Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Chaos when Wisner cycles was still precision performance in Cedar Rapids

Here is a pic of Zach's bike when we were building it. In this pic the oil tank was built into the rear fender. We ended up thinking it looked dumb and making a new one. These are different pipes also. I miss this shop still.

We miss this guy


a few more pics from the family ablum
















Monday, March 30, 2009

V-stroms and places I'd rather be than work




I'll cut you long wide and deep motorhead


another day in the shop 3/29/09




Here is about everyone that is working at the shop right now, a couple are missing. Jerry and fish working hard.






Shannon scraping gaskets
Fish posing after he just finished about 12 hours of labor on this bike. And Kody Finishing installing gear drive cams in Justin Millers dyna.



Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Here is Kody Dancing.

You can watch this over and over again, and it never stops being funny. But the guy can really build a bike. BTW, Happy Birthday Kody!

Monday, March 23, 2009

Zach's Blue bagger


Here is a quick preiview of Zach's streetglide. It was featured in American Bagger Magazine. I will ge some more pics added of this bike.

working on the semi


Here is a shot of me helping customers at the J&P Open House. This is what our view looks like from inside the semi.

Friday, March 13, 2009

Chaos Wisner cycles




This is the chopper that Zach Parham and all the guys at our shop built. I will post more of it later. Easyriders magazine did a feature on this bike. Dispite being long as hell, it is a great bike to ride.

DNA springer ???????????




This was a bike built at Midwest Motorcycles when I was there. It was a variation modeled after Rhonda and I's BMF. The guy was riding in town and hit a pothole and almost crashed and burned. When he called DNA and sent them pics, they said it was our fault, that when we welded on the fender mounts, it weakend the springer. The fender mount is stock, THEY welded it on. DNA did nothing for this guy. He has since put a American Suspension Dragon front end on it and it looks killer.


Winter Sucks


This is what I think about cold weather in march.

sidecar


This is how most people feel when they ride in my hack.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Midwest Motorcycles Interview sturgis 2006

Having some fun, baka

ratchet, bad brains


Ratchet on a good hair day.

Kow-A-Socky




Thanks Kody,


Take a look at my blog sometime to see what Kody is talking about.

Panhead bobber w/ Accurate Eng. motor.




I built this bike when I had a shop in dubuque. The customer had to have everything exactly the way he wanted, but I still threw in some things on my own. As a team , our shop built this bike in 8 days, start to finish, including paint. This bike was a blast to ride, and would pull a mean power wheelie. I wish I had better pics of this one.


David Mann tribute bike Ghostrider easyriders magazine


I built this bike for J&P Cycles and Easyriders Magazine as a tribute to David Mann's art. It was also timed with the anniversary of the first time it was printed in Easyriders Magazine. I will post some more pics on this later. The building of this bike was featured in the magazine, as well as a full bike feature.

Rhonda and Kody's bike



This is a bike I built a few years ago for Rhonda and I to ride for awhile then sell. I called it the BMF, which is now what I call all my personal project bikes I build. This bike was a absolute blast to ride and wasn't that expensive to build.


This is my interpretation of what my guest author, Ratchet's current project is like.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

KZ 1000 w/sidecar


This is from when I first started at J&P Cycles (late 2004) and after I installed a sidecar. As you can see I use it for advertising (in this pic my old shop's name is on it).

Suzuki V-strom 650 Flat Black


This is my newest toy, A 2008 Suzuki V-strom 650, in Flat Black. I added Givi crash guards, Suzuki hand guards, axle spools, and a Iron Rider tail bag.








Arlen Ness and Kody Wisner


Arlen and I at Sturgis '08. Arlen has been one of my hero's for as long as I remember.

Daytona Photo shoot




These were taken during Daytona Bike Week '09. We were taking shots to use for J&P Cycles marketing. If you like this bike and want something like it we can hook you up.

30th Yamaha Roadstar


This is the J&P Cycles 30th anniversary Yamaha Roadstar I Built. This bike is also featured in the upcoming book, "How to customize your Star" written by Doug Mitchel featuring Kody Wisner.

Getting this thing started

Currently just doing some tests.