Checking in from Cycle Showcase St. Louis
Good morning so I owe you guys an apology a big apology I did this big intro yesterday about cycle showcase 2024 outside cycle showcase and I never brought you inside and showed you the motorcycles I’m an ass I’m sorry go ahead you got work to do see I can get
The lights on for you in a minute a lot better um so anyway I thought before everybody was here and it was hard getting through and seeing all the bikes I would give you guys the inside scoop on psycho showcase again I’m so sorry I didn’t get back to you yesterday there
Were just so many people here and so much traffic it was it just wouldn’t have done it justice however I will tell you oh here’s Chris you telling everybody how you screwed him over yesterday I did I totally I’m like I totally screwed you guys I’m an ass she
Said that when we got in the tur she went I was I never show bikes but it was just that good and I feel like I spent all day here yesterday and I still don’t feel like I got to look over every bike as much as I wanted to
So um while nobody’s here let’s give you a personal sneak peek I’m going to apologize in advance if you are commenting on social media I cannot see your comments so just know that you guys are awesome I will try if you have questions I will answer them later the
Show is open 11 to 4: today if you can get to St Louis if you’re near St Louis hop in your car now get here while it’s open um again 11 to 4 today um let’s look at some motorcycles so you’ll see all the bikes that are on the perimeter actually
Belong to the venue they are part of the Moto Museum which is here um this is its residence uh which is super cool and I don’t I know if you guys heard me talking to Randy yesterday about how this place started you can actually rent this venue and have weddings here and
Host your own events and all the motorcycles again on the perimeter live here but everything in the center and that’s lit um is part of cycle showcase 2024 and you will see an Eclectic array of motorcycles um how many people can say they have a Tuk tuck I would like a
Tuck tuck if anybody has a line on a tuck tuck please let me know I could use it at smoke out um so it’s super cool we’ve got again every configuration that you could imagine even some that you can’t imagine are here on display you’re going to see
A lot of several of these bikes in full interviews on grease and gears TV like this Bali bike um by Lenny out of New York this is a 3 and 1 half year project that he sent Parts all over the world to be painted and engraved and definitely a passion project for sure
Lenny actually is an artist in his own rate as he’s a sculptor look at this engraving and this all this engraving was done in Indonesia so he sent these parts back and forth over a long period of time the paint was done by Soul art in Italy
Which if you pay attention to Soul art design you can tell that this is his work he’s got a very signature style and design which is just unbelievable I’m personally a big big fan um you can see Chris doing some fly overs here for bikes that we’re going to
Be interviewing ooh and let there be light I’m not going to take you around every bike because it would take day beir it wouldn’t be fair yeah you need to come see it for yourself cycle showcase 2024 at the Moto Museum in St Louis okay check this out ready what’s
Different yeah that’s a knucklehead just saying there’s big Randy he is The Mastermind behind this incredible display of motorcycle CES this Shovel Head is by Co presser Walking Tall Cycles what an amazing job he did on this bike um Carl is a friend of ours and he’s been crafting motorcycles for
Quite a long time now but this one for me I think this might be one of my personal favorite of Carl’s like I would ride that motorcycle I’d dve that think somebody said we wanted to make a t-shirt out of that I’d ride that uh gusher Cycles in the
House how many of you can say that you’ve ever seen a bomber land 1927 bom merland this actually belongs to the Moto Museum and lives in residency here they let allowed Randy to let that be part of their of the cycle showcase this year I really dig this pan head of course
It’s a 49 we seem to have an affinity for 49 pan heads in our family Kim’s motorcycle parts and machine made this bike I love that this is cycle boys in the house I got to talk to Brent law yesterday yesterday about this bike he is from
Manitoba Canada and he brought two bikes down um you know I asked him how how it was to have a bike shop in Manitoba Canada and and his words it’s dumb uh our own Missy Shoemaker has a a gallery display her F I think this might be her
First Gallery showing um I’m super excited for and proud to have her here here but she’s got some great prints um that’s her color segment and she’s got a black and white section and she just did a great great job you can check her out at uh biker photog on
Instagram this is one of my favorite actually actually she’s got a couple here these are some of my favorites I don’t know if you can see them with my reflection I think I’m just personally a plan fan a fan of black and white photography in general so please check her out at biker
Photo.com Cabana Dan with one of his impeccable Restorations of a 1914 like I said there’s a little bit of everything MO and I have to tell you that there’s bikes from the United all over the United States Canada and Japan if you paid attention to anything in Sturgis there then you
Saw these two motorcycles from suicide Customs out of Japan um incredible look at this rotor like and I think again if you pay attention you saw me talk about this in stur just uh Co is is incredible and he actually came back to the States for the show
Which is which is huge but make sure you check him out at suicide suicide Customs he and his wife are here and just sweetheart of people and the craftsmanship he exhibits with these two bites is just out of this world he did everything himself all the machine work
And if you’ll notice there’s no pain we’ve got both of these slated for features in Cycle Source got Brock bridges in the house Lone Star Choppers Larry so he actually had uh ry’s letter and girl do these Flame by hand yesterday with a Sharpie while the show was going
On got old what a great Norton look at that 1968 1974 excuse me Norton out of Kansas City we got Detroit Randy in the house with his electric yes I said electric Indian if you don’t know Detroit Randy you’ve got to check him out he does that damn motorcycle show the Detroit Antique
Motorcycle show that he’s actually started bringing around he’s going to be doing um a show in Daytona this year so I just have to tell you Chris do you have have anything to say yes did you talk about this no I haven’t yet I just got here I was just
Coming over here Chris is going to Fan girl for a minute I have to anybody that knows like how much I dig music I dig it as much as I I love motorcycles and last night we had the pleasure of interviewing Chuck whose motorcycle I’m sitting in front of
And mutual friends had told me hey you got to meet our buddy Chuck he’s a bass player for Alice Cooper and I’m like wow that’s cool you know I know some musicians and I’m pretty lucky and that regard sit down and start interviewing Chuck and you know we finally talk all
The stuff about the motorcycles and get around to the fact that hey how long youve been the Basse player for Alice Cooper and he said 22 years and pretty cool and everything he said but I started playing bass with Ronnie James Doo at which point I threw my headset on
The the ground and was just like how do you not lead with this this is quite possibly the The Godfather of heavy metal music I mean one if not the person responsible for heavy metal I think you might have kissed his ring it was it was pretty badass so you know Chuck is
Feverishly intent on going down the destruction Road of motorcycle customizing and we’re glad to have them in it but I think the greatest thing for me like I’m not as much of a music afficionado as you are but to see his pure excitement he digs it man for
Getting into this art form and if Heather didn’t tell you so we have that whole interview and interviews with all of these guys coming out in an episode of grease and gears TV it’s it’s part of the benefit of what we’re doing with gree and gears TV we get to tell stories
Again you know it’s not like hey this is Chuck he plays Bass with Ellice Cooper like we get to talk to Chuck that’s cool we get to tell stories so sweet I’m going to show them some more motorcycles are you done no hell no see all you done
Talking look I found my coffee cup is that really weird oh good lord it’s amazing people invite us back so all right let’s go I’m going to take you with me to the other room cuz there’s more rooms there’s more rooms that’s just one room at cycle showcase at the Moto Museum
2024 um and it’s been a great show this is worth a trip from wherever you are this this show it’s the perfect time of year it gets us connected back with our Moto family a little a whole month before Daytona which is awesome so it makes our Winters a little bit shorter and
Uh last much TR no thought we’re going to go to there but oh yeah it makes Winter shorter so I get to see my our Moto family sooner we get to see incredible motorcycles and I always love seeing what ry’s got going on because you know there’s one other show
That I can think of that people will specifically build a motorcycle when they get that invitation and I feel like this is going to become that for a whole lot of people when Randy calls people are going to be like okay what can I build that’s going to
To make it statement at cycle showcase and it’s so great to see more and more people doing that or bringing you know things that you may not have seen before I’m going to flip the camera and show you one of my favorite bikes in the display we it’s called the Elvis bike
And you’re going to see exactly why here check this out this bike is at of Green Bay Wis how could you not call this Elis it’s a 1949 P head it’s got bling Galore Chrome engraving lights you name it it’s on this bike it’s very very El I love the
Tank I really kind of like the gold Sea I like it all how can you not love that motorcycle it’s loud it’s tacky it’s awesome oh let’s check this one out I sent this one to my sister the first as soon as I saw it my sister does um tank
The tankle project with us and she did a crystal encrusted tank last year that she had 50,000 crystals on and over 500 hours of work and she’s going to do something similar again this year check this Indian out front to back top to bottom it is all crystals hand placed SAR after the
Crystals to the tune of over 200,000 over 200,000 crystals all done by one person and from what I understand she is the person that did it is from I don’t know her name and I apologize um oh let me see if I can this here Angelica um 200,000 hand Place crystals from
Romania I believe she currently resides in Canada but even nor it’s Indian as all crystals so rad we got mid USA in the house they’re good supporters and have always been supporters of cycle showcase we got our own uh own display from roadside Marty Shovelhead in the house crazy Frank
Fender oh he named it after his mom that’s why we love roadside backbone built bikes Harley Davidson look at this engraving I think I saw that this engraving was done by Freddy Shepard Misfit skinny costume let’s see hope I’m not I hope I’m not wrong score one for Heather on Sunday
Morning she got it right amazing oh wow check this out this bike was stolen and then recovered that’s pretty rad you’re not usually that lucky although I don’t know how the hell you’d hide a bike like that somebody’s going to recognize it in the house right there with his Display we got mailbox say hello Cheryl don’t don’t you run away from me hi M Cheryl orrian she and mailman are everywhere and they are so helpful they are they what keep help keep a lot of this going we got black mamba by Duke Butler AKA Butler gang built the
Dreamsicle last year if you remember that orange and white pan head that made its Big Splash great great guys out of Colorado swap meat special like that’s the epitome if it ain’t long it’s wrong by one kick Cycles Ramsey Minnesota nice o just a reminder before I forget shop talk for those of
You that watch we’ve rescheduled this week’s episode to tomorrow night because of the Super Bowl we know everybody wants to watch the halftime show I mean the football game uh but so tomorrow night at 900 p.m Eastern is going to be shop talk we’re going to have Eric Allard from FNA
Cycles join us we’re super excited about that uh it’s going to be a great show same time different day but hope I don’t know if we’ll have a recap from this or not but um just cuz I don’t know if we’ll have time it’s a 10-hour drive
Back to Pittsburgh back to the Berg but I think that’s it for me for now there’s way more to see I didn’t even get upstairs where all the artists and vendors are there’s a whole other second floor I’ll try to get you over there today but I’ve kept you for 20 minutes
On a beautiful Sunday morning again show is open from 11: to 4:00 today if you can get here get here it’s worth it a cool 10 bucks gets you in the door support cycle showcase and custom motorcycling this is the Midwest Motorcycle showcase it is the place to
Be um I think I threatened Chris that I’m going to build a motorcycle for this show next year which I guess I have to put my money where my mouth is and actually do it CU seeing that I invited myself to Randy’s show next year I don’t know what the hell I was
Thinking but I guess I’ll pull a rabbit out of my hat wish me luck uh anyway I hope to see you at Cycle Show Cas today if it’s nice enough where you are if it’s not snowing raining get out and ride your motorcycle if it is snowing or
Raining get out and wrench on your motorcycle do something with it clean it check it whatever dream of warmer days be kind to one one another and