Sunny Kempton

 enthusiast?

 euro pedal power

pricey ruster

 Hi-Star Rocker 

 busy

 custom!

 girderland

 gorgeous

 go faster lovelies

bargains

shitty stickaz...

 HAVE A SHITTY DAY IN PARADISE on me - haha

- send your details, ask me for a f@%king sticker,

and I'll send you a couple of these beauties,  

and as they say - when they're gone, they're gone

stickers@arcadiacom.com

Hey, if you have a shitty paradise bike day - send a pic too!

formidable...

Our man in Brittany is taking le piss...

if you know my address you'll get it - haha

Merci Roland, very professional stickers, who needs a designer these days.

freedom machine

Nice init

lucky7 

courtesy of buzzkiller

Gotta clear up the Kitchen workshop, her highness is back tomorrow,

ever tried using a grinder inside? the shit goes everywhere haha

the missus' is away so...

Had another go at this ignition bracket

Added sides for strength and its going to bolt under the seat pan

I should have taken a pic when I tigged it up with 2.4 rod (all I had) to give you a laugh, looked like it had a contageous disease, amazing what you can do with a bench grinder - haha.

Breaker bracket

To be bolted under the seatpan opposite the ignition switch

I made this from some stainless with the idea of tacking the breaker clips to the bracket. They came with pop rivets but didn't fit my gun and messed up the reverse show side. Blew a hole in the clip on first try and then got some stainless rod and it didnt want to know. Fuck knows what the clips are made of, got a shiny gold finish (tin?) the bracket is brushed stainless. So another idea is to velcro them as I found they don't need to be earthed. Anyone?

One year of me me me drivel...

Or maybe this has become part of the blogosphere landscape since my first post on the 8th of March 2010.

The ever expanding Kitchen Workshop 8/3/2011

My build has been a bit of a learning curve, led to a few tantrums and introduced me to a some great people who have helped me along the way. I discovered that this passion we have is something unique to us, its not so much what you do, its also how you do, big bucks and a live to ride 'T' don't cut it.
So thanks you lot of shed building' hi speed lowdrag mofos', and as the dice men say 'F@%k this lets ride' this summer - haha.

'me me me drivel' from back in the day' 8/3/2010:-

ANOTHER SHITTY DAY IN PARADISE

Here's a pic (taken today) of of a sorry tale

Rule one.

Do not take your bike apart (1996)

Why?

Events dear boy, events (mcmillan was right)

The said events not necessarily in order of occurence:-

2/3 years later I collected all the bits from Matts in wales (why 2/3 years? see above)

hate colour I had powdercoated (ferrari red, yuk)

so have it all blasted off, very sensible idea that, not! still now that rust is fashionable...

then its year 2000, I know lets build an extension to house !

we run a small design company from the garage, it seemed like a good idea.

well as you can see it became a rather (due to planning permission) large conservatory .

Ok now everythings really great, nice patio, lets finish the bike...

No I cant do that,

Lets really fuck up the next few years and SELL THE HOUSE (and office)

So...

We move everything to my Fathers house and storage in Peterboro so we can buy in Rutland shire

But we bought a small rental property in chertsey for investment (live 6 months) rent out

And then we bought a slightly larger one (live 9 months) rent out

Looks like we changed our mind on Rutland!

And then another house larger, but still no garage. Move everything back, except the the big plants as they were all dead, and loads of other stuff that went to the dump, office, computers etc

Renovate the property, me myself, now that I'm a property developer!

You can keep graphic design, too easy!

The lads down the pub now recognise me as one of them (must be the brick dust)

We communicate, drink lots of beer and play golf.

3 Years later its sold, or so we think and we've moved back to the small house so the buyer can move in quick, just like they wanted

They pull out.

The shit hits the fan, prices down 20%

I rent it out, bankers fuck up the world

2 years and 2 failed property deals later, we and the two dogs are back

Introducing Frankie and Johnnie

I've now got a (as in small) cleaning company (rental properties need professional cleaning!)

Of course there is virtually no work, recession what recession.

And my lovely wife has been dicing with breast cancer.

aaaaaaand ggggggguess wwwwwwhat?

its today and at last I'm looking at my collection of rusting parts (I'm talking about the bike)

Its gonna be a no money build...

whats new.

Ive called joe at fenland choppers and go up on saturday with my frame (yes up there again)

and I'll let him talk me into having a hardtail chop frame and

BUILD THE FUCKING DREAM

later

Wholy holy...

HipHotSpeedHoles

we like 

 Sergio Pereiras is making frames and what ever else you may require @ rocksolid in portugal and he delivers as spindle can testify! 

pics courtesy of

http://rocksolidmotorcycles.blogspot.com/

fucking. friday.

 cheers dudes

clever tat from buzzkiller

I'd never of thought of it, haha

Wholy holy

courtesy of

http://chopperdaves.blogspot.com/

HipHotSpeedHoles

we like 

an accident waiting to happen...

welded today, the 'lane splitters' won't win any awards for finish

 but they're uniquely fucking mine

in which a lotta pics tell a story...

 A bit of 32mm round bar scrounged from the blacksmith, and cut in half

 measured my handlebars and a plan drawn

 because my friend George offered to help me

 and he has this lovely lathe, a Myford ML7 Trileva

 Turned the round bar to one inch diameter as per my handlebars

a stepped sleeve was then cut each end to the internal diameter

 and the bar bored internally to lighten it

George had very successful business working with the 

aircraft industry on concorde etc - and he has got a very nice shed

 The bar weighed 740g and the newly crated slug a healthy 260g

 Had to grind the internal weld on the bars 

and voila a nice tight fit!  Simples Roland - haha, - not

Tomorrow - welding

more LICS...

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.