the world is flat....

if you want to see some outstanding photography about the stuff we love then you need to go here ...... the world is flat is photography by michael schmidt and its so crisp...

latest post has some shots from kim's new shed....and a bike hes building for BF3 ... check BCM -----------> i love this shot.

movie time...

bought a new go pro camera ....the rose put me onto it and man they are good....

more rain ..... less shine

...makes for nice country road riding....i wont show you a shot of the 48....this was off the side that has a fender.....and still i love it...

can i do a trip like this one day...

max schaaf, ken nagahara and chris lindig...check this out...get hotbike magazine issue 118 to see more stuff....

__ HIT THE CITY __ from max schaaf on Vimeo.

48

changed the intermediate jet on the 48 again...still playing around ....getting it right...so crisp this motor.

clint

hey t, thanks.....can anyone get enough of this man?!

48

ive never been one for high bars but ive had this ace pair for a while and just wanted to see...i think i like em.

48 bar mounts...

...so its the age old thing with springers....you need to keep that top clamp and mount attached which has pinch bolts but you need to be able to mount bars better than dogbones and all that excess stuff...so i had these old mounts around and turned them down as you can see with the one on the right...they will slide down into the fork tubes and sit flush or slightly over the top clamp...then i put a cut in each fork tube with the grinder so that the pinch bolt on the top clamp will also compress the fork tube slightly onto these turned down mounts...all interference fit mind you so pretty tight.

i had to widen the bars slightly but im thinking its gonna work just fine....i will leave the ears on the top clamp until i decide if thats the way ill stay with it...

ill post some picks of the finished product in a couple of days.

shed music...

for today led zeppelin only...all day

changes for my 48...

...on the way...new taillight and plate holder and bars....also after my long last ride i found she was running lean and just a bit too clean...so intermediate jet change too...i always think about bikes i have and updating them and changing bits.,,,trying new stuff...like the bars on the 48. Its not that i dont like the ones that are on it, i love them, they were off my 1926 norton when i got it, i had changed those for a set of bars i got with my 29 rudge. its just that ive been thinking about a slightly higher arm position, also i want to see what i come up with for mounting off a traditional top springer clamp.

for me...there is none better...

...i come home...tired...put it on and im somewhere good...

GKM issue 19...

go to my link at RIGHT------->

and get it...

machine anvil...

...so the storey goes along these lines...the town where we live was founded in the mid 19th century ...gold was the thing...a town grew and a bootmaker came to town. He started a little shop and bought himself an anvil in 1860. That anvil got passed on through a few generations and then arrived at a property on which i reside now...about half a mile from where the bootmaker had his shop....the man who owned that property sat that anvil in the yard and there it sat for years...a bloke who still lives in this town worked for the anvil owner for some time and asked that his payment be the anvil....the anvil owner said if you can carry it to your car we are square....he picked it up and carried it half way....about ten years later he did some more work for the anvil owner and when asked how much he was owed he simply said "the anvil". except this time he parked much closer and he took it home.

this man...is one of those men that you know has the power of god and the devil within...can make anything with steel, and wood, and lives life in the australian way in the bush, barefoot and with the smarts of only a man like he could have...yesterday he brought the anvil to me and picked it up out of the back of his ute and like the man he is put it on the spot i had reserved for an anvil for the last 4 years....

the anvil came home and sometimes i cant help but feel like i am just a very small man in this world.

knuckle front end...

...this is where im going...recycling parts as usual..

fuel tank...

online magazine from the straight up blokes at fuel mag....check it...

http://www.fuelzine.com/the-fuel-tank/beta-issue/

mikes wl...

...will sit nice and low and tight...we chopped up his old bantam tank and are gonna sit it split on each side of the top tube..i think its almost perfect in shape...

mikes wl...

i got this aussie mate mike...we have been piecing together his wl project for a couple of years now....(well he has been doing most of it)...and we just finished up the frame to take a 4 speed triumph box....a few more lugs to put on but its pretty well there...its the project in the shed for the next few months...its going to be his daily rider to town with just enough fuel in the split bantam tanks to get him there and home...looking forward to seeing you waiting at the front gate for me mike when i pass your place in the morning as you peel out and try to catch me up boppings hill on an early morning blat to town....

totally beautiful 40...

via hop up..

hollies....

for my caption to this post you better check t's chico moto....

model a ...

there has been a project on the back back back burners for a few years now but a recent little push from joycy has spurred me on...i pulled apart the flatmotor the other day and a rebuild is on the way for the motor..., fourspeed borg warner, centura diff, 32 rails and a steel five window coupe that came out of death valley about 6 years ago are the basis for the build...

its gonna be a slow one judging by the speed that ive hit it so far....