New, Young, and err that's it really

[Wizid]

Hi all,

I'm 24, from the east coast, rode out here to Phoenix at the beginning of July, had a 3 week adventure of it.

I've started at the Motorcycle Mechanics Institute for Kawasaki & Suzuki. I take these programs because I cannot with good conscience become a Harley mechanic - the Harley I love isn't built anymore. Not many of the bikes I love are built anymore, in fact none are.

However I need a career track with people in buisness if I am going to survive, haha, so I chose those two.

I Love Norton's the most. Specifically later model ES2s, Dominators, The Atlas, and Fastback Commando's. I also have a soft spot for the P11. I also love Triumph, Matchless singles, Panther, Vincent, Velecette, Arial Square 4s, and Brough Superior. Old school Ducati's, Moto Guzzi smallblocks, and some German bikes.

My greatest joy is what I would call roasters, when your legs are either at a 90 degree bend or your feet are just slightly behind you. I love drag bars or bars with a slight rise. I like bikes to look low slung and mean, but I want them to be a bike you can ride every day and take cross country if you like. I like Rigids quite a bit and hope to own one someday.

My favorite thing is to build specials, think up new things, try new ideas. I really love Norton featherbed frames for that. I'm hard at leaving things stock. I'm horrible with re-sell values because I upgrade or downgrade things to suite my sense of beauty and design.

When I got here I bought a 2005 Suzuki SV650 because it would be a bulletproof dead reliable set of wheels. I can't stand it. I'm in the process of selling it to a classmate, I am waiting for a 1973 Triumph 750 Tiger that I bought to arrive so that I can get back to what I Love.

I'm pleased to be here. Looks like a great forum.

[little d]

welcome aboard wizid, post up some pics of the tiger when ya get it. later

[Wizid]

welcome aboard wizid, post up some pics of the tiger when ya get it. later

Thanks, and I have the 'stock' pics of the bike I bought:

The red and gold is my old '73 T140V which I got when I was 22, that was the day I got it. The rest are of the Tiger, better pictures when I have it in person.

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n116/GuzziTriumphEnfield/IMG_0286-1.jpg

[Greengypsywolf]

welcome,and nice scoot.

[Cali Kingpin]

Welcome to the board Wizid...good to see you've got a bike you love.And what a clean bike too!

[Wizid]

Thanks Cali Kingpin, I'm thrilled beyond measure to have (or soon to have) another British roadster. I'm thinking about it in Rigid form... but not at the sacrifice of this bike.

I turned the Red/Gold T140V into a Triton last year after my dad died - a project to keep sane.

http://photos-e.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v286/92/40/49403127/n49403127_31625444_690.jpg

The Norton had seen better days, but it's the bike my dad bought new at 21:
http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v38/92/40/49403127/n49403127_30237709_2048.jpg
Thats him in the mid 70's.

The parts off the Bonnie paid for the building and restoration of the Triton. So now I have a '73 Triumph frame in mint condition back home without a bike to go with it.

So I think at some point over the next year what I may do is get that Rask Cycle hard tail frame for the OIF and send it home. A Buddy will weld it all up with a battery plate and brackets for a seat - then mail it out to me here. I'd then switch the Tiger into the Rigid frame and stow the original Tiger frame for future need - or restoration back to stock.

[little d]

sounds like a plan wiz, the pic of your dad is cool, wish i had a pic of dad with one of his.

[Wizid]

Thanks Little d, and ya that's one of my favorite pictures of him. I actually really lucked out with that - dad, his brothers, and most of his friends all seemed to like cameras - so I have lots of pictures from the 70's of dad either riding, racing, or working on bikes with his friends.

In that pic above he's out in a field by Nelson's Ledges racetrack with his '67 Atlas and his buddy Chip's '71 Fastback. He's wearing the Triumph t-shirt because of Dylan. Well I've got my '73 Triumph on it's way and I have a Norton t-shirt so I figure I'll dig up a friend, a field, and a camera and go do a little tribute.

[Osprey]

Welcome, love the old pictures!