Sweet BSA Glory in SoCal

Patina Galore at Deus, Venice

The Mutha of all Kill-switches.

Original Badass

The cover of the very first MCM in 1985 featuring original badass Choken and his epic Pan!

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!

My own shit...on my own day.

Got these complaints...that I never post pics of my own stuff...well today's my b-day so wtf...here we go! Some seriously ol' stuff from my own vault!

 Must've been like 7 or 8. With one of my long fork bicycles. Learned to weld doing those bikes. Z-bars and jeansjacket with cut-off-arms. All part of the deal.

14 and I just finished my moped chop. Spent soo much time on that thing. The first real build I did from scratch. Calles Chopperparts did the fork for me. I saved all my money to pay for that fork. Set me back 150 bucks back in the day. A fortune! Soo cool that he trusted me and my order. No down payment. That fuckin' rules! Calle still remembers welding it up! That fork still looks awesome!

Eventually I won my class at the Hot Rod Show in Stockholm in -86. I was sooo stoked!

 When I turned 18 my brother Daf borrowed me 1000 euros so I could buy this chopped Triumph. Today it looks grand. But back then it was ugly as sin. My brother dug it tho, he's older then me and for him it represented a real chopper! I couldn't wait to cut it all up.

 So the first winter after I bought the Tri,  I chopped it all up. My brother was shocked and thought I lost it all. But I had a plan. Here I'm wrapping up the frame fixture.

That orange welder, the Boxer, was my first welding machine. I got it from my dad when I was like 6 or 7 'cause it was busted and only ran on full power. I cherished that thing like my holiest possession. It finally gave up sometime in the mid -90's. Damn I miss that Boxer!

Today I deal with other Boxers...kinda weird actually.

 Built a new frame around the original motormounts. Did my own fork, wheels, oiltank, etc, etc

 Rode that thing 3 summers. First year it was orange, second year green and third yellow...

It ended up in a bunch of magazines. And on the Norrtälje Custom Bike Show podium. Love this pic with my friend Thomas and his Norton, shot for Wheels Magazine in -91.

 Never bothered with TUV or numberplates and stuff like that...bike ran good anyway!

 That fat car tire in the back did for great burnouts. Remember that this particular event made our neighbors wanting to call the fire brigade since they thought we had set our clubhouse on fire...

 When I was 19 I bough my first Harley basketcase from Michael Fors: a 80" Flathead. Half a year before I had met legendary Mats Hedenstrand and was absolutely floored by his orange badass flattie. And he indulged me into the secrets of the big sidevalve H-D motor. After that I just had to have my own!

 2005, 4 in the morning,  sitting on the floor of Plebs Choppers clubhouse and trying to work on the Monster Garage Copper Cojones bike with Gordon, Ronny and Benny of UCC fame.

2010, knees in the breeze, gettin' rid of the fleas...on the Forsaken Shovel. Now owned by Jonas in Stockholm. Thanks Jonas for letting me ride it once in awhile=)!



Casual Control!

Volker Hohdorf shows us how it's done, on his Zündapp GS, in Isny!

Where does my stuff live today?

About 12-15 years ago I sold a pile of mighty good and rare stuff that was collecting dust on my shelf. Sometimes I wonder where it all ended up? The WR tanks, the Wico magneto, all the Flanders bars and risers, the NOS Bates seat set, the Lake injectors, the Speed-e-shifter, the Roth bird deflectors...did you buy any of these parts? Send me a pic! Would love to see the bikes where it all ended up! ola_stenegard@hotmail.com

Lightning shifts and speedy takeoffs!

Found this bad baby B&H combo back home in Sweden in -89 or -90...

...bought it, restored it and right away hooked up my 80" flattie to the grand device.

Some of  these following pages surfaced when I was looking for stuff  in a chop-shop outside NY in the early -90's...

...turned out to be a complete manual with blueprints and parts list...

...I xeroxed it all: some 30 pages of saucy true-to-fact stories!

Since many years my ol' B&H has a new home: the Hunter is the careful curator of this mechanical metallic marvel and it's gracing his Dynamite-of-Danger sweet Pan, which he pieced together in the early -90's. The bike is pure dope and sports replica S&S dual carb heads, fed by dual linkerts which are in turn protected by Roth deflectors. XA springer up front is handled by Flanders risers and bars. The bike is built to be a kinda replica class C racer. Even gearbox is raised by 1" and oilbag chopped accordingly for that lean-angle kraving powersliding style.