Seventeen degrees this morning, zucchini frozen like a rock. The Old Man departed South yesterday to stay below the freeze line as he always does. He did borrow my paint brushes or at least they are missing. I won't be needing them before Spring. Reporting.

Maxie

It was getting two hard to get quality photos, folks like the idea but didn’t submit photos, then folks complain about the photos that were in the calendar. I have a connection from FB that printed a nice vintage calendar for a really low price, lower then we had before. But just note sure if I’m r...

I've been stumbling over the 2 the Max project in the workshop all Summer as I worked on another responsible project, repairing and painting the house which is finally secure and nearly finished. With Winter approaching I've been gathering up a few parts for the project. Here's the really cool origi...

Same deal here Matt. The owner is in his 90s and known me since I was a kid. First name basis on the whole crew. My kinda place!
Maxie

Victor, my story is when restoring my XS-650 vintage Yamaha, I priced all the parts I needed to mount the front head light. Eek! $75 plus freight. Off to Ace. All new stainless allen head bolts, cool grommets, stainless washers and spacers. $10.75. Ace is the place!

Maxie

Ace is the place! I had discovered that!
Maxie

Well Yay! Great new issue of the Resonator is online for Hodaka Club members. An excellent issue featuring Hodaka Days, the great adventure Eweleen and I participated in for the first time. Many other cool articles and they even humored me by letting me put my photographic take on the scene! Check i...

Good job Victor!

Maxie

Ah ha!

Never owned one but rebuilt a friends 99 a couple of years ago. What a neat cylinder, something we would like to have had in the early days of racing! Big ports, large aluminum fins, big exhaust. This thing should respond to even bigger carbs and porting. It should work well in my opinion. Have fun!...

Am I missing something? Number 28 Resonator is not on my Hodaka Club Site. Just trying to review what I wrote last issue.
Maxie

Well, I finally got to meet Clarence at Hodaka Days. True to form he wore a disguise and spoke with a squeaky voice. We laughed and hooted as one would expect. I checked out Clarence's cool personal bike that he lets the Old Man ride when he goes North. We did meet his wonderful daughter who was wit...

Chuck Swanson, one of the fathers of the Hodaka motorcycle. What an honor to meet and ride in the Hodaka Days parade with him!

Maxie

Big fun meeting Lee Fabry, Kelly in this shot also! Lee had a bunch of cool Hodakas on hand. Nice showing Lee and nice meeting you face to face!

Maxie

Actually still smiling! What a great top-ten life experience I must say! I procrastinated way too long for that Great Adventure! One more Wow!
Maxie

Face to face with Ed Chesnut, Hodaka Days, taking a break by Dale Dvorak's Combat Wombat, both lookin' good for their age! Big fun meeting Ed after miles of conversation on the Hodaka Forum. A pleasure to meet you in person Ed!

Max and Eweleen

Hard to miss Stu Gillard, the Hoadaka Days photographer. He was everywhere! Great stories swapped with Stu over breakfast. Great job Stu and a pleasure meeting you!

Max and Eweleen

Hey Jack and Chris! What fun we all had in Pendleton and Hodaka Days! You two were the greatest! Glad you also had the Great Adventure. Come and see us, you are always welcome in our hearts and home!

Eweeen and Max

Dale Dvorak and his wife Joyce shot by Max at extreme lean angle, at least for knobbies, at a TT stop during Hodaka Days. The nicest of people! Dale furnished three different bikes for three different events, I owe him! Joyce and Dale also rode the Bad Rock with me in tow. What an adventure!

Maxie

Count me out on street bikes. The time has come. Good rider friends have been lost through the years. I read the other day that your are thirty times more likely of being killed per mile driven on motorcycles than cars. Easy math. I've been really really lucky a couple of times in life and have prob...

Big fun meeting and riding with Kelly McKeirnan and his son for the first time!

Maxie

One of the fun parts of this great Hodaka Days adventure was meeting people that you had conversed with or were famous in the Hodaka world. I'm starting to sort pictures and here's a few! Clarence Taber was one at the top of the list and I was not disappointed. What a fun guy. Here's Clarence with h...

Eweleen and I met Dale Dvorack and Joyce for the last great hurrah before heading home after our first epic Hodaka Days event. The least we could do was buy them dinner for their awesome hospitality and Dale loaning me three different bikes for three different events. Dale took us to the Green Lante...

My, wasn't that fun! Easily a top ten life adventure! Really cool meeting everyone in person! Lotsa pictures of the adventure. More to come!