I know for me, this has been an awesome year. I went to some amazing places, met some great people and just plain accomplished stuff I never thought I'd do. Thanks to everbody who checks this blog out and digs what we do, 2011 is gonna be a tough one to beat.
...and happy birthday to my little brother Kevin, hope that yellow fever serves you well tonight.
Yesterday Michael Schmidt cruised over to and snapped a few photos for Thee Cormans new record. Jason reluctantly volunteered to do his best Randy Smith impersonation. Michael got some really cool shots. The first one is a cute candid one Before take off. In the second Jason looks like a hard ass and the Creature is eating the "V" My stomach hurt from laughing so much!
Felt good to get something done for a change. Some Z's for Rich in Florida. Oil tank and happy rabbits for Simon and Eddie's domestic partnership ironhead build. Thanks guys.
How did a band of all black dudes that had strong religious overtones in their lyrics flourish in the predominantly white and secular punk music scene? The best reason I can come up with is that they wrote better music and played that music a lot harder than most of bands at the time. Bad Brains is one of the bands that I would turn up to 11 in my bedroom and jump off my bad and sing along to in the mirror as a teenager. The tunes are so intense but still have such a danceable groove to them. On top of all that they threw in reggae tunes in the middle of all the chaos. I still don't fully comprehend the Bad Brains, but every time I hear them I get fired up and start playing air guitar.
Pay To Cum - Think about it, such a gnarly statement...
Banned In DC - Check out the fat kid with eh mohawk in this video! He is super into it, rocking his Bad Brains shirt and does a belly flop on some poor kids, Totally reminds me Sloth from Goonies.
Redbone The City - One of my favorite Bad Brains tunes.
At The Movies - I lived in a "punk" house with a bunch of dead beats and we had a 36th generation vhs copy of this whole set. It boggled my mind! It's live footage of the band mixed in with them just cruising around town. Such a killer song that ends with a backflip!!! How can you not be stoked on this!!!
Nick just whipped up a flyer for our buddy Ryan who is hosting a little shindig celebrating the resurrection of long forgotten choppers. Its gonna be the day before Jeremiah's Love Cycles anniversary party so if you're gonna be in AZ like we'll be, you'll have some stuff to do that weekend.
After years of lagging I finally got surgery on my knee. It's only been a day and its probably only going to be a few weeks down but its enough to make me miss putting around on a bike.
After a wild weekend with us maniacs Mikey Ratt decided it would be a great idea to stay the night on the floor of my cold ass shop and ride his slug of Triumph home the following afternoon. I woke up to his chainsaw-esque snoring and realized that it was pooring rain. I thought to myself "This ball of ginger better not expect me to give him and his moped a ride home to San Diego." He wakes up and is like "shit it's raining, that sucks, let's go eat!" I took him to the local bakery to get a swazi pastry but they were all out. So he opted for 2 ham and cheese croissants and 40 donut holes instead at the local donut shop. He gets a call from his amazingly awesome and responsible daughter saying it's too dangerous to ride home in the rain on his turd of a bike. It broke my heart. Both my cars are in rough shape and are not worthy of the trek. I call my homie Mikey D and ask if he would be down to haul his pink ass home. All I can say is the Mikey D is aces. He said he had to shuttle a few other chopper gods around but would be there in a few hours. Stoked! We loaded up the Mikey Ratt's sewing machine and stuffed him in the back seat. Mikey D drives fast! We were in San Diego in no time and eating some delicious mexican food at Pokez. After grub we got to the Ratt's nest, unloaded the "bobber," bullshitted and traded some spit. Mikey D treated me to another white knuckle ride back to the OC and went home to pinch a loaf. Friends of friends helping friends. I snapped a quick picture of these gnar-dogs! Good weekend with good pals.
its funny, this was me yesterday....literally the footage of me trying to kick my bike was from yesterday. You're never cool, at least not when there's an audience.
this thing had alot of killer little details. really neat bike for sure.
Ryan is an animal. He made the trek down from the mountain for the show.
Robert is truly a badass. Dude puts real miles on his bike. I straddled this beast and instantly fell in love, way more comfortable than my couch.
I'm not gonna be the guy that slams this bike because I can appreciate anything handmade but I will say this, it had a 30" wheel and an Ipad for a headlight...
this dragger was wild.
Killer bikes again at David Mann this year, no camera and phone died so I kinda blew it on proper documentation. We rode up the night before and froze our asses off sleeping in the parking lot. Michael Schmidts shovel had a successful maiden voyage. Dave Polgreen knows Dave Chapelle. J is a true gentleman. Turk and Chase braved the cold. Mikey Ratt is the best dude ever, he's on the team. All in all, lots of fun thanks for everyone who stopped by and said hi or just wanted to hang and see some fat dudes brow beat the hell out of each other.
Just in time for XMas! You like choppers, you are a punk rocker, and you have a mediocre sense of humor. Hopefully this will tide you maniacs over while Jason takes 4 more weeks to decide on a sweatshirt design. $20 bucks post paid in the US. In the ATR Store Now
I'm 31 but I still get excited over skate videos as if I was 13. Every video that the Girl family has ever put out has been gold, and I'm sure that with Chocolates new blood this video will not let down.
