Monday 7 January 2013

"ANCHORED DOWN IN KC TOWN" OR "ANGER IS AN ENERGY - THE GRUMPY GUIDE TO COOL SCOOTS" . . . . LIKE MANY OF YOU, I'VE FELT QUITE PRIVILEGED TO FOLLOW SOME EXCEPTIONAL BIKE BUILDING OVER THE LAST YEAR . . . . AND NOT JUST THE HIGHER PROFILE DUDES EITHER, LOVELESS ENGINEERING IS ONE, NOOT IS ANOTHER AND HERR VON HERR TO NAME BUT THREE . . . . AND KC's ANCHOR MOTORSICKLE.

Since the end of the Northern summer, Anchorman has been hunkered down in Hermit HQ somewhere in the general vicinity of Kansas City ['Well I'm goin to'] and focused on rebuilding what was already a fucking universally cool ironhead chop in between running a business, doing the family thing and fighting with himself on a near daily basis . . . . I just dropped into home for a late lunch today and had a quick squiz at what was a happenin in Blogland and there it was, staring me straight in the piehole, the finished article, the baddest, coolest, sweetest, skinniest Crack Pipe in existence, a totally done deal . . . . shame it's the middle of winter !!!

I know I tend to get all moist around the edges at moments like this, but frankly, I couldn't give a fuck, when something moves me, whether it's music, art, film, cars or bikes, I'm gonna jabber my ugly head off and this black beauty is certainly worthy of some serious wet spotting . . . . so perfectly considered, so precisely poised and so marvelously minimalist in every conceivable way, you wanna talk about 'balance', 'proportion' and just plain old getting it right, then Anchorman's Crack Pipe is the text book illustration of it. And like all great builds before it, while the overall theme is classical chopper in every respect, it's inevitably like seeing it all for the very first time, with innocent, fresh, childlike eyes and the feeling is always . . . . fan-fucking-tastic !!!  

Check out the Anchorman at http://theanchormotorcycleshop.blogspot.com.au/ and get hip to so much more than just period correct motorsickles . . . . good on ya mate . . . . bloody perfect !!!

5 comments:

  1. And I see he's an R.Crumb fan. Might be me and my puter/provider....but, I had to drop the http:// and .com.au, before I could get to his site. Before I did that it directed me to somewhere in the Phillipines...like I say, might just be my 'twilight-zone-McD connection...

    For a young feller he does grok the 70's vibe quite nicely. Those bikes look like bikes that could have rolled through the shop I worked in during the era..

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    1. Indeed he is Laz, quite the individual history hoarder is KC's finest . . . and the so-called link debacle is entirely my doing mate . . . fucking computers !!!!
      The International League of Luddites . . . saying 'boo-hiss' to progress for 200 years.

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    2. Oh yeah had a look at JessicaLoveless blog...had to drop the .UK part of the address she had at her dad's...or something, but finally found it.Looks like it will be an interesting place to drop in on...like her dad she has the gift of the raconteur's gab...and an eye for design.

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  2. My gosh I feel like maybe i'm blushing. Thanks WLP. Got the brake parts ordered and I am cleaning the caliper up tomorrow. It's still nice to know somewhere on this fucking earth there are people with good taste besides me. Ha

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    1. Aw shucks Anchorman . . . no problemo mate, since the beginning this whole caper has been about shit that gives me the horn and the Crack Pipe qualifies in spades, and now you have the shov to finish up, no rest for the wicked man !!!

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