickey bobby
ricky bobby boy go fast
but uh nothing you not mountain don't we want to be pussy we're gonna name them dr quinn and
medicine woman i love how he's talking to you old man i actually have that movie on the wall
as uh an art piece because uh i always used to joke with my kids that we were watching uh
the the ricky bobby valid of uh becoming a race car driver if we'd watch it like we do i mean
it was just me and the boys we didn't have too much so uh we had uh you know a couple of dvds and
uh if i wasn't watching you know some superhero cartoon movie at the time let's watch them uh
uh ricky and ricky bobby and so
uh i've never told anybody this before but i might as well tell it to the internet as a whole
all at once yeah and get out the way the scene when uh ricky bobby's girlfriend is hyping him up
for the next race and she's like you ride that fear like a demon dragon and i watch that every
single time before i race every time when i get out there i'm like me
it's like a cougar on the side of the bike and sponsored by me
yeah um so i mean i got a little bit more uh done on my bike uh so um right on schedule and uh
you know so we'll have it done by uh august 28th and uh
then i'll paint it on the grounds of uh the square downtown
everyone bring a color yeah paint the bike yeah
yeah well i i mean i would be down to that if it wasn't like somebody would deliberately go out
of their way to like oh what's this a carb
oh i'm the tins oh i i'm sorry i thought that was made out of tin no what's that aluminum
i wouldn't ever guess zirconium
do it pink because it makes a statement uh frank you did pink last year didn't you
yeah yeah is that the bike you're working on right now frank
well you know he's thinking about most dash rides yeah i think he's giving mouth hugs
oh four
but uh all right well i i think that uh that is going to pretty much wrap up our j bird
live wednesday or thursday edition of our wednesday live the last thursday edition of our wednesday
edition right yeah last thursday edition of our wednesday yeah so i mean we'll be on wednesday
next week which i mean it really flows a lot easier that way you know wednesday's on wednesday
yeah like it just rolls off the tongue a little easier so um and uh there is something that i have
been asking our um and it kind of goes back to our whole wrestling thing that we kind of went to
now here we are we we know that we all know what wrestling is the intro now first question i have
for you j hero or protagonist
if you were in your intro coming into the show you're portraying your character
what is first off are you a hero protagonist or what is your entrance music
the only thing i could think of is john sena you can't see him yeah and that's the only reason
that wouldn't be good intro music for me uh ask the question one more time so with you having an
entrance as a professional wrestler what would your theme song be in your intro
i would definitely aim to be hero and in saying that it would have to be i can be your hero baby
i can take your breath away
well done well done you break out the guitar and serenade the lady the screen goes black
yep but uh on that note i i
i'm so glad we got you on we're gonna need to do this again before the uh end of our actual show
and stuff to kind of touch back on where you've gotten with your projects where you've gotten
if you changed anything on your build bike and uh maybe
well um i've got two things coming up this saturday may 16th um i'm working with
abate of pennsylvania to throw a big event over at my shop so if you're in the pittsburgh area
make sure you come down to that it's located rate of lost souls customs you can google that i
ain't gonna tell you guys but um yeah uh we're doing bike games to collect money and raise awareness
for motorcycle safety the hot dog eating competition the plank ride the snow how many
hot dogs do you think you'll be able to fit as many as it is as it takes
when i set my mind something it gets done so like one maybe
but i can only get like so much of it before i can't even brush my teeth without gagging
but uh uh yeah burnout competition and a bike show that's may 16th uh june 5th i'll be down at
sunset speed so i'll definitely have a lot more to talk about in the next couple months to make
some more crazy stories and uh you know i'm constantly searching marketplace for something
weird uh and because of frank over there in the corner i'm really feeling like
downloading the craigslist app and seeing why i went and did that exactly after you know the
fact that he was no i i i did too
so
the vibe i got from it when i looked at it after last week's episode was kind of like
do you want to buy meth
i mean i have something but also i also can i happen to get you on some of this
in some tasks but
in some
kind of sleep opposite but um i i don't know how much i want to dive into that like how much can
i hate life and really dig myself into a fucking hole of fucking doing that twindled me would be
in the bushes up there waiting for the 40 year old me like yeah fucking don't think i want to get
in trouble i don't think that i wear as well so i would have when i was 20 years old into the
correctional facilities but i don't think i would have very good either at that time but
you know i just don't want to fuck i don't know so
i guess uh
Oh, yeah, um, just got my YouTube channel go
Here you go and check that out also you'll see that we have
I wish I had planned a little better to do some actual magic for like the exit like a smoke bomb or
Yeah, no something I didn't I didn't think that far ahead. I was just like magic hat and Jedi robe that should do it
Yeah, so I was I was wearing this the other day while like driving
Oh
So you guys
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About this episode
Live from Wednesday night, Jay Bird—“motorcycle wizard by day mechanical mayhem by night”—walks through his build journey, from a Yamaha SR 250 road trip to a 2003 883 making “about 80 something horsepower,” plus a current aluminum-frame/flathead project. The conversation also covers crash stories, including being hit “by a truck of 40 miles an hour,” and a safety debate over lane filtering vs splitting. Later, the hosts shift to vintage racing rules like “to have no brakes,” and wrap with event planning for Wild Stallions in Owasso, Michigan.
