First internatianal chopperstyle bling bling (but not so much....) bike show

It was a HUGHE success in my eyes. Chopperstyle is a closed Dutch low budget bike builders forum and we had a forum meeting yesterday. Most people I had already seen a few times before, but it was great too see some more faces behind the nicknames. And it was even better to see their creations in real live. Some creations made you wonder if the Dutch weed smoking laws might be a bit too soft ;). In short: People were great, bikes were great. Stayed a hell of a lot longer than I had planned to.

Anyway, here are some photo's. I will post some more in the coming days, but I'll have to spread it out over the comming days/weeks a bit or my photobucket account will max out again way before the end of the month.

The day ended with a spectacular thunderstorm:

More later.

Don't miss this!!

It will be epic.

One from the archives

Don't think I've shown this one before, like it though:

In a week and a half we'll hope to mostly finish the Virago so we can start on the SR500. I also hope to attend a custom bike meeting saturday, looking forward to make some 'fresh' photo's!

Back from France

We went to France for about a week and a half for a short holiday. I really needed one.... The weather was great and scenery was great. Contrary to popular believe the French people are really friendly and helpfull, so all in all, we had a great time.

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Now it's back to work for me. On Monday I have a really important presentation and in the next few weeks I will finish my study, meaning I will have to find a job. All in all I won't be having much time for the bikes the next 2 months or so, unfortunately.

Finally, some sunlight.....

Getting there

We worked on the Virago again last night. I took it for a small test ride first (sorry for the crappy cellphone video).

In one word: Brilliant.

It really was Brilliant. It rode very, very well. So when I came back, we started stripping it for paint. Not our favorite job...

Was going through old photo's

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

New shop opening

No, I have not gone commercial and I am not getting money for this. I am, however, very excited with the new shop opening in Ede, the Netherlands. We don't really have shops like this one here yet and I am anxious to check out what that have. One think I know for sure: It'll be really cool stuff.

O god, what have we done?!?!?

Well, the title sums it up nicely again :)

Just couldn't leave this 1978 SR500 for that kind of money, so we bought it. We promised ourself not to start on it before we finish the Virago though!

Riding into the sunset

These are busy times for me, but don't feel sorry, I am enjoying myself hugely. Done some riding past weekend and even needed the CB today because I had an appointment where I couldn't (reasanobly) go with public transport. So I just had to take the CB, tough luck, I know.... ;)

The Cb has not been running 100% lately though, it's been running rough at higher speeds. I found the problem tonight: The brand new condensers are not working as intended, so I replaced them with old ones I had lying around:

And then it was time to take it for a joyride. The plan was just a short ride to test if everything works, but as usual: I've been riding all night, till the sun went down. Love it.

Took some photo's again too (and a short video, but I'll edit that one later).