he became the special man...

I took the album cover to my mums hairdressers 

on our local estate and asked him to do my hair just like that...

My hair ended up dyed blond at the front graduated back...

I went home got my platform shoes (I'd hand painted), black high waisted oxfords and a white cheese cloth shirt and hit the town at lunchtime.

Peterborough town centre

People just stopped and stared, I got called a queer, haha

and then just outside our hip pub, 'The Bull Hotel' I met another 'ladd'

he had dyed his hair green...

after that there was no stopping us, the girls loved it,

even the eye make up I bought in Boots...

the year is nineteen seventy seven

 Mick Jones 45 

Jack Nuttalls 'ol'blue' in the background

as featured in December 1977

let me take you back... way back...

It's 1977...

Led Zeppelin bestrode the world...

and I bought my spanking new sporty on christmas eve.

...from Jake at Motique of Chertsey

...he got the drag bike from Rod Pallent

in South Ruislip - who sold me spares for my SX250

'A supercharged 1200 harley with a wade blower sucking through a 2"SU off an E-type Jag'

A Pan/Shovel? - Where is it now?  

and in December of that year 

the mag featured a special on Harleys

 'Imported by newly appointed agents Coburn and Hughes'

Thanks to my mate pete who recently found the mag in his loft.

I remember buying the same mag - 

who could forget that glorious front cover crutch shot!

green time machine

 my mate Pete's chop from back in the day

 gothic coffin graphics

 view from the cockpit and a popular car of the time

and on the road with his mate Grant Mathew's '45

where are they now?

RTI, IFHE... PART 2, or back to the future part one...

 resurrection

 back in the day 'Acu-time'

a very relable coil, that I know fucking works, 

along with my 'technical advice line' mates sticker

'throw that crap away and put the points back on'

and finally...

bitchin shim...

 a multi-tasking brewsky

trace that pattern bro

 cut the mutha to shape

and voila - a bitchin shim for my engine mount

stolen from 'Wrenchs' tips from back in the day

only prob is the fucking gearbox will not line up with the inner primary 

when bolted to the engine

hmmm, seemed ok before, but not fitted by me on the early frame build - bugger.

fats where its at, but lean is mean...

Iconic ad from back in the day...

and back then I thought that bike was the nuts

...and I still do 

I think they are long gone now, anyone know bacc story?

hooligan...

One for Guy

Micro '78 courtesy of COC

'Sand digger'

Daytona beach '78

I was given this book as a thank you by the studio we used to freelance at in Knightsbridge that christmas. Ten quid an hour on weekends, and a book too!