Archive for January, 2007

Little Peppy’s Vintage Motorcycle Racing Album

I came across this site called “Little Peppy’s Racing Album” which is full phenomenal old motorcycle racing pics. The pics are just awesome – I’ve seriously spent a couple hours looking through all of them. Call it nostalgia for an era before my time or call it fanboy drooling – I don’t really care, I […]

David Mann 2006

Some more pics from Billdozers flickr albums, this time from the 2006 David Mann show. Once again, Bill delivers some great pics of bitchin’ motorcycles.Check out the whole set here: David Mann Show 2006

Club Chopper Chopper of the Year

Congrats to House of Pain over on the Club Chopper board for winning their 2006 Chopper of the Year contest. Great looking scoot with lots of attention to detail. Absolutely love the tank and the paint + gold leaf looks awesome. Couple of sample shots below, but many more pics  and info on the Club […]

Mike’s Low Cost CB450 Chopper

Like many of you, I really appreciate simple, well done choppers built on a small budget. Mike Mundahl (aka Uncle Buck) checked in with me this week with a scoot that fits right into that category. This sweet lil CB450 was built for a measly $500 - including the donor bike! Complete with a ‘65 […]

Johnny Chop Sturgis Video

This is a great video of the late Johnny Chop in Sturgis. Lots of interview footage with Johnny – talking shop, where he came from, what choppers are about to him – plus a ton of riding footage. It’s 24 minutes long, so sit back and dig into it.
R.I.P Johnny Chop

LA Roadster Show 2007 Bike Pics

Billdozer has posted a nice photo sampler of some of the bikes at the 2007 LA Roadster show on flickr. A great bunch of pics of some cherry scoot. Check them out here: 2007 LA Roadster Motorcycle Pics.

Call for Submissions

Got a bike you’ve built that you’d like to see featured on this site? Maybe a some tech tips or a tutorial you’ve written (or could write) that you’d like to share with folks? Maybe you just have some pics you took at an event/shop tour or motorcycle related news or a cool web page […]

How To Make A Custom Hand Tooled Leather Seat

Adam Croft from Last Ride Leather (www.lastridecustoms.com) out of Bloomington, Illinois checks in with a great article about how to make a hand tooled leather seat.  You’re definitely going to want to check this out. I’ll let Adam take over from here.

For anyone who has wonder how a hand-tooled leather seat is made, I am […]

Dice Magazine Issue 12

Dig it, the new Dice is out and sporting a swank cover by Keith Weesner. You can bet that I’ll have a few of these to sell in the webstore soon. Other good news is that DIce is going bi-monthly which means 6 issues a year (instead of 4). Those limey bastards are going to […]

Vintage Dirt Track Racer Cigarette Cards

Check out the new gallery I posted for vintage motorcycle pics. I’ll be trying to update this on a regular basis as, so if you have any old motorcycle pics (pre-1960) send them on in (email to grail21@gmail.com)
To kick off the gallery, I’ve got 50 pics of some vintage cigarette trading cards of Dirt Track […]