Hells Bananas

The Bus – Documentary Teaser/Trailer

ErikBerke — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:10:01 +0000

The protests have long since ended, supplies arrived , I lived. It gave me a true sense of how foriegn I am down here and reliant on the locals. I also took this time to ponder two things: One, the Toyota Hilux is the best truck on the planet. Two, where’s all the diesel motorcycles? While I thought about that, the natives set up road blocks, one died, then they burned down a police station. Kinda awesome actually. O Yea and Noriega is back.

This doc looks like it will be awesome:

Ruh Roh

AdamKosecki — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:58:49 +0000

Email from Berke:

“Dude I am sorta stuck in Panama because the natives are protesting and blocking the road. They say our group of islands has a few days of diesal and electricity left. I guess we’ll see.”

Tank is done, for now

AdamKosecki — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:05:45 +0000

Handy Adam

AdamKosecki — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:03:23 +0000

Saw this at a swap meet over the weekend. I got the same one for my fourth birthday. I don’t think any other gift my parents ever got me ended up having a greater influence on me. On second thought, the influence was my parents, themselves, this just kept me from stealing their tools for a while. (Ironically, I think a couple of the screwdrivers from this kit now float around my parents’ house). I digress. I think it’s great that the packaging notes that it’s made in Poland. Today, it would surely be made in China, and all the marvelous wood handles and “chest” would be plastic.

It’s too bad most of the tools were missing, it would have been a great nostalgic purchase.

VW Bus – Wood Stove Heater

ErikBerke — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:40:56 +0000

For a long time, I’ve wondered about how to heat my VW Bus. I can now consider the problem solved. Purchased a wood stove from Riley’s in Townsend, MT. Picked it up in the ‘factory’ from Riley himself. Each stove is serial numbered and hand made in MT, pure American quality.

Next stop, Butte MT. We get to work with the fabrication and retro-fitting with the help of our good friend and carpenter.

One of a kind and good times ahead.

XS650 Special Tank Update

AdamKosecki — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:39:29 +0000

This bike was painted by its previous owner with an unimpressive metallic red paint that with dissolve in gas. Really lame. I taped off a single stripe along the back and sprayed it down with aircraft remover. Scrape, repeat. I’ll leave the steel bare and either rub in some beeswax/oil or let it corrode a bit. Regardless, I think it looks great.

More CT70 Snow Fun

AdamKosecki — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:21:39 +0000

SNOW!

AdamKosecki — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:59:14 +0000

Finally, some goddamn snow to play in.

Spoken.

AdamKosecki — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:56:24 +0000

There’s No Place Like Here: Liberty Tool from Etsy on Vimeo.

CB160 Non-Progress

AdamKosecki — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:13:53 +0000

Just before I was going to torque down the top end, I ran into some problems. It seems as though the machine shop that did my valve job fucked me. It’s unbelievable that they would return it to me like this… there’s no way that seat would come close to sealing. Good thing I decided to pull apart the valves and check their work. Always check everyone else’s work, people.

They took the head back and told me they’d replace it promptly. Sucks, the bottom end waits patiently…

Note the upgrade I made to the tenisoner: That’s a Z1000 tesnsioner sprocket and axel from Liska Racing - using some drill bits and patience you can remove the cracked, worn out, hardened stock rubber wheel and install this one. It should outlast any other part of the engine.

I’m really at a point where there isn’t much I can do without being able to get the bike together, with the motor in, to tack together an exhaust system and exhaust mounts. Hopefully I get that head back asap.