The Past Is Not At Rest

This project started in the winter 2007/2008 I think, things were going fine, I felt strong.

My brilliant idea was to run a 1933 VL Frame around a 103" dual carb, dual magneto Knuckle, the plan was to make the engine single fire through running single-fire wires on both mags; one to each cylinder and then sync them to keep the 315°/405° fire cycle.

You got some more pics of this idiotic motor if you click HERE

However, I never finished this bike for whatever reasons, I blew it ...déjavu.
But since this project still haunts me I guess I have no choice but to take another shot at getting a bike like this together ...some day.

Mathematical Precision Of Prophecy

When Charley told me he "just had to fabricate a little jig" to blueprint the TT Knuckle motor the proper way I figured he probably had something extra up his sleeve, but I didn't really think much more of it.
Well, that was until I saw the finished product, holy moly hairy canarie by the blood of Abraham - this jig is beyond anything I've ever witnessed in my entire life!

Here the cases are milled out and decked for the 3.5/8" cylinders to fit.
What a genius, and this jig can be used on both Panheads and Knuckleheads.

Peek-a-boo; using Iron Cad in a perfectly tempered garage to build motors that are from the 1940's are so overkill you can't do anything but love it.

The Serpent, Wolf and The Holy Goat

By the oath of Belial and Saturn, Kalle Sjöström sure knows how to create the new Triumph testament.

Tie Me To The Mast / The Great Egyptian Gravitational Experiment

Around 2000 BC during the great battles between Egypt and Assyria, there was a bouquet of visionary Egyptian Pharaohs that sat sail for the North Pole, up there there's no centrifugal force from the spinning earth counteracting with gravity, making the gravitational pull the very strongest on Earth. The Pharaohs needed the additional gravity in their attempts to breed a full army of combat Colibris; the problem they constantly ran into at home was the Colibri’s body only weighs about 3 grams which lead to the birds would be very hard to control in large groups, so the Pharaohs hoped the profound gravitation would add some dependability to the birds hectic movement patterns.

The reason for picking Colibris was their excessive appetite for several arts of Assyrian soft bodied insects, insects that at that time was the very bottom and foundering link in the Assyrian food chain but didn’t even exist in the Egyptian Eco System. So, without these insects the whole Assyrian food chain would collapse and the proud country of Assyria would die.

So they brought 700.000 Colibris and even more Assyrian insects with them in the greatest formation of ships ever to set sail from the sun drenched coast of Egypt. In the beginning their northern pilgrimage went well. But what they never thought of was the stronger gravity’s impact on the insects, so only about 2500 nautical miles from their final destination almost every single insect had died, which in relationship with the extremely cold weather lead to all the birds starving or freezing to death within the next few days. The nomadic bouquet of Pharaohs’ got very aggravated and disappointed over sailing so far for nothing. Or so they thought...

On their way back things got even worse when they ran out of food just a few days away from the frost bitten coastline of the North Pole. And just when they lost all possible hope, the Pharaohs decided they had no choice but to eat the dead insects and frozen hummingbirds, it was either that or death. This was when the magic happened, the combination of Assyrian soft bodied insects mixed with frozen Egyptian Colibris in direct combination with the excessive gravitational force would prove to be the faultless formula for bringing the Pharaohs supernatural powers.

Back then the Egyptians believed Planet Earth to be shaped like an egg, and the North Pole was the top, so when the Pharaohs got back home they instantly built the pyramids in hope to recreate a place that possessed the same gravitational powers as the North Pole, so the future generations could gain the same supernatural powers. However, after 80 years the pyramids was finished but since they are built so close to the equator they have very low gravity compared to the North Pole.

This was a failure of biblical proportions, and during a candle lit blood drinking ritual in the darkest of forbidden rooms beneath the Sphinx they swore never to tell anyone about this failure, after the ceremony was finished they went on a barbarian killing spree that ended the life of every single living soul that knew about this whole bizarre gravitational experiment. And to this day this still is a very sensitive hidden part of history...

Rainman Says; Subscribe To DicE

Hi internet, please meet Andreas Berglin from Stockholm and his Genny Shovel. I did an article about them in the new DicE but I didn't write down any relevant technical information, instead I had 3 liters of red vine and wrote about oscillating filaments. So here's the information about the bike, or at least some of it.

It's not really a Genny Shovel, it's a Pan Shovel built from a 1957 crank topped with 1975 heads, and a late 1950's transmission. The rear section of the frame is shortend 1" and the fork is extended 8", 16 / 21" tires, 1980's Alien tank and a rear fender from Roffe's Speedshop.

Andreas put this bike together in only three weeks of time - Then it took me 9 month to do the article about it.

So, according to Rainman that means Andreas could've built 12 bikes exactly like this one in the time it took me to do the article, and to do articles about all those 12 bikes would take me 108 months, and in that time Andreas could've built 144 bikes and for me to do articles about all 144 bikes would take 1296 months ...or 108 years. That's 648 DicE issues featuring bikes that all looks exactly the same, Dean would fire me in a heartbeat...

The Shoreline of Dead Pony Island

Every single existing particle throughout the entire universe resonates at its own frequency, yet they all relate on a harmonic scale to each other. Understanding harmonics means understanding the very key to the universe – it’s all in the resonance, the rhythm and the volume. Different octaves of understanding, grains of vital energy ringing out and creating eternity, each note is split, dispersed through a fragmentary chaos of Hertz, scattered through all time and space, thousands and thousands of miniature resonating identities positioned all at random.

Like shattered mirrors of galactic proportions the notes are splintered through every dimension at every frequency at all ages at the same time totally unsystematic. Finding the pieces of these notes, putting them together, bringing them back up to tune and locating the pattern means locating the harmonies, and being able to tune in and feeling the harmonies means the only true self discovery, and self discovery means breaking free from our enslavement caused by reptilian manipulated DNA. Speaking physically humans are nothing but concentrated energy with a pulse, a beat, a rhythm that needs to indulge in these notes to form the delicate harmonies of free existence, we need to tune in.

The Annunaki manipulated our DNA with the purpose of making us unable to understand the universe, to make us unable to choose for ourselves, to make us unable to follow our own minds, to enslave our existence and control us as their cattle, through a rich palette of various communal master suppression techniques like Scientology, Mormonism and even McDonaldsism soldier reptile humanoids like L Ron Hubbard, Joseph Smith and Ray Crock have constantly been trying to blind us from seeing and sensing ourselves.

But tide is getting high, the intergalactic 8 ball is about to fall into a black hole; The Mayan calendar unmistakably points out, with tremendous precision - the year 2012 as the end of a grand cycle of energy for humans and all other life forms in this dimension. If we are standing in the very doorway of a cosmic paradigm shift here is hard to say, however I do suspect that the year 2012 will be the year when human DNA re-evolves back into its un-manipulated form, the year that the veil finally lifts between our manipulated human world and the reptilian humanoid’s, between the illusion and the truth, between Ronald McDonald and Spud, between Val Kilmer and Jim Morrison, between shit and falafel.

The atmosphere opens up as the new inter-dimensional horizons of the parallel universes morphs into one infinite solar flare; we’re penetrating a new undiscovered electric epoch, all magnetic fields are about to be dissolved, every zodiac sign is about to revolve, the oceans will burn and the mountains will fall, there’s a new parallel equator on the rise; dead ponies will rain down from the heavens.

Speaking metaphorically; Humans were sheep and Annunaki were shepherds ones upon a time, but now it’s about to turn into the opposite, now it'll be twice upon a time …and Tom Cruise won’t be riding shotgun.

Mechanical Cryptozoology & Chain Driven Magnetos

A little update on the stroker motor for the TT Knuckle;

Charley's getting busy making this Knuckle/Pan adjustable jig...

The right side case is shaved, drilled and tapped for the magneto and chain drive to fit. Note the freshly milled out radius around the cam, ALL the way down to the race! It had to be done to make the #5 Leineweber cam fit. And a needle bearing will be used, that's why the cam bushing hole is drilled out.

In this pic the rear sprocket is flipped the wrong way to show the chain better.
The way the TT Magneto and chain bolts up is a pretty colorful and amazing construction; like two Flamingos in a fruit fight.

Single firing Wico Model X, the Ogopogo of the magneto world.

And here's a complete set of nos drain/freeze plugs for the cases. Well that's all for now, I got to dive back in the Baltic Sea, legendary sea monsters of gargantuan size are calling my name and I have to tame the Kraken, more updates on the Knuckle soon.

TT Knuckle Chassie

The chassie for the TT Knuckle is pretty much done, still need to weld two more brackets to the frame but all in all it's done. The frame is raked 1.5 degrees and the fork is extended. Since I have a hard time waiting around doing nothing in the garage I decided to run a steering dampner set up ...which had to be cut / stretched to fit the rake.

And out came another nonsense "product" that probably never will make it to production; the 1947 31.5 degree steering dampner head bracket. The bad thing is that now I have nothing to do again and I keep getting ideas. Hey Charley, please hurry up with the motor before I turn this thing into a full bagger!

The Ghost of Pope Julius II

I just found this old pic of a set of bars I did for a stroked 1939 Knuckle I built in 2006, at the time I was heavily influenced by the Sistine Chapel in Rome and the ceiling paintings by Michelangelo, I still am and I totally stole the design of the bars from the ceiling’s architecture but I figured I would never get caught since I found it very unlikely that the Pope would come visit me in Stockholm.

Anyway, after this bike was finished I instantly sold it … a very long short story, but I kept the bars and light when I sold it– and now I have no idea where they are… I’ve been searching everywhere at least twice but they are nowhere to be found. Could it be some obscure form of cosmic justice and maybe the ghost of Pope Julius II hovered in and collected them to punish me for stealing their design? I have no idea but I sure am scared right now.

From The Intergalactic Knuckle Labratory In Dalarna

Intergalactic space is the physical space around and between galaxies, and to me it looks like Corner's new Knuckle build will take him around and between any galaxies ...and back again.

Richmond's Secret Particle Accelerator Tunnel

Apparently, after Mullins Chain Drive's worked on a bike, it must reach 88 mph before Brandon appears out of nowhere. And it's all done in their on sight particle accelerator tunnel...

Mechanical Wigs

Shovelhead Knuckle Wigs.

Wico Mag Distributor wig.

Evo Knuckle wigs.

And last but not least a few random great looking chick wigs.

Mechanical wigs seem to be such a popular thing these days, I have to get in the market ...Rigid Wigs Stockholm.

Next Big Thing?

Peter Longhair sent me this pic of the latest in Panhead performance, the new S&S heads...

Bring Me The Head of Paul McCartney

In 2008 as I started building the Knuckster motor Sir Paul McCartney’s head went missing. It was a Sir Paul wax doll’s head – and it was left on a train when being transported to be auctioned … The head was made in the 1960’s and had been on display at the Louis Tussauds Museum in Great Yarmouth. In this photo the heads of my Knuckster motor is missing because I wanted to take a photo of how the piston domes are milled out for the valves and also the cutouts for the exhausts.
The best thing about the Knuckster's heads are that since they're both rotated clockwise – so are the outtakes for the valves and exhausts.

The best thing about Sir Paul McCartney’s head is that it had a £2000.00 reward and that a homeless person named Anthony Silva found it in a trash can at a railway station and collected the reward. So what are the worlds telling us? Does this mean we should go searching for Knuckleheads in railway station trash cans? Is there even a connection here, I bet there is.

Who Killed Brian Jones?

Was it one of The Rolling Stones?

Nah, I don’t think so...

Ok, so who did it? Well, if it wasn’t Anita Pallenberg, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t, then it must have been that construction worker Frank Thorogood, right? But I’m pretty sure Frank didn’t kill Brian by his own will, not a chance. Frank’s mind was controlled by the CIA Mind Control Unit; by the same ones that 11 years later killed John Lennon through controlling the mind of Mark Chapman. Annunaki's always intense.

You Guys Know What Can Bury a Panhead?

- A Shovel.

God Save Mrs Mopp & Good Old Mother Riley

The Kinks are the greatest band ever; I’ve always loved everything about them. They never really fit the psychedelic scene in the 1960’s and they never really fit the clean shaved pop scene either.

The Kinks never fit any scene – they created their own; a dark, sarcastic and subtle protest against all pop culture. And they went from doing genius concept albums in the 1960’s to full-blown rock operas in the 1970’s.

This is Matte’s Generator Shovel, and I think this bike is just like The Kinks in more than a few ways, not only as a subtle protest. I shot it for DicE sometime this summer, and since then Matte did some upgrades, so I have to go shoot it again before it gets in the mag. So until then – how soon is when?