Well here we are

I've finally joined in with the rest of the herd and got myself a blog. I suppose that facebook wasn't quite stoking my ego the way I wanted it to.  Really I decided to go on this path of digital masturbation to enable me to follow some bike builders that I really admire. I have no use for the OCC style "custom" chopper scene, I don't like the style or the store bought attitude. I myself don't own a chopper, and I doubt that unless I find just the right bike for it, I never will. I'm a huge fan of air cooled parallel twins, Japanese or British. I think there is just something about them that really turns me on.  I have a friend in the states who builds 70's style choppers with his buddies with old iron head bikes they find cheap, and that's fine for them.  Me personally, its all about the sound and feel of a parallel.  My current ride is a 74 Yamaha XS650 that I picked up from another bike nut in Ottawa.  He had put some money into it until he realised that he didn't need 11 bikes.  The PO had put on some side cut slip on pipes with no baffles what-so-ever.  Apparently they had never heard of prepping bodywork for paint (or using gasoline resistant paint) cus the army green is quickly peeling away to reveal the yellow on the tank and side covers.