le mans...seat and tail...3

trying to finish off the last of the brackets and bits and pieces for the lemans before i send the frame and swing arm to the powdercoaters... heres how the seat is shaping up...its testing my patience...

1950 panhead

guy has posted these shots on the greasy kulture site and he will be doing a feature on the 50 the issue after next which im really stoked about...

listen to this....

...i was watching the conartism blog and the conartist posted a serious you tube clip of a big valve excelsior super x starting up...check it out...holy jesus. ...http://conartism.blogspot.com/ then i got onto this other clip of an 8 valve indian running....

XS 650 FOR SALE.....

...im going to put the xs on ebay in the next couple of days...its a great bike..loads of fun...easy to start...im not saying its a chicks bike but some girl would look great riding this around the city... if your interested send me an email machineshed@blogspot.com and i can give you the rundown on whats been done and what hasnt...

XS

XS 650 FOR SALE.....

last night.....

....i got to meet up with all my friends in sydney and show them the 50...it was a fantastic night....thanks to greg and pierre at the deus cafe for allowing me to have a little thing in their space and for being so accommodating....i hope we didnt cause too many problems....thanks to dare, ben and carby for all the support...thanks to my bestest of mates for all coming along...damo, joycy, emile, luke, rose, johnny, jordy, karl, paul, tony, fadi...and to all the girls...thanks especially tash and maz i know you had to rush from work to get there... young paul who i met last night and your mate....good to meet you....im sure we will talk again soon. thanks to joe...your unwavering friendship, support, and unquestioning faith in me astounding...i hope this bike is all you wanted and more.. lastly, but most importantly, my wife sophie, for putting up with my totally obsessive crazyness for motorcycles .... i am thankful everyday that i have such a beautiful, amazing, person who can put up with me.

1950 panhead...

...im pretty excited about taking the 50 up to sydney tomorrow to deliver it to my mate joe...i put a lot of work into it.....thought about it a lot.... and hopefully took what i learnt on the 48 to the next level of resolution...its going to come back soon though....i know the clutch needs a tweak and im thinking about a new dizzy as well...and i want to take some nice photos of it here at the shed...(t can you come and take them?) ..tomorrow night...im getting together with my closest friends to show them the bike...i hope they like it...ive always tried to not give a fuck about what other people think about what i do.. but really, deep down inside, i love it when they love it.

in the shed....

...took the afternoon to clean the shed...the pan is finished and ive ridden it a few times over the last two days...it rides beautifully...the narrowglide does wonders...thursday is delivery to the owner, my very close friend joe....he hasnt seen it at all so im sure he will have a nice afternoon that day... in the meantime the model 18 gets some attention...the rebuilt maggy to go back on and some final things before it goes to its new home up north....it will be missed here ..its such a beautiful bike...so many details added and altered over its long life to make it handle better and go faster.... next week im gonna turn my attention to finishing the mark 1 le mans and starting on mikes wl build....

cro customs.....

...i dont know the man that built this bike..his name is caleb..if your into beautifully built bikes you should check this out...those details take time..in the head and on the lathe and on the mill...and with the welder...and filing... i love this bike...thats how to makeover a sporty.

Cro Customs BS1 from cro customs on Vimeo.

50 pan....almost....almost...

....watch the gearbox filler nut...its better to watch it on youtube....i cant work out how to make the whole clip fit on the blog screen...always seem to miss a third of the frame.....anyone?....t??....FIXED!