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.
