I remember watching Then Came Bronson as a kid growing up in Southern California. I was hooked from the very beginning. I got my first mini bike and I would ride down to the local Harley, Triumph and Suzuki dealership. I wanted a Sportster like there was no tomorrow. I ended up getting a dirt bike and I raced both desert and motocross and did a bit of sailing as well. In 1972, the fun ended and I enlisted in the military.
When I was overseas, I had/restored a Triumph Tiger 650, which I shipped home with me. Since then, I have restored and sold numerous bikes, both American and British.

I was reading my Classic Motorcycles magazine and I read the story about Don�s TCB bike. That started bring back the Bronson in me. I sold one of my XLCR�s that I had restored and I found a nice 1975 XLCH kicker on E-Bay and began the transformation. I searched E-Bay and numerous other sites for the pipes, air cleaner, fork gators, chrome oil tank, shocks, etc.

A friend, who works as a painter at a local auto paint shop, did the paint for my TCB bike. We put the decals under the clear coat. There are some very slight ripples that are very hard to see unless you look close, but I will probably put new decals over them. After a lot of elbow grease and doing a bit of polishing, my TCB bike was ready for its first ride down the long lonesome highway.

I am a retired law enforcement officer/special agent and I was a graduate of the California Highway Patrol Motorcycle Enforcement Academy back in the day. I loved sailing boats since I was a kid. I lived/sailed my Newport 30 footer for five years. When I met and married my wife of over 22 years. We bought, lived and sailed our Vagabond 47 for many years. Well all the boats are gone, but the bikes live on.

I really enjoy checking out the entire JimBronson.com web site and I will continue to do so. Thanks for keeping TCB and the Birney Jarvis� legend alive and living. Hang in there.

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