Friday's Walk Down Memory Lane 12/2/2011

Today's walk down Memory lane features:  Brad, age 31

Location:  Las Vegas, Nevada

During Dental School, as if he didn't have enough going on already with his studies, Brad decided he would go crazy if he didn't have something to help him blow off some steam and so he decided to build himself a new motorcycle.  Apparently all the years he had been riding he had never had the pleasure of being able to afford a new motorcycle so he always fixed up old stuff and made due the best he could.  And even though he still couldn't actually afford to go to the motorcycle store and buy a "new" one he decided he would just build one instead.  I mean, he didn't fabricate the motor, or the pistons, or mold the plastics, but he put a super powerful motor from a bike no longer in production into a light, modern aluminum chassy that apparently would be that much faster and funner all at the same time.   He cannibalized one bike for the motor and pipe and then assembled everything else piece by piece to have his own homemade super bike, an AF CR500.  He probably wouldn't like my description here of how he just put different pieces together, that makes it sound like it was an easy little puzzle he completed on a Sunday afternoon and it wasn't.  He had to weld and make other special modifications just to get the motor into the new frame.  In the end, it turned out great and provided him with a badly needed stress reliever during a particularly hard time in Dental School.  Brad truly amazes me at what he can do when he puts his mind to it.  He has put several thousand hard off road miles on it since and it still runs today.