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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 08:10 PM
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Me neither. My fingers must have been moving faster than my brain.
Ha ha, yeah, I have the same type of days! I'm a member of the place where you got your avatar pic from...it's a shirt, but I'm sure you know that.
 
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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 08:20 PM
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I'm a member of the place where you got your avatar pic from...it's a shirt, but I'm sure you know that.
It's a fvckin sweet shirt too! Quad Cam Bastards is an awesome blog. I like a lot of their other stuff but I don't feel right sporting a "Garage Built Sportster" when mine came straight out of the showroom. That being said, I have all of the desire to rip into my $10k bike and make it "mine"...I just don't have the tools or the know-how yet! Soon enough...soon enough...
 
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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 11:16 PM
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Originally Posted by GWinkleman
It's a fvckin sweet shirt too! Quad Cam Bastards is an awesome blog. I like a lot of their other stuff but I don't feel right sporting a "Garage Built Sportster" when mine came straight out of the showroom. That being said, I have all of the desire to rip into my $10k bike and make it "mine"...I just don't have the tools or the know-how yet! Soon enough...soon enough...
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Agreed I want to tear into mine just afraid of doing some kind of un-repairable damage and being out a bike for a while
 
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Old Mar 8, 2012 | 12:09 AM
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That is a sick project. I wish I had the tools and know how. I saw you're from Marion, grew up in Kokomo, family still lives there I would love to see that in person sometime when I'm up visiting.
 
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Old Mar 8, 2012 | 12:11 AM
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Right on. Let me know in advance to make sure I'm in town.
 
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Old Mar 8, 2012 | 12:19 AM
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Originally Posted by GWinkleman
It's a fvckin sweet shirt too! Quad Cam Bastards is an awesome blog. I like a lot of their other stuff but I don't feel right sporting a "Garage Built Sportster" when mine came straight out of the showroom. That being said, I have all of the desire to rip into my $10k bike and make it "mine"...I just don't have the tools or the know-how yet! Soon enough...soon enough...
Yes it is a cool blog. If you search the pics you'll see my work on there. I just put a 1947-48 HD springer on my Paughco frame Ironhead and there's a pic of it toward the top of the first page.
 
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Old Mar 8, 2012 | 12:39 AM
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Well...guess I gotta wait til you pull it back outa storage to see more. Looking forward to it.
 
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Old Mar 8, 2012 | 12:43 AM
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Yeah man. Spring is rolling around the corner so I took some of the bikes that need the most work to storage so I can focus on the ones I have that are closer to being done. The bike in my sig pic is also one that went to storage. That's where I took that pic actually.
 
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Old Mar 8, 2012 | 04:53 AM
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How many bikes do you have in storage lol
 
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Old Mar 8, 2012 | 04:59 AM
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I store my finished bikes there too. I have 5 in the fab shop and 14 (in various levels of project state to finished) in storage.
 
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