Maggie Valley, NC.

Highlights from my ride to NC.

View from the Blue Ridge.


John Dill's panhead...
here.



Dancer in Cherokee.


Tree of Shame, Deal's Gap.


More from the parkway.


View from the top of Deal's Gap.


Sunset the morning of the ride home.

Fork brace leather

Like many, I dig the look of a fender-less front end but hate the remaining mounting hardware on the fork lowers. Solution: drilled out the rivets on the front fender and kept the mount to use as a fork brace of sorts. There was an unsightly hole in the top and a dip in the sides so I made this top cover out of leather and did a bit of tooling to finish it off. Completed and bolted it on with some Chicago screws.

Finished fuel sling

All together and ready to be strapped to the frame.

and dyeing.

Tooling

CoC

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Eats

Twin 'n" Tween in Centreville, AL.
If you've never been, go. Great Southern cooking at it's best.
Tell Berlene JT sent you...

Work in progress

Bought an auxiliary fuel bottle this weekend and started on a frame mounted sling tonight. Everything is laid out and cut, next some minimal tooling, a dye job, and we're on the road. I am thinking black base with red straps to match the bottle. More to come...

Utah, get me two!

...and we got 'em.

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5 Wheeler

What you need, please someone buy this...



















Spotted at Toxic Garage...
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Shots from the road to Canada

Last summer my brother in and law and I rode due north to Canada. These are some highlights...

Like the sign says, Deals Gap. We planned on camping a few miles past the finish but it rained like hell until we stopped and started again as soon as we got back on.




























Waking up at camp in the AM to pea soup fog on the pond near our site. It was a holiday weekend and there were only a couple spots left. Ended up hanging my hammock off site.


































Niagara Falls











Sunrise at Lake Delta State Park, NY.
The sites are literally steps from the water.
















Funspot, more here.















First view of the Northeastern coast in Maine.














Boston





New York






















Caesars Palace and part of Trump Plaza, Atlantic City.


















Ferry from Cape May to Lewes.












Camping right off the beach in Lewes.






Chesapeake Bay Bridge, the only bridge I've ever crossed that goes underwater twice and has a gift shop and restaurant halfway across.











Shot from the shore, Virginia Beach.
















The rig: '02 HD Superglide, Kelty pack full 'o gear, The red straps are for the atlas on the back in a SealLine waterproof bag.

Great times...