remember your roots....

been listening to a lot of chuck lately....

shake em up....

give em something to think about instead of the candy ass temperature in their swimming pool.....

sometimes people come into your life...

...to just calm you down...they help you see through the crap of the day to day stuff and you cant help but want to be around their infectious calmness.

enter road king kenny.

hes eaten at my table, he's drunk my wine. i've made him coffee,.. and we can talk for hours about motorcycles and life. quite simply. my life is better when he's around.

model A ...

rob has finished a first pass with the blaster on the body and i am amazed at how good it is....the cowl is fantastic.... floor is all but gone but then i would have removed it anyway so thats ok...dash is good doors are fantastic....one patch needed on each bottom right along the length of the door....all the moulding lines are perfect on the doors and they are relatively unmolested.

the rear end of the body was obviously cut off at some stage....maybe someone backed into a tree...cause the rear section thats on it cant be from this car as its got an overlap where its been joined....no matter cause its not bad.

so overall its looking great. we are removing some internal timber in the roof section to blast some more and she can come home.

mikes wl... frame...

is all done now...i ended up having to chase down some weak spots in the rear section where it had been lengthened previously.

i tried to resist the urge to over grind and finish it to rather leave a surface that was slightly less refined and thus a little closer to the original finish...which is pretty rough to say the least.

off to the blaster and powdercoater tomorrow. Doesn't normally take more than a week so. So ill hopefully be mounting that front end, motor and box next weekend.

if you want blood...you got it...

one of my earliest memories as a kid was sitting on my grandfathers shoulders and picking blood plumbs off his tree in the western suburbs of sydney.....and then stuffing my face with them sitting on the grass...

last year i had two plums off our trees but this year i have a harvest....cant wait for next year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UPw4f1oN7g&ob=av2e

mikes wl...

is ready for final frame clean up and welding now...ill have a big night on it tomorrow and then off to blasting and powdercoating on tuesday...

hey wait for me bro...

model A ...

finally got the coupe down to the farm....well almost....its at the blasters getting a clean up before it gets here...ive got motor, gearbox, clutch, diff, wheels..(not tyres yet)..., front axle, brakes, and a bunch of other parts already.....i need a 32 chassis if anyone wants to part with one....

terrorising the locals....

joe on his 50 making way too much noise in that seaside holiday suburb.....

le container

if you dont follow le container and your into architecture, nature, bikes, cars, girls, and anything beautifully designed and interesting in life then you better get with it.....

thanks DAV,.... your bringing us some of the most amazing images from across the world.

and to all those people who took those photos, posted those photos and photoshopped those photos thank you too.

HNYE

pretty sure the guy sitting next to the hostess is the dude who rode the chop in vanishing point who hooked up kowalski and found the back door........far out.

mark V le mans before...

after impact with a wombat at 100km/h....

the mark v hit the shed today for a full makeover. its pretty screwed up in the front but the rest is looking not too bad.....we shall see when it comes apart....

matt, not me, its owner, has taken about 4 years to get her out of the shed so its about time she came good...

summer time = snake time

farm stuff...

beautiful harvest on our peach trees for the first time this year......we have had a couple for the previous two years but not like this year.

my wife has been collecting echidna quills for the last five years....we are planning to make a light from them for our bedtime reading...

ride time

did some great miles on the guzz over the last few days....the ride this morning was fast and fun for the first half but the second half had some of the worst dirt bits ever....no time to look at the scenery when your dodging holiday makers in the middle of the road heading to the beach...

the dog fox, on the run

heros 3....

the stories that i have heard about these two blokes who live near me and their bikes over the years are the stuff of legend.

stuart is the man who really taught me to weld, and in a perfect calm way when he was teaching me everything just sunk in and its been one of the pivotal learning experiences in my life...i don't think i've been taught much, more just learned by fucking up and trying again. But it just seems every now and then someone comes along and you really know you should just listen and learn.

stuarts son now works for me and in some way he just has those calm eyes listening and learning. what a good kid. can chuck a wheelie like no one i ever saw.

noel is the man who i was afraid to meet for about 4 years. i would see him riding and i would hear him flat the fuck out in the middle of the night and think about the wildlife running scared out of his way...when we finally did meet properly he had given up riding because of his last bad accident where he busted himself pretty bad and was lying in a ditch over night with a broken pelvis and various other things after hitting a kangaroo. about two months ago i finally got to drink some beers with him and my other noel mate and the stories i heard were book worthy.

in 1985, the two mates noel and stuart decided they would take their new harleys and turbo charge them. stuart thinks at the time they might have been the only street harleys in australia with turbos.

they were both well known for laying rubber around town and out the front of the various pubs, doing feet up donuts, and generally riding the crap out of their bikes. they would bust them and fix them and bust them again.

one day i'm looking forward to getting them in the same room, getting smashed with them and hearing more about those days.

Stuart, thanks for lending me these photos and for your enthusiasm when i talk about building that salt bike and noel, i know you still have that bike next to your bed...cant we just trike it 1970's style so you can ride again...cheers blokes

i was listening to zuma while writing this and cortez the killer always just gets me.

nice arvo....

spent test riding the 50 before she goes home next monday....mixtures, (i think that ram tube is tumbling that air/fuel mixture weird at mid throttle), what a sweet bike though...that 3 degrees in rake is wonderful at 70mph....

summertime blues