She Rides

Its amazing how life influences art and art influences life. Well in this case you be the judge. Here are two things in life that I know and enjoy going by the name "She Rides." This is for you George! Glad the show at Headhunters in Texas brought all this together and how can we forget Jay Berndt in the mix. Give it up for Providence on this early Tuesday morning!

RIP Chuck Biscuits

She Rides - Providence Sleazy Punk

Home Made Vacuum Gauge Synchronizer

Been looking for a solid way to get the Honda cb650 carbs sync'd up solid and Josh over at Wrench Works found this tool on ebay http://tinyurl.com/y4636cf. This should take care of the issue of the carbs along with the new jets rolling in from Atlanta via motorcyclecarbs.com. But in the best interest of anyone that is DIY and into cafe bikes, I found this link based upon building yer own vacuum tester. Damn, I love the MacGyver attitude that exists in the motorcycle kingdom, here is the whole story...

Home Made Vacuum Gauge Synchronizer

Carburetor Jetting

Was able to get the bike rewired last week and get it fired up and running but noticed a lot of issues on initial starts. After tearing around the neighborhood for a bit and realizing the issue was actually getting a bit worse, decided to tear into the bike more to address the issues. As it turns out, with the pod filters and larger cherry bomb muffler I am going to have to bump up the jet settings on the carbs to push more gas into the mix. Hopefully that will resolve the issues and hoping the vacuum settings will be dead on, we shall see. Thanks to Josh from Wrench Works for helping to battle the carb issue. Two heads are better than one when dealing with a 4 carb setup.

Honda V12 - Custom

Spotted this bike while looking for an oil pressure gauge to go onto my Honda cb650 cafe racer. To be honest I don't even know where or what link it popped up from but damn, I have just spent the last half hour checking out the photos. Here is more of the story from DucCutters.com.

"A V12-engined Honda CBX is just the thing you need to show those Yamaha VMax and Triumph Rocket III guys a thing or two...

We've said this often in the past and we'll say it again � we absolutely love the Honda CBX 1000. With its elegant lines and screaming six-cylinder engine, the CBX was, and remains to this day, an incredibly special machine.

We suppose it would take incredible talent to �improve' on a standard CBX. Or, in the case of Andreas Georgeades, make it twice as outrageous and mechanically over the top as a regular CBX. Twice as outrageous? Yes, that's precisely what Andreas' V12-engined CBX is.

In his mid-60s now, Andreas was a fairly successful motorcycle racer in the 1960s, having raced against the likes of Mike Hailwood and Giacomo Agostini. Later, when he retired from racing, he took up building his own custom specials, which include no less than three Ferrari-engined motorcycles � two of those with six-cylinder engines from the Ferrari Dino (one of which even features a supercharger), and one with a V8 from the Ferrari 308!

Of course, Andreas didn't stop there � after building six- and eight-cylinder motorcycles, how could he not build a V12-engined machine? So he started with two six-cylinder CBX engines, welding them together to create a 2,000cc V12. And as these pictures show, it must have been a diabolically difficult task.

Unfortunately enough, we don't have more details on the machine � we don't know how much power that V12 makes and we don't have any acceleration or top speed numbers. Still, we're hugely impressed with Andreas' V12 CBX. Watch the video below to see Andreas fire up the machine, warm it up and take it for a ride down the street. Awesome!"

Andreas's V12 on Flickr

Original Article over at Duc Cutter dot com

Probot - Dave Grohl's Metal Masterpiece

I am just so stoked and listening to this album again and again. Oh how I wish Dave Grohl would be jonesing for metal again and put out a second edition of Probot. Every song on there was killer and made me thirst for more.

Miniature Engine Museum

Found these guys through researching a mini engine display stand to have in my office. What could be cooler than firing up a Pratt Whitney radial engine while checking email, hahah. Check these guys out as they have a rotating exhibit through multiple airports and a 100 engine deep showcase in Vista, CA at the Craftsmanship Museum.

Miniature Engine Museum














Found On Street Fire dot net

Scaled down mini working V8 engines

Land Speed Racing - Roger Goldammer

A few buddies of mine are huge into land speed racing with their shop out of Ramona, CA. Every year I find myself on a plane heading out to meet up with them to go to El Mirage, CA and run the dry lake bed. The racing bug is slowly creeping up with me and I am working on a build to race here locally at Maxton, NC and eventually over to Bonneville and El Mirage so I can race the holy trinity of speed.

Had an earlier post of Roger Goldammer's cafe build, now check out his land speed racing build that was on an episode of Biker Build off on Discovery Channel. What I dig the most on this bike was his decision to go with a 250cc liquid cooled 2 stroke super kart engine with tandem cylinders and 2 crankshafts geared together. Its such a departure from convention and to see him get it up to 128mph was damn impressive. The gods of Speed were shining on him for sure.

Check out more info here for all that is land speed racing:

Southern California Timing Association

East Coast Timing Association

Walt's 02' Sporty

Check out Walt's 2002 Sporty, damn, is all I can say, looks bitchin! Glad you are joining us, and definitely put yer bike in the ride in bike show down at Billy Goats.

Lamb Of God In A Parallel Universe Of Jazz Hell

In a parallel universe where thrash metal is to be replaced with smooth jazz, maybe some bands can make it to the top. You be the judge.

Smooth Jazz World



Our Metal Loving World

Roger Goldammer

This bike has been floating around blogs and mags for about two years now and I never tire of seeing its classic lines and supreme engineering. To be honest it was my catalyst for wanting to build cafe style bikes. I first heard of Roger Goldammer back in the days of Discovery's Biker Build Off series. What struck a chord with me was his easy going personality and passion to design and build things differently. He had the vibe of just wanting to do his own thing with the bikes he built such as the land speed racing two stroke 250cc dubbed Experimental. His divergent path from the standard American V-Twin and fat tire was refreshing and a sign of what bikes were meant to do, perform. Thank you thunder gods for ridding us of those awful fat tire contraptions that can barely do turns and all the owners that think in their Affliction apparel they are outlaw bikers. Thank you Thank you!!

Roger Goldammer - Hey Roger, please update your site