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Monday, April 18, 2011

No sleep til....

Alabama!
Alotta coffee, alotta driving, and alot of cursing...41' Indian picked up....in person! Me and Lil' hatchet took A red eye road trip of sorts on the dixie route to Alabama to pick up my new best friend A 1941 Indian Scout. My dads dream was to buy an Indian and ride it out to our reservation in Oneida, Wi, and then across to the west coast and back if he decided to come back, he always jokes about staying on the rez...Well, as life went by my dad's dream started to turn into my own dream, I aCHIEFed half of both of our dreams this weekend, an indian motorcycle is now part of the family. In all of my hobbies and interests in life I have met really cool and interesting people, Ray Owens was no exception to that, He was A lifetime motorcycle guy, who had recently taken ill with cancer and had to downsize his tribe.. He sold 2 Indians this year, and has 1 left and 9 other antique motorcycles. He was filled with more knowledge in motorcycles then your average bear, and he took the time to pass some good info on to me about the bike and motorcycles in general. Me being the nostalgic type promised to keep in touch with him and the progress of what I do with the old time indian. He has spent 5 years getting this bike together mostly of original indian parts with only A few exceptions, but I won't hold it against him, I think he just wanted to get it finished. I'm not sure the direction I want to go with the bike yet but I'm sure it will be bobber/racer/traditional of sorts....I'll keep you posted as will I keep Ray posted.

Mr. Ray Owens from Alabama one hell of A guy and awesome motocycle builder!