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The Ultimate Builder rolled into Cleveland, OH and for the 3rd year in a row, snow greeted the custom bike builders as they unloaded their sled into the show.
Cleveland, founded in 1796, is located in northeastern Ohio on the shore of Lake Erie and just 60 miles West of the Pennsylvania border. It’s home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Ultimate Builder FreeStyle Class
Jesse Bassett at The Gasbox began the custom Indian sled build with an eBay-found 1940 741 Indian frame. A Norton Commando 4-speed transmission was chosen to replace the OEM Indian 3-speed. New engine plates were made and the scout primary was cut in half, offset and mated with a 1920’s Indian outer primary. All aluminum was polished, all steel was nickel plated, and all cast iron was electroless plated. The entire frame and fork were nickel plated then painted Indian red.
1. Jesse Bassett, The GasBox – 741 Indian, 1940 Military Scout
2. Jesse Bassett, The GasBox – The Grape Escape, ’75 Shovelead
3. Justin Kenley – 2012 Softail
Ultimate Builder MOD Harley Class
Three years ago Bob McAreavey rolled his orange and black Softail into Cleveland’s IX Center and took the MOD Harley win. In 2013 he came back with a Roadking and took the win again. 2 shows and 2 wins.
1. Bob McAreavey – 2009 Roadking
2. Little John Kuklisin, Klock Werks – Softglide, 2010 Roadglide
3. David Cook, Sledgehammer Bobbers – Sledge, ’11 Dyna
Ultimate Builder Performance Custom Class
Chris Carr won the 1992, 1999, and 2001-2005 AMA Grand National Dirt Track (Flat Track) championships, the 2000 Formula USA Dirt Track Championship and the AMA 600cc Dirt Track championship seven times (1988–1993, and 1995). And now he is a 2013 Ultimate Builder Custom Bike Show winner of Cleveland in the Performance Custom class.
1. Chris Carr, Kenny Tolbert – Beaulah, ’08 XR750
2. Perry Paugh, Dougherty MC – S/C & Pro ET Race Bike, ’95 ZX11 Ninja
Ultimate Builder RETRO MOD Class
Jesse Srpan of Raw Iron Choppers built this ’50 Panhead with a wishbone frame, 61ci mill and blue metal flake paint. The frame was raked to 44 degrees.
1. Rick Srpan, Raw Iron Choppers – 1950 Panhead EL
2. Jerry Horvath – 1976 Kawasaki KZ400
3. T. McEnally, Ace Classic Cycles – ’74 Triumph Trackmaster
Ultimate Builder MOD Street Class
GIO from Blacksmith Motoring drove in from Chicago with his latest turbo build, El Vendetta, and took the win in MOD Street at Ultimate Builder in the Great white North. The 2008 Yamaha Retroliner features a Blacksmith 120ci stroker with forged pistons, lighten crank with HIPO heads & intake. The bike rolls with a 26” front wheel, air ride and 6 piston Hawg Halters brakes.
1. GIO, Blacksmith Motoring - El Vendetta, 2008 Yamaha Roadliner
2. Andrew Ella - First Attempt, ’77 XS650
Additional Awards
Jerry from JHL Choppers won the Show Dog Award sponsored by Rocking K Custom Leather for his promotion at the show.
Jesse Bassett of The GasBox won the People’s Choice Award with his 1940 Military Scout.
The Ultimate Builder Custom Bike Show is produced by www.bikerpros.com. At each round of the competition Biker Pros photographs each bike and makes them available in their Flickr gallery at www.flickr.com/photos/bikerpros.
We are awarding $100,000 in cash and prizes over our 13 event series. The big money winners to date are:
GIO - $7,500
Kyle Shorey - $5,000
Bruce Bolden - $3,000
* Best of 2006 * Dish
Read about this dish and the other 25 Best Dishes of 2006 on my blog.
Grilled Hawaiian Walu (escolar) on plum-braised oxtail meat. The fish is topped with a plaintain chip holding a dollop of banana-schmaltz ice cream. The plate is sauced with a tomato-pepper "broth."
Notes: WOW! Just reading the description makes you knit your brows in curiosity. I really liked this course. The elements all seem discordant, but I found them to harmonize quite well.
The walu was excruciatingly fresh, exhibiting a natural sweetness. As well, the outside of the fish had a peculiar sour note (not unlike tamarind) that neither my companion, I, nor our server could quite attribute. She said that the chef had simply seasoned it with some salt and pepper and pan-fried it.
The oxtail also woo'ed me. A childhood favorite, this version featured fork-tender oxtail meat that had been stewed with plums and hints of cinnamon and cloves. It struck an amazing balance between savory and sweet. The best thing was the stewing liquid that the meat released. You can see the yellowish liquid on the plate. It was sweet and subtle - I mistook it for honey!!
The banana-schmaltz ice cream was a stunner. I generally do not like bananas - other than in splits. However, mixed with schmaltz, cream and sugar and churned to an icy consistency, it provided an amazing and altogether unexpected compliment to the fish. In truth, I liked the combination very much, but truthfully, the other components of the dish were so compelling that I could easily have been satisfied without its addition.
The sweetness of this dish was off-set by the tomato-pepper "broth," which as noted on the Mussel Salad course, was vinegar-y sour.
Pumpkin
Frozen pumpkin purée, mole, ricotta.
The Restaurant at Meadowood
Meadowood, Napa Valley
St. Helena, California
(September 27, 2012)
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Really bad luck with this shot as i reached the northern extremity of the UK rail network only for my up until then trusted Zenith camera to malfunction resulting in a poor shot of Class N° 37035 at Thurso on the 3rd August 1983. It still bothers me to this day that i've posted the photo anyway regardless of its lack of photographic merit!!
My hardcover and plays: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe Vol I-IV (I borrowed these from a friend with the intent to give them back. I still intend to, as soon as I can meet up with her), The Iliad of Homer, The Odyssey, Dante, Machiavelli/Hobbes, Milton (these are from my Uncle's Great Books series, he intended to give them to me once a year, but stopped a few years back. The Machiavelli may be from a yard sale), 2666 by Roberto Bolano (I just listened to The Savage Detectives on CD from the library, and I'm in the middle of 2666 on CD as I drive 45 minutes to and from work, I'd much rather listen to these large books than read them. I own this one from when I was still buying books instead of getting them from the library), Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera, H. P. Lovecraft's The Call of the Cthulhu & Other Weird Stories, Jose Saramago's Blindness and Seeing, James Joyce: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Chamber Music, and Finnegans Wake (I bought this as the Shakespeare and Company store in Paris in 2007. The cashier tried to convince me to buy Ulysses instead, as it is more accessible, but I said I wanted this as a writing resource), Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard, The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem, The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die (I bought a bunch of these at a yard sale and left them at my parent's vacation house. I brought this one back to read, as I read Casino Royale and I'd like to read the rest in sequence. The books are different from the films, Bond isn't as suave as in the movies), Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, Time's Arrow by Martin Amis, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein, Night by Elie Wiesel, Sula by Toni Morrison, Madame Bovary by Flaubert, Little Birds: Erotica by Anais Nin (I bought this because of Henry & June with Uma Thurman. In this movie I fell for Uma and Maria de Medeiros), another Madame Bovary, The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht, two versions of No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean Paul Sartre (yard sale copies), Albert Camus, Caligula and 3 other plays, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard.
Freshly Harvested Bamboo Shoot Dumpling
Wakame seaweed, celery.
Ishikawa (わか石)
Kagurazaka
Tokyo, Japan
(March 26, 2014)
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Class of 2011 Cadets Mckinsey Hulen, U.S. Corps of Cadets 3rd Regiment executive officer, Marc Triller, USCC 3rd Regt. commander, Rhys Hearn, USCC 3rd Regt. command sergeant major, and Robert Dickie, USCC 3rd Regt. S3 officer, pause for a photo at the start of the Academic Year Cadet Leader Development Conference Aug. 7. The upperclass cadet chain of command met with Col. Mark McKearn, USCC Brigade Tactical Officer, and his regimental tactical officers in order to prepare for the challenge of leading the Corps through the demanding academic year. The brigade and regimental cadet staff met with the officers in groups to discuss topics such as guidance from the commander, team building, goal setting, goal plan development, and backbriefs. The cadets learned how to become more effective leaders by understanding the importance of loyalty, communication, accountability and mentorship. Reorganization Week begins next week after the Cadet Basic Training March Back Monday, and the first day of classes is Aug. 16. (Photo by Sgt. Vincent Fusco/Dir. of Public Affairs and Communications)
June 18th, 2010.
This is the 3rd tattoo I got, I'm so happy I got this done. So many people ask me if I'll ever regret getting it, and I wont. I love Blink-182 so much. Also, if I was ever going to regret getting it, I wouldn't have got it in the first place. <3
Lol, my arm looks so odd in this picture. I'll probably take a better one sometime.
444036 seen at Worting junction with the 1T24 0717 Portsmouth Harbour - London Waterloo. The second unit would of started at Poole as 1B24 and joined up at Eastleigh 11/8/19. (Taken using a pole)
I try to exclusively use file folders that are right-justified tabbed only.
Inspired by a small comment discussion on a emdot blog post about my Getting Things Done fetish, er, I mean, focus. I was telling Bean and KB how I only use right-sided file folders and only one file folder per hanging file.
Sometimes I run out of right-hand tabs and have to use middle or left. Don't think that doesn't hurt me inside. :)
You can also see where a couple of tabs are hand labeled. Here's my trick. Well, first of all, I LOVE MY LABEL MAKER. And secondly, when I don't use a label maker, I use this trick: I label with a post-it note, sticky side at the top. That way, if it is just for something that needs to be temporarily kept, I can easily reuse the folder without having to rip off a label.
I'm a Virgo, by the way.
I know this makes me look like a nerd. Wait. Maybe a better way to word that would be, I know I'm a nerd. :) But this week I am embracing my nerdlieness. :)