There are some interesting things going on with Phantom Manufacturing. First, they have a new “auto-incandescent kiosk thingy,” also known as a website. Here is a purty picture of their EG model: According to them, each bike is “designed “as ...

A Honda 125cc drag racer: A Yamaha two-stroke drag racer that was built and run by Performance Machine. Check out their old school Flickr page. I’m guessing it’s a late-60’s 350cc R3 motor. Anybody know for sure?   >> Get ...

Excellent! Gabe at After Hours Choppers is donating a pair of his flat trackers brass risers for the Freedom or Death machine. I couldn’t be more excited. Thanks, Gabe! Thanks to everyone everywhere who has thrown up the poster I ...

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Went out with the little lady last night to South Congress to drink beer, meet people, and watch the hotrods. I’ll post more hotrod images soon, but first wanted to throw up these pix. The killer XS chopper you see ...

Do you like beer and motorbikes? How about killer brews from Austin’s own Independence Brewery? Do garage-built metric choppers, bobbers, and cafe racers make you tingle in inappropriate places? Do you like drunk chicks with tattoos on their big ****? ...

The Philo Beddoe Family Reunion (watch out for the bananas): Loomis Grange Hall | 6486 Colwell Rd, Penryn, CA 95663 | August 6-7, 2010. From Gabe at After Hours Choppers: It seems that whenever we get together for a party ...

“I’ll stab you in the face!” Not really. That was a drunk in the street this afternoon. We were drinking, too. He was yelling at nobody on the corner as I was walking by with the woman who inexplicably loves ...

Found this old Honda CB77 twin on the Lucky Monkey blog, originating from the Philippines. You’ll find a few freaky little metric choppers and some very unique silversmithing there. The leaf spring action is darned nifty. I wonder how much ...

Here’s a photo. It’s in the mail: Robert and his bro Jamie hooked themselves up with a blog and they wrote nice things about me. They said I know stuff. They obviously haven’t known me long or drank a lot ...