team Haints...

The boys in Alabama are doing it right. Living in Socal you kind of develope a jaded view

of this little motorcycle world. Drama, shitty attitudes and the seemingly endless "contest" take its

toll but then you got these dudes, a proverbial breath of fresh air. Nothing but good times. Choppers, skateboarding, and a sense of humor, what else do you need. This is where i go when i'm feeling burnt out...

-HAINTS-

Going out of business! All shirts must go.

We are blowing it all out. Get it while you can. Pretty sure we are out almost out of larges in everything so all you guys doing the Jason Webber look alike thing go up a size or two. The rest of you with your newly formed coke habits can grab the smalls and mediums. Thanks we had a blast.

born free video from Motornation...

Heres the abbreviated version of my Born Free video from the guys at Motornation. The full version will be available in a few days on their site. Its a pretty cool thing they got going on over there, lots of videos to choose from, from choppers to hot rods...its like Netflix but with stuff you wanna see. It's a subscription based deal but its like $5 which in the grand scheme of things is nothing.

Go check em out..
MOTORNATION

skid row chopperfest...

Skid Row chopper Fest 2015 from Tony bang on Vimeo.


neither Nick or myself were able to make it out this year but looked like a
good time as would be expected up there with those dudes. Thanks for the video Tony!

Left Overs

Jesse 

Rocket dragster

Night time at the drag strip

Al's 

This Saturday

Good Vibrations

When I was younger and I'd be hanging around at my dads machine shop; either after cleaning the lathe or sweeping the floors, I would find a magazine or catolog to look at. One of those catalogs was the Good vibrations vintage dragster and funny car parts catalog. My dad had dreams of getting out of drag boats and building a funny car. It never happened, but looking through that catalog made me dream too. 

A couple of weekends ago my friend Peter from Brixton clothing invited me along to go watch the March meet at Famoso raceway in Bakersfield California. This event was hands down the best drag racing event I have ever been to. It is worth the trip no matter how far away you are in California. Being there camping all weekend at the end of the drag strip makes you feel like your back in the heyday of this sport. Those were the days when most any regular joe could build a car and be competitive or just have fun.

Some how we snuck right up to the Christmas tree and got my hat blown off. My dad was jealous as hell.

This was the view from our camping spot.

Jack on the 50. We rode till it broke.

Great times with great people. Thankyou everyone.

a little Born Free update....

My Born Free build got off to a rough start. I kept bouncing back and forth between a few different directions to go with it considering the caliber of bikes already being built for the show. In the end, I went with what kinda fits in my skill set range and particular taste and that's just a simple, fairly stock wheelbased 60's-ish style Panhead chopper.

The basic approach is to keep the overall look like that of all those bikes we love in all the old biker flicks but throw in some little tricks here and there. The one thing I wanted to do going into this build was to do a chrome framed bike but at the same time, not build an over the top show bike.  So I'm trying to figure out a happy medium of those two ideas. I'm also narrowing an I-beam springer about a 1/2" per side. It's a lot of work for something that will probably go unnoticed. A little de-raking in the frame, custom bars, 21"+18" wheel combo, a slightly different seating deal and a tall sissybar pretty much sum up where I'm going with this thing.

Dumby Proof

My amazing girlfriend gave me a lecia point and shoot for Christmas. I've always wanted one, and I couldn't be happier with the quality of the photos this thing shoots with. First roll couldn't have been any better.

Skated something I had only dreamed of. My brother tyler and our friend jake Reuter.

Friends from out of state. Garret & Thomas

This is the boat my dad just finished for Austin. It turned out so dam good. I'm really stoked for the both of them. If you need any work done on your boat or any CNC work done call my dad. You will not be disappointed. 949-295-0510

Mama Tried Or Bust

For the next 10 days we are offering 20% off any order 20.00 bucks or more! 

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Born Free Seven...

I have been lagging horribly in posting progress of my Born Free bike for this years show. Might as well start with a pic of the first time I threw all the basic components of this build into one harmonious pile. To be honest, I haven't had a real direction as to which way to go with it. I think most of the bikes I've had a hand in over the past years have had a pretty simple vibe to them, nothing that really jumps out at you and grabs you by the throat. The level that most dudes operating at nowadays, especially among the fellow invited builders is so high as far as creativity and ability that its truly humbling and makes you rethink what you think you know. That being said, I know where my strengths lie and that has kind of steered the direction I think this bike is going. 

As long as I can remember, even being a child not knowing anything, trying to envision a bike had always churned up the basic design of the Panhead. I love Knuckles, Shovels and everything else, but the ultimate "Chopper" when I close my eyes has always had a Panhead in it. Its simple, boxy design just lends itself to following the triangular lines of a frame. It just made sense to me. Now I'm in no way going to attempt to build the "ultimate" chopper because I'm not sure that's possible from a publicly shared viewpoint, I'm just going to pick one of the few dancing in my head that suits and reflects my taste and ability...I think that's as ultimate as it gets.

Happy New Year