Thursday, October 31, 2013

Monday, October 28, 2013

B&W trike

from DFFL


Header pic problems

Been having problems with uploading top header pic. Obviously it is turning out way too light... Havent been doing anything different!? Anyone in blogger land know what im doing wrong!? EDIT: there seems to be a bit of improvement; but it still looks a slight bit off... I can live with it, can you!?


Sunday, October 27, 2013

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Friday, October 25, 2013

Crazy Frank Friday!

Louis F. sends in his recently finished 64 panhead equipped with a crazy frank. a Closer look reveals some cool stuff like the flat sissibar, dropseat frame and the cool rear wheel trims off of a knucklehead



Thanks for sending Louis!

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Hayward Freedom Riders

My friend from Cali sends over these gems of the Freedom Riders club. These must be late 70s to early 80s, while on a run.
Lots of Honda funny chopper action!


You can't buy cool!





Friday, October 18, 2013

Freaky fender friday!

some cool bikes that clearly have been inspired on the fabulous crazy Frank fender



Thursday, October 17, 2013

Memory lane

The mighty Honda SS50 was the weapon of choice for me and my friends back in the 90s. We did some real awesome shit with these things!
 This one looks way more nice than the ratbikes we drove...


Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Dutch glory

long time Dutch chopper builder Matje showed some cool pics from back in the day, here he is on a chopped BSA back in the late 60s. In a time where there were hardly any chopperparts or even magazines around here in Holland. The exhaust stacks were probably made out of vacuumcleaner pipes!


as a young man in the 60s Matje saw / heard a chopped Triumph raging thru his village everyday and was instantly intrigued and wanted to know more of it. Finally he managed to jump in front of the guy, turns out it was a US soldier stationed at a US armybase located nearby. A friendship was struck and the soldier brought some choppermagazines back from the US and Matje drooled over all the cool stuff he saw!
This is just one of a couple cool pics I got, the others still need a little tweeking. So more on that later!

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Friday, October 11, 2013

Friday Frank

cool bike swiped from the net, for the Crazy Frank archives!
see all kinds of crazy frank fendered bikes here


Thursday, October 10, 2013

Brubaker box

small kitcar-van on a VW bug chassis

a recent find with a build thread on thesamba.com, check it



sales ad, lovin the slot mags
Now this looks like fun!!

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Tuesday Tank tales

Most old bikes get ripped apart when changing hands, this 1975 shovelhead was no exception!
First pics are from 1999, when it was still kinda pretty 80s style custom. Then it got stuck in a moist barn untill recently. The current owner tore it apart and sold off some stuff. Yep, too bad... but the tanks and rear fender + struts are now in safe hands of yours truly! Plus, the very friendly current owner plans on building a  Zero styled bike, which could pan out just fine!

In the 80s, this was the style to have!  seems like it had a fork "upgrade" in the 90s. And the crimescene in the background ;-)

Little rough around the edges, perfect patina if you ask me! Add a 10 inch  OS wideglide and presto: perfect!
 



Chopper in a box! Hopefully one day it will live again, but for now its safe for future generations!

The original artwork "Hollyweed" by Dave Mann




Monday, October 7, 2013

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Random rad

so many cool stuff have passed thru the years, here is some of the stuff I didn't get! *sigh*



Saturday, October 5, 2013

Familiar

I swear I've seen the tank on this one before, all archives turned upside down, but no luck!
It was a modern day pic, from the tank only, not on a bike...



edit 19dec. 2013: Found the pic! It's close, but not the same!

 




Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Tuesday Tanks

This time a cool (and stolen) pic from a choppershop somewhere in Japan (anybody know who?)

click on it to see fullsize