Steven Palmieri is cooler than you.

Steve Palmieri is my hero... And this is why... I first met Steve at White Knuckle Motorsports about 4 years ago. He was stoked on my leather jacket that my wife had pinstriped for me by Stella. And rightly so, Stella killed it on my jacket. But that's not why he's my hero...

He's my hero because he doesn't think he's cooler than you... He doesn't think he's better than you in any way... He's just Steve. He's kinda like The Dude in The Big Labowski. But cooler...

Head over to his house on Saturday and you'll probably find him in pants and flip flops-n-socks. You can give him shit about this and he'll just shrug it off, and tell you it's comfortable while he offers you a beer...Most times you'll find him wearing steel toed work boots and levis. Not Red wings or Vans- He's not the kind of guy that follows trends.

I know, reading about how cool someone is, is about as threatening to your ego as a bully in 6th grade. So I'll stop. But I encourage you, if you ever see this guy, talk to him. He's NOT to cool to talk to you. And he's awesome!

Last weekend he called me all bummed out- Coming home from Black Shep Cafe on our last Two Wheeled Tuesday, his 91 Dyna was cutting out and sputtering. This put him in a shitty mood (but he was still cool to talk to-Just saying)...

After cleaning his carb twice and changing sparkplugs, he figured that his Crane HI-4 was on the skids. So he removed it from the bike.

Not being made of money and in desperate need of getting some Two Wheeled Freedom, He went old school and put a points set up in from his old 1974 Iron head, into his 1991 Dyna. Just so you know this motor never ran points. It came from the factory with an electronic ignition.

The breaker and condenser have been camping out in his tool box for about 15 years. The mechanical advance and backing plate were take offs from his old iron head (circa 94).

 Here it is all installed, looks pretty cool if you ask me. And it gets him down the road for the time being. His future plans are to put a Dyna 2000i or a Daytona Twin tec ignition in place of the points. But it just goes to show what a ruler Steve is. It also makes my love for EVO motors grow 10 fold. Lets see you do that on your 15 year old Jap bike... Or 2000 or later TC88 for that matter. Steve (and EVO motors) FLAT KICK ASS!

If you haven't read this article from the hd open road you should. Scooter Tramp Scotty nails it in this article as he expresses his love for the Harley Davidson EVO engines. In short he talks about  how rad EVO's are because they were built for reliability. And how they pretty much saved HD's ass!