Darryl and company had the privilege of getting the VIP tour of the air craft carrier USS Nimitz. This is one of the largest nuclear powered warships in the world. Captain Michael Manazir was nice enough to take time out of his busy day to give us an education on the operations of a ship this size and what it takes to maintain it. The ship was actually preparing to be deployed to sea which takes several days of loading equipment and supplies. This ship is home to 3000 sailors and another 2000 airmen and support for the aircraft that fly out to meet the ship after it is deployed. Captain Manazir was recently promoted to Admiral and this was to be his last command of the Nimitz, as his replacement was to take over at Sea. Captain Manazir is a Harley rider and we took the opportunity to give him some Bassani propaganda and swagger. The crew of the ship were very friendly and helpful and we’ve never seen a more motivated group. This is some of America’s finest and we were honored to have a piece of their day and wish them well on there next deployment.

High Plains Drifter Nick Trumbo in coordination with Easy Eddie’s Motorcycle in North Carolina is  going to put on a Bassani Babes Contest on October 23, 2009 at 9PM. The winner will be chosen to do several poster signings and travel to various shows with Bassani Xhaust.

Bassani Babes Contest Flyer

Hardcore pro -Street racer Chuck Samuel came by the BX today.  He rode in on a Harley and took sometime to talk to Darryl about his future plans as well as talk a bit with John Urist who was also visiting Bassani doing some R&D on his Turbo Kits.

Anaheim / Fullerton Harley Davidson was nice enough to loan us this softail so we could fit our new “Fireseries Pipes” on for photogrpahic purposes. Check out the new pipes, don’t they look bitchin! They sound great too. Listen to the sound clip on the Firesweep turnouts.

A guy contacted me about getting some of the old emblems that were on Bassani Pipes back in the day for his vintage Honda CBX 6cyl. I didn’t know we even had any still but Ferny showed me a box of them. Holy Snikies! How cool! We can sell some too anyone if your interested.

The first C6 System made for West Coast Corvettes was photographed today.

Nick and DCB went on the Redwood run put on by Drag Specialties and Nick was able to mount a camera on his bike to get some footage of the spectaular North California countryside as well as riding through the tallest forst in the world.

The start of the video shows Nick riding over the Golden Gate Bridge.
Then later the video shows riders on the Trinity Road near Sonoma, CA. The solo rider is Bert “Pokey” Baker, Presidente of Baker Drivetrains. The two up couple is Arnold Mills and Lisa Sekula (The Millers) from Millers Custom Parts in Daytona Beach, FL. Nick says “Look for the footage where Bert almost runs past a stop sign marking a big hole(I put in a Homer Simpson clip).

Later on Hwy 101 north near Leggett, CA. Nick was holding the camera and pannning it backward. His wife Brenda is on the back wearing a new ICON helmet. The first riders are Kevin and Kay Sanger from Sanger Cycles in Ft. Collins, CO. Second is Gary Elliott the Drag Specialties truck driver.Third is Jeff Derge, Drag Central Regional Manager.

Finally 125 miles north of Santa Rosa is Leggett, CA home of the Chandelier Drive Thru Giant Redwood Tree. The tree is over 2400 hundred years old and over 300 ft tall.

The riders thru are:
Jeff Derge
The Millers
Gary Elliott
Stan “Hollywood” Alicki

Jay Combs who has adopted the Silver Surfer as his online name and is known on several SRT8 forums recently had our full system with headers installed by Techco and dropped by for us to grab some comments on the system and for us to grab a sound clip. If you’re interested in this system and want further info email kurt@bassani.com

Here’s another bike we got in to test pipes on. The Fishtails go really well with the retro theme of this Softail. Enjoy the Video.

We got this beautiful Dresser in for Check fitment and took the opportunity to get a sound bite and photograph it.