dear diary

got me a new tire, commander 2. michelin rubber proves to be amazing, but usually i cant afford it.

been ridin dunlop police tires forever, get about 7 thousad miles out of them max.

when i heard about this tire claiming to ride 10 thousand+ miles.. i had to geat me one.

plus with a name like commander 2 i had to try this thing out.

stopped by to see my old friend today -roady  he mounted and balanced my tire for me,

we started talkin shop talk. i machined a sheave for this machine a while back so, i asked if he had the lathe operatable yet, he gets all excited and says yeah man- wanta check it out...

notice: the long bar on the back is the spindle on switch,

this is dangerous as hell. my old lathe is similar. reaching over the work to turn spindle on, was an old bad idea.

  

turns out this exact model hendy machine was in the original hd factory shop-the little building was destroyed, the shop was torn down a while back but then re-assembled in the smithsonian. cool piece of equipment to have,

i enjoy hanging out at his shop sometimes, its like being in an old motorcycle museum, only better.

so many bikes/parts i want in there.

he had magazine laying around with a picture of the museum replica, i took a photograph of it. american history educational.