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Sorry for the outdated phone camera pictures.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.

Years ago... '06?

These are some photos i took while I was in Japan in 2006... Maybe some were from 2005.  I came across them in my computer and though it would be cool to share. By no means are they nice pictures... Just some awesome machinery. 

Ritchie Ginther's 1965 Honda RA272 Formula 1 car

Along side with Jenson Buttons 2005 007 F1 car

Got to visit APR (Apex Racing). It was the Japan race team of the company I used to work for. Really amazing race engineers. Below is the 2005 Super GT/GT300 Champion car (MR-S) and runner up (ASL Garaiya) in 2004 and 2008.

The Reckless MR-S and the ex- ARTA  MR-S (2002 GT300 Champ)

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

Last weekend pt.2

Some friends invited me over to Suru on Melrose for the Celeritas gallery.  As soon as I entered, I was awe!  They had Alpinestars sponsored riders suits hanging for display. All of which are legendary. Great job by all of the artist, Alpinestars, American Suzuki, Oakley, Pirelli and Redbull.  

And it was all done for a good cause. Riders for health- www.riders.org . All proceeds from the silent auction went to Riders for health.

Last weekend pt.1

Last Saturday, Mitsubishi had their owner appreciation day at their corporate headquarters in Cypress.  We dropped in for a bit since we had a few cars on display there...  Also, we wanted to see their 4G63 powered formula car and Dakar Rally Lancer.   

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!   

1966 RC166

Good friend of mine Wen sent me over some amazing pictures from the Honda worldwide site.  Its of the RC166 6 cylinder race bike.  The pictures he sent possessed me to find video and sound of how this motorcycle ran.  I was seriously blown away on how amazing the exhaust note was/is.  18,000 RPM... No prob

pictures from http://world.honda.com

fuckingu sugoi