I have been fascinated with Japan since a young age. Perhaps that is my age, as Japan was a powerhouse economically and culturally throughout the late 70s and through the 1980s before the great stagnation.
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THE TON has been traveling in 2024. We look forward to seeing you in 2025. See what we have been up to!
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The story so far…
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When Jordan Pearson rode into this past August’s Rally in the Valley, he did not expect to take best in show. In a crowded gathering chock full of freshly built panheads, show bikes, and antique classics, Pearson was glad to be amid such stiff competition.
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Ride the Hot Wind is a film that attempts to merge the retuning Vietnam veteran trope with the bike-spoliation boom of the late 60s and early 70s with very mixed results.
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There’s always a starting point. Although sometimes you don’t know it until you see it
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Chrome and Hot Leather is an easy film to summarize. It is the Green Berets versus bikers.
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Despite the bleak outlook of the film, fans of the genre will get a lot of great eye-candy in the form of bikes and vans throughout the film. It features some of the most recognizable faces of the genre and offers something much different in terms of tone.
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Born Losers is the type of film that could on all outward appearances easily be dismissed as a standard late-60s biker film.
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It has been said that out of great struggle greatness can be forged. In reality, however, often times it takes a helping hand to change the lessons learned from past struggles into something truly impactful.
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This was a milestone year, although it didn’t go as planned, it was still a killer trip. Races or no races, Wildwood knows how to party!
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Porky’s rain AND shine chopper show was a hit for the second year in a row. Never in a million years would you expect rain forest weather to be lingering in western New York.
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In the winter of 2016 Joshua Boggs began to strip down his 2004 Sportster 883. The bike had been lowered, and painted in his father’s garage with a few hand fabricated parts - but nothing that Boggs would say was special compared to where he wanted to go with the bike.
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The end of the build came fast and furious as Jimmi was setting a pace to finish the bike by The 1Moto Show in Portland at the end of April. But, with the looming deadline, a lot still needed to be completed.
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This update is more about what it looks like coming out of that dark tunnel and seeing color again. As the bike finished its fabrication and all the rust was removed it was time to send the tins out for paint.
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While we applied to be part of The 1 Moto Show back in October, we had frankly let it fall of the radar in the month or two following the fire. But word came that the bike had been accepted as part of the show. So now the question pivoted to - can we even make it in time.
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By early December we were beginning to see the bike take real shape. It felt it was only a matter of weeks before we could send the tins out to paint, paint the frame, and begin working toward a final assembly. But, with every build speed bumps got in the way. Only this time those speed bumps had nothing to do with the build itself.
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The fine details are what makes or breaks a custom build. Each design choice has to work in concert with each other. In this week’s blog we look at some of the obvious, as well as little noticed, details that have gone into the 1963 Triumph build.
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