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Old May 29, 2010 | 12:25 AM
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Garage built Evo! Took me from December of 2008 to May of 2010 but I got her done.

First ride in the morning!

Gonna be like trying to sleep on Christmas Eve!

http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/1260225/...PFbe_&pos=ancr

 
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Old May 29, 2010 | 06:19 PM
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First Ride . . .

Dedicated to Billy (Dennis Hopper, RIP) . . .

http://s179.photobucket.com/albums/w...rent=Ride1.flv

Billy was right. They didn't, "blow it."

 
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very nice....there's nothing like riding your own stuff.........Congrats........ . . . .
 
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I finally got around to doing a decent edit on the first ride vid. (Sorry about the predictable music but when it came right down to it I couldn't help myself, LOL!

I've got about 50 clandestine miles on her now and, no ****, nothing has fallen off . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yx1VDsakfs

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