paradise shovel of the year?

I've chosen the shovels every week

from the blogosphere 

Some are of unknown origin and are not necessarily new builds, 

but are new to paradise. 

No mooneyes stuff this time as I could put a whole gallery of pics together for a 

'shitty moonys award' haha

So for a bit of holiday fun, vote a shovel for 

a shitty day in paradise 2010 

and if you fancy leave a comment why!

1 Nice Lady

2 Matts

3 CoC

4 Mr Schaaf

5 Freddie

6 Nicks

7 Rufino

8  Seths

9 Vice

10 Cro

11 turning japanese 

12 Joes

12 Toddy

Oi, you, no votes for your own bikes! haha

sometimes when I'm lost for words...

a handy reference 
haha
courtesy of buzzkiller

shovel of the week

Chubs bike  
built by toddy@chopperdrome


S&S engine, clean, purposeful, no frills 

pic courtesy of: chopperdrome
thanks toddy, nice bike
http://toddy-roofchopssumpscrapers.blogspot.com

snowings in paradise

 9am 

12pm 

four inches of the white stuff

keith remembers it all..

 A surprise present

 in the seventies he could walk on water as far as I was concerned, 

One Cool Dude

Inside cover - music for the soul

I'm recovering from the weekend Keith, 

how did you do it.  

not ramens or tacos...

something has to be done about the ever expanding workshop...

 and my neighbour chucked this, he just could not see the potential 

- a fucking welding table man!

....and at the bottom of my clutch and primary bits box

 ...I found somethings don't change

 ...along with this absolutely mint fucked period trans sprocket, 

 I think this was the one that I took off after I got the her ...and not the result of riding her into the ground in the last recession?
 as my daily commute to soho

 now that's better...  or is it?...  damn...

grrrrrrrr

Sporty Paul and our attack dogs

Paul (born in 1954) kindly pointed out to me that I am not fifty five today !

But that I am definitely fifty six. 

Fuck.

comes earlier every year

 what the fucks all this then...

a birthday/christmas/we cant afford it/ but lifes too short package... 

and thanks to Mr Sprunghubs for his advice

turning japanese...

...for the mean streets of yokohama?

...NO but NO but NO but

...hahaha  

Mind you after seeing some terrific bikes at the show

I am gonna start subscribing to japanese bike mags

Kitchen Workshop Essentials...

In Billy Lane's book, How to build a chopper bobber custom thingy (its title's something like that) this is one of the first item(s) you should purchase for your workshop.
A Kempton bargain, a late addition maybe but essential. I've been using some hand files that belonged to the old man, that I will put into retirement
...till these break.

kold kempton...

roller plus 2 yam vtwin engines & bits for... a... grand...

sure thats enough offset?  ...haha

oh beam me up scotty

 ooohh, girders and in original conditon too

...well you know what I mean

 hmmm,

 still, if it presses your button, its a historical bargain

 bouncy frame canabalized for parts back in the day, No V5

didnt ask the price, but all there ...and ...rather ...loverly,

... and low mileage too!

and just for you period correct guys ...renovation heaven

Kempton Park, Surrey, in Blighty

shovel of the week

Joes (pan)shovel, a Max Schaaf creation from last year but new to me.

checkout those turned pipes and fork legs

and nice stance!

courtesy of: 4Q blog http://4qconditioning.blogspot.com

too much charlie...

the white stuff in arcadia

workshop closed

careful, sometimes too much is enough

Its freezings here too...

 Another lesson, don't drill aesthetic holes in the guard until you know where the chain is going to rub and some metal has to be cut but of course, not where the holes are aesthetically.

It  occurred to me having followed Rowans build, that I really am w@%king around here.
I figured that the horn can bolt on behind the seat on the back of the guard mount.
The ignition underneath the seat, so I'll need a bracket for that, 3 circuit breakers and relays, the battery can earth to the rear engine mount. Holes for wiring through the frame could be drilled later (cant work it all out in advance)
So the frame could be powdercoated
Except the sissy bracket and mudguard bracket need welding back on!

...son très froid ici aussi mon ami, pas de neige ... encore