9 Months B.C / The Knuckster is Baptised

The Knuckster Bike having undergone the Christian ritual of baptism; and its name is "9 Months B.C" and the past is an illusion, postulated mocked up through confusion, the future will be confusion, in your own illusion.

HASH / The Ghost of Sharon Tate

I just did an article about The Hash Knuck and it will be featured in DicE #34...
I'd like to be a fairy princess — a little golden doll with gossamer wings, in a voile dress, adorned with bright shiny things.

I see that as something totally pure and beautiful. Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

I'm very sensitive to ugly situations and I'm not in harmony with things around me.

And you think going to the dentist sucks?

What if you were born in 1947, as a set of FL cases, and then at the age of 63 you get your root canals drilled out to fit a Leineweber .540 cam..?
Yeah, then things would really start to suck, huh..

Swedish Chopper Legend

Choppis from Plebs Choppers is a true legend, he used to do this to make his friends ride out safe from the freeway gas stops (I scanned the pic from an old MCM)

I did an article about Choppis and his XLCH in the latest Dice, so if you don't got that one already you need to subscribe here

The Enveloping Torpedo of Soul

The Black Tibetan, this bike is like an electric beef vindaloo in the face of an amish vegan

...I don't even know how to describe it, I give up, sorry.

The Bulldozer Doesn't Understand The Butterfly

...And I guess that's the only reason why Brandon's not a millionaire.

Brandon Casquilho / guts and skills, and looks.

Buy his stuff here MULLINS CHAIN DRIVE

Flathead Wallpaper For Sidfläsk MC

Jesus Christ is the Son of God and Charles Manson is the Son of Man, not much to wonder about really. But one thing I do wonder about is why the Motor Company never called the Flatheads Under Head Valves after the Over Head Valves came out and ruined everything..?

Side Valves??? They might as well have called them Side Cams!

The valves are under the heads, they should be called UHV's, period, end of discussion.

I think this is a mechanical and intellectual scandal on so many different levels...

Kevlarphobia (Chain Drives Forever)

Kevlarphobia is a range of negative attitudes and feelings towards beltdrives and other objects identified or perceived as being made from Kevlar. Definitions refer variably to antipathy, contempt, prejudice, aversion, and irrational fear.

Kevlarphobia is observable in critical and hostile behavior such as discrimination and violence on the basis of a perceived non-chain driven orientation.

In a 1998 address, author, activist, and civil rights leader Coretta Scott King stated that "Kevlarphobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and their kevlar oriented primary drives”

Compression's Got A Hold of Me

Compression's got a hold of me
Compression, I gotta break free
Compression, gonna kill me

How to Make Your Neighbors Love You / Part #2

Skating The Swedish Bone

How to Make Your Neighbors Love You / Part #1

Building The Swedish Bone;

Maximum Overdrive

If the stuff that went down in Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive really happened it would suck to be anywhere near Perra Leis’ garage, with all the evil machines gathered inside and outside that place…
I had to leave early since these machines where eyeballing me from the moment I got there.

Dana 60's Are So Out Of Style...

Rigid Hips Powerglide Rearend; for the serious racer.

FBI - Fifth Beer Idea

Twice as dumb!

(You should've seen this thing after ten beers)

Adam Wright's Invisible Empire

Some of the great photos Adam sent me;
The Priest of Church Of Choppers Jeff Wright
and also Susan & Cole Foster. Cheers guys I'm drinking Cold Fosters.

Hank Williams Had No iPod

In the 1940’s and early 1950’s the Motor Company offered magneto chain drive setups for factory OHV racers, there where two different setups; Edison-Splitdorf magnetos and horizontal single-fire Wico magnetos.

This one will go in my latest semi-secret Knuckle project, and it sure seems a bit tricky to install. You need to drill, tap and plug the cases in several places, and also mill down bosses and ribs for chain clearance.

Then there’s no way to adjust the ignition after the cam cover is installed, you will have no generator and there will be no way to retard the ignition for starting, but hey!
That’s how they did it – Hank Williams had no iPod.

Money, Truth, God and Bates Seats

Isn’t it a bit weird to spend a lot of money on something you can’t even see once the bike is ridden? Well, maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. I haven't really thought too much about that. But one thing I have thought a lot about is; what does God think of money?

and it’s really quite simple;

- Just look at the people he gave them to.

Vincent Van Gogh Brings Inspiration

Van Gogh cut his ear off, placed it in an envelope and sent it to a prostitute named Rachel that he blamed for his incurable disease, on the envelope he wrote "Guard this object carefully"
And for the exact same reasons I cut the ears on these Knuckleheads and posted them to Willie G. Davidson, I even put the exact same words on the envelope.

Experience Dampens Creativity

My neighbor Fille helped me out with fitting 3.13/16" jugs in a set of 1938 EL cases, really clever - check the cylinder wall thickness on the cam side of the motor, and the top and rear case bolts..! Fille hated the idea right from the beginning and didn't wanna do it, but I kept bugging him about it.

- Be careful what you wish for - you might just get it.