Where's Le Beef? Part two...

Two weeks ago a big rig unloaded a '60 panhead and a few days later Le Beef touched down at LAX and began his thrash to get all the fab work done on his Born Free build. In 10 total days he pulled off a shit ton of work. Lots of late nights and he hardly got to see the light of day before he went back home to Sweden. He will return in June before the show to do final assembly and in the mean time parts will be sent out for paint and chrome. Keep your eyes peeled, and give him some love when you see him at the show in June. Pulling off a build like this ain't a walk in the park...

Daisy dukes

My friend Davey asked me to do some engraving on his BCM air cleaner for the shovel he's building. I'm not a pro and I have only engraved a few small things so far, but he didn't care so I agreed. Came out ok considering the tools I had to use.

Where's Le Beef?

My friend Le Beef or Beefster, or Beefy, or Mattias if you really wanna go nuts is coming here from Sweden in just a few days to build his Born Free 5 panhead at my shop. Hopefully the bike will arrive from the east coast soon cause he only has a short time to do all of the building and fab work before he returns to Sweden. Talk about dedication. Please follow this guys work and show him some love when he's out here in June for the show. He's the really pale white dude with the sweet beard...

Steve Buchannan

Steve called a couple months ago asking if I could re-do two of his original bates seats for him, one for his knuckle build and one for his Panhead he was doing for BF4. He chromed the pans and dropped them off. I never saw the bike until the day of the show. He did a great job. I stole this pic...

Jeremiah rules!

I gave my trophy at the Hippy Killer show to Jeremiah from Love Cycles for his knucklehead. Not only is it a neat bike with a bunch of cool one off parts, but he rode the fucker all night in the freezing rain from Arizona to be at the show, arriving at 5:30 am the day of, soaking wet. Monday I get a text from him with this pic, homeward bound... awesome!

Hans Faber

I just got a call from my friend and neighbor Geoff who told me his dad passed away last night. His father Hans was one of the first people my wife and I met when we moved here. He would always be cruising around in his '40 Ford Tudor and passed his love of old cars onto his sons. I just saw him about a week ago tooling up our street in his new bone stock model A coupe. He will be missed. Geoffrey texted this pic of Hans in the early 70's to me a couple weeks ago. Rest In Piece...

Go Go Nash

Visited the shop yesterday. He made love to the yamaha. I'm scarred for life.

Pedestrian Killers brother...

I just found out my old friend Damon(Nomad)York has his own blog. Nomad's Cycle He used to be in the Pedestrian Killers with me, and is a Harley Mechanic who rides a Triumph, go figure! You've probably seen his bike on the little pages...Stole this image from his blog.

LeBeefster

Mattias aka LeBeef with his newest sickle at Bottrop Germany. No rest for the wicked...

Thanks Gilby

Gilby's on the cover of the new Cycle Source with his resurected Pan, wearin one of my shirts....thanks mang...

DicE cover

Victory Electric Tattoo's Stanley Gunn just did the cover art for the latest issue of DicE magazine. He killed it too. Go buy one, and go check out tattoovictory.blogspot.com for more of his work.

Do Unto Others...

....Then Split!
got a mysterious package in the mail the other day. Turned out to be from my friend Jimmy Monk in London...he's makin these cool patches. Thanks Jimmy

nice Shovelhead for sale...SOLD!

my friend Scott Parker is selling his Shovel and asked me to pass it along. It's almost all new parts and build, email Scott for more info. It seems like a steal to me.

parker@studio606.net

1976 Shovel (FX)

Less than 500 miles on complete rebuilt engine by Eric Bennett at Bennett Performance in Long Beach http://www.bennettsperformanceinc.com/

Less than 500 miles on complete rebuilt transmission by Temecula Motorcycle Service http://temeculamotorcycleservice.com/

New 3.5 gallon split fuel tanks (no rust)

Hydro Glide Front End with PM single disc caliber

Mid controls

21” front wheel

New wheel bearing (front and rear)

New primary chain & tensioner, Barrett clutch plates and springs

New sprockets (front and rear)

New chain

New brake pads and discs (front and rear)

New Metzler Marathon tires

Clean CA title

Reg is current

Edit: SOLD!

You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory...

It's been hard for me to post lately. My dogs have both been sick since before I went to Japan, and when I got home, Barney was worse than before. We put him on some new meds that helped his comfort level, and he almost seemed like his old self for the last couple of weeks, but we knew it wouldn't last forever. He finally left us Sunday night, and I'm really having a hard time without him around. He was the best little guy you could ever hope to meet, some of you were lucky enough to spend some quality time with him over the last few years. We rescued him 7 years ago, as a 4 year old. He already looked old with a white face, but acted like a pup. Nothing ever got him down. Make sure you let your dogs know how much you love em as often as you can. They'll give you everything without asking for anything in return. see you later Barney Dog....

SR 500 job

Just finished makin a new rear fender and fixing some wiring on my friend Brian's SR 500. Neat little bike.

'Poon Tang

stole this pic off of the Chopped Out blog a while back. My friend Harpoon had this bitchin little T-bird when I first met him, and he kept doin shit to it. Eventually he joined my car club and this was from a photoshoot we did for Rod & Custom years ago. It's in front of what used to be PDQ Ford junkyard in Sun Valley.

Cannonballs

a couple of my friends are riding accross country as I write this, as part of a cannonball run for pre 1916 motorcycles. Heres a pic of Shinya and his 1915 Indian that I stole from his blog, good luck man!

more party pics from Lisa Ballard

stolen from Lisa Ballards blog The Shiny Side

Blue Collar Moto

Chris over at Blue Collar Moto took a break from postiing boobies in the internet to ride up and bring me some shirts for the party, Thanks Chris, next time I'll take you up on the beer.
Blue Collar Moto

Kim Boyle's FINGERTIGHT panhead

Kim from Benchmark is bringing his new Pan up for the builders showcase. Neat bike. Lots of trick details and thinking outside the box.