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yan Gore is one of those guys that takes this motorcycle thing to an unhealthy level. Thank God he does because it pushes those of us around him to up our games. I first met him at a show in Vegas that we used to do when he rolled in on a Shovelhead that brought the show to its knees.
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The amount of detail he put into that bike as a builder who was still virtually unknown took me back a little. We put it on the cover back then, and I’ve always been thrilled to have Ryan’s bikes in our shows and on our pages. The story on “Excitable Boy” is years later and finds Ryan at accomplished craftsman status among his peers.
So much so that we invited him to compete in the first never “In Motion” show at the Lonestar Rally 2017. Ryan had just sold his blue Panhead and didn’t have anything to build for that show. He almost had to pass on the opportunity when his brother Marc stepped up. He had an old ’78 Shovel sitting around that would be a donor
