RIP ES

used to listen to my dad playing earl when i was young.....will the circle be unbroken....i don't know.

my mate damien ....

just did a tour of japan and west coast USA and being the biker that he is visited all the best places (im too jealous).....here's a sweet k in tokyo. whoever owns it...nice one mate.

duo gliiiiiiiiiiiiide

1960 Duoglide.....

...nearly all sorted....joe got this 60 a while back (kind of special cause he was born the same year and he'd been looking for the right bike for a long time.....but it was all over the shop, not firing properly and breaking down under load, running rough and all the other stuff that drive you nuts....

i fitted an old 6v norton coil i had around...sorry...lucas not norton...and instantly it improved...so i ordered a new repro coil, new leads, points and spent some time getting the linkert dialed in... i had my camera on the wrong settings and so all my shots came out dark....but...i kindo like them. god created some beautiful bikes.

lukies new ride....

hes been working hard on this one for a while....when is she coming down to get a workout on the dirt roads mate....?

engine sprocket...

...for mikes wl......so im making a sprocket with firstly a special offset to suit the new gearbox, secondly, one that will fit the standard wl crankshaft and thirdly will accommodate a duplex setup for the triumph gearbox.

heres part one...the original triumph crank sprocket.....and a section i machined up to fit the rear of that sprocket. im going to anneal the sprocket and then take out the inside section to allow me to fit nut home.

next im going to machine the standard wl sprocket to accept my spacer.....lengthy process ...maybe someone has done something similar and can let me know how they did it....

emperor moth.....

was wondering why this scribbly gum i planted was suffering and its cause of this guy....emperor moth caterpillar....i relocated him to a tree twenty times the size...they aint blue but the one i got on my chest is...

bk schebler

bk dropped in the other day with this in his hand......not every day some bloke just walks around the streets carrying a carb like this....beautiful....

easily fixed bro...

so the story goes..... my oldest mate and i, jon t, watch this movie with pierce b about 20 years ago and we see this scene....the ..."maybe you shouldn't be living here scene".... and for ten years afterwards whenever someone says "maybe"......we end with a taffin impersonation.....maybe not funny to you but i shit myself laughing a thousand times....do this impersonation at the right time and its guaranteed to get some seriously weird looks....topes your just a son of an ah ah ah...

extended

original

4 months old today....

P.B. stopped by yesterday with ...

his brother, michaels shadow,......

dont need to say much more than that really......bruce has been on a high all day to say the least....good to see you paul.....

i buy a lot of magazines....

....from all over the world.....but really, if this is not one of the most perfectly directed magazines then im a monkeys ex uncle....

go here

Mocan & Green Grout........

...is where i go to get my double ristretto when i'm in canberra......not that i'm into pushys all too much...but miles showed me this one they have just finished as a prototype.... has some nice lines don't you think....

sick.

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

Living on the road my friend

Was gonna keep you free and clean

Now you wear your skin like iron

Your breath's as hard as kerosene

You weren't your mama's only boy

But her favorite one it seems

She began to cry when you said goodbye

And sank into your dreams

Pancho was a bandit boys

His horse was fast as polished steel

Wore his gun outside his pants

For all the honest world to feel

Pancho met his match you know

On the deserts down in Mexico

Nobody heard his dying words

That's the way it goes

All the federales say

They could have had him any day

They only let him hang around

Out of kindness I suppose

Lefty he can't sing the blues

All night long like he used to

The dust that Pancho bit down south

Ended up in Lefty's mouth

The day they laid poor Pancho low

Lefty split for Ohio

Where he got the bread to go

There ain't nobody knows

All the federales say

They could have had him any day

They only let him slip away

Out of kindness I suppose

The poets tell how Pancho fell

Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel

The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold

So the story ends we're told

Pancho needs your prayers it's true,

But save a few for Lefty too

He just did what he had to do

Now he's growing old

A few gray federales say

They could have had him any day

They only let him go so wrong

Out of kindness I suppose

the voices on these two men!.....jesus.

RIP MW

in the red.... the number of times i've sat reading books by mick walker ... especially my favourite on the manx is stupid.

thanks mw.

machine wall photos 4...

from bob holidays norton story.....

my fantastic friends ....

.....Lis, Angelo and jnr bought me zap teshima and shinya kimuras new book for my birthday..... always inspired gifts from those peoples.....thanks you guys i love it....

nice little note inside from ayu and shinya made my day even better.

amazing photography, minimalist design, printing and construction .... and you already know what i think of shinya's bikes.

go here to buy a copy before the limited run are gone....if not already.

gearbox adjusting mount....

started on the gearbox adjuster today...

and finished off the rear guard/fender mounts.

pad ...

for mikes bike... pad will be done by the local saddler just like the seat...

got some stuff planned for the rear of mikes bike....i want to mount the tail light/ stop light down low but no more number plate low down im gonna mount it off the guard/fender and have a separate plate light.......more legal like.

mikes wl....carb and manifold...

mike and i added a dellorto 32mm pumper to his build....i pretty well finished up the manifold tonight....i may cut it back just a touch more but shes pretty close to just right....