Dan "Bacon" Carr

Dan's Pan... I drove all the way to Cananda... smuggled some stuff across the border..... got strip searched..... ate the best home cooked food for a week.... had a headache my entire stay because the Mountain Dew there doesn't have caffeine in it..... shot Dan's Pan.... Looked at a huge load of parts.... and drove home.

Max Schaaf

What else can I say...... He's a Natural Born Ruler.



4Q Conditioning









It's easy to hate on some one who makes it look so simple.

Crank County Daredevils

Crank County Daredevils

I shot these at the Big Mountain Run last year. I can't tell you much about it cause I don't remember much about it. The moonshine flowed right out of the river and into my mouth.

Joe

Joe is still off in the mountains finding it. Sorry I missed you last week bud and my condolences on the loss of your Grandpops. Keep digging, you'll get there.

Speed Kills

Wrapped up the paint and molding today minus the fender and some treats here and there but got the main floor built. Not running these bars and probably not this front end but I wanted to check the way it'd look attached to the hitching post. I'm under $400 on the whole build up to this point and I'm trying to keep the whole project under 5k, with a stroker motor and trans yet to be built. we'll see. Today was the first time me and the Searcher have gotten along, Period.

New Trees

Picked up these new trees at the swap. They'e sucking on these 33.4mm tubes real good and they add an inch to the overall length of the forks. pretty neat and in perfect condition. Thanks for the 33's Polgreen!

Buzz's 31

Out of all the things that were going on this past weekend it was refreshing to just stay home and hang out in Mike's Garage. We spent the entire day Saturday watching Chris mask off the intricate the line work. We haggled him while eating Chile Dogs off the wood stove the entire day. Finally on sunday the paint guns came out for a coat of blue candy.

Joe Mama and Leo

Saturday was a full day at the Chicago swap with a sea of parts and vendors, most the boys bailed early after the once through and the sea of kooks began but a few of us stuck it out all day spanning time. It always pays off for me to stick around and take my time at the end of the day to do one last lazy walk through. Did a lot of digging as the place was clearing out and found a ton of buried goodies for next to nothing. Petey grabbed a Straight leg OG frame in need of some help for 100 bucks at last call and we loaded up, seems like the desperate hour is always when the magic happens. We grabbed Joe Mama and Leo and headed back to the shop to get Peteys shovel fired up and spread out the days catch. Peteys shovel proved to have it out for him early on but finally started warming up to him. good times.

FXR Coastal Riding

Robert and I catching up to the pack after being pulled over.

Sweet Sweet Malibu

Wesco for Losers

Got back to the office today to find some fantastic packages waiting for me. Mike D over at the Born Loser hooked me up with an auto advance distributor and very generously threw in some of his outrageous new t-shirts. Package number two revealed a nice pair of wesco loggers care of an Oregon stranger.

Thanks Mike for the hook up and Stranger, I hope you take your lady out on the town for what I paid you.

MC5 is the answer

What would the MC5 do? play that game with life and hang on for the ride.

Bars

It was a great day at the swap. I already had a pile of goodies plus a joe hunt mag for 25 bucks. It was a car swap so most of the people weren't looking for motorcycle parts. I happened upon these bars and the kid selling them was wearing a Dice hat. We got to chatting and it was amazing how similar our circle were. The swap was in Wisconsin and he lives on the South Side of Chicago and I live in a little town 80 miles North West of Chicago. I recognized his Car Club T-Shirt as one that a good friend of mine had printed. Turns out he spends a lot of time in my little town in the middle of nowhere. Chris has turned into a good friend and is a killer painter and an all around good person.

I'm gonna end up making some t-bars out of stainless but in the meantime I'll rock these.

Big Scott Stopnik

Big Scott on his 50 Panhead. It is one of the original "Dragon Bikes" built for the movie The Wild Angels. There were a handfull of them made for the movie. After the Wild Angels was completed it went to the Movieland Wax Museum in Southern California. It sat on display for 35 years. Big Scott wasn't looking to own a "movie bike" but it was cheaper than most of the pans he was looking at so he picked it up. He saved the original tins and had a different sent of original HD tanks painted by Sonny at Road Dog Customs. The Original paint was stored in the closet for safe keeping.

Check out his Blog The Cycle Zombies








It just so happens I shot the bike over looking the vary oil field that Peter Fonda pulls into in the beginning of the movie. It wasn't planned just a coincidence.

The Blackbird

After changing a few things around this is where I'm at. I'm starting to get carried away with idea's and fabrication. I think I'm just going to go ahead and take a little extra time in doing some things up right. I plan on putting a shit ton of miles on it this year so I have to make sure it's solid.


I was finally able to get an inner tube today. So I trued up the front wheel... put some rubber on it and tacked it to the front end.

Karl Edward Wagner

I was about 12 years old when I read my first Kane book. Some pretty heavy shit going on these books. I guess I didn't really understand it at first; left me mesmerized. I read all of them went back for seconds and thirds on each- my favorites changed often. I'm dying to read em again. I used to own the whole collection- the ones with the Frazetta covers. Man what a fuckin treat that was. To get a favorite writer with a favorite artist. A sensory and imagination overload.

Karl Edward Wagner deserves a fuckin shit ton of notoriety for his work. In my opinion - he rules.

4 DEC 1945- 13 OCT 1994

Mega flake

No candy, no flake, just all natural glisten from the underside of a lone trees bark. These wings are the quintessential element in the Searchers paint. I'm hoping that what started out as a dusty little cocoon on an Iowa farm road will provide me with the protection I need when mother nature decides to take it all back. Maybe the good woman will have mercy on me or at least give me one last ride on the rubble.

Bacon's new wife Candice was kind enough to add these precious wings to my collection while we were riding through Iowa last summer. I've had them pressed in my back pocket ever since just waiting for this moment. Afterall, you can't Search without wings. So if you see a swarm of locusts and fire moths cresting the hill on the horizon just know that we haven't found what we're looking for and I don't know that we ever will.

Mike's 31......

...... is getting a little make over. Chris Laurin will be throwing down a wide variety of blue candy on this machine.




The paint will resemble something of this helmet he just painted.

More peanuts for the floor

Good times and bad decisions for all. Thanks for coming out.

photos by Jeremiah Smith

Bravetown Party

The winter cold had us cooped up in our cages for to long and attitudes were becoming rotten. So what better way to fix it than a big party at Bravetown. The Booze flowed like water but it wasn't enough to put out the smoke. Good times were had by all.



Calm before the storm.