the 50...

photo by my friend kelly sturgiss

one of my earliest memories...

...was our family friends blown big block chev speed boat called somethin special....he lived a couple doors down from us and when he started that thing up the whole neighbourhood heard it. we used to go up to wisemans and get behind it in a big tractor tube and camp out and have big fires and watch the oldies drink...all day was the sound of v8s up and down the river..life was loud and simple. ill never get tired of that sound.

did someone say knucklehead?...

theres a new bike coming together at machine...i cant wait for this one....straightleg, s and s knuck and baker 6 into 4.....holy shitbags.

look what turned up in the mail....

6 into 4...ive wanted to build with one of bakers boxes for a long time and heres my chance......

le mans seat and tail...take 2...

wasnt happy with my first attempt at the tail section for the guzzi....so i started again. it took a while for me to make progress with it but i finally feel better about it.

le mans seat and tail...take 2...

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..