Gabriel Griffin's book about the Heathens MF was one of the Highlights of the last weeks...

Check out more here
And read what Gabriel is saying about it...
"This is a project that has been on the top of my OCD list for the last three or four years. I started out playing music with lyrics from a 60's club members point of view and that turned into a three camera, two car shoot from California to South Dakota to interview the original members of the Venice and South Bay Heathens Motorcycle Family. Crazy. I couldn't believe I was going to actually do it while I was coordinating the camera crew and renting vehicles. If someone came to me and said "hey, I'm going to hang out with this motorcycle gang that I met. You want to bring a video camera and film it?" I would think that guy was crazy. Motorcycle clubs don't put up with that shit. Well, this group liked me enough to let me sit down with them and tell the story of the rise and fall of their club in the 70's and 80's. Hours and hours and hours of video footage, interviews, hundreds of vintage photos collected and too many crazy stories to tell in one sitting. That turned into the book that you see here. It turns out editing is extremely expensive and this movie is going to take a good chunk of time in the editing booth."

My buddy Dave send me this one a while back...Because he came across it on the web and it made him think about me...Thanks Bro...I'm honoured this painting did that to you...
Of course you all know it's a David Mann Painting!!!

Getting the Pickup ready for moving made me look for some more inspiration on the web.
Some day...when time and money are on my side, for now let's focus on getting the ship registered!

Fabulous Paint by Harpoon...one of todays painters I admire very much...
All the stuff he does is simply amazing...

Venom...Kings of Black Metal!

Buddy Keith testfitting his just found  70ies flaked Full Faced lid...
He got it for a ridiculous price at the Saterday swapmeet.
This find was celebrated with a nice breakfast for real men...Trappist & HotDogs!
Hope you enjoyed Antiseen bro!

Our good friends at the Draggers CC from Munich can welcome another sleek new ride...
Tobi now runs this '36 Ford, previously owned by Michael (Bottrop Kustom Kulture organiser)
Pretty curious what the Draggers treatment on this one gonna look like...

Weekend is over...and the score is making me a happy man...
Vetfrakken mc Swapmeet on Saterday & HAMC Ghent Swapmeet today...
these neat finds will get me busy for some time...

This one's for the weekend...

as promised, a little more on the new Chopper project...decided to keep the original shovel complete for now...and just have a go with the new frame and some parts I've been gatering for a while now...as usual this will be some kind of on going...tryin out diffferent setups kinda project ...and then maybe, just maybe we'll get in a "finished" version in a couple of years from now.

Untill mid Januari I will remain busy moving the work shop...squeezing 300m2 of stuff gathered over the last 10 years in a new homeshop of about 50m2 is kindoff an adventure...
Also some different paintjobs need to be finished...so plenty to do for the time being...

But for now (in a couple of hours) it's of to the Vetfrakken Swapmeet near Antwerp and on Sunday the search for more parts continues at the HAMC Ghent Swapmeet.
will be great catching up with a lot of people...
Meanwhile keep checking the blog for your occasional update...

Icy Frost Flowers on the outside wall of the spraybooth this morning,
I like to think it's Nature's way of approving of what's going on inside...

Kool Denim available from the Eat Dust webshop

Way Kool Paint from Japan

Memories from a beautifull summerday...

Just a quick tryout before the breakdown started...I'm Lovin' It!!! by LeBeef...Thanks Man!
Crappy phonecamshot...but more and better stuff coming soon.

A couple of weeks back I felt the urge to pickup a pencil and paper to make some new Tshirt designs...
Not quite there yet...but by spring we'll have some new Tees for sure...

More good stuff from Sweden...

Trophees I painted for the Brussels TattooConvention about a month ago...
The statue is the Belgian "Manneken Pis" the Brussels Governement has plenty of costumes for him to please the Tourists, now he's also around in some Kool Kustom bodysuits...
More statues were also Painted by Mystic Al and Tiki Jurgen from Belgium all looked wonderfull!
Lotsa fun painting the little Fuckers.

NEXT SUNDAY...MOONEYES YOKOHAMA HOTROD & CUSTOM SHOW

Teardown of the shovel has started slowly, next week's aim is to continue stripping down while mockin' up the second bike.
Still unsure about the exact looks...sooooo much inspiration to be found on soooooo many cool bikes from the past...and present...gotta stop looking on the net and get myself into the shed.

Below just a few of the ones blowing my mind...
I really wonder what the bike is going to look like, but a good friend just recently told me it's always a good idea to go with the Flow...Thank's buddy, that's what I'm gonno do!
now check these out ...

No more words needed!

During the next couple of weeks I will be moving all the stuff I collected over the last 5 years from my old shop to the new (and Mucho smaller) Homeshop...Although working from home makes me feel a lot better, I will miss the old place from the moment I hand over the key to the new guy.

Plenty of great memories about this place will last forever though.

Fresh Flakes, Candy & Pinstriping  and Lettering...

 

WINTERTIME...has arrived! about time to get back in the shed to start complete makeover of the Shovel and in the same time start building the new bike! on top of that we plan to build a 70ies chopper around a gastank I painted lately...let's see what comes of all this.
For now this is the latest look of the Shovel...something completely different will show up in spring 2011.

FLaKeKiNgS
Finally was able to pickup some longtime cherished FlakeKings stuff at the Motorama show.
These Guys Rule! and as for their motto Flake The World! I can only agree on this one!!!

Both tattoos shown by Sascha Sevic
checkout his myspace page or Dragon Tattoo's website for more of his work.

Thanks guys for the kool stuff and great times!!!

It's on the Motorized! blog too, but since this is a Chopper build by one of my Heroes, Danny Franssen, it goes on here too. Other than that, it's one fabulous Chopper...

Our buddy Gus from Rockcity, Holland...
shooting 400BC & FlakeKings blog stuff.

More Motorama shots on the Motorized! blog

...cool metalwork on a house near my old workshop...
Inspiration is everywhere!

The Motorized! blog has been updated with a new webshop for easy ordering mags and stuff.

check it out!

Here's something different from all the Choppers you've been seeing on this blog...
Romano (CustomSicklesDiaries) is building this Custom Moto Guzzi 850 T5.
I for one am very curious about the final looks...gonna be another sweet Italian ride for sure
MandelloRawPower blog

Looks like 2011 is coming along quite nicely!!!
make sure you can make it to these fine events in Germany

Draggers Bikeshow @ Bottrop Kustom Kulture

ChopperTown Nation

Still recovering from last weekend's Motorama in Holland...
Thanks to all for a great weekend!

KustomBart's Dodge Van

more pictures coming soon!!!

A brand new Scrapers Car Club blog is online now!
Check it out HERE

Got this cool poster from a friend a while back...

Nice email postcard I got lately from some friends in Sweden...
Thanks Guys...hope to meet up again soon.