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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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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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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In our first installment of the 1963 Triumph build blog we introduced you to the bike, and its many quirks. Now, we want to introduce you to the builder taking on the project – Jimmi Davies. Long time readers of THE TON may already be familiar with the name Jimmi Davies. Afterall, his bike Slingshot was one of the first bikes we featured back in our first issue three years ago.
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Part of me has always been fascinated with Triumph motorcycles. In my younger, and more formidable years I was intensely obsessed with youth culture. Throughout the 1990s I walked a fine line in many circles as someone who was at once both a “mod” and a “rocker”. We colloquially called such people “mockers” in the pacific northwest.
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