In 1965, motorcycling was entering its Golden Age. Motorcycles were extremely popular nationwide and the Bay Area of California was even more crazy about custom and hot rod bike. Although still a college student at the time, Sandy Kosman was already an avid motorcyclist and skilled fabricator. Sand …

When Gary Fisher got to Daytona Speedway in 1972, he had Pops Yoshimura by his side to tune for him. Riding the Krauss sponsored Honda CR750, Fisher also had his wife and his Dad, former racer Ed Fisher traveling with him. Being Daytona early in springtime, the weather was a bit chilly. Getting read …

With the renewed interest in the push to get Woody Kyle in to the AMA Hall of Fame, it reminded me to dig out my submission for the same way back in 2011. It was a great time I had that summer visiting Woody at his shop when he was in Illinois along with the all of the wonderful visits I have had wi …

A follower on Donzzilla's social media saw one of his restoration projects - The Ted Boody Harley Davidson. He was gracious enough to share a neat story from his past on those unique front fork guards. Here is the message sent from Eric Frahm."Good morning, I love your restoration work and your dedi …

How long does it take to assemble Ed Salley's Ossa DMR? Turns out Donzzilla can do it in 33 seconds. Well that would be time lapse, but it took him 33 minutes real time. Well this isn't reality TV and we have to say that the assembly was just finger tightening bolts. And it did take a few more hours …

My posts usually are about some of the high-end restorations that I do when everything has to be just so. In this case, a good friend has this Montesa trials bike that he wanted to ride and enjoy, but would like it to still be presentable. The bike was a well preserved, running motorcycle when he pu …