if your earings on the right side, it means your're gay right?

....okay, just wanted to double check.

emo...

Theres very few things in life that stop me dead in my tracks.
I'm talking about the stop whatever it is you're doing and ignore whoever you're talking to kind of "stop".

The Chain by Fleetwood Mac is one of those things.

The entire song is amazing but the last minute and a half is to me, one of the most powerful sounds I have ever heard. To this day, I get chills everytime I hear John Mcvie's bass kick in around that 3 minute mark...time just stops.

..swiss cheese..

man, it would be so much easier to just buy new ones....

-king of the hammers-

Theres one thing I've always been into and thats old 4X4's.
Not the new Superduty disco trucks you see driving around town that never leave the pavement but the classics like early Bronco's, Scouts and Jeeps. Another thing I've been into is rockcrawling which to most sounds pretty lame but in reality is one of the most intense things to witness in person. It almost seems impossible some of the things these guys can do with a car.

Today I went to the King of the Hammers race in Johnson Valley and managed to take a couple pics before my camera died. The whole idea started in 2006, its a new style of racing combining rockcrawling and open desert racing in one event. If you ever get a chance to go, do it. People just beating the living shit out of their trucks. So much insane just stuff driving around too, it feels like you're in a Mad Max movie.

2 steps forward, 3 steps back...

Very slow progress on my fictional, top secret Triumph 500 drag bike project. Just when I thought I had a game plan, I come across this Judson supercharger.

So now I guess I'm gonna stall this project out a little longer while I figure out how to make this a blown, reversed-head grenade that will never leave my garage.

one of my all time favorites..

i know "eh, seen that before" but i still dig it.
Kind of got that drag bike meets chopper feel....

-For Que-

Theres one word that comes to most peoples
mind when they hear the name Max Schaaf ...
...style.

Some got it, some don't.
He's got a garage full of it.
One of those guys with the golden touch,
whether its choppers or skateboarding.
i'm proud to call him my friend.

say your prayers...

with or without..

I posted a shot of this preunit awhile ago hanging out by a pool.
Heres another pic of it with drag bars and the front fairing.
It belonged to the grandfather of one of Nicks friends, she said
he had died awhile ago but just sold the bike recently, i'm sure for just pennies too.

Lucky bastard whoever got it..

hmm....

Today while getting ready to go to work I hear some commotion out side of my house and take a look only to find there's an Escalade hearse parked in my driveway.

There's about 20 people standing around and pulling flowers out of it....weird, but not too weird because I'm assuming they just got back from a funeral.

So I'm pacing aroung because I got to go to work and don't want to interrupt whatever is going down so i wait a minute, take another look, and now their pulling out a coffin and walking it to the backyard!!!

Are you kidding?......

By now, everyones in the backyard I'm thinking I can squeeze out without bothering their gig. The driver of the hearse comes out and offers to move his car, i tell him he can pull right back in if he needs to after i leave and he says "Nah, its okay. I'm just dropping off, I'll be back tomorrow"......really?

Now I've got a dead guy sitting in my neighbors backyard on top of their BBQ table.

peg-less wizardry...

My friend Eddie from SF came down for a visit and hooked me up with this killer tank. Chicks on steriods with firearms....ahhh, bliss.

He's putting together an ironhead with some of that frisco flavor.
Hope to see this thing on the road soon.

classic...

Justin brought his 66 by a couple days ago.
i really dig this bike
its just got that early club-bike feel.
bates seats, drilled brakes, wassell tank blah blah blah
the right ingredients.

and no hardtail kit in this bikes future.....ever.

go here today...

let me know how rad it was
i'll be locked up in a classroom all day.

just throwing this out there...

Looking for an 18x4 old drag slick (Avon, MH, etc..)
any condition. If you have or know of one
I'd like to talk. attherisers@gmail.com

thanks fellas
Jason

skateboarding...

Snapped this picture a 2 years ago camping at Pismo beach with my two younger brothers. We took a little coastal skate road trip up to Oregon and back hitting as many parks and spots as we could handle. Most fun i'd had in a while.
Saw this pic scrolling through the computer and was taken back. I've had an imaginary knee problem thats slowed me down a little lately but really, it all comes down to me being a pussy and not trying. i gotta change that..

go here today...

its funny how life works-
got the panhead loaded up
gas in the tank
tools in the bag
alarm set for 4 a.m.
ready to roll solo mission out to pheonix.

then i get a phone call, change of plans.
guess who has to work...........this guy.

next time Jeremiah.

cats outta the bag....

"Rock Lobster" the B52's tribute bike coming soon.

BF3 bound...

Mike and Grant over at Born Free headquarters have graciously allowed me to play with the big boys and participate in the guest builders area of BF3. Kind of a big deal to me because (1) I'm nobody (2) I think this show is without a doubt the best and biggest thing going on in America as far as the vintage chopper thing is concerned...see what i mean, big deal. And if you've been to the first two shows, you'd know how humbling it is.

So i've been fortunate enough to rustle up some knucklehead parts and have started doing the mock-up game playing with ideas - stance, wheels, short, long, high, low...all that. Pretty sure the end result will look nothing like the picture. The only thing i will guarantee is that there will be no airplanes glued to an aircraft carrier shaped gas tank.


well, maybe..

parking lot sighting

saw this mid Dodge holding down the parking lot at the ranch market by my house. diggin the white wagon wheels rear door bubbles.

Blackstar Canyon...

Blackstar Falls and Nick. He looks tiny next to it, and he's 6'2" and weighs about 400lbs.




Blackstar is a place of legends here in Orange County. Satanic cult sacrifices, the ghosts of massacred indians, elves, witches pretty much anything you can think of "happens" here. I've never experienced anything out of the ordinary but growing up hearing the tales, no doubt it's a little eerie. All i know is there is some good hiking and bitchin waterfalls deep in the canyon. And since it's been raining so much, i knew there'd be some good water flow so thats what we did today.

One thing i trip out on is when i talk to people who've never been here or just checked things out in the local mountains (especially because it's only 15 minutes away from anywhere here) maybe it's because me and my brothers explored this area so much as kids with our old man and it seems so second nature to me. Whatever the deal, people just need to get out more often and explore whats right in there backyard.