Mel Chancey

So in the house I grew up in, we had a big pool in the yard.

So I'm like, this is great now.

I don't have to go to school.

I'm just going to lounge in the pool all day, cop some rays, get a tan, hang out with the chicks in the neighborhood.

and uh wasn't too long after that my mom came home with some construction boots and i go what's that for and she goes you're going to work i go for for what she goes you're going to go work with your uncle pouring concrete oh you're not lounging around the house all day you don't want to go to school you're going to go to work so i started working and pouring concrete at 16. and back then i mean i'm i was born in 69 i'm not great at math but you know

um, somewhere in the young, young, you know, the eighties, somewhere in there was 69, 79, 89.

I'm 20.

So yeah, mid eighties.

Um, I started, I was making nine, $10 an hour pouring concrete.

So I was able to buy my first IROC Z28.

I bought a Z28 and I bought my first Harley cause I liked bikes.

I grew up with dirt bikes.

So I bought my first Harley.

So then when I seen the, with the fellows in the gym, the two guys I'm telling you about, you know, they,

ride their bikes there, but they never had their patch on.

They just came in, cut off shirts and stuff like that.

And they took me under their wing, Sean.

And not to groom me because I didn't know who they were, but they were like, hey, kid, you're doing this wrong.

Keep your back up like this.

Do these deadlifts like that.