1 - A means to make themselves a part of a "club" where they get to mercilessly and shamelessly tell the world about how awesome their dog is and let us listen to the latest Toby Keith track. I don't care about your Rot's new sparkly collar and I don't think I could possibly give less of a damn about anything on this earth than Mr. Keith.
annnnnd 2 - blogging finally evolved into something that's actuallly more painful than blogging, and that is the status update and/or twitter announcement. Before, I only had to sift through the mundane at MY leisure. If I decided your self aggrandizing tripe was just that, I could block the site via "internet options" and go illegally download something. Now, our beloved FaceSpace (I'm not going to continually write Myspace and Facebook over and over) has gone from being what was once a picture and message center (my own version of email) to people giving me their minute by minute playbook as to what's going on in their lives. I don't care what you had for breakfast and I really don't care that your ritual morning coffee gave you a case of "the downtown push downs" 45 minutes before your lunch break, a break which you don't really deserve due to your "Facebooking" tendencies. Yeah, Facebooking is a verb now.
Sooooo long story short I decided to start in on this blog out of some interest I've recieved in the bike project as well as the fact that I personally could look at build projects such as this for hours on end. Take this cat, for instance. If you're a huge nerd for design and a fair bit of engineering, you should definitely check out this guy's build, just so long as you have a few spare hours sitting around.
Now, let me set something straight.
He took 2 and some odd years to build an almost exact replica of a 1919 Excelsior motorcycle that sells for around $150k last time I heard. I DO NOT profess to have anywhere near the skills or dedication this guy posesses, my point is that I can't get enough of sites such as his that go into great detail about the custom stuff going on in the build, so I'm hoping I can give some folks at least a low rent, trailer park version of the Excelsior project. I'm hoping for a fair amount of commenting from all you viewers in the interwebs on ideas, color schemes, whether or not I should JB weld a troll to the handlebars, etc. I'm all about criticisim as long as the comments are
A: Constructive
B: not contrary to my beliefs, and
C: well, on second thought lets just leave the comments out of it
Just kidding, jackasses! If the new carbs remind you of a cheese toastie you had back in the fifth grade that kinda reminded you of Cloris Leachman's self esteem after a week of heavy coke use, well by all means let me know. Also, feel free to give me a nudge if I start becoming a pretentious douche nozzle.
Enough with the rants, lets move on to the good shit. I'll start her off with a pic from the very beginning. I think this was taken the day after she arrived in the stable, hanging out in the driveway charging.
Take note of the awesome pannier closure system (read: blue carabiner) and the overall scummy appearance of the thing. I was in love, but now I'm in fear of passing out from lack of sustinence. The build as of right now is little more than a rolling chassis so I assure you you're not missing much at the moment. More on the way, frozen pizza here I come.
