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.