Last Saturday's Lunch Ride.

Last Saturday we went to Shono's for lunch. It's a pretty cool little Japanese place near my Gym. It's also a little farther away so we had a better ride and I got more pictures. I know y'all get tired of me posting the pics from the lunch ride, but taking riding pics is one of my favorite things to do. When you get truly tired of them, let me know in the comments. I may give it a break or I may tell you to piss off. Depends on my mood I guess.

Spenser is hungry and ready to go!

David rode the Panhead and since the kickstand spring is stretched and doesn't really work he has to use a loop made from zip ties to hold it up. Of course this takes time and everyone ended up leaving us behind so we rode out by ourselves. That's OK, I got to listen to this fine beast run.

You know you're tall when you make a Panhead chopper look small.

The man is loving this machine right now!

We found out that the rest of the crew stopped so Jesse could get some gas. His Sporty is apart for some much needed chopping so he borrowed Davids CB750 for this ride. Here he is pulling into the parking spot for lunch.

After lunch, I got ahead of everyone in the parking lot and got this pic as they passed by me. Stewie's new tank really grabs your eye!

The ride back.

I love riding in a nice small pack of cool bikes.

Stylin' & Profilin"

That pipe was about 3/4" from Jesse's leg. Shorts are NOT the preferred riding gear fro that bike.

We stopped for a slushy, we they did I just watched. he Panhead had a few issues, but all in all it was a good ride.

Another Great Saturday

Another great weekend in the books. Saturday morning I had to knock out my "honey do" list consisting mainly of yard work, then I was able to get away and head over to GarCo. I got there just in time for lunch and after a little arm twisting I convinced them to go to Nino's so I could get a meat lover's calzone YUM YUM! The ride was short but still fun. After that we all hung out working on projects until it was time to take off for a party at Alabama Joe's house. He's got a really cool little house on a wooded lot in an area of town you would never expect to see his spread. I really dig it and should have taken pics before it got dark, but I was busy talking. I tried to take pics of the party, but the tiki torches were messing up my camera so I gave up and just enjoyed myself. It was pretty tame for a party with that many Haints, but then again I did leave pretty early.  Enjoy the pics from the lunch ride, I'm trying to update as much as I can, but things have kind of slowed down a little. It'll pic back up soon and until then just enjoy what you get and give me time and I'll post more.

What do you do once a kicker has hyper-extended your knee???? Why switch legs and give it another chance to break you of course! Larry doing the goofy foot kick starting.

I don't know what he was doing, but I got a picture of him doing it anyway.

I was taking a picture of David riding his CB750 before he buys the Panhead Larry is riding, but Larry decided to photo bomb me :-)

Trying to catch up to Larry and Spenser, but they love to give them old bikes plenty of steam.

Spenser changed his bike AGAIN! This time he got a beautiful old AMF Sporty tank off ebay for a good price. It's amazing how much of a difference just changing the paint color of a tank can make.

That tank really pops now.

Making the turn.

One more turn to go.

More BMR Pics

The new Cycle Source just came out recently and that got me to thinking about BMR again. I was actually quite happy to see that my bike made it into the main image used for the BMR article. Mine is the black/blue Bad Boy with the Evel Knievel helmet on the handlebars. Not a great beauty shot, but hey you take what you can get. Also in this months issue is a feature about Adam Doyle's bike and I realized I had a good pic of it so I thought I'd share that as well. The rest of the pics are just ones that I like.

Adam's Bike, if you want to know more about it then go by the new Cycle Source! It's the only magazine I subscribe to.

Kick ass Panhead. I LOVE that old stock paint on that ironhead Sporty gas tank. There's not even much of anything I would change on this bike and I ALWAYS want to change something on every bike I see. Even my own......ESPECIALLY my own.

Another view plus you get to see the Shovelhead parked next to it. A couple of very sweet bikes for sure.

This bike tripped me out when I saw him out on the road before he made it to the campground. This bike is SO low and the ammo cans are SO wide he could barely turn it. Definitely NOT a great bike for winding mountain roads. I bet it was a scary ride through the hills that weekend.

You can get a better idea just how low and wide it all was. Nice bike, and I'm all about using Army surplus stuff, but this one made me scratch my head. The main thing is that HE likes it so my opinion doesn't really matter.

Some Cool Bikes From BMR

There were some bad ass choppers for sure at BMR, here are a few of them. Still a ton more to edit and get uploaded so keep checking back.

Just a fun pic of the boys playing on a little XS400 out on the green.

Sportster that Mosely rode up on.

Nice Shovel

Who said a Twin Cam can't be made to look cool?

Grimey's Shovel, this bike looked NOTHING like this at the Roundup a few weeks ago.

J-Rod's sweet Shovel.

Some bikes from the Led Sled crew.

Stay Tuned more to come as I sort through them.

More Pics From The Ride!

Just some more pics from the ride into town.

Whitey and what USED to be a Triumph Bonneville America. Now it's just a bad ass bike.

Pickett and his Nightster

Sweet Shovel ready to leave the parking lot.

Bad Ass little Sporty, the helmet says Speed Demon and the bike looked fast for sure!

Sweet little bike rolling on its merry way!

Ya Got Any Drag Pipes For a 70's Shovel?

Saturday I was at the shop when this Lady walks in and asks Larry if he has any drag pipes for her Shovelhead. Of course he didn't have em in stock, but she was willing to order them and in the meantime she's going to take the pipes off and wrap them. I don't know what's cooler, her supporting the local shop, her doing the work herself or the fact that she owns/rides and maintains her own damn Shovelhead. Gotta love it.

The Lady and her noble steed.

Getting ready to ride off to the auto parts store for pipe wrap.

You can see the offending pipes pretty well in this one. Otherwise it's a damn nice looking bike. She's talking about getting rid of the raked trees to make it handle a little better.

Classic lines!

Just Some Pics I Like.

On the way back to the shop Sat Spenser and I stopped to pick up some "adult beverages". While he was inside getting the beer I played around some more.

Spenser's shovel and my Bad Boy.

Can you tell I like these low angle shots?

My primary form of transportation. I LOVE this bike, it suits me well.

I want to get a shovelhead one of these days.

Playing in Photoshop

I got a new camera and was playing with it at the shop Saturday. It is SO much better, the pics are sharper, the colors better and it has some cool built in filters. I used an "aging" filter to take this pic of Nick sitting on Stewie's Shovel.

Basic untouched photo except for resizing to fit the blog.

Desaturated and adjusted the contrast. The clarity of the original makes this SO much better than what I was able to do with the old camera. Cropped a little as well.

Cropped for effect.

Adjusted the threshold to make it look like a drawing sort of. I like doing this, it is how I make the bike pictures I use for my t-shirt designs.

Ed's Shovelhead

The man I bought my latest Sportster project from is Ed. He likes to buy basketcases and make them into sweet machines, sell em off and do it all over again. Some of the work he does himself, some is done by GarCo. Either way the bikes end up pretty nice. This bike was an old shovelhead that was pretty rough when I first saw it. There were no rear shocks and it had to be brought into the shop with a forklift because it wouldn't roll. It's come a long way since then. Check it out and bask in its FL glory!

Dig the cool lake pipes end caps Ross made for the bike. It looks pretty damn cool and sounds really nice.

Shane at  is getting pretty damn good at this leather gig. Another one made by him, it's kinda plain, but the craftsmanship is really nice.

Just getting a little artsy. You can really see the exhaust endcaps in this one.

Another picture to show my creativity. Gotta encourage the artist in me, one day I might actually show a little talent and figure out how to make some money to help pay for those chopper parts.