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pipes together and wire it then i have to inspect to title and register which should be fun i agree jimmy posted by bird at 5 08 pm no comments wednesday january 6 2016 new xs chopper project update posted by bird at 8 25 pm no comments labels ahab attack chopper bird new project xs650 yamaha monday january 4 2016 bike table on the cheap so i m alive yep money still isn t falling out of trees but i do have an attack chopper project going folks no this isn t it but tom rose thought you all might like to see my cheap bike table project and i think he s right i love homemade equipment and garage shots so here it is with a friends sr500 project on it at the moment where i am doing putting it on a diet for him the table 4x4 corners handful of 2x4 s and some 3 4 ply wood tire vise is cobbled together from more scrap i had lying around you can use wood to guys it s not a beefy tire vise because it doesn t need it for light bikes but i have tie down anchors that i am planning on mounting on the table for heavier bikes to give me a little more security i scavenged a lot of it from construction sites because i scavenge wood any chance i get and bought a little bit more of it to finish it up all the parts pertaining to a project can be stored underneath the main surface on the shelves as well as pertinent tools and fasteners i put a bottom on it for even more storage because i am going to mount castors on it sometime soon and make the whole thing more mobile so i can roll it against a wall or even out into the driveway if i want save your back save your shelf space save your sanity build yourself one of these you could even build one per project if you were so inclined and then use the castors to just switch the projects around if you had the room to store them all the projects parts and tools could stay right with the bike and not get mixed up between projects chopper update to come bird posted by bird at 5 39 am 3 comments thursday august 29 2013 tim s beautiful ktm matchless hybrid well folks i m still not back into the swing of things but i do have some amazing pics sent in by reader tim aucott of his newest project at ktm 520 in a 1955 matchless frame amazing work tim i love it thanks for sending in the pics posted by bird at 4 22 am no comments saturday june 8 2013 great article which foreshadows my next piece a bit good stuff guys a lot of what kris says here can be directly applied to your attack chopper kris is thinking right along the lines of what i have been meditating on over this past year this is most certainly worth your time to read and look at enjoy those nice photos too http www stanceworks com 2013 06 the true driving experience only comes from driving a classic bird posted by bird at 4 25 am 1 comment wednesday february 6 2013 lots going on over on the new attack choppers tumblr have you stopped by to take a look tons of pics more to come http attackchoppers tumblr com posted by bird at 8 57 pm no comments wednesday january 23 2013 so i might be back maybe things might be happening again might be to early to tell but this did happen today http attackchoppers tumblr com yes you saw correctly a tumblr page less structure not many words more pictures i will likely post a few words here if things keep going the way the seem to be going but a lot of the photos may end up on the tumblr page enjoy looking forward to talking soon peace out ninja bird posted by bird at 1 03 pm no comments friday january 20 2012 final post attack chopper short story well kiddos this may very well be the last post on this blog if not the last then the last one for quite some time i have come to a point in my life where i no longer have the time money or the ability to build or support an attack chopper or project and also no time to keep working on this blog or surfing the web for photos to post i am pretty tied up at the moment no snickering from you flynch and have come to the conclusion that i should tie up any lose ends and give you followers a parting gift i wrote this little bit of fiction about a year ago for fun and it never went any further it s yours now enjoy it s been fun thanks for all the ridiculous hater comments and for the cool folks out there that do get it keep the faith long live the attack chopper evade pursue survive bird he opened his eyes and struggled to find something to focus on all he saw was the green led light glowing on the cordless drill battery charger he rolled towards the nagging buzzing of his small wind up travel alarm clock that he scavenged from the junkyard 2 years ago while he was parts hunting in texas he reached over and gently took it off of the over turned 30 gallon steel barrel that he used as a tool table and bedstand he clicked it off in the darkness with care he liked the alarm clock it was small elegantly engineered in a time long ago and it did its job well with precision and class he thought about the silver face of the clock as he looked at it in his hand but saw nothing in the dark he laid in the darkness and remembered why he set the alarm for 9 pm he had a run to make tonight he had the ritual to start he sat up carefully waking up quickly as he did his mind already thinking ahead of him to the things he needed to do he reached up for the light switch mounted on the side of the work bench where he could reach it from the old army cot that he set up and slept on right against his work bench he snapped the lights on his eyes hurt from the bright light only a second but not his head he never drank before a run two days before if he had enough of a warning if he had been drinking and he got the call to make a run within 24 hours he turned it down no matter what the pay he needed his head clear and razor sharp to run as his eyes adjusted to the light he sat up and swung his legs over the side of the cot he looked down at the floor and his boots he slept in his leathers and with his small 1911 in his shoulder holster but not with his boots on he used to keep them on but he decided that if he didn t start enjoying a few small luxuries in life he may never get to enjoy any sure he may get woken from his sleep having to fight for his life or to run for it but he had to start relaxing sometime he told himself he was getting sloppy and he needed to sleep with them on and to remember to stay ahead of the other guy stay sharp stay focused stay alive high speed low drag be ready to move in an instant but it was too early to be nagging himself about personal discipline he had to get ready he got up and moved very carefully not to knock over his pump action winchester shotgun that always leaned against his cot right near his head he scooted it over to the wall and proceeded to fold up the army cot and pack it away under the bench he wiped his eyes and then took a drink from the small canteen that he kept on the edge of his workbench where he could reach up and find it in the dark if he should wake up thirsty he stretched and put his boots on he was hungry but not hungry enough to worry about it he could eat after the run he didn t want the extra weight in his stomach he scratched his head wiped his eyes yawned and looked around leaning forward he slid the small rolling work stool closer to his bike on the small wooden work platform he had constructed from scraps of 2x4 s and plywood he had scavenged here and there he stopped took a deep breath and started he slipped his medium length extension though the full length aluminum belly pan that run the length of the bikes frame and unscrewed his drain plug the oil started to run into the aluminum pie pan he used as a drain pan as he caught a bit of the oil on the tip of his finger and put it straight into his mouth he found he could feel the metal fillings on his tongue easier than he could feel them on his fingers or see them and the taste of the oil also clued him into the condition of his clutch plates hmm the plates were ok the metal filings were nothing to worry about he was in great shape this motor was holding up excellent he leaned over a bit and looked at the color of the oil with the light behind it then inspected his bellypan big scratches to be sure and a gouge or two that bellypan was working beautifully he remembered the last big hit he took jumping a curb a week ago over by the red market that was that big gouge there on the left he took out his permanent marker and marked it and then redid all the slightly faded marks next to the other big gouges he wanted to make sure he kept track of all of them and keep a close watch on the condition of his pan he wanted to know what he could and couldn t do if he took a chance and took a big hit that got through the pan he wanted to know he slid his stool back and looked around his home a tiny one stall garage is all it was no windows no doors other than the small overhead door several very bright high output fluorescent fixtures were mounted above the bike and on the walls carefully angled and deflected to keep them out of his eyes but offer plenty of light bouncing up off the floor and across the room so he never had to deal with shadows hiding something important from him packed into the very small garage was his support system his tig welder his small lathe his drill press grinders small tool box various hand tools and a very minimal amount of spare parts his wooden workbench was small and purposeful wall space was utilized to hold any scrap and larger tools to keep as much of his floor space open as possible his cot was now folded up and stored underneath the work bench next to his spare motor and small torch tanks there were no decorations save for four pictures on his walls they were placed right above his workbench so that when he sat on his stool next to his bike and looked over the seat towards the workbench he saw the pictures dead center in his vision one was a sharp black and white picture of a p 51 mustang in flight looking like it was doing 6 000 miles an hour when he looked at the photo he feels that he is the pilot he could see in that pilots forward facing gaze the burning focus the intensity he knew it well he can hear the roar of the merlin engine sometimes he wakes up from a dream where he is flying the mustang into combat and he can still hear the engine wailing and the vibration of the guns firing as he sits upright on the cot in the dark and thinks that he was shot down next to that was a color painting of two gudal canal f4 wildcats banking high on a squadron of zero s below them they are blue with white and black us stars on the side one wildcat has oil streaking from under the engine cowl he loves the painting he knows that feeling too feeling like death from above coming down on the enemy high and from behind next to that is a small painting of a fictional train engine pulling a streamlined train he assumes it is fictional because it has smoother and more majestic lines than any train engine he has ever seen he remembers a special woman when he looks at it he thinks of the drive to be the best to conquer to survive and then next to that is an old photograph of a frisco style panhead chopper from a time gone by the chopper is amazingly skinny and the pilot is tucked in tight knees high on frisco pegs elbows tucked in head dipped low body hunched over trying to keep the his weight low and towards the front end peering over the t bars eyes cold with concentration as he wheelies the bike over the crest of a hill in sanfrancisco at what is no doubt a high rate of speed the bike is light and stripped to the absolute minimum he has stared at that photograph millions of times and wanted desperately to meet that chopper pilot and then to run him through the streets of neotokyo and see how he would match up to him he listened to the slow gurgle of the oil falling into the pan as he reached for the spark plug wrench and pulled the boot off the plug he inspected the plug electrode carefully under his magnifying glass looking good he was happy with the burn and thought back over the months and months of careful r d he had to do being careful not to get caught out on the streets with the bike in a poor state of tune he took his time and cleaned the electrode carefully then gapped it open just a tiny bit farther with handmade feeler gauge carefully checked every time he used it with his calipers he inserted the plug back into the head with his eyes closed using both hands to guide himself and then gently turned it in the threads with just two finger tips on the very end of the plug he squeezed his eyes shut tighter and concentrated he felt for the plug to bind for any resistance at all he felt none only when he felt the plug seat did he allow himself to open his eyes the music from the club above him started to pound suddenly the dull thump of the bass cabinets soothed him many times he found out what day it was by the type of electronica that came soaking through the cement floor of the club oh good it was his favorite acid breakbeat must be saturday his forehead tightened suddenly as he thought of the saturday night sunday morning traffic he would have to fight it made it a challenge but he had a bit of an edge slicing through a pack of drunk drivers their unexpected behavior and crazy jerky lane changes gave him the advantage more than once he had shaken a nasty bogey by out swerving the fat tired bike with a sloppy slow handling swingarm frame and watched the exploding pieces of sport bike in his small rear view mirror as he blasted away he rolled his stool along the wooden platform inspecting the safety wire and looking for any unforeseen problems he put his hands on every bolt checked every clamp and ran his hands along the nickel plated frame looking for cracks he spotted a bit of rust and promptly wiped it away with a bit of windex on a clean rag he checked the safety wiring on the axle nuts he spun the rear wheel slowly and checked his chain tension he had already adjusted it last night but it wasn t luck that had kept him alive this long as he rolled the stool back to check the progress of his oil draining the light caught the rainbow colored titanium pipe where he had cut and re welded it to tuck it in tighter to make room for his boot to tuck in closer to the motor the oil was done he told himself he changed the oil way too much it was a waste of precious money every four runs come on who changes oil that much anymore maybe big name factory race teams back in the day but there was no racing anymore anywhere at least not on tracks and not for trophies and not by any rules that would be recognized by the racers of the past money was hard to come by these days and so was oil at least the high performance oil that he ran in his bike he shook his head to clear the doubts he didn t care he wanted to do it and he wasn t going to live forever and he took great pleasure in pouring the fresh oil into this motor he opened the footlocker hidden at the 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