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At the Wolfgang Circus, we are busy adding items to our juggling act. Last week we officially added one more ball to the two or three already in the air: Custom Bike Building Basics by Chris Callen of Cycle Source magazine fame. Chris approaches the subject of building bikes from scratch a little differently than I do, and that’s probably a good thing.

Chris’ outline includes things like: Setting up a Shop, Working with Steel, Love thy Welder, Getting Ready, Tearing it Down, Sheet Metal Fab, and Saddle Work, along with three start-to-finish assembly chapters. The assembly chapters document the construction of three bikes – none of these are pro street bullets or expensive over-chromed choppers. No, these bikes are way more down-home than that.

Look for a new spin on building bikes from scratch – done with a lot of help from Chris Callen from Cycle Source Magazine.

Chris’ juggling act promises to be ready for viewing this spring, so be sure to buy your tickets now before they’re all gone.

Hobo Stew is just one example of the art, compliments of Darren McKeag, we are using to open each of Chris’ chapters.

At the Wolfgang Circus, we are busy adding items to our juggling act. Last week we officially added one more ball to the two or three already in the air: Custom Bike Building Basics by Chris Callen of Cycle Source magazine fame. Chris approaches the subject of building bikes from scratch a little differently than I do, and that’s probably a good thing.

Chris’ outline includes things like: Setting up a Shop, Working with Steel, Love thy Welder, Getting Ready, Tearing it Down, Sheet Metal Fab, and Saddle Work, along with three start-to-finish assembly chapters. The assembly chapters document the construction of three bikes – none of these are pro street bullets or expensive over-chromed choppers. No, these bikes are way more down-home than that.

Custom Bike Building Basics. Caption: Look for a new spin on building bikes from scratch – done with a lot of help from Chris Callen from Cycle Source Magazine.

Chris’ juggling act promises to be ready for viewing this spring, so be sure to buy your tickets now before they’re all gone.

Hobo Stew is just one example of the art, compliments of Darren McKeag, we are using to open each of Chris’ chapters.

It’s nearly time for the annual Cincinnati V-twin trade show, which brings to mind a fella I met a couple a years ago at Cinci. I was minding my own business when I bumped into this guy named Bean’re - in the top hat he’s hard to miss. And out of that first meting grew a friendship. And out of that grew the plan to publish a book together.

This fall Wolfgang Publications will publish a soft-cover book: Bean’re - Motorcycle Nomad. This is definitely not a how-to book in the normal sense. There are no carburetor overhaul tips here and no charts that explain how to check the trail on that new rolling chassis. This, instead, is a look at how one man zigged while the rest of us zagged. How it really is possible to live without all the crap that most of us own.

Not your typical Wolfgang how-to book. Bean’re - Motorcycle Nomad, will be out this fall.

So stay tuned. Life of Bean’re, as he and I often refer to it, will be out this fall, with an ebook version ready at a somewhat earlier date.

Just the essentials, one motorcycle and two saddlebags full of clothes. What else do we really need?