Our friend Arturo in Italy sent us these pics of his friends Norton chopper. I thought it was pretty cool, it's rare to see a Norton chop even here in the states!

Here is a shot of where I work for a good chunk of the day. I am sitting here right now typing this blog entry. I wanted to show off my signed Raplh Steadman print that I bought for myself a year ago, I finally got it back from being framed and hung it up. If you don't know Ralph Steadman, he is the artist who did the illustrations for HST. Among the clutter and paper, finned timing cover and cast Hunt mag and Pan springer hobknob with scribbled notes, reciepts and to-do lists from Kyle.

Tyler

Finally had some time to work on my bike since getting back from Bonneville a week ago. Pulled the head off to take a look, as I know I bent the right hand exhaust valve when preparing to do a back-up record run. Piston crowns look fine, cylinder walls look great, no issues there. But I can tell that my right exhaust valve was having an affair with the piston, it just slightly kissed it. What a harlot.


No real damage though, head is boxed up and already shipped off to Wes at Four Aces Cycle to go through, also sent him my Chronometric Tachometer to be rebuilt. I am having him put together an identical spare head for me too, it is a chunk of change to have sitting around, but it could save the heartache of being at Bonneville but not being able to run because of an issue like I already had.

Tyler