Wednesday, March 30, 2011
le mans...
ive been putting some miles on the le mans the last week ...just bedding everything in, making sure things aint gonna fall off and stuff like that... im going to give her a nice long run next week of maybe 600 or so to see how she goes...then we are going to do some photos...
Monday, March 21, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
river deep mountain high 4 ... no better in my view.
what does it mean when you listen to a song maybe 6 or 7 times in one day...after you have played it maybe 500 times ...
does it get better?...i know one thing for sure. I never get bored of the Saints doing this song.
wish i could find some footage of them doing it live...
river deep mountain high 3
Stevie ... was in my town a couple of weeks ago....get this and then get Chris Bailey...
Thursday, March 17, 2011
i have this mate....
...who is quite a lot like me in a lot of ways.he's a bit older than me but when we are together having a glass of wine or a bottle, we talk the same language, loud, and at each other.
he's a lot smarter than me but thats ok,...cause i'm more handsome.
we talk about bikes and jazz and life and he's always wise.
one day we will ride very fast on our very old bikes together...hopefully soon mate.
today he gave me a present and its just perfect for me...it was given to him by someone and he passed it on today...he's never ridden with it cause his head is too big..mine is like a pin so it fits me like a glove.
its got this little cross hand painted on it and a little story came up while we were talking about the lid today and its something like this..
"a very well known racer in the days past knowing that his time could soon be up, decided that because he had such a rare blood type, he would write it on his helmet so that in the event he had a bad off, the people treating him would know what blood they should give him immediately. so the night before this big race he sat down to paint in red on his silver helmet his blood type but just as he started to paint he remembered a split locking pin he had left off his manx norton while he was race prepping it that afternoon....fearing he would forget that pin in the morning he went directly to his machineshed and put the pin in. he walked out of the shed and decided to take the dog for a quick walk. when he came home he poured another glass of wine and fell asleep in his chair listening to the radio.
in the morning the racer grabbed his helmet, loaded his bike, and took off for a hard days racing.
the painting on the helmet never got finished, the racer died that day on his norton and his helmet got passed from man to man to man"
thanks bruce. you made my day mate.
always mr cool..
hi max...the photography was done by michael schmidt of the world is flat and is perfect as you would expect...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
the machine xs....
....has gone to live in the city.... today i met a cool young bloke named rob who has bought the machine xs and has taken her home.... he seemed like the kind of aussie bloke who would look after her but ride her hard too.hey rob....good to meet you mate...have fun....
Friday, March 4, 2011
mark 1 exhaust.....
...did my head in a bit...i always hate how long the exhausts look when they follow the lower frame tube so the first system that i ran just bugged me...redone now and all tigged up....though not in this shot...this one i took yesterday.
hopefully i will start it up this week....
Thursday, March 3, 2011
mark austins flathead...
...mark sent me these shots of his UMG Flathead...super rare bike...hes done a special that Guy from GK tells me he's going to feature so keep an eye out for it.
Mark owns Pacific HD and has helped me over the last ten years or so with parts and stuff...If you need anything try him...if he dont have it he knows where to send you... go here to find him..
these nice photos were taken by Roger Chambers...hey roger if you have a link you want me to post send me an email....
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