Ride With The Rockers

Excellent poster art by Don Diablo(?) for the 4th annual Ride With The Rockers, last weekend from Torremolinos to Malaga, Spain. Photos at Picasa:

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Custom Triumph Bobber

The very talented Jose Gallina shot this clean and true Triumph bobber at this year's Vintage Bike Meet in Orange County, CA. More at Jose's photostream.

VIA Jose Gallina

VIA Jose Gallina

Chicago Is My Kind Of Town

Suddenly, Chicago is my kind of town. Head over to the Rockers Reunion, Saturday May 7th from 1pm to 5pm at the Ace Motorcycle and Scooter Company, 1042 W. Jackson, Chicago, Illinois. Entry Fee is $10.

Glemseck 101 2010

From Glemseck 101, 2010
Mark Wilsmore, owner of the Ace Cafe, London was on hand to judge the bike show.

Brit Jam in Connecticut

Inspiring Ariel. I love every detail about this bike. More pics from the show at Ride-CT.

F.Y.B.O. 2011 photos

FYBO indeed! Her Majesty's Thunder is now a regular sponsor of the event with t-shirt giveaways and shop rag swag. It was just 29 degrees when I headed out last Saturday morning to the Freeze Your Balls Off event in Durham, NC. I had about a 40 minute ride ahead of me, but my snowballs were plenty bundled. This was a personal new record for cold riding - previously, 36 degrees was my lowest. I met up with Daniel from Fistful of Choppers along the way which was great - a cool guy (even when it's warmer).

The event is put on by the Incriminators Scooter club at the Fullsteam Brewery there in Durham, NC. Not as many people attended as in 2010 (heck is was 25 degrees warmer) but there were still plenty of scooters and a few motorcycles. The TonUpNC guys were there and they led the hour-long country ride when the temp was still only about 40. There was still ice on the ground in some areas but the roads were mostly clear. The Moped Army of seven showed up to swarm and destroy which was great if not smileworthy. With the noise coming from around the corner, I was sure the junior Shriners were coming. Nice to see more custom two-wheelers anyway.

I'll definitely go again next year.

RockerBox Photos

H.M.T. has been invited to Rockerbox in August 2011 in Milwaukee, WI. It's not your typical gray-bearded Harley crowd, more of a younger, rockabilly vibe with lots of cafe racers and British influence. While we decide if we can make the trip, Here are some photos of the event. Lots more from JohnnyFixedGear, cjfoekler, and frankphoto.

Downshift Studios Car & Bike Show

This weekend I took the boys down to the 1st annual Downshift Studios Car and Bike Show. Once the boys realized that the meaning of daddy's term "hot rod show" did not include flying '52 Chevys jumping school buses while on fire and more accurately defined a parking lot full of cars just standing still ...not on fire.... smiles quickly turned to scowls.

We left about nap time and I returned on my bike to hang out with Chad and the guys from TonUpNC.

Black '52 Chevy + 4 yr old scowl = awesome.

Look at that BSA badge. It's like candy.

1965? BSA

1952 Chevy

Man cave.

Microphone shifter

"This show sucks fingers, Dad."