Our visit to Evan Favaro in his mechanic workshop
On Sunday, after breakfast together with Mikey Teutul, Nick, Lena-Marie, Aykut and Ann, we had a relaxing day in the area around Newburgh. We drove into the mountains to enjoy the view of the snow-covered landscape.
Afterwards we went to Evan Favaro, he invited us to his biker garage in the country in Wallkill. Evan has his own biker shop, he has been working in Paul's workshop for 5 years and is really good at it. He's in the new season of American Chopper, like everyone who works here, that's part of it.
He welcomes us with complete ease on his farm, which is located away from the roads in the forest. He has a sizeable property there with a house, a workshop and a river where he likes to sit and relax. In his workshop, “Rock a Billy” music is playing in the background and there is something adventurously good lying around everywhere.
Whether it's the old machines or cars, he restores two Porsches from 1963 and 1965 for a customer and somewhere in between is his new custom bike that he has just finished.
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If everything goes smoothly, he will exhibit it in Daytona at Bike Week, the bike show on the beach or the legendary Ratshole Custom Bike Show.
He will definitely attract attention with the bike, he has installed a 100cui RevTech engine, the oils are hidden in the frame and the swingarm, the tank has moved into the fender. He fitted the brake cables with small chains from some old Yamaha. You don't see the shock absorber and fork every day either. In addition to an old 650 Yamaha, which is increasingly in demand for us to convert, he also put together a heavy pile of iron.
The frame is partly solid and here too the oil is hidden in the swingarm. But the highlight is the blower compressor, which brings the 131 cubic inch engine to over 200 hp, which should be enough for now.
Campfire the old school way
Evan built a fire for us outside, it was a bit cold, quickly looked for some wood in the garden and everything was fine. It's hardly possible for us to do something like that, just build a small campfire and have a little chat over a can of beer. The loudspeakers were brought outside without further ado, then Mark from the film team came over with a carton of beer under his arm and things got cozy. Evan has a lot of old parts lying around in his garden, it looks like a scrap graveyard, everything looks nice and it looks good again.
After the fire went down, we moved a little further afield; a friend of Evan's opened a new restaurant nearby, where we had an exceptionally good meal. If you know where to go, there are really good restaurants in this area.
We had already been to Montgomery, a beautiful historic old town with cozy bars where some Harley bikers apparently spend the winter there, a great atmosphere.
We have made new friends here and are enjoying our time in the American Chopper dream.