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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Read More »lone star roundup pix
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 ...
Read More »the bikerMetric freedom or death motorbike bash
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 ****? ...
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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 ...
Read More »friday’s post of cool stuff #17: freedom or death bike build #3
“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 ...
Read More »honda cb77 chopper
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 ...
Read More »freedom or death bike build #2
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 ...
Read More »stuff i saw in austin this week
This looks to be a kickass garage-painted 1962 Cadillac Coupe DeVille I happend across today. Then there was this strange pairing from last week: GET BEHIND ME, SATAN! Prince was in the bar wearing a disguise. He smelled like hand ...
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Stupid American! At the bottom of that link there you’ll find updated info about a custom speedway-style bike. It was built using a 125cc motor made by a Taiwanese bike manufacturer. I’ve added the link above to that post where ...
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