Baggers coming up

One of my friends is currenly finishing his 65 panhead, these were only made for a half year in 1965 so he's pretty stoked about his new bike...
only thing is he's been having serious doubts about what to do with it...turning it into a period correct chopper or stay the hell away from changing anything to it...
Now here's another point of view I passed on to him...
Pretty damn cool to turn it into a sixties styled bagger, a nice paintjob and a lot of bold on chrome stuff would make for a killer ride based on a 65 pan if you ask me.

stole these shots from the Nostalgia on Wheels blog

Kenne's XS

Check out the story on Kenny's XS ...
completely homebuild in 7 months to make a maidentrip of 5500 km in one week from Belgium to the south of Portugal and back.
2 homebuild hardtail XS650 bikes on the road...
go to the Guzzmen Deluxe blog to read and see more!

Big Thumbs Up for Kenny and Julio and their support crew!

bike was shot @ SINS by Limpe Iven

THIS IS NOT....

how I look on car and bikeshows around....
you will never see me running around holding a bottle of water...

Draggers cc

Just discoverd my friends from the Draggers cc from Munich are also out there bloggin'...
check out some of the cool stuff these guys put out there.
http://draggers.blog.de/

I just love these

images of yourself...maybe not done to publish...but if they looks as great as these...fuck that...
the picture was shot by my buddy Nico aka Guzzman at the kustomweekend in Italy.
At that moment I was striping my old car, the 41 chevy Backyard Belle.
The second portrait was drawn by Gypy from Kustom Ink in Lebbeke / Belgium
check out his great tattoo & artwork on his myspace page

Video SINS 3 van Rockabilly VDubber - MySpace Video

Video SINS 3 van Rockabilly VDubber - MySpace Video

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Painting Krugger's "Overmile" project

Doing some work on Fred's new bike "Overmile"
more to come in the next few weeks....
meanwhile....check the Krugger website for more...

shovel back on track....

Bigtime thanx to my buddy Erick at Special Parts Supply for bringin my shovel back to life in a safer and more reliable condition.
along the way he made it look much better with the new pipes and WL springer.
hope to paint a fresh tank for it in the next few weeks...and maybe next week some kickass skyhigh sissybar....
For now it will remain heavily under construction, but who cares bout that...I'm stoked with the way she tears down the street....
the 50ies english drum in front doesn't do no good in stopping the bike, but it makes up for it in looks and in the way it helps to take off with squeeqing and smoking rear tire....
All in all the perfect bike to split lanes and hop from bar to bar....
I'm a happy man.
Big thanx to Erick, Olaf and Johan at SPS, Erik aka Sjofel for the lights, Hanske for the springer deal

more stuff that keeps me busy....

as usual overhere keeping busy with a lot of neat stuff...
at this moment working on a very secred dragster project....
all I can say is it's a newly build in Belgium 60ies slingshot....and it's looking way kool.
doing some panels with goldleaflettering and some grafiks....
check back soon...the "Mosquito" will be revealed at this year EBI
besides the slingshot I also did some striping on the perfect carhauler for it.
You can't miss this combo when you meet it on the road somewhere....

Bottrop Kustom Kulture....NEXT WEEKEND!

A wild weekend filled with hotrods, customs and way kool bikes, art, kulture and beer.
Be there....I know I will!
www.bottropkustomkulture.com

Being a pinstriper....

means working on the road, never now what to expect, but always great fun!

Being a photographer....

Means I also do some wedding albums every now and then...
For that reason I also shot my Scrapers bro Duncan and his lovely bride Bianca about two weeks ago.
A great time was had by all and thanx to a perfect planning we were able to capture it the way we wanted.

Big Cheerz to the newly wed (who are spending some quality time in Hawaii)
was really great being part of your weekend!

61 galaxie update

Also made some time this weekend to finally start working on the Galaxie...except for a few short trips she's been sitting in the back of the garage waiting patiently.
about time I started on dropping it, the aim is as close to the floor as possible using lowering blocks only.
up to 4 inch by now, gonna try to add it up to 6 inch see if it pleases me better, it's already an improvement, by I want it Lowered!
At least my mind is set on getting there so stay tuned in the next weeks....
(sorry, as usual very little quality time in the garage.)

Latest paint....

While and in between traveling I picked up the paintbrushes again, due to the magazine I didn't do to much paint lately, felt great working with the brush and paint again after a couple of months behind the laptop.
here's some of the latest stiping and lettering I did.

Finally....

I got all the stuff sorted out that has been gathering here for the last few months.
First there was my club's SINS show end of april...you should have seen it all by now, ifnot, check out the scrapers blog

After that my life shifted up in highest gear so we started traveling, the on the road season started shortly after SINS with a trip to Spain to meet up with the Razzlers cc for their 4th Riverside show in Balaguer.
What a great weekend that was...really surprised by the numer and quality of cool rides...
Spain doesn't have a very big traditional rod and custom scene, most of it is concentrated in and around of Barcelona, besides the Razzlers, there are also Templars cc, Royals cc, Diamantes cc and Atomics cc, all good for some great traditional rides.
All together these clubs and all the other people involved make for a great rod and custom culture in Spain, mix this with some kickass bikes and some wild rockabilly music and the result was a wonderfull weekend in Spain.

Thanx Bigtime in the first place to Sergi & Maria, but of course also to all other Razzlers for such a warm welcome.
Thanx to you this weekend couldn't have been any better!!!

Also thanx very much to Jessy, Geena, all of the Templars, Luiz from the Royals, Vicente from Diamantes cc.
And last but not least my fellow stripers El Luchador Grafico, Neckbreaker and Jessy.

Check some of the shots made during this weekend in Balaguer / Spain