Bean Blossom Boogie

First time ever at the bean blossom biker fest, and about  time I made it out there! My older brother told me about this, event so I headed up from Florida and spend a great weekend with my brother and friends .

      Very nice campgrounds, located at the Bill Monroe music park in Bean Blossom, Indiana. These campgrounds used to be part of the old Indiana ABATE bean blossom boogie which has since located to newer, larger facilities. Not to mention become a major national rally and industry in it's own right. Lucky for real bikers and wild party lovers throughout the eastern United States, the heart of the old boogie still lives on... at Bean Blossom.

      What's in a good bike rally? Bands? You want bands? Forget your socks, this festival will rock !  Pound for pound this rally packed more bands and quality music than the year-end inventory blowout sale at your local bargain store. Top notch bands, at bargain basement rates.

       A pool tournament with a honest to God real pool table for first prize. Bike games? They've got'em! Motorcycle show, sure! First prize? A trip to Vegas! A burn out contest, jaw poppin' custom bike builders? Believe it! This rally was really well done and had it all.

      I would guess there were around 5,000 people or so showing up for this one, with all the usual tailgate parties going on here and there in the campgrounds. This entire rally had a ''good'' feel to it with friendly people, great bands, good contests and a hard to beat location. Plenty of private camping spots, plenty of shade everywhere. And of course vendors catering to your every need.

      You don't often hear me really rave about a bike fest, but this one definately deserves it. Not the wildest rally around, but just a great old school ''let's get together and have a party'' weekend.

      Too bad it's only once a year. I am soooooooo putting this one on my ''to go to'' list for next season, and you should to.

Can't go wrong with Black

You can go wrong with basic black, this is a Softail I painted for a guy in the mid 90's he just wanted a basic black paint job and it turnout great sometimes the simplest is the best

Softail

These big-twin motorcycles capitalize on Harley's strong value on tradition. With the rear-wheel suspension hidden under the transmission, they are visually similar to the "hardtail" choppers popular in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as from their own earlier history. In keeping with that tradition, Harley offers Softail models with "Springer" front ends and "Heritage" styling that incorporate design cues from throughout their history.

Project Bikes

I like building bikes just for fun out of old parts is the best,unfortunately some of them never see the road

hand shift and training wheels

shovel/pan

Ironhead Sporty chopper

A little bit of everything

Sporty Chopper

Dyna Lowrider Project

The first Bike I Built

This was my first bike I built all from parts I wanted the early  classic look but with the dependability of the new EVO the only main component that was after market was the frame the motor i had ship in from Ill in a crate ( it was like Christmas in July opening up the motor for the first time) and everything else I got at swap meets or from a guy I met named Scrappy he could find you anything you wanted. this bike took on many changes over the years

• 91 EVO motor (no chrome)
• late model rotary 
• Santee frame
• 2 into 1 fishtail
• 82 FL front end
• Sturgis final drive 

Great Photo Op

So this had to be about 1995 or so  me and friends went and had breakfast and someone said Dale's Car was gonna be on display  at the local chevrolet dealership, so we road over and sure enough, there it was the famed #3, the salesman must have been impressed or a Harley fan and he aid hey were slow (and the boss ain't here) you guys can roll your bikes in for a photo op, the only think that would have made it cooler if Dale would have been there no such luck. oh that's my old bike 3rd from left, GM Goodwrench black EVO rigid!!

Coolest Bike from OCC

First off I think the guys are idiots myself, kinda like a motorcycle soap Opera, but any way that my rants but heres in OCC bike my boy schlepped for me the other day, this is rally cool and a lot of detail the primary belt rotates when you roll the back tire  all the levers work, kick stand it's a very nice piece thanks son.

Cool Trike

Trike Envy has to build the best looking trike out there, this is my goal either to buy one or build something the looks like this (I think a Pan would look good in there)

10 Foot Flames!

I know what your thinking! 10 foot flames on a bike no, this was my first attempt of painting Hot Rod flames on my bike so it looked great from 10 feet away!!!, it was an everyday rider so no one had a good change to look close at 60 mph down I-95

Green Flames On A Bagger?

Green Flames. Ape Hangers.21" front wheel (ok I could do with out the 21 on the front) but the rest of it is just wild, I caught this big parked beside my church the other just had to take a pic, don't know who it is is but it is cool!!

"The Motor"

The  Motor ( a true story) a good friend of mine was redoing a 58 PanHead, with all the latest and great parts of the time  STD heads etc, so I asked what he was going to do with his old parts he cheerfully sold them to me at a bargain and and i had some left over parts from other projects and a bottom end that my older brother had found me up in Indiana in some guys basement.we built this motor for about $750 and it ran!!!!!!



Specs

• 1974 Shovelhead bottom end
• 1958 Pan heads and cylinders
• 1980 80" shovel pistons
• S&S intake
• 91 CV carb
• Dyna S dual fire ignition

So as the story went with a little help with an adapt-o kit we got this thing together after making external oilers in the heads,milling the cylinders down so we TDC the thing actually ran and it ran good, unfortunately I sold the motor, but I still know where it is and he ain't used it yet maybe some day I'll get it back

My Favorite Bike!!!!!

This has to be my favorite bike I have ever owned, or built now this was not a showroom,bike show or trailer queen

• motor: alternator "pan" (that will be a whole post in it's self)
• 4 speed kicker only
• Santee mechanical rear brake frame
• shifting by hand (adapted HURST shifter)
• clutch by foot (sure kept people from wanting to borrow it)