Oscar's a bastard. Oscar definitely has one mother and several fathers. He has a 1929 Indian scout 101 engine. I know this because of the engine number on...

Oscar's cylinders were the original factory cylinders but were 0.060 over and pretty rusted up. They needed a rebore and hone but there wasn't any room left...

Oscar's now blue

I worked on the valve train this weekend. I used the valves from a 30's sport scout. First, they're much easier to find and they're a more modern valve wit...

This weekend was all about the flywheels. First, balancing. After a lot of research and searching on the Internet I decided to go with a balance factor of ...

Just a quick update on progress. I'm working on the bottom end of the engine. It's a little slow going because of my work schedule but also I keep running i...

I'm an eBay junkie I admit it. I check eBay at least twice a day looking for parts. A few weeks ago some parts for a Splitdorf NS-2 magneto came up for sal...

I didn't get a chance to work on the bike much in the last few weeks. Turns out real life has a way of getting in the way. But I did manage to get all of t...

WTR 74! (Weekends To Race) I got the bronze stock I needed to make the bushings last week and finally had time to make some this weekend. You read the Inter...

I didn't get a lot done this weekend. We went up to Portland and to visit our son Kevin. But, I did manage to get the rest of the bushings out from last we...

This weekend was all about bushings. I started with the transmission and worked my way around to the cam bushings on the other side of the engine. I wonde...

As you can tell we're pretty excited about being in the Cannonball next year. The quote goes ' It will be again a test of true endurance.  It will pit “Man ...