A Plague on Humanity

This is a blog that will follow the beginnings of a new concept in motorcycle crafting.  I have been an avid bicyclist for 30 years, and never really been into thing with motors, but then Iacquired a motorcycle.  Being an alley cat fixed gear rider, I bring  the design elements of my bicycles to motorcycles.  I have always been into rat rod cars and the stripped down look.  Fixies are much the same, minimalist in design and radical in concept.  So with my first project I'm bring this concept to life with a rat rod motorcycle, my concept : Alley Rats.  Recently I reconnected with a friend I had not seen in many years, one of the most creative and technically savie people I know, Brian Cahill.  We have known each since sixth grade.  We would spent our time building Legos, playing D&D and Atari.  He recently called me out of the blue and we started talking, and I told him about my project, he was stoked to say the least.  He was always the motorhead in the 'hood growing up, building Buicks and a number of motorcycles. He came over the other day and we started hacking on the thing.  We torn the motor down and it is currently in pieces on the bench, paradise.