next week .....

...ill be looking forward to a day off up in sydney. im going to help judge the deus build off with 4 other distinguished gentlemen...i heard 30 entrants...cant wait to see what comes....

mark 1.....

.....this is where im heading with the guz...hope to have it with the electrician next week or the week after......

52 came home...

...after a full heart and trans rebuild......now im going to turn my attention to some other issues...like a new alloy gas tank....

mark 1...reassembly...i love this part of the build..

mark 1...reassembly...

motor shots...did someone say knucklehead?...

.....hows this knucklehead grab ya.,

motor shots...

so here it is......

....its been a long time coming.....ive wanted to build a bike with a vincent motor for as long as i can remember...(i talked about it with MG60 about ten years ago on my last trip to brisbane...) so here you go...here it is running on the bench....its going to test me this one but im ready for it....i just drove 2600km to get this motor and drop off the flat tanker...im tired and ready for bed... stay tuned for some close up photos shortly..

the model 18 is leaving Machine tomorrow...

...i'll be sad to not see it in the shed anymore...its such a beautiful looking machine...so simple and purposeful....but im excited about whats coming in its place.....

wl s for me and mike.....

....next projects in the shed are two similar bikes.....my good mate mike wants to get his wl on the road.....hes done seriously well in pieceing it together so far....so im going to get that triumph gearbox nutted out and finish her off......ive also had a wl put away for a while so i am going to hit that at the same time....my frame had a triumph four speed installed a long long time ago so all the frame work is done on that one.....

been thinking about hopper lately.....

...vincent put me onto this...

50.....

....going home today....

Lucky B Design....

....my mate Dave from Lucky B Design in Paso Robles, California sent me some T Shirts today....so cool.......but best of all....he did me this sign for the front door of the shed as a surprise present......gold leaf...my fucken favourite.....we love it!......

new machine in the shed....

....a couple of years ago i spotted in the corner of my mate rob (my sandblaster)...in his shed, an amazing polishing machine...i told him if he ever wanted to sell it i would buy it in a flash......as my old man used to say....slowly slowly catchy monkey.....its now in the machineshed...i can tell you with total confidence you can push a bit of metal into this baby and she wont slow 1 single rpm.....there is no substitute for quality....there is no rating on the general electric motor but id say 4 hp......and totally quiet...

for sale...triumph t110 ......SOLD!....

....650cc motor and speed twin...(i think) rigid frame and front end.. motor looks like its been refurbed and just put together finger tight......i can see pistons going up and down but i think it mightbemissing pushrods....i could pull it apart and check if need be...carb, maggy...looks real nice...like its been done over...actually allthemotor looks like that....no wear at all on the gear...see photo.... frame looks straight as....front end is with it....that frame could stay as is...paint is good.... this might be a cool project for some young bloke. email me at machineshed@bigpond.com

ken block...totally totally unbelievable...

for sale...1923 indian chief frame...SOLD....

im going to be selling some things on ebay over the coming weeks.... so i will post them here also...this is a 1923 indian chief frame and front end....i bought it about 5 or so years ago and had a special project in mind for it....i had it blasted and primed ..its in unbelievable condition....i have the handlebars also but they are not so good.... this is the aussie ebay item number 270645734862 but the start time is not for another 7 or so hours.... email me if you are interested...machineshed@bigpond.com

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....