Johns Place

Spent the morning round my mate Johns place, ogling his amazing bikes and listening to Manx TT tales...he's raced it 13 times don't ya know. Good way to spend a rainy Sunday.

For Sale

My Cool mint condition, mildly customised Cl400 (XR400 Engine Street Scrambler), quality bike - shout me on 07854116505 or email if you want it!

Alternatively I'm after either a newish Tenere or a KTM 640 Adventure if anyone fancies a PX?

My Honda

Looking pretty outside Danny's abode

Lovely day for a lunch time blat around town....

1st outing for the bonnie this year.

Always the favourite

Keepin' it greasy

Old Pics

Of me 500, before the engine had a make over - like these pictures tho - as shot by Jake!

Still; prefer the engine in black, it's the right choice for the bike - should be back in the bike next week - whoop!

Polished Bare Steel

Rules!

Ok I couldn't leave the BSA frame alone - so 5 hours of wet & dry and it looks gorgeous and will patina/age up lovely.

Just the wheels to sort - all the rest should be winging it's way here this week thanks to the wonders of ebay and the internet.

Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor

Those who know, know.

 

 

Path Racer Progress

Going for a ratty bare metal (with some gold lacquer left on for good measure) look, scored a lovely copper and black Brooks, now just some nice bars and we're nearly a go!

FOLKLORE

Margo bought me one of Adi Gilbert's awesome Folklore brand T'Shirts. Cheers Love, and thanks Adi - your work is awesome as always mate.

Check out Adi's other stuff here!

Danny's Carlton Racer

Danny popped round to me house with his nicely patina'd Carlton racer - nice bike, big cheesy proud grin!

Rescued and sorted by our mate Grant, just needs a nicely bedded in Brooks and done as done! Jealous mate.

Pathracer in the making

Swapsies

Starting to fancy a change but too lazy and don't really want to selll, if anyone fancies a swap with the nigh on mint low milage coooool CL400 let me know, love this bike but I'm too shallow to sell my Triumph's so it may just have to go.

Strip down begins!

Danny and Nick popped round for 'Project Night' and the CB engine strip down began with beer in hand......slowly, two hours and the head still wasn't off! But thanks for the hand guys (I mainly took pics and smoked)
Drilling out seized bolts and fighting seized tappet covers took more time than anticipated, Still everything internally so far looks good, hopefully we'll pick this up again at the weekend then it's off to return those cases to their former glory.

And of course everything is photographed, bagged and tagged like a good boy!

Rock Solid Lighting

Our friend Hugo over at RockSolidMotorcycles in Portugal has been working on these beautiful hand made tail lights for a while now and they're about ready to go on sale, limited, exclusive and priced just right so real builders can get their mits on one. Check out the quality of RockSolid workmanship by clicking the link.

Lovely!

John.....

The Sequin Assassin!

Moron.

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Nico

Whilst having a read through the Eat Dust blog - I found this nice little feature on Nico.

I'm lucky enough to have a tank and a Denim painted by Nico and treasure them both - if you haven't discovered this man yet - make sure you go HERE right now!

Winter Blues......

Feeling a bit disheartened at the moment, too cold and salty to ride, the CB project is at a standstill while I try to figure out what the hell I'm doing and get past a major brainblock (and pull my finger out and just get stuck in), and the house is slowly falling apart, so not much to post up really.

To remedy the fact a few bikes I'm currently obsessed with......

Full Circle?

This is my W650 that I put together a few years back, I'd caught a glimpse of what the likes of BratStyle and RedzPor Vida were doing to these things and decided I want some of that!

Now it seems after two Brit bobbers and the Slight brat-ish CL I've come full circle, both in the matter of tastes and affordability. Brit (and especially american) Iron is a little outta reach for me now, hence the new CB350 which will hopefully be a more classy version of that japanese style.

I wish to keep it's identity as a 69 as it's such a pretty thing, but I do miss my W650 so think this is where I'm heading with it.

Pic from my old house in a makeshift workshop in the run down conservatory.