Objectified

A bit old, but I finally got to see this documentary.  Interesting.

Karlson Tea Party

After the Cycle Zombies and Born Free shows, Danny and I decided to go home to relax for a bit.  So what we thought was wrong...  Got home, checked my invite for the Karlson tea Party not knowing it started at 5.  Damnit!  Called Dan-o, Hopped on my bike and rode back to Costa Mesa.  

Nelson did a great job on getting the bike/art show together.  

A busy Saturday.  But a very nice one at that.  

Born Free

After the Cycle Zombies/Hurley gig, Danny and I made our way to the Born Free show in Orange.  It was super hot... But worth every bit of it. A ton of really nice motorcycles.  Here are some of them.  

More to come on another day.

Cycle Zombies/Hurley

Pictures from last weekend. Cycle Zombies and hurley hosted a really cool event.  Free food from TK burger, Live music... Thee Cormans!?  No complaints here.  Best of all, riding with friends.

Another busy one

A lot of good stuff going this weekend folks.

See you there

El Camino Cycle Swap

Went to the El Camino cycle swap Saturday.  A bunch of cool bikes all around.  A bit disappointed with the swap meet though... Let me rephrase that, There were a lot of goodies there. Just not anything I needed at the moment.  Yeah, i shouldnt be starting a new project just yet.

Here are some pictures.  A lot more bikes but youll probably see them on everyone elses coverage.  

This thing was rad! Bonneville record holder. 100cc Honda engine 

Some really clean lines on this bike. Good Italian design. 

CR93 Production racer.  Dual overhead cam engine!

A set of mid-1950's Hondas for sale.  

All in all it was a good turn out. Got to see some friends too.  Wish I found some of the parts I was looking for though.  Maybe next years, ill find a new project to start.  

Ray Gun

Been messing around with some different materials and techniques.  A bit different from metal but same basic skill set.  

Carved foam into a ray gun

Vacuum formed plastic 

Filled with chocolate!

Ready to eat!

Love playing around with new mediums and techniques.  Chocolate today.....  Maybe a mold for a new part tomorrow?

Reunion

Labor day weekend turned out to be a good one... Even though i had to work on Labor day.  

The guys from In4mation rolled in from Las Vegas on Friday night.  

The next day we had lunch at Roscoes in Long Beach.  Chicken and Waffles with a side of collared greens. Doesnt get much better than that!

Later that night we ended up back in Long beach at the Pike.  Called Macy to come through.  Good to hear hes getting flowed by Alphanumeric now.  Its a good move for both Macy and A#.  Mini Jun Jo? Lets hope so. The world world be a much better place with more Jun Jo's.  

Time to leave and meet up with Alan and Lisa at the bowling alley.  We didnt get to bowl but it was fun watching them anyways. 

Next morning, woke up early to beat the rush at the Westminster park.  Havent woke up that early to skate since 1992.  It was good to roll around again. Miss it tons. 

Ryan got warmed up to the park pretty quick.

After the morning session,  we met up with Nelson and Brandon for some lunch at Riveras in Long beach.  Its been years since They have seen each other.   It was a great time seeing everyone catch up.  

We get home and what does Alan have? A new grill.  Rad! Rhandy gets stoked and wants to Bbq. Next thing we know, we have a mini Luau! 

Weekends like these are priceless.  

Santa Fe Importers

Had a nice little Saturday ride to Santa Fe importers for some of the best sandwiches.... Actually everything on the menu looked awesome.  Been around since the 1940's.  Kinda tells you something...  They must have good food!  

Heres a few pictures...  For more, check out Church of Choppers, Chopper Daves or Blue Collar Moto

Some of Brawnys work. Reallly clean work!

Good food, good people, good times.  Gotta love these days

IN4MATION Ohana

Heres a teaser for the In4mation video. Good to see the guys doing big things. Cant wait to see them next month!

IN4MATION NYC PROMO from patrick cook on Vimeo.

Really anticipating the full length!

Daily driver show

Last weekend 5&A Dime and Alphanumeric hosted a car show/get together... Guerilla stylee.  Jay and Danny camped out all night to secure all the parking stalls on 8th and G street. 

I forgot my camera again... But had to get some pictures of this  1971 Skyline "Hakosuka". Probably  one of the cars that goes into my "top 10 cars I want to own"... A GTR version of it though.  Definitely not a 4 door.

Sorry for the outdated phone camera pictures. Vintage phone, vintage car, vintage everything. Ya'll like that vintage stuff  dont'cha  

Going to miss it

Every year I say "This year I'm either going to the Monterey Historic races or to the Bonneville salt flats for Speed Week."

once again, I'm not making any of them.  

If youre in the area, you should check it out.  This year its a salute to Porsche. Celebrating 40 years of the legendary 917.  Porsche 917= Steve Mcqueens car in Le mans   

Going on now!  

Burning money

Last weekend we had a little jam session over at El Toro air base.  I think its been a couple of years since I last drifted.  Super rusty.  

Sorry, dont have any action shots...  I was driving. No time to take pictures.  

I needed a few times to get it back...  But after that, tires had no chance!

Tire wore uneven.... There was a long sweeper joining 2 runways. 3rd/4th gear entry into it. 

Speaking of drifting... Imagine doing it on 2 wheels... Never noticed it until now but it looks like this bike is a CB750 four.   

Been lagging on new entries.  Working, paying bills, surfing, riding, driving.  Its summer time... Do something.

Best Birthday

My girl is the best ever!  For my birthday she took me out flying on a 2 seater WACO Biplane.  One of the raddest experiences I've had!  I wish I knew how to fly it!  

Look at how sick this thing is.

The Jacobs radial engine sounds crazy! 7 cylinders!

-Tower, this is Ghost Rider requesting a flyby.  

-Negative, Ghost Rider the pattern is full

This yacht-er must have sh!t himself as we were diving down toward him.

We only had the best scenery of the coast/surf!

As you can see here, we're banking pretty hard.

As we were landing, two things were going through my mind.  How can i fly one of these and I'm going build a plane one of these days.  

I sure do have my work cut out for me on what to do for Michelles birthday!

Agenda @ Huntington Beach Hyatt

Didnt get to take much picture over at the Agenda show (July 22-23)... But I got some snaps of the amazing Alpinestars display at the entrance.  Mark Arcenal(Fatlace) had his newly finished Rukus done by Brandon at Bowls.  Also on display was a Ducati Desmosedici RR!  And what looks like to be Casey Stoners(2007 world champ) Suit.  

Alpinestars NEVER lacks in details... As you can see here they even went about using a Beta tool box.  If you were at Agenda, you probably seen or heard of the insane pieces Alyasha (Stack-Aly) did with Alpinestars... The talk of the town!

I'm still blown away that Alpinestars used my motorcycle in their booth.  While I was racing motorcycles in my teens, I could have only dreamt of owning anything Alpinestars... Always been a huge fan.  

Also on display  in their booth was Sal Barbiers (SLB) racing suit.   Really cool that hes going out to the dry lakes and running his 53 Ford.

Its really neat to see companies like Alpinestars do refreshing things.  Probably no one else could pull off what they are doing since the company has such a rich motorsport/apparel history.  Been around since 1963.  Outfitting some of the most famous racing legends.