The Sporty TT

Here are some shots I took of the SportyTT at sunset the night before BornFree5.  People really dug the bike.  As I type the bike is on a truck on it's way out to Michael Lichter's Art of the Motorcycle - Ton Up event in Sturgis.  This year he's featuring Cafe Racer's and our bike is in good company - the show will feature bikes by Shinya, Willie G, Ray Drea, Roland Sands, Kim Boyle just to name a few. We're stoked!  When I laid out my vision of the bike to Ry before we started the build, we both knew it would probably turn out "ok"...as the build continued and my sketches and Ry's fabrication started really jelling we would both look at each other and giggle like little school girls as each part turned out better then we expected - we knew we were working on something special - at least to us.  The response to the bike has kind of confirmed our notions during the build that the bike stirs something up inside people. I can't thank my buddy and brother Ry enough for all he did.  Nothing I thought up did he balk at.  Every little change I made - and there were MANY - he rolled right along with never losing his patience.  I think his fab work and my ideas/sketches really began to inspire us both to make the bike better and better - the word Synergy comes to mind. Now that it's done I'm left with the need to build something else - like a junkie needs his fix.  Even though the bike is done this really feels like just the beginning...