The Hodaka Club Forum

Elderflower Varda for sure. Our property came with a story of another Old Man who lived here, picked Elderberries and the flowers to make and even sell Elderflower and Elderberry wine. The old homestead still stands today. This part is true. Really. On with the story as the real Old Man tells it almost every time he comes through. Simmons was the guy's name, first name Per, as the Old Man tells it. It was really Simms and here's the old homestead where he made wine. True. Our Old Man tells a varying tale of camping there and subsisting on Elderberries and Persimmons on his way North.The Elderberry plants are still here but the berries and flowers mysteriously disappear as he passes through...headed North.

did Per simmons know an old desert racer in southern Calif by the name Pucker up ive heard some kind of story that those two might of know each other just wondering.....

Reread the note again. I had missed the i the spelling looks like a pint of Viarta not varta?? Clarence

Looks like the Old Man has been here today. He always shows up the first day in the year when the temperature gets above seventy knowing I'll have a frame to paint. I did put the apparatus out a few days ago and put the frame in the Hodaka shed. I went out after my nap today and he had completed job and already headed North. Darn, I missed it! I always like the part where The Old Man shoots the arrow through the swing arm with the old Osage Orange bow that hangs in the Hodaka shed. Maybe next frame. I'm off to look around as he's probably hiding in the woods as he sometimes does after a trick. Hard to believe he'd leave with the smell of barbecued ribs drifting from the house.

Dang! He already came back from Acapulco??? Victor

viclioce wrote:Dang! He already came back from Acapulco??? Victor

Somebody painted this. Looks like his good work!

He loves to strip em down paint the frames but seems to loose the parts. I don't have the heart to say anything because he loves to be helpful and does good work, it is just that used hodaka's are getting hard to buy, just for parts. He keeps talking about getting into Gregs shed. After the full meal he sure can get into thar visiting streak. Said he thought he may have been a dealer once , so we will have to meet him up with Bruce. He sure has a collection of muscrat traps. I have never seen him north before the blue birds that I can remember. Yea Victor sometimes he goes for a cup of coco. I don't have any arrows but he always leaves me about three.---------- Clarence

Best stream of consciousness EVER.

Well among all of this stuff I here the old man is on the move headed this way. Montana only has about 50 active cases, best in the nation so there is a little movement. well let you know his arrival.------------Clarence

I hope he stops in here on his way up to Montana! I have 2 more frames in need of painting! Stop by, old man, and I’ll bake you some fresh bread and make you some home made Pasta Bolonese! Victor

No frames for The Old Man to paint this Spring on his way North. I did have a swing arm ready and left it in the Hodaka shed for him to find. He does have a key after that Raccoon problem. On with the story. I did miss the part where he shoots the arrows through the swing arm with the Osage Orange wood bow which also resides in the Hodaka shed. Actually why we had to lock the place as the raccoons were fiddling with it. No telling what could happen the Old Man said. Excellent job here except silver I noted. Wombats are black. All he could find was the excuse. Starting to grow on me but I'm glad I was present when he helped me paint the house a while back. This two arrow approach is a new innovation, like a double rotisserie for painting both sides. Clever guy, The Old Man. Headed North to see Clarence he said, Victor on the Western loop back South. Busy guy. Max

I hear tell he has a concern about the virus and he was looking for a bee keepers covering? But I guess he found something hodaka related to do the job, I will be looking forward to seeing that. He had bummed soup bones at the butcher shops, but now is getting a better variety and more at the food banks. Should be here in a few days will post pictures. He had talked to me about the bow but I thought he was referring to a fiddle, violin?? ------------------ Clarence

A knock on the door yesterday. I'm looking through the peep-hole. Blue eyes. Gotta be the Old Man although his hair seems to have grown and is a fright. Notta chance that I'm opening the door during the Apocalypse. No telling where he's been. Between my 2-stroke ears, a door and two masks, we both can't hear anything. I did slip a Christmas card under the door that I forgot to mail to him last year. He wrote a message on the back of the card and held it up to the peep-hole that said that he was heading North, to see Clarence. Eweleen did make him a sandwich and lowered it down on a string from the upper deck. All safe here in the Good Woods, just wanted to warn Clarence that the Old Man is headed North to see him. He did mention that he might do the loop to see Victor. Our report. Stay well my friends! Max

Well the old man did call about 2 weeks ago Said he had always wanted to see Canada so last winter he got a short pass I don't know what that is? He said he always wanted to go to win a pig and then take the train to Hudson Bay to see a polar bear. Said he had been saving up a few tunies and loonies for years. Well Covid 19 hit and he can't get back across the boarder He also adopted a chocolate lab he named whitey. Whitey keeps him warm at night and the old man doesn't want to leave him behind. He has taught whitey to set for a very long time and to come on a loud whistle, so when he crosses the boarder he will go a block or so, blow the whistle for whitey and he will come on a full run. Said he hadn't met any hodaka people up there and also said to say hi to yaall. ------------ Clarence

Sad to say it but I am behind on three hodaka projects a rat, ace 90, ace90 and s few engines because the old man hasn't been able to stop by and lend me a hand. Like always ya don't realize what good help you have until they aren't around. -------------- Clarence

they say good help is hard to find....best wishes Clarence

Clarence. See my reply to Maxie on his most current post! Victor

Happy New Year Clarence! I heard the Old Man was held up in the Sandia Man Cave, burning firewood to stay warm. Said there was too much snow out to travel further North. Said he’s waiting out the Spring thaw, before heading to the Good Woods & Montana!

He must have come by when I went to the store and I left my garage door open. If you or Maxie see him, I think he grabbed my 3/8” torque wrench!!!

Russerfuzzin, muzzerfusser!!! OLD MAN!!! I need my torque wrench!!! Victor

Way to go Victor! I just googled Zucchini and there it was {Vic's tricks to ... Zucchini Chicken Enchiladas}. Looks really good to! I will try it. ------ Clarence

In New Mexico, we call it calabasitas! Cooked squash with corn, cheese, diced green chile & a little chicken stock with melted cream cheese and some chopped cilantro! Victor

Checking. Old man going north. All started by that rascal Clarence Taber to heckle Max in 2016. Still going today with 75,134 views and 224 comments when I last looked. Most viewed I think. Finally met Clarence at Hodaka Days 2018, or was it the Old Man? Still not clear. I did set on his machine and met his wonderful daughter. Read the whole thing again as I do yearly for laughs. Never the last word in this game. Now the Old man even visits Victor or at least talks about it. Like Big-foot, no real pictures. I do leave the Hodaka shed locked as I couldn’t tell if it was the raccoons or the Old Man rummaging for parts when traveling north or south, depending on the season. He borrows tools but they re-appear but not before I need them. I have extra though but whose 3/8 torque wrench is this? 70F, the day after Christmas today. Climate change has changed the Old man’s pattern and I haven’t seen him for awhile although some mischievous things have been noticed. Could be raccoons I suppose but suspicious. Reporting from this end…Maxie

He spends his Fall in the Sandia Man Cave on his way south to Puerta Vallarta. Spends his Winders down there cliff diving! I’ll see him again, on his way back North to rummage thru Maxie’s parts shed! But for now, we must wait for warmer weather. It HAS been a strange year temperature wise! Victor

Kinda slack here but by golly, talked to the Old Man a few days ago via tele land-line, bad on both ends, my end with a large buzz, the one on the other end just quit and a re-dial only got a recording. Land-line technology still at work. At least it sounded like the Old Man through the buzz and termination and I did hear something about way-in-the-heck-North, somewhere in Clarence’s territory we suspect. Haven’t seen the Old Man for a couple of years but we didn’t answer the door bell for over two years during a pandemic. Could have been him dinging. Someone’s been rattling around in the Hodaka shed but we suspected raccoons, hard to tell who’s mischief is going on out there. That project bike he left in the prairie long ago, sometimes missing more parts. Looks like time for tires but maybe hubs first. Seems the new electric model but might need a long cord. Need to move the game camera up there I guess. ‘Bout it on the southern end of the range of the Old Man, Any sightings on the Victor and Clarence loop? Hard to pin the Old Man down, maybe we should put a tracking collar on him, is one thought. Might need some summer painting done on this end. Max

I seen him do that before, called stump jumping. I'm moving the lathe and milling machine into my mini machine shop tomorrow. The old man has slowed down allot, but he still plays the fiddle fast. Hodaka wise I bought back a combat wombat I sold to a lady years ago, about 1973. I think she made $100.00 profit. I also purchased a 92A running for $2oo and a non running 92A, reeded for $5.00 a good buy, both with passenger seats. Where is the old man when I need him the most, to get all these running for grand kid. I do have pictures of the old man down from Canada on a 2 day pass during Covid. He said he got caught up in the truckers protest and they were all asking for his wisdom, he had seven solutions for every problem they encountered. This was all started by Maxes tool box. ----- Clarence

He was through here a few weeks before I got sick. Was looking for some Thanksgiving leftovers. Had to tell him my kids took them all home.

He did leave me a Wombat roller, which, he said he found south of Albuquerque! Here’s s pic of what he left me. I already have a Wombat 94 motor in the garage I can rebuild! Another nephew project!

He also said Maxie wasn’t answering the doorbell! I told him to try again before heading up to Clarence’s place. Maxie will probably answer now that Covid restrictions have rolled back!

He said he would give Maxie one more try, before going up to Clarence’s place and making a big ole batch of Smoking Bishop!!! Victor