Mark Meisner's CB

Check this beauty out!!

It's not completely finished yet, you can follow the progress on Mark's blog.

Went to the horses again on the CB

The horse photo's I posted last week caused a bit of a stir, within hours I had a stack of requests for similar photos, so I went back to take some more last night. 

On the way back I passed a big parking lot with a nice, big puddle of water. I thought it would make for some interesting photos.

This one is a bit out of focus, but I didn't get the time to take another one. I use very old lenses so I have to focus manually. Nearly impossible in the dark through the moderate quality viewfinder of my camera. The screen resolution of the camera is also low, causing some unpleasent surprises like this photo back home. But I really shouldn't complain.

Sweet little Honda

Via Do The Ton

Foggy night

I helped a friend with his Yamaha XJ550 today. He just bought it and the engine sometimes wouldn't start or it just stalled at random moments. We managed to find the problem: The kill switch. (I just realized this sounds dumber than it was: it was an issue with an electrical connection of the kill switch)

I was On the CB and had brought all my camera gear because I wanted to try some things out in the open field. The sunset and the low fog made it look like a fairytale landscape on the way to the photo location, I was just a few minutes late to catch the right light though.

The way back was pretty scary, the fog was pretty thick. But I made it home safely.

The little light on the top left is the polar star. Unfortunately there is too much light pollution in this crowded little country to have the other stars bright enough to get them on the photo.

The last photos of last weeks shoot

A very nice CB

Via the SOHC forum.

Evening ride on the CB750 cafe racer

Tonight was a cold (but pleasant), cloudless and quiet night. Exactly what I needed to blow of some steam on the CB.

trying out some new techniques

Just took the CB out for a spin. I recently had the carbs ultrasonically cleaned, so it had been sitting for a while. Apart from that the carbs could use a little bit of synching now, she ran great. Man, I love riding that bike...


Tried some new photo techniques. I only had very limited time so I did not really get what I wanted, but it looks like it's worth trying again as far as I'm concerned.

Moto Mucci's CX500

The CX 500 is by many regarded as one of the ugliest bikes ever build and I can't completely disagree. So turning that bike into something nice is quite an achievement. Moto mucci turned one into more than something nice, he turned it into something stunning. Just judge for yourself:

CB cafe

Build by Motor-forum.nl member Gustlock

Impressive. Both bike and photography!

BikeExif

The BMW made it to BikeExif and I feel very honored. A short introduction for all the visitors coming here via BikeExifs. These are the other builds on this site:

CX500 chopper. Build together with the guy from DesmoMeister:

CX500 I build for my Girlfriend:

Suzuki SP370 which I sold a while ago (good thing I did, it was not the right bike for me):

My Honda CB750, also featured on BikeExif:

and the current builds:

A Yamaha XV920 Virago chopper, almost done. Build together with Vincent (DesmoMeister):

And the next project: A Yamaha SR500 that I will build together with Vincent:

Choppersyle low budget bike show winner: cj360 brattstyle

We did some voting and despite the democratic process, the guy from Belgium won ;). He had my vote too. Great little bike, very well proportioned, very well build. It does not happen very often that I see a bike that I wouldn't want to change anything about. Usually there's always something (rear light, mirror, seat, whatever) that I would have done differently. Not on this bike. Brilliant build.

And a action shot of yours truly made by Fotoduda:

More (VERY nice) photo's of this meeting on his site. Click here.

Was going through old photo's

And really liked this one. Thought I'd share it.