Even though this bit of footage goes for only two and a quarter minutes there are some of this years coolest scoots featured along with some completely sick rigs of the four wheeled type, among the bikes and folk you'll recognise are T-Bone on Chaka, Michael Barragan on the delicious gold thing, Mike Davis pedaling one of my top three ever Trumpy customs and Matt Olsen's BF4 winner, among others . . . . plus a bloke by the name of Jeff Wright on a ride that in my opinion has received nowhere near the plaudits and kudos that it and its builder deserve thus far, the COC "Crazy Bike", [incidentally, and not that he'll ever really blow his own trumpet, powered by a Noot built donk] . . . . if there is any justice in the world whatsofuckingever, that will be put to rights at the Mooneyes, seems to me that the design concept behind the Crazy Bike was just a tad too adventurous for some, well, fuck that shit, it's an insane piece of left field, individual, ground breaking custom fab work in my eyes, you gotta judge it on its own unique merits, if you can't, you're fucked from the get go . . . . only goes to prove the old adage, 'followers can never be leaders and leaders never follow'. One final observation . . . . like all COC shit that I've seen and read about over the last six or so years, this thing is obviously and deliberately built to ride . . . . and ride hard.
Thanks for the pointer Mr Nootnagle . . . . muchly appreciated.
Thanks for the pointer Mr Nootnagle . . . . muchly appreciated.
50 some odd years ago my old man was taking me to the Navy Base at Yokohama to buy some great stuff in the surplus sales they ran there. I remember digging a 45 calibre pistol out of a bucket of cosmoline with an ice pick for him, where it had sat since probably the second World War. Price...five dollars. Same day he picked up two NOS M-1 gas carbines for...fifteen dollars each. At that time who'd imagine custom bikes and cars in Yokohama...We were driving around in a '54 Ford Wagon we brought over from the States...Wild world...
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