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004 CONTENTS

IFC | R IDER FRIENDLY DIRECTORY 02 | F ROM THE RIT EVT CLUB & MOTOCLECTIC A tribute to Billy Eskeli

04 | 1 939 INDIAN CHIEF

Tim Engstrom “loves the old stuff”

STAFF SCOTT WAKEFIELD Editor-in-Chief

DAN HOSEK Art Director

CONTRIBUTORS Michael Hanlon, Tim Engstrom, James Meyers, Keith Johnson, Jr., Jeff Zielinski, Sue Slate, Dale G. Cuer, Tom Owejan, Jocelyn Hussey, RIT’s EVT Club Printed by Tri-Tech Inc. tri-techcanada.com © 2 019 DHSW Media, LLC All rights reserved

12 | G ASTRONOMICAL!

Plate reviews: Round 2!

20 | R ALLY FOR RANGERS

Help Jeff Zielinski stop poaching in Mongolia

22 | A J-D TRIKE/SERVI-CAR HYBRID

Tom O’s build certainly delivers (you’ll get the joke)

30 | D IRTY FOR GOOD

The Women’s Motorcyclist Foundation hits the dirt for fun, learning, and a cause

32 | A RIDE IN THE CATSKILLS We heart New York’s beauty

36 | E VENTS

MOTOCLECTIC | 01

FROM THE RIT EVT CLUB & MOTOCLECTIC From the RIT Electric Vehicle Team

On Tuesday, July 2nd, while returning from Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado Springs, Colorado, RIT EVT team member Billy Eskeli was tragically killed in a two-car accident caused by a drunk driver.

complete everything asked of him and exceed all expectations. Despite being such a hard and focused worker, he was incredibly kind and always stopped to say hello when passing by.

He was one of the most experienced and skilled Billy was about to enter his third year at RIT, and members in the machine shop and helped lead his third with the team. He was studying to be a training workshops offered in the fall to our mechanical engineer, and was well on his way to members. doing just that. In this past year, he was involved in the design of REV2’s frame, the manufacturing Billy was one of the few to make the trek out of our battery pack (pictured), and he provided to Colorado for the entire week of practice. He significant help in the final build of REV2. never seemed bothered by waking up at 2AM for practice every day, as he was getting up to Each year, to introduce new members to do something he loved. He was one of four crew the team, we hold an electric bicycle design members from our team that were allowed to be competition in which teams of new members are with the bike and rider at the start line, and if graded on aesthetic, electrical, and mechanical any issues came up, he was quick to help craft design. It is here that Billy got off to a fast start a solution. with EVT and helped his e-bike team win the best mechanical design award and best overall We were looking forward to seeing him continue design. The following year he helped coach a to grow as a leader on the team in the coming team of new members building their own e-bike. years. Billy was one of our most well-respected and His enthusiasm, dedication, and friendship will trustworthy members. He found a way to be greatly missed. From the Motoclectic Team

Life is fun, and then sometimes it hurts so much we can’t find words to describe it. While putting 004 together, we decided we didn’t want our words to overshadow those lovingly written by the RIT EVT. We think it would be disingenuous to take that from them. They knew him. They spent countless hours with him. Only his friends and family understood him well enough to say something truly meaningful. But this is what we do know: Billy

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Eskeli is part of our motorcycle team. He helped build a motorcycle for goodness sake! So while you read about a Servi-Car with a 1925 engine, and a 1939 Indian Chief, Rochester restaurants, and look at beautiful pictures, remember Billy is part of all of that. He made a mark on motorcycling history. Motoclectic 004 is dedicated to Billy, the spirit of innovation and passion he embodied, and his indelible mark on us all.

IN MEMORY OF MATTHEW WILLIAM “BILLY” ESKELI IV

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Tim Engstrom and his 1939 Indian Chief

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FEATURED BUILD

1939 INDIAN CHIEF We asked Tim Engstrom to tell us a little bit about this 1939 Indian Chief. Here’s what he had to say. Photos by Michael Hanlon

I found it through a chance meeting at the Bug Jar. Tom (Bubba) Thornton was riding a Scout and had a ’53 Chief—the last year the original company was in business. He had 80% of the ’39 in pieces in his basement/shop. We chatted, hit it off, and sight unseen, we shook hands on a deal to put it back together. This is one of the best decisions I ever made—we became fast friends in the process. He remains my Indian guru for any and all challenges to keep it up that are beyond my competence—there are still plenty of those… What’s special is that I get to ride a piece of American motorcycle history, and to honor our friendship for all the pleasure the bike has given me, which is tons! I ride it all over the place, and have taken it on some pretty long journeys. It’s been dead reliable and still rides like a champ. It’s still all the original setup: left-hand throttle that rolls forward not back—no spring, the throttle stays where you put it; right hand stick shift and a foot clutch. Just think of it as a two-wheel tractor and you get used to it very easily. Thankfully, it’s different enough from a contemporary bike that there’s no confusion at all. My interest in finding an Indian began as a kid—in a little village on the edge of the Adirondacks. There was an old guy in my village

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1939 INDIAN CHIEF with a couple of Indians; he rode them regularly and I got hooked. 30 years later, after riding other bikes, I got lucky and had my own. I also have a ’57 TR3—a two-seater roadster that I drive regularly, and recently sold my ’60 190D Mercedes Benz—diesel—that burned veggie oil. It just needed a subsidiary tank in the trunk, an additional fuel line and a toggle switch inside to switch it back and forth between fuels. I filtered my own used oil, given to me from a local

pizza shop when they swapped out their fryers, and away it went. But after moving I didn’t have enough garage space; damn. I just love the old stuff and use it whenever possible. About me? I work at RIT where a buddy there also has an old Indian—a ’40 Chief. We got into them together. And we both have new Chiefs now that Indian has been successfully re-born and is producing great bikes.

78 cubic inch, made during the war years, and the last year of the original body type—half pack of leaf springs on the front, rigid frame, and a sprung saddle.

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1939 INDIAN CHIEF

The crash bar—which was powder coated by ROC Coatings—was installed by Lowborn Garage.

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1939 INDIAN CHIEF

1940 was the first year of the fully-skirted fenders and rear shocks. So, the ’39 is in fact a little lighter and a bit nimbler, but not as smooth over pot holes. The motors of the ’39 and ’40 are otherwise the same.

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1939 INDIAN CHIEF Final concept renderings of the REV2.

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1939 INDIAN CHIEF

The rifle mount was custom made by Keith and James at Lowborn to fit the the rifle case Tim found at a flea market. The mount was designed to allow the case to be quick released with out any tools and look period correct.

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FOOD REVIEW

GASTRONOMICAL! Dale G. Cuer stretches his digestive system to the limits as he continues his review of “plates” in the greater Rochester area.

Welcome to installment two of Gas-Tronomical. With this entry I plan on not only reviewing plates but also the merits of a ride to the eatery that serves them. It was a good month for plates. Not only did I get to review plates, but I also experienced a Rochester food truck that serves a garbage roll (A plate in an egg roll wrap, and deep fried… Yum!), and a food wagon that specializes in poutine, that makes what they call an All-American (A plate poutine… also Yum!). But I will ignore the distractions and focus on the task at hand: PLATE REVIEWS.

n the last issue I laid out the criteria for reviewing plates and started with my first three reviews. I hope that readers will send in suggestions for locations that serve plates, and which would also make a great ride. Each month I hope to add four more reviews to the list so that over time there will be a long list of places to ride and to get some amazing plates!

After that comes the overall flavor. I like my macaroni salad to be a little on the tangy side and not with a lot of extra stuff thrown in. I’ve had Mac salads with carrots, celery, peas, and tuna fish. It’s a little bit too much extra stuff for a garbage plate.

Home fries: With home fries, it’s all about the crispiness, baby! What I’m looking for here is [Editor’s note: In case you don’t have issue 003, good quality crispy potatoes. Not perfectly we’re going to go over Dale’s criteria again. cubed frozen and reheated potatoes, but real Remember, Dale is very specific in his reviews potatoes cooked to a crispy golden goodness. about what HE likes. If you have issue 003, you can skip right to the reviews.] Hot dogs: The red hots need to be a top shelf hot dogs with good flavor, split down the middle, The base plate that I will be testing at each with a little bit of char, either from the griddle top location will be a red hot plate with mac salad or the grill. and home fries with meat sauce. Here’s how the rating system will work. Meat sauce: This one may be the most controversial. There are number of good meat Macaroni Salad: The 1st issue with Mac salad sauces out there, and honestly, I like them all. But is that the macaroni is cooked well. It needs to for this rating system, in order to get my highest be cooked al dente—not mushy. Nothing ruins a marks, it needs to be a traditional Texas-style good mac salad more than overcooked macaroni. ground beef sauce. One step down from that

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would be the sauces that favor a Louisiana-style hot sauce with ground beef in it. 3rd on the list is a chili sauce. I’ve had some chili-style sauces complete with beans. They’re good, but will get a slightly lower rating. Any other type of meat sauce will rate lower than those.

of road and made for a difficult ride. Then when I ordered my plate they were out of home fries. After two attempts I decided to not make a third, and simply docked them a point for the lack of home fries. So here is how they measured up.

I need to pause for a moment here and remind everyone that anything calling itself a plate, that does not have those first four elements, or those elements are not stacked one atop the other will be disqualified. As part of this month’s review I went to a restaurant that had a so-called plate, but what came out of the kitchen was a hot dog on a roll, with two side dishes in two separate bowls, and no meat sauce, with nothing together. Really, what they were serving was a hot dog and two sides and just calling it a plate. I won’t put the name of the eatery in here but they were disqualified from the review.

The mac salad was cooked but too done for me. There was no tang to it either. Generally, it was okay.

Mustard and onions: I grouped these together because there’s not as much to rate in this area. A plate will lose a point if it doesn’t have onions. It will lose a point if it uses yellow mustard instead of spicy brown mustard and it would lose two points if it had no mustard at all.

MAC SALAD: 3

HOME FRIES: 3

They had no home fries, so they lost some points here. The french fries were good but still not the standard for these reviews.

MEAT SAUCE: 5

The meat sauce was an excellent traditional meat sauce.

HOT DOGS: 5

Great hot dogs. They were split and fried.

MUSTARD AND ONIONS: 4

They were good but they used yellow mustard.

OVERALL RATING: 20

PENFIELD HOTS “The Rubbish Plate”

Penfield Hots is well known in the community at large as one of the better plates. While I enjoyed the plate, this particular trip was a general disappointment for me. The first time I stopped at the eatery I was returning from the Adirondacks, and I arrived during posted hours only to find that they were closed. For the next attempt, I rode out for a special trip and travelled through Leroy along the “Our Corkscrew” mentioned in Motoclectic 002. It was a nice ride until I arrived in Penfield. The eatery is on a very busy stretch

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GASTRONOMICAL!

MEISNER’S

DARYL’S

Located in Attica NY, this was a good plate and a great ride. Unfortunately, they only serve their “mash plate” on Tuesdays. While the restriction on when the “plates” are available is a pain (you can decide the effected body part), the chance to go to Attica and ride up and down Attica Gulf Road is worth it. This winding road goes up through a picturesque gully and is a lot of fun to ride. If you get the chance, I recommend it. If you can do it on a Tuesday and get a plate at Meisner’s, I doubly recommend it (really really).

Daryl’s is in Perry, NY, and I’m sorry to say that their Landfill Plate is not very good. Perry is a nice little village with a great main street, and East Hill Creamery is just down the road from Daryl’s - with a 24-hr cheese vending machine! Silver Lake Drive-In is a bit farther up the road, which is rated one of the Top 10 in the nation. It is worth the ride but not for this particular plate. (It is a sad thing to get a bad plate.)

“The Mash Plate”

MAC SALAD: 4

“The Landfill Plate”

MAC SALAD: 3

The mac salad was a bit over-cooked and had no tang at all.

The mac salad was a little over-cooked. While it is a little too done for me, it had a great tangy flavor.

HOME FRIES: 3

MEAT SAUCE: 3

The home fries were not very crispy.

The meat sauce had a tomato base and was a little bit sweet.

MEAT SAUCE: 4

This place does not have home fries at all.

HOT DOGS: 3

The hot dogs were not good quality. They were not split and not even warm.

The meat sauce was a traditional sauce and well done. The hot dogs were not great.

MUSTARD AND ONIONS: 5

Good onions and they used spicy brown mustard.

OVERALL RATING: 19

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HOT DOGS: 2

MUSTARD AND ONIONS: 3

The onions were hot—not sweet—and the mustard was yellow.

OVERALL RATING: 14

GASTRONOMICAL!

MAC SALAD: 3

The mac salad was a little over-cooked and had no tang.

HOME FRIES: 5

Great crispy home fries.

MEAT SAUCE: 4

A good traditional meat sauce.

WIMPY’S BURGER BASKET

HOT DOGS: 5

“The Red Hot Plate”

Good quality hot dogs that were split and grilled.

This is one of my favorite places to eat with some great variations on their plates. I almost didn’t do my review when I saw that they had a plate wrap. (It was so tempting.) But I manned up, ignored delicious temptation, and followed through on my original mission. (Though I will probably make a return trip.)

MUSTARD AND ONIONS: 4

Unfortunately, they use yellow mustard.

OVERALL RATING: 21

COMPARISON Eatery

Overall

Salad Fries

Hots

Sauce

Nick Tahou 23 4 5 5 Henrietta Hots 22 4 4 5 Wimpy’s 21 3 4 5 Penfield Hots 20 3 3 5 Meisner’s 19 4 3 4 Charred 16/17 3 3 4/5 Daryl’s 14 3 3 3

Mustard and onions

4 5 5 5 3 3 2

5 4 4 4 5 3 3

It looks like Nick Tahou still sits atop Dale’s leaderboard. Will anyone be able to unseat them? Find out next month as Dale continues to put his gastro-intestinal system on the line and brings you MORE plate reviews!

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his project was a Harley-Davidson JD Trike that was started in 1969 at Ted’s Cycle Shed. It was a 1925 JD frame with a 1932 Servi-Car rear section grafted to it by Terry Dunkle of Dodge City, KS, while he worked at Ted’s Cycle Shed. The project stalled and was not completed. If not actually lost, the motorcycle was pretty much forgotten. It again

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saw daylight around 2017 when it was moved to another warehouse and hung from the ceiling. In 2018, Ted commissioned me to finish it, so I hauled it to Rochester. There was not much of it there to start, but the job of marrying the two frames was done masterfully. It looks like it came from the factory like that.

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A JD TRIKE/SERVI-CAR HYBRID The first job was to gather all the necessary parts. I sourced the rear fenders from India. They were made to my specifications and took several months to make. The headlights came from Poland. I had the rear wheel hub caps made in Taiwan. The wooden service box was in one

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of Tedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s warehouses and was actually used on a trike at some time in the past. It advertises a traveling magneto service. The front fender had the original paint, so that was the yardstick to finish all the new and fabricated parts; it was essential to match the patina.

A JD TRIKE/SERVI-CAR HYBRID

The rear fenders as they came from India (above) and below after some work to match the patina of the front fender.

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A JD TRIKE/SERVI-CAR HYBRID There was a lot of fabrication performed (as you can see in the photos) and a lot of it was done by hand—making the fender braces and riveting everything together, just as it would have been done in the 1920s. The exhaust is hand built, as are all the linkages and body mounts. I swapped in a good 1925 1200cc motor and 3-speed transmission. The finished motorcycle was displayed at the

Buffalo Motorama Show in 2018 where it earned an Outstanding Motorcycle award.

A little bit about Ted: Ted Doering, owner of Motorcyclepedia, began his business around 1966, working out of the garage attached to his parents’ home. Eventually he built a separate building and Ted’s Cycle Shed was born, where he built chopper motorcycles, show bikes, and operated a chrome exchange. As the business grew, he expanded into selling new and used parts, and Tedd Cycle Inc. came into being in 1968. In 1969 he started V-Twin Manufacturing,

which is a wholesale parts business with a large dealer network. V-Twin is the one of the largest suppliers (if not the largest) of aftermarket Harley-Davidson parts in the world.

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