Karlson Tea Party 2010

Saturday was the Karlson Tea Party in Costa Mesa. Went to see a few friends and support their work. Since I was busy talking story I didnt get to take much pictures... But I did get a few of some of the bikes.

Adam Wright from Road Course had a neat display as well as Scott Pommier

Troy Lees Moto Lab

1st annual Moto Lab... At the Lab.

It was trippy seeing all these bikes posted up all over the mall... Or anti-mall as they call it

Danny and I also went to the annual El Camino Cycle swapmeet and show.

Usually dont care for BMWs but I really liked this one.

never get sick of these things

This ones for Jensen!

Japanese Classics

Last Saturday was the annual Japanese classic car show. Good to have it back at the Queen Mary in Long beach. Nice weather and a good vibe.

Motul oil brought out some neat BRE datsuns. Racing legend John Morton was there as well.

Moon has this Crown for sale.

Love these 411s ... One day.

Wild Zero!

More old race cars...

Mark Fatlace had his Hakosuka on display... Later drove it back to the bay area.

A few old Skylines there

This Kenmeri was stashed in the parking lot. Had a good feel to it.

This Toyota Crown was pretty tuff

Hawaii trippy

Flew back to Hawaii to help judge a car show. Stayed for a few extra days to hang out with family and friends of course. Heres what we did in short.

The winner. Pretty much had it picked out early on... Wish i took pictures of the engine.

HDM?

Thanks for the board Mike

Pretty much surfed everyday... I need the practice

Koko head shooting range

Kaena Point !

Some swag I got from Jensen. Its his new gig HRD LCK. For everyday people enjoying their everyday lives... Sometimes life is tough. Hard luck

Thanks bully

Superhawk feature

Last month Nelson, Dustin and Noah came by the shop to shoot the '61 Superhawk for The Horse magazine. Some of you may be wondering "Isnt the Horse a chopper magazine?" Well for the most part I guess... Chopper, bobber, cafe or whatever, I think most of us just like building stuff in general. Pretty fortunate that the guys liked it. I mean there are some really neat bikes with tons of style featured in that magazine.

Well, the magazine should be out or will be out this week. Check it out.

Here are some behind the scenes photos they took during the day.

Besides contributing to Church of Choppers and Chopper Daves, Nelson has Pakajunk Where he writes about good food, good people and occasional dead rats. Aloha in the LBC

Rally Car... X games

Last weekend, Gary, Ben and I had the pleasure of helping out Chris Duplessis and team with his X-Games debut. Man, its so refreshing working with people/team/driver without huge egos. Chris is a super talented driver... And he probably taught some of the other drivers competing in X-Games. At 23 years young, he has a bright future in rally. He may have not got on podium this time but his career is just starting while others may be ending.

(The pictures above are swiped from Autoblog.com)

Thanks to everyone who contributed and worked their asses off. Hope everyone had safe travels home.

Team 70... Good vibes

Moto GP Laguna Seca

For the last 15-20 years, I have always wanted to watch a Moto GP race. Thanks to Alyasha, Chris and Alpinestars for making that happen... I mean they really made it happen. Paddock passes, pit tours, hospitality suites. The whole 9. Still amazed at the involvement and presence Alpinestars has with their riders and Moto GP and a whole. Their R&D is seriously top notch.

It was a good time with great people.

The legendary Corkscrew.

Mondo showing Adam and Rick a V-twin can rev at 22,000 rpm's

*Chris just corrected me the Ducati GP bikes use V4's.... 22,000. Shit thats still nutso

Randy Mamola giving Mark a ride along... So lucky!

Ducati engineers warming up Casey Stoners bikes

How boss is that?? Alpinestars brings out their seamstress from Italy to repair their team riders suits.

The Alpinestars Hospitality suite. All sorts of good food brought in from Italy

Mid-day pretty beat.... Re-couping and watching the race from the inside. Yeah, we got spoiled

Thanks to Vespa, this was our transportation to and from the track.

The crew