50 panhead

...i just got my copy of gkm today... we have just cooked dinner and had a nice bottle of wine to celebrate. so nice to have a copy of the magazine in hand...ive been driving to the post box every day to see if its there like a little kid. thanks guy.

krugger motorcycles...

...first time i saw a krugger bike was about 3 or so years ago....that bike called harper i think......and i was impressed then, but what about this shit.....

50 panhead on the GK cover....

....im super totally stoked that the 50 was chosen by Guy to be on the cover of GK 18....Guy has been nothing but encouraging of my work over the last 5 or 6 years and im so glad that he thought the 50 was good enough to be in the mag...let alone the cover....thanks mate... im gonna say a big thanks to my good friend kelly sturgiss who helped me with all the photos....thanks miss im sure its not the last thing we will do together.... thanks joe for letting me spend your money...you know your the only one that can ride that thing!!!!

BIKE EXIF calender.....

i met Chris Hunter today (as well as many other nice people)....most of you would already know of his website BIKE EXIF.... http://www.bikeexif.com/ ....if you dont go and look... and then go here ... http://www.magcloud.com/browse/Issue/133595....and buy his calender if you have some spare cashola.. chris is a standup guy and works til 2 in the morning to punchout daily..(dont bust his balls if he has a day off every now and then).... bike related posts... nice to meet you finally chris....

forgotten more.....

than any young upstart will ever learn....thanks for all your wisdom mate....and humour!

all these blokes.....

.....and what they do, and have done needs to be watched with a careful all seeing eye..... http://www.alluminati.com/

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...