Showing posts with label Heroes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heroes. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Monday, July 1, 2013
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Friday, May 17, 2013
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Kustom Kulture Gotland -66
Dig this: this fine piece of righteous fabric recently surfaced! Local Gotland legend Göte Sandelius drew this T-shirt design in 1966! Beat that suckers!
Sunday, March 17, 2013
One of the most hardcore bikes ever built
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| Stefan Farnell's 1000 cc Hedlund Racer. Built in 1985! One of the hardest and raddest bikes ever built. This sickle fucked me up forever! Change the way I looked on everything! Thank you Stefan! |
Friday, March 15, 2013
The original Cala Steimar!
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| Forget that new pope Franz the 1st in Italy and check outta the real Pope of Performance: the one and only Cala Steimar! What Cala doesn't know (or have) in terms of H-D is probably not worth knowing (or having). A true Living legend! |
Cala was the first who started to sell S&S stuff outside of the US. Musta been late -60's or early -70's.
Luv these pics! Think they are from early -80's...but not sure. Cala: help me out if you see this.
Check out Cala's High Performance amazing workshop and bikes here.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Borås Bobbers early -80's
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| Klasse Wingrens classy Panhead. |
Borås Bobbers: Swedish West Coast Style.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Sofia Hogs 1968
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| Bonafide Legends! Tearing up the streets of Stockholm in -68. So much history! So much respect! |
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| Mattis and his goddess Urd. |
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| These two Sofia Hogs scoots were built in Stockholm, Sweden in 1968. This is the real shit. Genuine bobbers with cool parts all over. We can only fall to our knees...! |
Original Badass
The cover of the very first MCM in 1985 featuring original badass Choken and his epic Pan!
Friday, March 8, 2013
Good Fellas UCC
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| One of the best painters ever, period: Håkan Lindberg! |
One of the best builders ever, period: Gordon Roth
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Epic GP Ice Racing at Rämen 1933
These dude's were hard as fuckin' nails! 4,5 hour race at speeds up to 100 mph on a damn cold swedish february day. 11000 spectators sure saw some serious action!
Thank's to Gasoline Magazine for the tip!
Monday, March 4, 2013
John Eyre
Back in the early -80's, when I and started getting into Swedish chopper rags like Hojmagasinet and MCM, all these beautiful drawings and paintings kept gracing the pages. They were all done by John Eyre.
Back then it was a huge inspiration to me.
And still is!
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| 2nd thru 22nd of March in Stockholm: Old vehicle's-New paintings. |
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Child of the Seventies. Part 3.
This is the 3rd and last part (for now) of Don Cammorata growing up "motorcycle mad" in NorCal during the seventies. These shots gimme the goosebumps! They are from the 'grid of Laguna Seca. Check the names on the leathers: Craaazy! Real Shotcallers!
"I'm guessing this is 1971 -72. Remember this is just me and Dad hanging out on the starting grid at a Laguna Seca Grand Prix.... No big deal at the time! Maybe he had some special pass, he did own a Kawasaki shop at the time, but I don't think so.. It's just the way it was back then!"
And last but not least, the Man himself in the seventies: DON!
Good Year hat: check...Hang Ten shirt: check...long hair and shredded jeans: check!
24/7 two wheel rascal punk: CHECK!
Thanks again for sharing all these truly Glorious photos!!!!
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Darrin Caddes Sketchbook
Darrin Caddes is one of the most talented artist I ever known! He was my teacher at ACCD and Boss at Indian motorcycles. He is one of the most gifted and humble person I've ever met and I count him as one of my dearest friends. His drawings, Spirit and Take-on-Life continues to inspire me every day!
Darrin: your stuff fuckin' Rules!
Monday, February 11, 2013
Child of the Seventies. Part 2.
More photografic Glory from Don Cammorata! Don grew up on two wheels, making the streets unsafe around Oakland, NorCal. Such a trip! Epic pics Don!
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| "My first chopper - laid down ape hangers and a sissy bar, looking at it now I quite like the white seat with the knobby rear tire! First bike no training wheels I think." |
"My first motorbike - Notice the missing rear tailight lens, I remember I used to pop it into first gear with the throttle slightly cracked to try and get it to do a wheelie... I always looped-it hanging on with my hands and chasing it down the street for a while... We never bothered replacing the rear light, lucky it had the grab handle crash-bar on the back to keep the seat from getting too thrashed!"
"The first and last snow ever seen in Danville - My Yamaha Moto-Bike... I loved that thing! ultimately I ended up braking the frame at the steerer tube from jumping it too much =( I held the record in the court for jumping over the most kids (13) They would line up in their backs, brother was the last one. Crazy stupid shit when you think about it, no helmet, nothing protective at all, huge consequences for all of us doing it if we fucked up. Too many Evel Knievel movies!"
"BMX days in the hills above Oakland... thinking this was a Chrome Molly Mongoose? Man I wish I had a head of hair like that now!"
Friday, February 8, 2013
Child of the Seventies. Part 1.
Here's a bunch of absolutely Glorious photos from fellow motorcycle designer Don Cammorata! Don grew up riding righteous iron in the Nevada desert, together with these two Kool Kats he called parents. Such a badass childhood! I got such a kick out of these pics. And there is more to come. Mega thanks for sharing Don!
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| "Mom and dad on their Kawees - Ma had a 125 and dad a 250... She didn't like riding all that much =))" |
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| "Some where out in the desert outside of camp on the 90" |
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| "...big sand hill that used to scare the shit out of me coming back down." |
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| "Our camp track - Camp was killer, right next to a big river with tons of shade and partying parents... " |
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| "Looks like a VW bus in the background? Classic!" |
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