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Milkcow Mobile Rockabilly - 

Zero Pageant paint - by Ty Lawer on the

Krazyhorse stand who've sold zero 'zeroes' in England 

but six oh 'zeroes' (sixty) in Europe!

you got baffles in those pipes sonny?

Barons Stand before it got real busy

 Wade and 'sickboyz' have new premises and won frame and build contracts

 leatherland visitor

A parallel universe...

In London we currently have the 2nd international custom show.

Two bikes had a sissy bar, so no swedes then 

-haha

Some were high end builds of course

Hey, if not for the big harley shops like Shaw, Gale?, Warr and the aftermarket Zodiac crew, Roland Sands, Custom Chrome, 
the show wouldn't happen

 knuckle engined skull city 

close your eyes Rowan

So Cal Choppers and west coast bobbers are not a Brit thing and without the corporate and mainstream we'd probably just have a little BSH Stand at a show with a few chops in the corner so get real.

 Nice pan

low level lighting 

wow another shovel 

wonder who it belongs to 

nice detail mr griff 

masssage? oh go on let me... 

Dicks shop, gorgeous Original Sin trump 

Although Barons Speed Shop, and Krazy Horse, with a fuck off display shone like a beacon, the likes of garage built filtering through is probably always long term. When it does, she'll have taken her lane splitting bars and have moved on.

And maybe thats how it should be, I'd be pissed off  if Tesco started knocking out 'diggers' haha.

London 'International' Custom Show

 My favourite

Wayne Murray's  

'Brothel Creeper'

 

My favourite 2

Larry Houghton of Lamb Engineering's

Son of a Gun 

 Dinosaur in the custom jungle

 Phew, a shovel

seems to have a bit more pipework than usual

somethings don't change

Nice, keep the flag flying 

afternoon delight...

 something for the weekend

star rockets in flight

How to waste time...

 Got one of those nice round key ignitions from Angella @ Cycle Haven 

(no pic, read on)

After careful thought on the position, I spent more than half a day creating an Ignition Bracket from a bit of mudguard (1.6mm) Paul gave me and bolted it under the seat pan as a weld seemed a bit awkward.

 I wondered why the ignition had just two wires, it was for a dyna, and a separate switch for the lights would be required, so that went back and although the position is OK recessed, its too flimsy and it wants welding on!

 So thats another day of my life fucking gone.

yo, head split revisited

a lorra work

courtesy of bb blog

a flakey visit...

After a 'shitty' two hours on the motorway up to Bromsgrove (Birmingham), I found a rural business park and while trying to find Flakey's Shop ...

 came across this familiar looking establishment  of 

Boneshaker Choppers 

Benny made me welcome with a cup of tea, while I waited for Dave 

to show up and

 

he also introduced me to the chap who makes their digger frames. 

Fuck - how many bikes can you get in one shop Benny - Haha.

Back at the Flakey shop, nothing was too much trouble - he's also going to pressure test my tank as there'd been a bit of work done to it.

 I'd ground down a weld at the rear of the tank, the petcock had been moved and the hole blanked off, He thinks there may be a potential leaks there.

 I take my empty tea mug back to Benny and bump into his buddy... 

Bobby, the main man behind Vintique.

 We had a good chat, in this world seemingly full of public sector workers moaning about their benefits its a pleasure to meet some entrepreneurs. 

And how refreshing not to have to visit an american website to get your essential goodies, get them here and at a good price.

I like her naked

 taking her 'tins'to mr flakey up in bromsgove tomorrow

she's not 'flash', stripped.

more kitchen ingredients

 polishing wheels and grinding stuff arrived today

  be careful with that flapper disc you tosser!

 going to paint on sat, so a layout design for mr flakey

it took a while, and it'll have to be wiped anyway

but a photo is worth a hundred words.