Memorabilia

My good friend Yaya frequents Japan and always brings back the coolest things for me.

A few years ago she brought back this scroll/flag/bandana. I have referenced a lot stuff off of this. All the best Honda grand prix bikes from 1959-1967.

This year i got these really neat pins one of an old Honda GoldWing and the other of the Honda CR77 race bike.

The Local and the Loyal

The Lovewright Co. has done it again. Another solid season with denim in the line up. Check out the write up on Hypebeast. Lovewright Spring 2010

Santa Fe deli Saturday

Met some friends at Santa fe deli for lunch. A once a month thing where everyone meets for good food and good fun.

Usually the last Saturday of the month... Check out CoC for more pictures

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!

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.

Thank goodness for blogs

I got these photos of the cb77 from some really cool sites/blogs.  I'm sure youve probably seen, heard or know about them already.  Right??

This first one is from the one and only Chopper Dave.  Not only does he have an awesome website, he also builds some of the coolest bikes around.  Fabrication and casting is second to none.  

LOUD FAST RULES

The next two photos are from the Blue Collar Moto blog.  I dont personally know Chris, but going off of his blog, He seems like a RAD guy.  

Blue Collar Moto

Thanks for the photos guys

The 4th

Finally got the bike up and runnin...  Although it still needs work, I had a blast riding it to The Sinners liberty gig.  Got to catch up with a few friends old and new.  It was good seeing Nelson and Brandon (Brawny).  Both of whom I went to high school with.  From skateboarding at Waena courts with Jem and the Holograms (Ryan from In4mation+Brawny's skate crew in 1987-haha!) to riding motorbikes at Westminster Elk lodge with the creator of  NOT-Zine (Nelsons all-things-rad magazine back in the 80's!), one would only guess that they would be doing big things.  A lot of respect for these guys and the rest of The Sinners.

Nelson also did a little photo session with my bike. Check it out at

http://www.churchofchoppers.blogspot.com/

Although i had my camera, I forgot to take pictures at Hisako's BBQ.   A lot of fun went down there too!   

Lovewright @ UNIV

Some coverage of Saturday nights Lovewright gig over at UNIV.I didn't get to take much pictures although Bert always has good coverage and nice pictures. Check out his site DONT SLEEP:  http://upstartsociety.blogspot.com/

Travis and Jay (5&aDime) got some really cool photos on their blog too. 

http://www.5andadime.com/blog.php

 Thanks guys!

Thee Strychnines/Upstarts

Flying Panther Tattoo

Million thanks to the Lovewright co., UNIV, Rob Benavides Flying Panther tattoo and Profile for the music and pictures.

Saturday!

Come one come all!  the Lovewright Co., Univ,  Rob Benavides tattoo, and Oni motorworks. Music by Profile of Thee Strychnines/Upstarts. Need I say more? Checkout Lovewrightco.com for more info.

Been working on the motorbike for this... Which is the reason for lack of updates.