GARY NIXON FROM 'THE SELVEDGE YARD' - DEADSET LEGEND !!

HEY YOU, DON'T WATCH DAT, WATCH DIS . . . . FROM JP AT THE SELVEDGE YARD.
GOT BALLS . . ???? THIS GUY WAS BORN WITH ELEPHANT SIZED NADS.

The Selvedge Yard

Jesus, wish I had half a clue about getting pics up but I don't so check the invisible link, great article on the late, truly great, Gary Nixon . . . . also FEATURES the seminal 'On Any Sunday'. MAKE SURE YOU HIT 'READ MORE' BEFORE IT GOES ONTO THE BOWIE AND BING ARTICLE
Thanks for a cracker post JP !!!

SIXTEEN TONS AND WHADDYA GET . . . . ???

A Happy Nude Year to everybody out there doin the kind of shit with two wheeled tools of all persuasions that cranks my handle, be it retro chops/bobs, street trackers, dirt bikes, sport bikes, speedway, drag, flat trackers, Jappers, twisted little outa left field commuters, monkey bikes, whatever the fuck it is, I love it all !!! If you're not following the norm, if you've never owned an OCC tee shirt, if you're not buying the fat, bloated, mainstream corporate merchandise, if you're not towing the company line, if you're Kicking Against the Pricks, if you Know Your Product, if you're supporting the little guy who makes beautiful kit by hand and if you haven't sold your soul to the stuff you hate . . . . have a brilliant 2012 !!! Remember, if you don't buy in, youll never have to sell out . . . . do it your own way but Rage Against The Machine, Fight the Powers That Be !!!!

Songs of the day, The Clash 'Stay Young, Stay Free' and Sly and the Family Stone 'Family Affair', why ? Self evident I would think . . .
Wine of the day . . . piss off !!! Get a beer or twelve into ya !!!!

KEEP THE KNEES IN THE BREEZE AND GET OUT THERE AND RIDE THE FUCKER, WHATEVER IT IS . . . HAPPY NUDE YEAR FROM WHITELINEPSYCHO, NOW IT'S BACK TO THE PARTY AND THE PISS, GIDDY UP !!!!

P.S - FIGHT RACISM - IT'S TRULY FUCKED !!!! ARSEHOLES EXIST EVERYWHERE, GOOD CREW ARE WHERE YOU FIND 'EM, WE'RE ALL SHITTIN BROWN AND BLEEDIN RED !!!!

PISSING RAIN AND NOT A H.O.G MEMBER IN SIGHT . . . . WHO'D'VE THUNK IT . . . . ??

Just in from a thrash out in the pissing rain, even at 60mph the drops felt more like slug gun pellets on my old, unprotected face, but hey, I've never really dug full face lids and I choose not to wear those pseudo 1%er 'the pigs can't see my mug' anonymity wetsuit thingy's, so, no drama.
It's interesting being out in the wind and the rain, you see funny old guys on CT110's wearing sou'westers, kids on two stroke scooters, chicks on mid size commuters, young bucks on the latest sport rockets, all getting to where they need to be.
You know what I never, ever, ever see out in the middle of a full on soaker ?? HOG members. What the fuck is it with the majority of these merchandised out, faux biker clowns ??
Do they not realise their bikes are waterproof ? Cause none of em are riding anything old enough to be effected by inclement weather. Is the Bar and Shield emblazoned wet weather gear they spent a weeks wage on letting those pesky raindrops in to dampen their factory endorsed tees, socks and jocks ??
To me it's simply this . . . they've bought into the myth but only on fair weather, blue sky days, rain makes you wet, it grubby's up your 35k Blob Boy Fat Tail and it makes the big ride down to the local pose bar no fun at all. To quote a now iconic Aussie comic line . . . harden the fuck up !!!!
Riding in the pouring rain doesn't make you a man or a tough guy but it's as enjoyable in its own skin drenching, face stinging, sense heightening way as any punt done on a sunny, follow the Motor Company advertising way of life assault on the blacktop is.
Finally, and furthermore, getting on the scoot when Mother Nature is being an utter bitch improves your abilities to keep the shiny side pointing skywards . . . and that's gotta be a good thing. 

MULLINS CHAIN DRIVE AND A TINY DANCER . . .

Mullins Chain Drive

Man, Brandon Casquilho at Mullins Chain Drive does some of the highest quality components you'll ever come across, finish and attention to detail is fucking phenomenal and it's all done in house . . . . just hope the 39mm trees will suit the Project Super Duper Glide . . . . hopefully getting my photographic uploading shit together so I can get some visual stuff up for ya . . . . all the best for 2012 everybody !!!
Wine of the day, Simonnet-Febvre Cremant de Bourgogne Blanc N.V, fantastic Froggy sparkling that isn't Champagne but it's half the price, crisp yet elegant, sexy as fuck on the palate and goes wiyh just about anything - food, partying, Nude Years Eve, just getting on it, whatever, oh, and chicks are gonna fully dig it, ipso facto, you !!!
Song of the day Stone Roses 'Fools Gold', as funky as a bunch of white Mancunians could ever be, even without the amounts of eccy I did bck in the day, get jiggy with it as we slide into the New Year !!!

HUMANTREE.COM . . . . THE ART OF JERAL TIDWELL | News » 12-21-11 HOT OFF THE PRESS

Humantree.com - - The art of Jeral Tidwell News » 12-21-11 HOT OFF THE PRESS

This guy has been turning out insane art for a long while now . . . check it out !!!

THE "REAL RIDE" ARRIVES . . . . '74 FXE - PSYCHO GLIDE IN BLUE . . . MINE, ALL MINE !!!!

Well, it's the Festering season and seeing's I've been a naughty, wilful boy as always no fucking chance the Fat Man is bringin me diddly . . . . so I treated myself to a matching numbers, unbutchered '74 FXE, still a genuine 74 cubes and apart from the almost universal ruination of many a Super Glide, the Wally Wide Glide/21" front end conversion [I mean, why would you???] she bloody brilliant and will make an excellent platform for what will be, you guessed it, a legit, hands on custom build.
After having shot my mouth off regarding superficial, stock aftermarket, glittershit, jewellery like stuff that lots of folk throw at their ride and then call it a 'custom built' bike, this will be my personal 'fuck off'' to that entire tawdry caper  . . . . obviously I ain't the first, not by about seventy years or so, but it's how I've always wanted to do it and even prior to this whole scene becoming public domain it's the modus operendi that has always lit my wick.
Form does follow function and if you can honestly tell me that those mega buck, masturbation machines that sprang from Swiss Family Turtle at OCC and all their tepid ilk the world over have any real function apart from a penis suibstitute for the terminally flacid, I'll eat shit for a month !!

THE SPEED MERCHANT STUFF . . . . GET IT ON !!!

Just a quicky . . . after being dicked around by the postal services of both Uncle Sam and Oz my Speed Merchant raw finish derby cover arrived a few weeks back . . . all I can say is, absolutely and totally unfuckingbelievable !!!
Not only was Denver Dan a pleasure to deal with but the product is top class, a genuine retro feel, effective cooling well above what I imagined and the appearance on the scoot is fully cool . . . if I don't say so myself.
For anybody out there running recent model Sporty's and Trumpy's and looking for great quality, beautifully styled aftermarket bits and bobs to tart up your ride, be sure to pay a visit to TheSpeedMerchant site and check his mega cool shit out . . . .you won't be disappointed !!!

IT IS WHAT IT IS . . . . NO OFFENCE TO THOSE OF DELICATE DISPOSITION . . .

Buying a bike and then adding some aftermarket wheels, an aftermarket exhaust and some flash chrome shit, does NOT a custom creation make.
 Putting something together with your mates, in your garage, living room or wherever, from scrounged, haggled for second hand, well and truly used, old parts over a year, is . . . . it's fine to do it the first way but don't ever go mistaking that process for constituting a hand built custom anything.
My first Harley, bought brand new a year ago and now with 27,000 klms on it, has been done in the former method, it looks way cool, changed, stripped and altered dramatically from stock but it's not by any stretch of the imagination a custom build. It is a really fucking cool, reliable, relatively quick, everyday ride . . . the next one, the "project" will be the very thing the 48 isn't, a one off, custom hot rod ride! Like my previous Trumpy's, put together by me, for me, with substantial input from mates and other gurus, obviously, but it will be totally my interpretation of all I reckon to be cool in a chopped, streetable and useable "old school" [fuck! I hate that term] Harley. I promise the photos of the current production line, stripped and altered 48 will be up soon . . .then you can all see what I'm talkin about.
Bottom line, tripping into your local Harley dealer and dropping huge coin on a whole mess of factory pretty bits and standard aftermarket performance stuff ain't 'building' a bike, it's called merchandising, modification, shopping . . . . that's cool, just stop calling it a fucking custom !!!
Wine of the day, 2009 Savaterre, Beechworth, Victoria, Chardonnay - Insane plonk !! Complex, integrated, powerful and balanced, as good as chardy gets outside of Burgundy, slurp it with . . . shit, any white, cooked animal flesh, land, sea or air.
Tune of the day, Motorhead, Ace of Spades - they don't come any harder than Lemmy and the lads cranking it up, instant boner !!!

FUUUUUUUCCCKKKK !!!!

Way too much technological bollocks involved here for my old head to process, nonetheless, even at this embryonic stage of my Blogging journey just wanted to say a big thanks to DenverDan for turning out great shit . . .lovin the derby cover . . . . also to Roscoe and Steve at R.P.M at Nerang, great work, good guys . . . does it suck to now own a marque of sickle I swore I never would ???
So much self doubt, what the fuck, in love with the little sucker, a '48 thats been been given my usual aesthetic and performance tweaks courtesy of Roscoe and Steve, for an off the floor, current Hoggly, it's lookin pretty sharp . . . better than most in fact . . . . .but it ain't and never will be a "custom" build, that's comin next.
Once I figure this blogging caper out I'll post a piccy so you can all bag the shit out of an old Trumpy freak who's sold his soul to the Bar and Shield  . . . .
Wine of the week, 2011 Craggy Range 'Te Muna Road' Martinborough, Riesling . . .hook the sucker up with some fresh whiting fillets and off you go !!
Tune of the week . . . The Saints, 'Know Your Product'. More relevent now than 30 years ago !!!

Testing . . .one, tsu, one, tsu . . .

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