"my passion for motorcycles started so long ago that i can't remember...about the time i saw my first set of apehangers...
sometime around 1978 while working at a brickyard as a forklift operator i found a ragged old 60's vintage sportster for $400.00 and promptly bought it...
after several trips to the local independent shop and several more attempts at trying to make the damn thing run i was offered a deal by the shop owner...come to work for him...as a grunt ...gopher...and all around errand boy...he said i can't pay you any money but i'll give you the parts to fix your bike and show you how to do it....
i jumped at the chance and have never looked back...after rebuilding my sporty from the frame up he decided to keep me on (with pay by this time) and i ended up staying with him for a couple of years before moving on to tucson in 1982...
i worked for a couple of the old school shops that were here at the time and then on to an apprenticeship in engine building/machine shops...after that i went to work for several cookie cutter bike builders in tucson....las vegas...and scottsdale....tiring of building the same old bike over and over and getting no recognition or respect i opened a little engine building shop in my home garage....
i met shawn hammet shortly after that...shawn was running oddball cycles....also out of his garage.....we teamed up on a couple of projects and decided to open a real shop.....
that brings us to oddball cycles/nomad machineworks:
now at the age of 57 i'm right back to doing things the way it was done at that very first shop where i rebuilt that old ragged sporty .... hands-on ... no frills...stripped down durable bikes....taking harleys and old british bikes and making them into what they deserve to be....."
"RIGHT IS RIGHT EVEN IF NOBODY ELSE IS DOING IT ..... AND WRONG IS WRONG EVEN IF EVERYBODY ELSE IS DOING IT."
