A brilliant blue sky was a perfect backdrop for the NYC skyline as we blasted across the Tri-Boro Bridge heading to Indian Larry's old shop in the industrial waterfront section of Brooklyn called Williamsburg.

We rode quite a way that morning to be among the thousand or so people who gathered together to celebrate the life of one of the legends of Chopperdom. Every year since before Larry's death, we braved the psycho cage-rattlers and pot holes, capable of swallowing a bike whole, down to Larry's shop for the annual GREASE MONKEY BLOCK PARTY. It was a tradition and it still continues, three years after Larry's untimely departure.

As in the past years, the celebration rev'd into high gear. You see, the event turned into more than just a reason to party. It's a way to remember a friend and to support the artistic chopper style kept alive by Paul Cox and Keino Sasaki at Indian Larry Legacy.

Four NYC blocks of hard core choppers lined the streets. Smoke billowed from burning rubber as factory walls became impromptu burnout pits. Pigs turned on spits, beer flowed and bands rocked the stage all day. Side show performers, and that Grinder Chick from the David Letterman show wowed the crowd between sets.

As the sun set in the western sky, across the river and behind the cityscape, the party rocked on. Later that evening, after saying good bye to our hosts and friends, we fired our beasts to life and headed across the river to see what kind of trouble a couple of old dirt bags could get into in the big bad city.

--CB