Wow – the people you know…
Over the last few days, I have been in touch with a woman that I worked with during the Internet boom days. It was nice to hear from someone who I thought had disappeared into oblivion (isn’t the Internet great!).
Her and her husband own a full service motorcycle and repair shop in Bloomsburg, PA (just Northeast of Harrisburg) called American Cycle Fabrication. They came to this country from South Africa and told me some great stories and taught me some great South African slang.
They even had a write up about them and their motorcycles in the South African Playboy – from what I recall Paul was an expert craftsman and specialized in vintage motorcycles (probably not the proper term – but when we were still in Harrisburg I saw some of his handy work and I couldn’t call him anything else).
Well that’s pretty cool you say – well guess what – it doesn’t stop there – Barbara just informed me that they had one of their motors run in Speed Week in Bonneville. 18 of the 40 records where set at Bonneville by motorcycles and of those 18, 3 were set by the bike sporting their engine. I’ve included a picture of the bike below.
