i know i know....

you have seen it all before but im putting the guzz on ebay tonight and im linking up the large format photos

im a happy looking fuck aint i!....

was nearly ready for a couple....

of final primer coats and some paint on mikes tins til i dropped my gun and smashed the paint bowl.  its ok its only 100kms to the paint shop.

thinking dark brown/burgundy metallic over black...

ill have to change everything....ill get back to you.

i always come back to the man.

loving my sundays....

this sculpture was built by tony phantastes of Canberra between 1992 and 1997 and was intended to be part of a larger series going back across Collector creek. Its been called many names Dreamer's Gate, Homage to My Father, Homage to the Landscape....i remember the first time i saw it i thought...."jesus, someone's building a Gaudi lookalike in the bush"

5hr round trip....with some caffeine stops of course.

tins.

looking forward to the paint on the 45 tins....tanks have had a couple coats of primer and sand, the fender is under first primer ready for some fine sanding.

i love this part. in 1984 i asked my parents if i could leave school to become an auto spray painter. id painted maybe 15 cars by the time i was 15 and i loved it. my mum freaked out, my dad got mad cause id upset mum and i shut my mouth and went to school and read street machine during class. i was serious, i wanted to ditch school and learn a trade. i wonder if i would have been here now had i done that.

sunday ride....

.....had a little bit of a change to my life this weekend....for the first time in about 4 years i didn't have to work on sunday.....so rain (yes) hail or shine (no) i hit the road....

from three different directions we all met in one spot...about 200 clicks from where i live.....i left the wet gear a little late to get on but the fire place at the pub dried us out soon enough...STKen on his Road King and HCMFJoe on the 8 valve....

the mark 1 went like it always does, faultless high speed cruising.....backed those ikon shocks off a notch too....much better.....its gonna be hard to let that bike go....but its ebay time this week....keep an eye out if your interested...

double johnny black warms u up...

lord and wells

one of my earliest memories was thinking i was so rad sitting in my grandparents house on my holidays listening to my auntys records....two of which were machine head and burn......this is like 1976 or so...

machine head made a huge impact on me....it was one of the reasons why i named machine ....machine.

the first t shirt i had a mate help me with a long time ago was this.....maybe i need to do that shirt properly now....

MW 1960

cant get enough of this album.....do you think the chicks at the time knew what he was talking about when he said "ill put a tiger in your tank"?

ducati

45 oil tank finished up...

all bead blasted...like a lot of other parts on the bike...

in case you cant remember what they looked like....it has been a fucklong time

italian motor magazine photoshoot........

hey adam.....it cleared up enough that we got it done.......

tanks done..

left side done...

mikes tanks....

....spending a good part of today shutting up mikes tanks.... sometimes i just want to leave welds alone...but then the panelbeater takes over in me and the files come out......either way its one of the funnest parts...