In the August issue of IronWorks magazine was a spread of a bike built for Louis Qualls, a Marine serving his country who didn’t make it home. The bike he had planned on riding when he came home was transformed into a rolling tribute to the warrior who fell while serving his country in Iraq on November 16, 2004.

A Friend Indeed

I’ve been without a bike to ride for most of the summer due to the twenty year makeover that my bike is currently undergoing. My friends R.W. and Jodie always said that if I needed a bike to let them know and I could borrow theirs. Sure enough when I asked they said to go ahead and take it. It’d been sitting in storage awhile so it needed a little work. I figured I’d pay for whatever it needed because I knew they wouldn’t let me give them anything for using it. They were just happy to see me riding again, now that’s what I call friends