andy green...

...posted for you mr quick.....

50 pan.....

...picked up the pan today from getting wired up....usually my mate matt in sydney does all my wiring work but this young kid who works in town really wanted to get involved and have a go at wiring it up....he did a fantastic job.....so very neat and everything where it should be.....gotta get it back together now and start her up....still got paint to do but i just need a good couple of days to get that finished up...

one day...one day.....

...recently i got sick of saying one day...after hitting the big 4...0... i reckon its time for some serious life alterations including more time to spend enjoying myself...gotta rid myself of a couple of chains in the next couple of months... took a quick walk down the back and spotted this little fella watching me...i was lookin back at him to see him lookin back at me. mr black wallaby

machine shop truck.....

....one day i will have a spare year to rebuild the f700...heres some of its stripes.....

le mans...seat and tail...

....i thought id try and work a fibreglass norvil commando seat base for the guzz but when my mate angelo came in and saw it he told me it looked like shit....(it did look a bit droopy).... so i had to start again and make one up from alloy.....heres how it looks now.....i hate the way some guys cut the rear frame tubes off at the shock mounts so i made the decision to just shorten them and keep the original rear seat mount points for the new seat. hopefully i can start tacking it together on monday morning...the idea is to have a zip on the rear seat upholstery (ss ducaati style) and have a tool box spot inside....

mate dont i love this little movie...

i saw this on one of my favourite blogs Le Depassionne....check it out in my blog list to the right....how cool is this bloke....

the master....

if anyone wants to understand what this stuff we love is about...all they have to do is listen to and watch this man...taken from youtube there is some wonderful photography in this little movie...makes it easier when your as far away as i am...shinya, ayu i hope you dont mind me posting it here...

j's sporty....

....last week i was in sydney overnight and hooked up with a new mate of mine j...he lives above his restaurant right on bondi beach called mojos and if your in the area for sure call in and say hi....hes got lots of bike stuff up....im gonna steal the alloy manx tank next time he turns his head....hes badly crazy into his bikes and builds em upstairs...and im talking winding steep stairs...heres a shot of his latest sporty....with some cracker little details i can wait to see it on the road....

wish i had been there....

...a lot of people i would love to spend some time with were at born free 2...i wish i had been there to say hey...

Born Free Show from BornFreeShow on Vimeo.

mark 1 le mans....

.....im gonna bust my arse to have the le mans going by sept 1st....im gonna make the most of next riding season....motor and box are all done...wheels are done...just waiting for my seat base to turn up so i can position everything and finish brackets etc.

country miles....

...are always fun round here....

music i play in the shed 5....the master....

music i play in the shed 4....

music i play in the shed 3...."like a lead balloon'...

music i play in the shed 2....rage...

music i play in the shed....the tatts in 81....

...do i need to say anymore??!!!!....listen to the original lp release and you cant help but move your head...fast....

things were better in the 70's....

48 panhead

my mates up at deus in sydney have kindly put my pan in the showroom for sale... carby took some amazing shots of it and here are a few...thanks blokes...if anyone wants to go buy it then go right ahead...i promise i will just go and spend the money on another bike.... check here...and then go there!... http://www.deus.com.au/gallery/machine-48-panhead/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=577078252&utm_campaign=YingTong&utm_term=Machine+48+Panhead

thanks dennis....

52....

about 8 or so years ago my wife spotted a car driving through newtown in sydney....it spun her head around about 360 degrees and the love affair started....a couple of years later after seeing it many times and loving it every time we saw it together and we both stood in the street looking at this thing shaking and the hardest lookin mother driving it and we went very very weak in the legs... no less than a week or so later i ended up meeting the bloke who owned it and he striped my 50 norton.....we became friends and now hes one of the few i call a mate.... since then we (my wife and i) had been in the chev a couple of times...going to the drags and rods shows and stuff and we always said that given the chance we would buy it.....well the chance came up and now it resides at machine. its one hell of a car....it was built by a hell of a bloke who had a lot of trouble letting it go after 12 years of work....but hes a mate and he can still drive it any time he wants....im just very happy that my wife finally gets to drive it into town and make all those babies and women cry.... thanks daz...for being such a motherfucker... ...