Plenty Now Do Motorcycle Pinstriping Who Never Thought They Could
by Steve Murray For people looking to create their own custom bikes, pinstriping is a great way to add a unique touch ... the look you wanted, motorcycle pinstriping can be done at an auto body shop to ensure perfect ... a motorcycle one needs to get some pinstriping paint and brushes. However, more often motorcycle pinstriping [more...]
Date: 2008-09-22 14:29:15
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Build It To Win It!
In the “Build It to and Win It” sweepstakes, contestants can customize a Harley-Davidson 2009 model and enter it to win the bike they designed ... and then select from hundreds of custom options, including Color Shop custom paint sets, Screamin’ ... , and place them on a virtual motorcycle. As the bike is created, each new component appears [more...]
Date: 2008-10-18 22:23:14
A Chance to Win Your Own Customized Harley
Those of you who LOVE the Harleys are going to have a chance of a lifetime to build your own fantasy Harley Davidsen and have a chance to actually ... from hundreds of custom options, including Color Shop custom paint sets, Screamin’ Eagle performance components ... on a virtual motorcycle. As the bike is created, each new component appears on a picture [more...]
Date: 2008-10-20 02:42:00
Harley's Virtual Build it contest
In the "Build It to and Win It" sweepstakes, contestants can customize a Harley-Davidson 2009 model and enter it to win the bike they designed ... and then select from hundreds of custom options, including Color Shop custom paint sets, Screamin’ Eagle ... , and place them on a virtual motorcycle. As the bike is created, each new component appears on a [more...]
Date: 2008-10-20 20:08:00
Letter from Annette Street: We're not anti-bike, we swear
The women at The Flower Room, 776 Annette St., looked a little frightening yesterday ... in the sidecar of a Ural (Russian) motorcycle. Their shop is on a lovely stretch, an enclave reminiscent ... , to paint a bike lane on an eight-block stretch of Annette Street, from Jane Street to Runnymede Road [more...]
Date: 2008-11-01 02:39:00
West Coast ATV Shootout
Planet Sand presents the 5th Annual West Coast ATV Shootout AVI Resort & Casino Laughlin, Nevada November 12th, 13th, 14th, ... Louisiana - Black Label Racing, Cajun Custom Trailers, Excess Paint, Rick’s Tinker Shop Michigan - A&amp ... including the Wild Thing - 2 second Blown Nitromethane Motorcycle Based 3 Wheeler. The entire family [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 22:31:15
I've come a long way
I was rummaging through some photos, and saw a picture of a motorcycle tank and fenders that I painted when I was at Tech school for auto body, and paint way back in 1991.I did my very first Harley Davidson custom paint job for a guy who was going through the heavy equipment mechanics class next door to the Auto Body Shop class [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 11:00:00
Personal Paper Dolls from Anklebiters
Are you starting to think about holiday shopping yet? ... . Simply send in a photo of your child, boy or girl, and they'll paint it in heavy duty water color paper ... pictured below or the felt motorcycle mat for motor cross on the go. There are even beautiful [more...]
Date: 2008-10-18 08:00:00
Why we’re buying a bullet proof safe. For paint.
Typically, when I announce to the wide, wide world that I’m feeling better, my stomach immediately rolls and I revisit my last meal. It’s almost as if my body is like, “Oh right! I forgot! Time to make you miserable again!” So I’ve been a little reluctant to log on and shout about how good things have been lately. So let’s just whisper it, okay? [more...]
Date: 2008-08-11 18:35:40
Getting Parts For A Motorcycle
Topics: Parts, Motorcycle, Brit bikes, Honda, cylinder, bikes, Yamaha, scooters, Kawasaki Tune-ups don’t require ignition coil replacements ... , you need to know about how to repair it and have the tools to do the job. You can go to Wal-Mart ... forward, plus a good tune-up guide and/or shop manual will be useful. I have a PDF version of a minor [more...]
Date: 2008-08-15 12:59:47
You have Beast to blame for this
BEAST. He made me do it. I didn't want to but oh no he encouraged me. Actually it was more of a threat. Yes. Really. I was scared. He said "Post and be damned!" So I posted. And now I'm...._______________________________Remember how you wanted to see what happened to the people in that first story....?http://1hplovecraft.blogspot [more...]
Date: 2008-08-26 19:43:00
Scotch-Brite Pads as Spa Treatment
Ladies, forget about sea-salt scrubs and other expensive spa treatments for your skin. Have I got the cutting edge thing for you in skin care… Scotch-Brite pads! Actually, that’s just my goofy way of introducing the story of how I came to find myself in the shower last Sunday night trying to take off the top couple of layers of [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 19:26:49
Can you sell this for me? Part 2
Tuesday was my day off which allowed me to take a trip up to Geneva, Ohio to see the 1970 Rover 3500 S. So, accompanied by Dan K., a vintage car and motorcycle nut from our church, I drove our SAAB 900 to the location where ... after arriving at the shop, we noticed a flatbed car hauler carrying a snow covered Rover away [more...]
Date: 2008-11-13 17:00:00
God, It Feels Great To Ride In The Fall...
There are an incredible variety of alarm clocks around today. The most common are the discount drug store kind that provide the standard annoying buzzer alarm in a plain white plastic housing. Unless you are waking up to do something incredibly exciting (and the categories here are extremely limited) [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 20:12:00
Weekend Wrap Up - Shopping and Trends
Shopping in Orange County is always a pleasurable experience for me, especially since I don't shop there as often as I'd like ... , and a motorcycle jacket or preppy cardigan. Also from H&M is the printed tank pictured above. I was drawn to the feminine rose prints and the rendering of the woman's face, since it reminds [more...]
Date: 2008-08-18 18:51:00
Lost a Bike, Gained a Bike
So some rotten degenerate stole my bicycle and a few of my tools out of our garage at some point during the last week ... that does motorcycle paint, transfer the title to me, get the bendix fixed up, and then get that sucker ... in the garage where my mountain bike had been.They also swiped a couple screwdrivers and my Craftsman [more...]
Date: 2008-08-04 09:00:00
I Hate Waiting to Pick Up My Bike
Is there anything worse than waiting for a shop to give your bike back? It's even worse when your bike is gone for more than a couple hours. Time slows. Every time you go outside, you see some lucky asshole on his/her motorcycle. The first few times a motorcycle passes, I might think something charitable like, "Great day for a ride [more...]
Date: 2008-08-19 15:28:00
The 50 Skills Every Toolmonger Should Have
Our friends over at Gizmodo dropped a fun post last week outlining “the 50 skills every geek should have, ... rabbet joints Build a desk with drawers Hang a door Winterize a motorcycle Change a tire yourself ... stain and paint from bare concrete Spray paint a project in the dark Clean up crappy welds [more...]
Date: 2008-11-12 00:44:29
Ten Worst Cars To Take On A Blind Date [I'm Doing My Laundry Tonight]
Your hair's properly coiffed, best threads are doffed and there's a reservation at the hottest spot in town with your name on it. After all that hard work it would be a shame to drive up to your date's house in a vehicle so terrifying she's either faked an illness or called the police [more...]
Date: 2008-08-22 16:00:00
Roland Sands/Toyota mural
I am way behind on this blogging thing but figured I’d try my best to catch things up to speed ... artists and paint murals for a motorcycle/truck show that Toyota was putting on. The idea was to do murals ... . I’m THAT tall. The sketches the chimp does of the bike. It’s fun to draw like ass. We painted [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 10:02:37
How to Make Your Motorcycle Rust Free and Look Showroom Quality!
motorcycle Everybody wants their bike to be great both in respect to look and riding condition ... a look at this simple occurrence - nothing is more dangerous for your motorcycle than rusts. Regular ... and foremost thing is to wash your motorcycle properly. In this step it is important that you clean every [more...]
Date: 2008-11-02 13:32:00
SEMA 2008: A Few of My Favorite Things
SEMA does not have the gravitas of a traditional auto show like Geneva or Frankfurt ... pointed tail, to the Miller-style grille, to the trick motorcycle disc brakes that are almost as large ... at the Galpin Auto Sports shop as the guys were working on the Motor Trend Flex. To say Scythe is a wild [more...]
Date: 2008-11-05 23:16:02
The best BMW restorer in America. Tim Stafford. I stumbled across his shop, and the Von Dutch painted BMW he's going to mechanically repair.
Click on the lower pic for FULL size legible size to read the whole thing. Or read from the same author on his website edition http://motos.home.att ... BMW motorcycle cognoscenti a level of restoration perfection previously unseen." He would ... ... like this Von Dutch painted bike, it's in for a mechanical. Nobody touches the paint. The cracking [more...]
Date: 2008-11-27 19:47:00
Interbike - 2008
INDOOR SHOW Pastajet's Interbike 2008 Top 5 Highlights Interbike was a fun experience again, but it was very tiring. Long days followed by long nights writing up ride impressions and daily coverage of the show is exhausting. I rode as many bikes as I could at the Outdoor Demo, but there is only so much time in the day, [more...]
Date: 2008-11-23 06:54:11
It would seem I've lost interest in this...
But nothing could be farther from that. In fact I'm experiencing about the opposite of writer's block ... and airplanes and sushi prints, and personalized to boot!Problem is I don't know the first thing ... out the motorcycle, or play golf, or learn Java, or finish [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 01:24:00
*My city.
my city filled with street sounds ... , the am pm mini marts. a bp company. sunrise colors. clash with yellow and green. i shop at the liquor ... . dreaming. freedom. child-like lollypops. to reach the barber shop. free cut. in exchange [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 02:07:05
An American Classic…Restoration Project
A while back I pulled the trigger and bought an old ten speed to ride to work ... and actually even started putting paint stripper on it. Way too much work, without the professional ... s all gold motorcycle. The also specialize in bicycle frames and I could see why after I got the finished [more...]
Date: 2008-09-18 00:49:22
Plenty Now Do Motorcycle Pinstriping Who Never Thought They Could
by Steve Murray People who want to create their own custom bikes through pinstriping they can add a unique touch to it ... one needs to get some pinstriping paint and brushes. However, more often motorcycle pinstriping ... applying your pinstripes or can’t get the look you want then motorcycle pinstriping can be carried [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 18:47:27
Life After Debt: The Joy of Buying Properly
1986 Yamaha Maxim 700 I bought a motorcycle! It’s very much like that one, above! (The back seat is different, otherwise it’s the same bike, paint, everything :D). After having ... . I have been planning to get a motorcycle since 2006, but at the time when I decided I wanted one I was deep [more...]
Date: 2008-08-06 05:38:52
Kandy-Colored Tangerine-Flake
It was a busy weekend for gashuffers. Saturday afternoon was the Rumbler’s “Kustom Kill and Hot Rod Thrills” custom car show under the BQE featuring everything from rusted jalopies held together with bailing wire to tricked out cherries with flaming exhaust pipes [more...]
Date: 2008-08-26 15:34:21
My Bathtub - A Porsche Speedster Super
My Bathtub - A Porsche Speedster Super - It is probably a guy thing but do you have a favorite auto in your life? Is there some set of wheels that far outshines all others in your life? No matter how many shiny, glitzy vehicles come along, there is that one car that lives in your memory forever [more...]
Date: 2008-11-08 07:07:48
Death to an old friend
Finally the tow truck arrives, slowly but surely my bike is loaded on to the bed and strapped down. I asked the driver if I could ride in back next to the bike, I know it's an unreasonable request ... in Price/Helper, Utah the bike was unloaded and I began talking with the mechanic. OK [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 01:08:31
Portrait of a Client
The noon-day heat of equatorial sun beat down on tin roofs and dirt roads. It was quiet, the sounds a little muffled outside the paint shop of Rwandese Kiva client Marie ... her eyes open for opportunities. She chose to begin a paint shop, she says, because housing construction [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 22:58:31
Garry Chitwood finishes restoring our 1962 Bonneville ….
Last week, Garry Chitwood shipped our 1962 T120R Bonneville back to Redmond from his shop in Alabama ... Motorcycle Auction a few years ago for probably more than it was worth at the time. But we bought ... the original gauges on this bike himself. Our 5/23/07 posting was a personal article about Garry [more...]
Date: 2008-10-28 07:17:17
Thanksgiving Weekend
December 1, 2008 Whew! What a busy week it’s been. I apologize for the lack of postings, we’ve been busy! ... Olympia where you can paint your own ceramics. We made some Christmas presents. . . shhh, it’s a secret ... that he might miss something big. The Tenino Motorcycle [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 15:16:07
Cuzco is Our Everest, or How Shannon Got to Ride in a Helicopter
We got a good, early start on Friday. The road was paved all the way from Abancay to Cuzco and we were anticipating about a two and half hour ride into town. We´d found a hostel in the guidebook that we were aiming for and I had made a little map of the center of town to help us navigate [more...]
Date: 2008-11-24 02:38:25
Icon finds Tokyo influence for custom Honda Reflex
Icon created this 2002 Honda Reflex 250 for its Bikes of Icon customization program, ... associated with urban motorcycle culture —bringing this style stateside. But, it screwed up in two ... suspension are spot on. The first problem arrives with the paint: garish and over-the-top [more...]
Date: 2008-08-29 04:06:43
Mokemobile
Mokemobile September 25th, 2008 by Braddah Lance Yesterday a friend had asked (for her co-worker) ... transportation did…. work a full-time job, two part-time, go school full-time and still squeezed in coaching. In a few months I got it - my very first motorcycle! It was a 1993 Yamaha FZR 600 [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 18:16:36
Airbrush Art Expert-Pamela Shanteau
Pamela Shanteau is a renowned airbrush artists who’s airbrush talent streams over multiple styles and surfaces ... . The 2006 and also the 2007 Signature Harley Davidson calendars have featured Shanteau’s airbrush ... and how to set up an airbrush shop. The book covers such styles of airbrushing such as fingernails [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 16:29:47
Airbrush Art Expert-Pamela Shanteau
Pamela Shanteau is a renowned airbrush artists who’s airbrush talent streams over multiple styles and surfaces ... . The 2006 and also the 2007 Signature Harley Davidson calendars have featured Shanteau’s airbrush ... and how to set up an airbrush shop. The book covers such styles of airbrushing such as fingernails [more...]
Date: 2008-08-04 11:17:57
Brand Profile: Neighborhood
Brand Profile: Neighborhood ... is renowned for its distressed denim and leather motorcycle jackets, as well as other subtly ... , but the steez is more biker badass than renegade cop, with mechanic-inspired shirts, flannels, paint [more...]
Date: 2008-09-22 18:13:40
Five Easy Steps To Weight Loss For Good!
Weight loss e book from high profile fitness expert, best selling author and former employee of Kathy Smith. Five Easy Steps To Weight Loss For Good! - New Edition of the Guide to Home health Care AgenciesHome health Compare can assist in choosing the best local home health agency - based on [more...]
Date: 2008-11-23 06:04:45
Dawn Patrol
Welcome to the Dawn Patrol, our daily roundup of information on the War on Terror and other topics - from the MilBlogs and other sources around the world. If you're a blogger, you can join the conversation. If you link to any of these stories, add a link to the Dawn Patrol too and your trackback will be added to the list [more...]
Date: 2008-05-27 15:00:04
100 Things For My 100th Post
Party over here! This is officially my 100th post! Now this wasn’t actually scheduled, it kind of snuck up on me and I decided right now to do something special for the post. Actually, I first thought, naa, I’m not going to make anything of it. And THEN I remembered a really, [more...]
Date: 2008-09-05 21:27:34
Plenty Now Do Motorcycle Pinstriping Who Never Thought They Could
Plenty Now Do Motorcycle Pinstriping Who Never Thought They Could Posted By Steve Murray on @ 6: ... that you have problems applying your pinstripes or can’t get the look you want then motorcycle ... out from the others. The art of motorcycle pinstriping has been around for many years now and is something [more...]
Date: 2008-10-10 23:56:23
I Guess I Need An Adventure…
Surf Trip Time!! It’s been a looong time since my last epic adventure… (riding my motorcycle to Alaska) ... for my rental car (I had it for 9 months, lol) I decided to search out old Mini Coopers… And found this instead [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 20:48:25
Harley-Davidson Launches ‘Build It and Win It Sweepstakes’
Press Release: Harley-Davison announced a sweepstakes, ... to add to that bike. 5. When the motorcycle is saved in a personal profile “Garage,” the contestant ... -Davidson motorcycle by entering the “Build It and Win It” sweepstakes presented by Harley-Davidson [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 14:03:05
Motorcycle Pinstriping - You Too Can Get Professional Results
If you want to create something unique when creating a custom bike then pinstriping is worth considering ... to get the look you want then the motorcycle pinstriping can be completed at an auto body shop ... and unique look to your motorcycle that will make it stand out from the rest. Motorcycle [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 14:01:26
Good Ol' Wayne County
I have all sorts of memories growing up in Wayne County, Ohio. It was a bit strange when I moved to Detroit and resided in Wayne County, Michigan ... motorcycle and introduce me to Mel Tillis and Lynn Anderson. I still remember my conversation with Mel [more...]
Date: 2008-10-02 23:38:54
Burnout Paradise full game available on PSN this week
In this week’s Playstation Store update you’ll be able to purchase the full version of Burnout Paradise ... (motorcycle) Nakamura Firehawk (motorcycle) Fan-created Hippie Wagon (paint-job) Fan-created Hunter ... . Already out in the shop on Blu-Ray, the digital version will be available on the 25th [more...]
Date: 2008-09-23 12:53:13
