Jack Pine Cycle

All right, we're here in my building. This is a bike I picked up last winter. It's a 59 FLH. We believe this was raced in the jack pine. Probably was. It was from Burlington, Wisconsin. Pretty cool bike overall. So it's absolutely freezing cold here right now. My goal is basically just to pull this thing out. I haven't done anything to it except drop that speedo in. And what a good time it is. Being 20 degrees outside with snow. Get this thing fired up. It hasn't run in a very, very long time. It's exactly as it was sitting. And we're going to get it going. Ride it in the snow. Hopefully it'll run. It kicks over. Super cool unique bike. I would never change this. So we're going to put a battery in it. We're going to do some work on it. See what we can do. See if we can get it going. It's a really, really cool bike. I'm really fortunate to have been in the position to be able to pick this up. It was a really crazy trip. We'll talk a little bit more about that down the line. That's it. But if it works, that stuff doesn't bother me because it's And This is You can see the points right here. This was a kill switch. So a guy would put a little piece of paper to a string attached to his shirt or his jacket. If they crashed the bike, you'll pull the piece of paper out. The points would connect and then the bike would die. So if the guy felt the bike and they were on the ice or something, the bike wouldn't just ride away. So we're going to hit the part stash. We're going to see what this needs. I don'think it needs too much. I'm going to redo the rear brake, put new tubes in it, maybe put a speedo cable in it. We really want to spruce it up. See what we can do. All right. Bad. Let'see if we can get this off. Still cannot get this off. All right. So the rear brake, I've been messing with it all day. The first part of this bike was nothing. And then as soon as I started messing with the rear dr So we're going to look for a new dr We'll see. We're just kind of rolling with what we got here. It's not a bike that we're going on cross country on. Going down the highway, we're just going to have fun on this thing. So it doesn't have to be absolutely perfect. You're going to see how far we can get today. I'd We're not starting it today, obviously, but we're going to try to start ASAP. And I honestly don'think we're that far from this point. I think it was put away, obviously rough, but I don'think we're that far from jamming on this thing around the farm. So let'see how far we can get, see what we can do. So it was a pretty crazy deal. I found it on the internet. I basically just found photos of the bike. And the guy, I got it from this really cool dude named Ron. He's a really good guy. I found the bike, found his contact, called him up and we made a deal on the bike on the spot and it was located in Burlington, Wisconsin. So the guy was super cool and I said, I'm going to buy it. I did negotiate with him at all. I paid the gas and the price for the bike and I said, I'm down to do it, but you live in Burlington, Wisconsin and I'm in Western Massachusetts. So I can leave tomorrow, but it's going to take me two days to get there. And he was totally cool with that. Drove basically straight there and paid him for the bike, loaded it up. Good deal. He bought it from the original owner or the original family and I think the guy had already passed away. The guy also had a WR that is owned by Eric Bass now and it's pretty cool. Eric had some old photos of this thing on the ice and we think it probably was in the jackhine considering the location would be weird if it wasn't, but we're going to do some more digging on the history and everything. I'm going to see if I can actually confirm that it was. We're going to get this thing going, mess around with it. It would be awesome to do jackpine again on this bike or do some sort of Enduro or something Obviously we have a long ways to go, but I would love to do something. That would be awesome. I never did that kind of stuff. Hub's okay. Hub is actually nice. Got a crazy offset, but I've seen much worse. All right. This is where we're at right now. We put The rear brake stuff on this bike is shot. The front brake plate is seized on. We're going to soak this one for a couple of days and try it again. We have a pretty good idea. I thought I could get a lot further, but that's okay. We're still wrenching on it. You kind of have to just go with the flow with these things. I want to be riding this thing, jamming on this thing pretty soon and I don'think that's unrealistic for this bike. Now we know exactly what we need. For this, I'm pretty happy how far we got and we're going to see what we can do for next week. I think that it's going to be realistic for at least to be trying to kick or really see where we are. I would love to get it started up and I think I don'think that's crazy. That's going to be my goal. I'm going to work on this a bunch over the next week. We'll see you. Stay tuned.