Useless Xpat Cycles: April 2016

jeeee, 2 months without any news. wtf is happening... well, just call it lazyness....So what has happened over the last few months...First of all, I did not buy the XT. Not yet. Funny enough, it was bought by one guy who put it back for sales for 500usd more the next day. So, 2 things: either the bike is not working or else, the guy is trying to make a quick buck.. Second, I finally came to terms with what I will do with the Triumph. There are 3 types that I would like, here it is:

Also, I find out that one of the bike I had sold to the Editor in Chief of a French Motorcycle Magazine called "Wild" had been chopped up by some real good custom builder in south of France for a beautiful results.

I also purchased an Enduro bike to go into the woods. I bought a 2011 KTM EXC 300. That thing is a beast.

So I will use this one for trail riding but will keep the 200 SX for motocross track.

On the 200, I put her original plastic and ordered some decals from Slovania to give her a killer look. Too bad I don't ride as good as she look.

So as you can see not much on the building side, but more on the spending and pleasure side.

Same as last year, I pack my bag to attend the famous Giddy up in New Braunfels, Texas, but this year, I stayed over cause I wanted to attend the pre party on Friday night.

As a consequence, I ended up putting a sissy bar on the shovel. Sissy bar that I had recuperated from the XS 650 basket case I had purchased few years back. It wasn't ideal but it did the trick.

The ride was just awesome. Due to familly issue I had not been riding for a while and it reminded me how good it was to pack and hit the road and leave every hassles behind.

And how good the beer taste after a lond day of riding. Especially when it's free, thanks to Lone Star Beer who sponsored the event.

The party was good and there was few good looking chopper.

Funny enough the event was taking place on the parking lot of HD Gruene. They had a 300usd draw for the evening and for the first time in my life, I won.

Well, at Harley, 300usd just buys you a shirt and a tees but what the h.. it's free. Wish I had won the drawing for the panhead at the show but still nice to win something...

Back the next day, at the River Road Ice House for the show.

And there I gotta tell you, in my opinion the best of show was a f... school project. Why didn't I have a teacher like that.

There was a lot of other nice stuff also, in particular the long, long fork from Love Cycles and the Pan from Evil Engineering.

My Scandinavian friend would go crazy at this fork.

After another uneventfull week spent on trying to find where the short on my chops was coming. I headed for Austin to watch the moto gp and check the "handbuild show".

I got lucky again to find a french bloke that got me into the paddock where I observed the way the teams operated. And as luck struck out, I happen to be there when "the Doctor" came out to sign some autograph.