Props to http://thevintagent.blogspot.com/

Photos by Gino Mortillaro     

Our friend up at Chop Shop Cycles in Milford, NH is throwing an open house on Oct. 3rd which is always a good time. Food, bikes and good people - if you’re in the area, try to make it up.
Check out his site and blog:
Site: http://www.chopshopcycles.com/ Blog: http://ironheadhell.blogspot.com/

Kemosabe and the Lodge is currently my favorite moto blog on the net. Check it out for yourself: http://kemosabeandthelodge.blogspot.com/

  

And to finish it up, a few random shots from my photo archive.

The Wrench Monkees have a new updated site and it kills it. Go check out their builds:
Wrench Monkees Shop

The guys at Biltwell are at it again and thank god for that. There newest endeavor - Chop Cult - is a website dedicated to D.I.Y motorcycle community. I’ve been lucky enough to get a slight sneak behind the scenes of what they’re planning, and all I can say is you will be stoked. So what is it going to be like? This is what the guys have to say about it:

There’s nothing to see at ChopCult.com yet, but when we launch the site this summer, ChopCult will be the first news magazine, blog feed, photo dump, public forum, online classifieds, social network and e-store for people and companies who build and ride custom motorcycles. All kinds: American, Japanese, British and European. Think your favorite message board without the content Gestapo, Newsweek without the politics, Myspace without the sex predators, Flickr without the nature shots, Craigslist without the retards and Google without the Viagra banners. Just cool people, old bikes and lots of ‘em.

Go sign up for the newletter because you’re going to want to be in the know about this. I’m real glad these guys are jumping into the fray of this online community/forum/blog/photo thing because as they’ve proven before just how well they “get it”.

Sign up for the newsletter here: Chop Cult

The new Falcon Motorcycles site is pretty damn sharp. Lots of cool features, nice blog posts as well. Looking forward to see more out of the site.

http://www.falconmotorcycles.com/

Link round up time!
Some new ones, some old ones, but all of them awesome.

Sweet Blogs:
Special 79
Front Street Cycle
QCB
BCM
Born Loser
Ryzart
Blue Moon
Murder Cycles
Ironhead Hell

Tech
Exhaust Building
Bates Seat Repair
Engineering Calculators
Motorcycle Brake Bleeding 101
Sissy Bar Fabrication

Photos
Hot Rod & Custom Show 2008 - Yokohama
Vintage Pic Collection
Bonneville Speed Week
CT Brit Jam

Just plain awesome
Jason Jesse video

Way cool, but wasn’t worth what the guy was asking.

Our friend Zach has updated his site with a new design and tons of pics. He’s also put together a bitchin’ new blog all about ironhead sportsters. Check both of ‘em out: Chop Shop Cycles - Ironhead Hell

Trent from Atomic calls Gary “the wizard” - I fully support that title. When it comes to motorcycle shots, Gary pretty much tops my list - yes, even more so than ML, and I dig Mike’s stuff a bunch. Gary has a blog where he posts all sorts of motophoto-goodness. Check it out here: www.goodluckphoto.blogspot.com
He’s got a book coming out called Idle Hands, so if you can, make sure to support it by picking up a copy.

Tomorrow marks the 1-year anniversary of the weekly podcast done by our pal Ken over at Biker Radio Magazine. Many congrats go out to Ken for not only putting out a killer show for free download, but also to sticking to it and getting it done every week for a full year. Putting out something like a podcast - week in and week out - is a lot harder than folks give credit to. Even when it’s a labor of love, it’s taxing when your trying to juggle family life, work life and balancing everything else we’re all trying to get done. I’ve been real psyched to be a part of BRM this past year by contributing a few editorials, it’s been a great time and many thanks to Ken for letting me jump up on my soapbox during his show and throw down some greasebag gospel. If you haven’t checked out BRM yet, head over to bikerradiomagazine.com and start downloading, you can also subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, which makes life super easy. It’s free to download and the content is killer - from Bonneville to drag racing to welding, electrical and paint - Ken covers a broad range of topics. The shows might not always be in line with what Knucklebuster is all about (the bagger show comes to mind), but the content is always smart and informative. You’ll be familiar with quite a few of the guys that Ken interviews too - Fab Kevin, Wes White, Tigman, Goldhammer, Yosemite Sam, Hammer, Edge and the interview he did last week with Sugarbear is killer. Go check out what Ken’s got going on and support BRM because it’s these grass roots projects that really help keep the scene alive.
http://www.bikerradiomagazine.com/

Have you read about the 555 yet?

These guys are our type of guys… check out their rules:
1. 1975 or older motorcycle
2. can only spend $500 TOTAL on purchase and restoration of bike
3. 500cc or less engine size
4. Every man for himself (This was tossed out the window and it became ‘No Man Left Behind’)
5. No Interstates
6. Portland, Oregon bound

From Knoxville to Portland on a pre-1975 CB450? Fucking RIGHTEOUS!

Here’s some fun stats they have posted on their website about their ride:

Number of wrecks: 6
Number of times bikes have seen the ground: 9
Number of fouled spark plugs: 54
Miles covered thus far: 4100
Times rags have sucked through carb/engine/exhaust: 1
# of engines split: 2
Max speed attained: 90
Police investigations involved in: 1
Hospital visits: 1
Snow storms ridden through: 1
People who’ve told us they owned a 450 years ago: 1,555

Number of women interested in us: 0

These guys are rulers, check out the site for more about their adventure and pics.
http://www.thefivefivefive.com

Ian Barry builds some gorgeously simple british motorcycles.
Clean, elegant and tough all rolled into one. A functional work of art some might say.
Check out the his work on the website for his shop: Falcon Motorcycles

I get excited about retarded bits of info like this: a place to get all your bolts and a solid price with good service online. Newyork Andy turned me onto boltdepot.com and their website is just brimming with everything you might need. Seriously, they just have a crazy amount of stuff to flip through - I foresee an order coming from the knucklebuster compound heading their way soon.

www.boltdepot.com

A few weeks ago I posted a link to a aluminum polishing tutorial (click here if you missed it). Martin from Sweden sent me a link to another aluminum polishing how-to that you can check out here: More Aluminum Polishing. It’s not as detailed as the first, but its solid, quick and easy to digest info. When it comes to spreading this type of info, I’m a firm believe in more is better, so check it out.

Cool flickr gallery chock full of pics from the Harley Rendevous between 1981-1983.
Lots of cool bikes and tons of not safe for work pics to dig into. You love it, I know.
And yes, I revel in the irony of posting the pic above to this post.

Check out the pics here: Harley Rendezvous Pics

Here’s a pleasant bit of linkage to satiate your aluminum polishing desires. Nicely done walk through, with plenty of photos so you can learn how to make all your al-loo-min-ee-um bits all pretty and shiny. Mmmmmm shiny.

Dig into it: Polishing Aluminum How-To

Scooters Performance has a ton of pics from the V-Twin expo posted up.
The Zero Engineering production bikes are smokin’ and they’re now available stateside. Killer bikes, although way too rich for my blood.

Dig into it here: V-Twin Expo 2008 Pics