We didn't make it too far, but we're in Saluda NC at the moment, working for a man who owns half the town, living with some fine folks and enjoying life. 2 weeks here, after the first week the itch to hit the road got so strong, because we got too comfortable. Now that we started working, the swing is easier, we plan on hitting the road in a couple weeks, where to? westerly is all I know. Everywhere we go the people seem to really love us, seeing how there's not many folks like us around these small towns, we tend to shine. A lot of pictures are on my instagram; Antiquespeed, follow it if you're not, don't get much opportunity to write as we don't have TV nor internet at the house we're in, so I roll into town (quarter mile) sit on a bench or at my favorite bakery/cafe and internet, netflix, browse, pass time n such. Luckily many places have wifi here, in a town of 700, but it's not bad, work pays well, and honest. It's labor in the sun, but hey, our tans rule. Life is good, freedom ain't free, but it sure is nice. The motor is beating strong, and hugging these mountain curves like le mans, not bad for a motor built by an amateur with old used parts

We seem to inspire many with our travels, and just as many call us crazy, but life on the road is always interesting, new, different. If you're young without kids and a bike that's paid for I'd say, go for it, meet the people, eat the food, burn that fuel through the days and nights, shooting through the night like a meteor.

Welp, time to go back to work, just got done fishing, browsing the library, figured I'd give you scumbags an update on what's going on, where we're at and such, for I know some folks enjoy living vicariously through the adventures of fools.

Godspeed amigos/gas, I shall talk to yous soon.

The Vagabonds

        We're just two small town South Carolina guys trying to see what we can make of ourselves elsewheres.  For me, it all started when I starting taking apart old motorcycles and fixing them up all proper, I then wanted to see how far a machine built by my hands would take me.  What better way to see the country than on antique machine horses.  Originally I wanted to take this trek on a 1976 Harley Davidson Sportster, but it'd break down every other day it seemed, and parts were very expensive.  I rebuilt that motor with the help of my great friends at Hawk Bros. Cycle, learned very much out of that experience and it made me more confident in tearing down a motor.  Now I have a fully stock, 1975 Honda CB360T, which was found in an old storage shed where it sat for many years judging by the mildew and patina that laid upon it, but I saw potential.  Picked it up for $650 not running, got it running by the end of the night, 2000 miles later, blew a head gasket and ended up rebuilding the whole motor with used parts from a spare motor I had laying around, cleaned up rather nice.  It's now ready for what lies ahead and proves to be a noble somewhat reliable steed.   My friend David will be riding a 1993 Honda 250 Nighthawk chopper, another $650 dollar machine I got running pretty well, low miles so I think he'll be alright.  We get really good gas mileage on these bikes, so that's a plus, already figured we can get 4,000 miles on less than $300.  I didn't think about the fact that we're both trying to get coast to coast on $650 bikes. 

        Breakdowns?  Yeah, I expect a few, but I figure it'll be a good test of my mechanical aptitude.  Neither one of us have ever did any motorcycle touring so it'll be a new experience, camping out off the side of the road wherever we can, we're doing this on a very small budget so hotels and fancy living aren't in the playbook.  We'll be living very cheap, fishing where we can and who knows who we'll meet along the way!  I've always been more of an outdoors person, so I don't think we'll have any trouble catching dinner or finding good places to tent up.  We'll be riding backroads the whole way there, avoiding as much interstate travel as we can.   I have some ideas of using the motors to cook up "fast food" on the way as well, will post recipes if they work out.   We're just pointing our bikes west and see what comes of it, going to ride through North Carolina and Tennessee first, and figure it out from there.   Not many folks our age really think about hitting the road on old bikes, so that's where I got the title from.  We'll be publishing everything we can when we can here, expect many pictures and tales.  For now, we further plan until the rest of this beautiful country warms up.