Those of you who follow our BLOG, Facebook and Twitter Feed have no doubt noticed an increase in posts these past few weeks. No, we haven’t hired a 16 year old kid who can text faster than John Wayne could crack off a revolver to run our marketing department.. Herm and I made the full-time job to Dime City Cycles and one of my main responsibilities is making sure we keep our online presence lively and fresh.

Since we know everyone is glued to their computers looking at bikes when they can’t be wrenching on them we figured it was up to us to make sure we keep you guys in the know from not only a DCC standpoint, but the industry. That said you’ll start to see some cool regularly posted things like “DCC News of The Week”, “Vendor Spotlights”, “Product Quick Picks” and “Customer Features” along with a ton of other things including giveaways, non vendor independent product reviews and just random ton-up goodness.

Yes yes…we have to slip some product links in there every now and then, but we hope that are humorous production descriptions and offer to bribe you to stay plugged in by giving away two $50 Dime City certificates a month (more about that later this week) will make things a little less intrusive.

After-all, we’re going to keep you informed of cool stuff you want, not the latest Ronco Potato Cooker slash Pogo Stick.

That said, stay tuned and be sure to start following us on Facebook and Twitter if you haven’t already. The rides just beginning and it’s paved with vintage speed intentions!

And because text without photos is just plain boring, here’s a random shot I snapped of my daily rider. It’s a 1972 CB450 that’s basically stock with the exception of Clubmans and some dirt tires. I have a habit of wandering off the road no and again, so I figured the investment in some aggressive rubber was a good one. No major plans for this one, just keeping it tuned and running right.  Why the two-up seat? Simple…the Misses likes to ride on the back and when she’s happy, I’m happy.

Thanks for supporting Dime City and the Garage Builder Movement folks, we appreciate all of you more than you know and couldn’t be doing what we love without you.

Until next week, Ride Fast.  Live Well.

Jason

Alright folks, Paulo from Joe King personally delivered some bitchin’ custom helmets (going out to customers ASAP) along with a fresh round of Joe King Trucker hats and patches!  We’ve got plenty of ‘em in stock so ORDER UP!  [Click HERE for more info]

Be on the lookout from some great stuff coming from Joe King and Dime City Cycles in the near future. We can’t spoil anything, but there’s a new Dime City helmet line style on it’s way that rhymes with “udding bowl” VERY SOON.

Wednesday evenings are for relaxing…

A big thanks goes out to Mike D from Biltwell and Matt & Dean from DICE Magazine.  You guys rock the casbah! Thanks for the sweet banners which are proudly on display in the garage amidst our collection of old band posters, Chuck Norris posters and old Davida posters.

If you guys haven’t already take a look at Biltwell’s kick-ass products…there’s nothing like them.  We’ve got an entire section dedicated to them on the site for that very reason.  As for DICE, well, it’s not a magazine.  It’s collectors item!  http://www.dicemagazine.com/ check it out and buy a subscription today.  We’ll have them loaded up in stock soon here at DCC as well!

First off, let us apologize for the lack of BLOG posts and updates on the current happenings here at Dime City. We’ve been slammed with a few large projects in the fab shop (cool stuff to come!) and for those of you hitting the web we’re sure you can vouch, we’re adding products daily, which is taking up the bulk of our free time.  We’re getting back into the groove though, so you can expect some cool stuff to hit The Diatribe in the coming weeks.

That said- with an overwhelming amount of joy, and sadness we would like to share something about our favorite Intern, Michael. You all know him.. Happy-go-lucky Michael, name on his back always willing to polish up a piece of aluminum. Well, you see, Michael came to Dime City with a dream. A great dream. That dream was to ride his very first Cafe Racer.

As we spent the summer watching Michael grow from a quick-lipped non-sensical jovial college student into someone who not only understands the basic mechanics of a motorcycle and fabrication we couldn’t help but have sympathy towards his plight. What were we to do though? The ground rules were set and he still have 1,000 square feet of aluminum to polish and he was running out of time….his dream was slipping through his fingers like the hair a college girlfriend leaving to go home for the summer.

So Herm, unbeknownsts to Michael, had him pull the Manx from the warehouse and get it warmed up. “For a tuning run he said.”

Once she was ready to go Herm told Michael it was his turn…and man, it was like watching a fat kid at Disneyland dive into the all you can eat ice cream buffet face first! His leg was over the Manx in a fraction of a second and his right hand was twitching the throttle.

Have a great year man and don’t do anything we wouldn’t do!