Mock O'clock

Some jets came for my tri-daddy today along with a wicked set of 6 bends and z bars I got from the Instagram world. I think I got the jetting figured out, just need to route/adjust the cable in such a way that turning the bars won't change the idle speed. I think I can handle that. Once I got bored of tuning/my ears started ringing i decided to take a page out of the Liam Trainor play book and do some mock ups and take pictures of it with my phone repeatedly. The 6 bends instantly took me on an cosmic journey of imagining I was riding on the rings of Saturn at speeds that would explode an earthly bound triumph in seconds. I think they will be a keeper. Putting the Flanders I was originally so hyped on to the side, for this week at least.

Always tighten all engine covers before running your bike

Entire bike got a nice mist of break-in oil

Comfy

Street wizzes

This being my first post, I would like to introduce myself. Hi, I'm Liam. I'm a semi not seasoned not talented bike assembler, I've been known to work at 50mpm (mocks per minute), everything I own is an ongoing project and I probably should ditch bikes and get into stand up jet ski's like my instinct had been telling me. On the go I have a '76 XLCH  herdley ferguson that hopefully will bring me some Instagram followers or at the very least the respect of some old men in leather doo rags and chaps (isn't that what it's about? I don't know). I have an '81 XT 500 enduro, my favourite bike I've ever owned that encourages several wheelies to and from any destination I'm heading and has actually evaded police once. I also have a '74 CB 360 I'm putting together for my girlfriend at the moment, and an XT frame I picked up to slowly piece together another one with. I like blunt, stunts and jumps, short walks on the beach and big bootys. Excited to contribute to the blog which will inevitably lead to superstardom, Swiss bank accounts and exotic women in foreign cars..

Shralp Saturday season opener in the works, get ready!!

That one time I actually ride my bike!

As im sitting in my basement listening to super tramp on vinyl while its raining out. After the snow we woke up to earlier today i am reminded of warmer less shitty days. While Sipping a strong sailor Jerry's and coke staring at a shovelhead that its dismantled down to the frame and already fucking leaking on the fucking ground!   I recall one of the hand full of times that i rode my bike last summer.   It was a nice day for shralp Saturday over night camp/broke back mountain trip to buffalo poundtown. Full of good time with great people. Shit got lit on fire, beers were drank, garbage cans were caught in the lake, hot dogs were thrown up, 3 grown men slept in the same tent. Days like that make shitty days tolerable keep your chin up! 

The Chrome Trombone

theres no official name for this bike yet, liam suggested the rusty trombone which i am totally down with but its just not rusty enough to facilitate. i started this project almost 2 years ago, knowing nothing about anything, i built my first bike, a '79 cb400, quite poorly by the way and right after i finished it i decided i wanted a pre unit triumph and i was going to get one no matter what. fast forward to now and countless dollars later and here we are, running, ridable bike, just waiting on a 230 main jet and it will be ready to break down on the side of the road. I'm quite proud of this one.

Farm Fun

safe transportation of explosive gasses 

goin mobile

get rid of your problems by setting them on fire

thursday or friday after work nolan and i took his bikes out and ripped around the yard for a bit, after about 20 mins i went to start the ct70 again and nothing. no compression and some strange clicking noises, oops. it was fun while it lasted. 

Pea Shooter Fun Time Happy Hour

I got this front end from ryan wilkes,was on his pre unit and was in an accident.  not perfectly straight, but I'm working on it.

new radius rods to be made out of 1 1/4 DOM tube

my friend Pat is a mechanical genius. his garage is full of giant tools, 150 gallon air compressor, this 7' tall press....cause you never know when your gonna need it

hopefully this works

i have a WL hub laced to a narrow 21 i got from brian super stoked on it. its about 3/8 wider then the pea shooter so I'm going to try and put these 45 rockers on the out side of the legs and see if that gives me the clearance i need

hopefully a bit stronger, parts of this fork look like it should be on a bicycle

ride the wave man

Humble Beginnings

Any one who's seen my instagram thing is probably wondering : "why does this dude put his parts on the floor of his garage and take pictures of them so much?" well the answer is i have nothing better to do when those posts come up, and i like looking at the parts i just bought.

here is the very beginning stages of my next bike, 1950 heads, 1960 left case, not sure the the year of the right yet. front end will be the pre unit fork or the pea shooter and wl front brake set up shown. one day the stars will cosmically aline in a perfect order and i will get a call from my union hall to go work a shut down somewhere and i will be able to afford to buy the bottom end and frame for this bike from a certain older gentleman who seems to like me. "i hate harleys and everyone who rides them" he says, but i have a triumph so i think i am exempt from that rule.

i have a lot to learn, a lot more things to get and a lot of time before april 2015 which is when I'm planning on having this bike done by. we'll see how it goes. the light on the pea shooter is from a '29 hudson, tail lights will be red and green marker lights with glass bulbs. ill run those till i get pulled over or rear ended, whichever comes first. the kick stand under the pre unit wheel is a superior BSA kickstand, i think, i want to try and make it work as the holes are similar to the harley ones.

Border patrol bummers and Barn finds

On saturday nolan and i got up early to make the drive to Plentywood MT to deliver a '77 lowrider for Brian who had sold it Joe of Live Free Cycle Sales. Brian had gotten all the paper work sorted out, crossed the T's and dotted the lower case j's. we get to the border and i'm asked why i think that i can sell a bike to a US citizen and bring it over the border? um because i did the same thing in February? the border guard says the bike needs to be imported through a broker and be inspected etc. it turns out that it is entirely up to the guy at the border whether or not you can import a bike into the US on your own or with a broker. so a 50/50 chance, in feb. brian got lucky and this time around, not so lucky. good to know for the future. not a total waste of a day though, i had met an older gentleman at the moose jaw swap in march who lived near the border who had a set of pan heads, jugs, and 80" fly wheels for me so nolan and i headed for his place.

Matt has a barn like shop filled to the brim with super cool stuff, he pulls up in a '60's 3/4 ton chevy and lets us in. he has a collection of pre '60's schwinn's, a '66 Z16 el camino, a cushman scooter, the biggest lathe i have ever seen, possibly the coolest collection of junk i have seen in the coolest building i have been in. i got a ton of cool stuff, super nice set of 1950 heads, and the things i mentioned before, 7" pre unit front wheel, bates light, pan drag pipes, lots of bits and bobs. Matt is building a '65 pan with 2007 indian sheet metal, he's running a triumph hunt mag off the generator ear and running the generator off of the drive chain like an indian, along with a side car to top it all off. very interesting, excited to see what it will look like when finished.

if i remember correctly, '35, '38, '57, '62, '47, '27

the only one he'd part with was the '57, might be back for it one day...

the bicycle i bought, its a zenith, made by ccm i think?

neat seat

matt built this bike out of turn of early teens bicycle parts in tribute to .. joe...something, the name escapes me, matt said he was the first guy to put a v twin on a bike in 1903, and put a v8 on a bike and raced it on bonneville salt flats. i can't say that any of that is correct, thats just what i remember him saying, i probably got a lot of facts wrong.

there were '30's era i believe, don't quote me on that though i am not a bicycle expert by any means.

i wish i took more photos.

First Post: prepare for disappointment

Liam and I had been talking about starting a street wizards blog for quite some time now, we've been talking about starting a big cartel store for months, making t shirts, making stickers, selling parts, taking over the world. none of this happened, as if we didn't even try to make it happen. but damn it did we talk about it, we had ideas, and dreams. here is step one i guess. the blog. wow.

The street wizard's started in July of 2013 when liam and i bought out "rick's custom cycle salvage" we bought ever motorcycle part he had. tons and tons and tons of junk, a room full of NOS pre 1978 honda parts, that we were led to believe were lots of cb750 and 550 parts, which we later found out were mostly S90 points, turn signals, and cb750 washers and nuts. we had lots of wheels, tanks, front ends, frames, everything, but all mostly japanese and in bad shape. we had taken the garbage out for someone. Street Wizards Vintage Cycle Supply was the name we gave ourselves. Liam jokingly suggested Twerk Master Cycle and i was %100 down with it but i think it was for the better that we chose street wizards.  fast forward to october and we had hardly sold anything at all, nothing was organized, we had pissed away the summer having fun, i was back in town after a shut down in llyodminster and we decided that the month of october we need to get to work, sell the valuable stuff and then sell the rest of the junk as one big lot. fast forward to november and we hadn't done a thing, we pissed away october riding our bikes and skateboarding. winter had come and now it was time to buckle down, in the cold storage locker. we sold the lot of NOS stuff to a guy in washington, did the ebay thing for a bit, hated every minute of it, sold some stuff to friends, and traded the remainder of junk for a '69 BSA bantam which i will post as it gets closer to completion. we were done! out of the junk game! but we decided to keep calling ourselves the street wizards, we will be posting our bikes on here, and the current events in our lives i suppose. liam and i have been working on an internet tv show and by that i mean we filmed us riding enduros in the snow for one day and basically forgot about it. hers some pictures: