Tina

Hey Ben, thought you'd like to see a proper bike with your logo on : )
My 1962 Triumph Tina I rebuilt about 10yrs ago, was convinced to get it out for a photie session. The 100cc 2-stroke fired-up with 10yr old petrol in it!!!
xCres666

Red Max at Bournemouth Show

From Steve Red Max (above working on his new Norton)...

Just want to remind everyone , we are having a flat track bike display on at the Battastini's custom show (California Dreaming) in Bournemouth this weekend (sat/sun).
Find us at Ace corner, turn left and keep turning left - cos it's all we know !
We are showing 70's race flat trackers amongst all the usual chromosexual custom stuff , so come and say hi .
There's a party Saturday night with bands and burlesque and a pin up competition (which Rachael has entered !- vote for her here by clicking "like" on her pic - second row, far right, looking in the mirror. You can do that without going.)
While in the competitive mood Racyrach has entered her Sporty cafe racer in the AMD custom show as well - Go Rach !
See y'all there , Steve REDMAX .

Nine Lives x Co-Built

There I was thinking I couldn't love the Co-Built guys any more than I already do, then this Ian Roxburgh photo turns up. Geoff Co-Built making frames and exhausts in a Sideburn 9 Lives T-shirt. G

Going Dutch

My Dutch brethren are getting the street tracker bug. BC has just turned out this tidy CB550 for Jelrik. He did everything apart from the powder coating; that includes the lovely tuck'n'roll seat and tail, with 'Honda' - cut out from an old points cover, inlaid on the top.Love the scallop paint job too. More details on his new blog
Raw Candy. BP

Isle of Man TT News

A few people who read this blog are going out to the TT this year, so it's worth posting news that one of my favourite riders, the Californian Mark Miller has just been signed up to race the Aprilia RSV4 for UK team Splitlath. Mark won the Zero emissions race on the MotoCsysz last year.
He also wrote this amazing post about crashing while in the top ten of the Senior. G
UPDATE: Mark got in touch with photos of his new leathers. Keep an eye out for him.

Surviving 50 Years...

...isn't difficult if your friends throw you a Hawaiian luau themed party.

Sorry this post has taken so long, but here's the big 50th celebration from three weeks ago.

When my marvelous friend Vi said she wanted to plan my 50th birthday party I was very grateful for her generosity. When I sent her a guest list, I also suggested we have a Hawaiian theme. As I am going to Hawaii for a couple weeks in May for a holiday I thought it would be a fun way to celebrate. I thought people could wear a flowery shirt and we could pick up some leis at the dollar store and that would be it.

Little did I suspect to what lengths Vi was going to take the theme. On the day of, Vi and her son Marcus arrived at my place at 2pm. I was then promptly shanghied by Marcus who then drove me to the Magnolia Spa where I was treated to a lovely pedicure and massage. Three hours later Vi's husband Tom, and their other son Phillip picked me up and brought me home. In that three hours our apartment was turned into a tropical luau paradise. Friends and family had arrived and helped with the decorating.

There was a beach scene set up on the coffee table...

...a table spread with yummie munchies, surrounded by flowers, and tropical trees...


...tables wrapped in grass skirts... (the bouquet of flowers was for Mummie)

...and they made me wear this....


...but I drew the line at this, and it became wall decoration.


They also had beach towels on all the chairs and tropical clothes strewn around.

I wasn't the only one wearing a grass skirt. These are three of my cousins. The two cousins wearing the green skirts are sisters and had theirs when they were little girls. They've been saved in a cedar trunk all these years just waiting for an opportunity such as this, but...


...of course the grass skirts didn't quite fit the same any more...


...a quiet moment before the crowds hit the beach...


...you can see on the wall behind me a net with crawlie critters on the wall. There were creepy crawlies everywhere. Even after I had taken down all the decorations the next day, I was still finding rubber crawlies everywhere for days. I think I've found them all now.

The cake was delicious, here it is being held by the most amazing party planning ever...my friend Vi.

In case I get the "Best Job in the World" I will be packing...

The winning candidate in the "Best Job in the World" competition does not have to live in his or her gorgeous Hamilton Island pad (HIP) on their own, but gets to choose who to bring along for all or parts of the journey. So, among other questions I was asked by Tourism Queensland was the one about whom I would bring with me.

I do not have a partner or children, so I am quite free in my choice of housemate for my HIP if I should win. Of course I have my parents, but they will have to stay behind in Germany to take care of my cat Cessa. My brothers and their wives have jobs and commitments, as do many of my friends - I am talking jobs here, not wives :-). So most of my family and my friends would visit me for 2 weeks at a time or so.

However, my two best friends, whom I met during the course of my studies in Los Angeles, would be staying with me for at least six weeks at a time. Katalin and Roopashree, these two young women are very precious to me and I am grateful that our paths crossed. In the course of a week I will introduce them both to you. For starters, a few short facts about them:

Katalin is Russian-Hungarian and originally hails from Budapest, while Roopashree is from Bangalore, India. The two of them still live in Los Angeles and would be thrilled to leave the city of angels to walk on heavenly white beaches. Whitehaven Beach sounds predestined for this purpose. The content of quartz crystal is 99,7% on Whitehaven Beach, which makes it the whitest beach in the world. For eight kilometres one can walk this heavenly white beach, even if you are not an angel or come from an angel's city!

In case I get the "Best Job in the World" I will be packing...

The winning candidate in the "Best Job in the World" competition does not have to live in his or her gorgeous Hamilton Island pad (HIP) on their own, but gets to choose who to bring along for all or parts of the journey. So, among other questions I was asked by Tourism Queensland was the one about whom I would bring with me.

I do not have a partner or children, so I am quite free in my choice of housemate for my HIP if I should win. Of course I have my parents, but they will have to stay behind in Germany to take care of my cat Cessa. My brothers and their wives have jobs and commitments, as do many of my friends - I am talking jobs here, not wives :-). So most of my family and my friends would visit me for 2 weeks at a time or so.

However, my two best friends, whom I met during the course of my studies in Los Angeles, would be staying with me for at least six weeks at a time. Katalin and Roopashree, these two young women are very precious to me and I am grateful that our paths crossed. In the course of a week I will introduce them both to you. For starters, a few short facts about them:

Katalin is Russian-Hungarian and originally hails from Budapest, while Roopashree is from Bangalore, India. The two of them still live in Los Angeles and would be thrilled to leave the city of angels to walk on heavenly white beaches. Whitehaven Beach sounds predestined for this purpose. The content of quartz crystal is 99,7% on Whitehaven Beach, which makes it the whitest beach in the world. For eight kilometres one can walk this heavenly white beach, even if you are not an angel or come from an angel's city!