Hadar Metal Design

For my birthday this year, my wife surprised me by putting us on a train to NYC for the day and bringing me to the Josh Hadar exhibit, The Evolution of Steel. Needless to say, I was stoked. I was stoked about the exhibit but more stoked that the woman I chose to spend my life with happens to be the coolest person I've ever met.

Below are some pictures I snapped with my phone. I can't get this thing to take clear pictures anymore. Every shot is a little blurry but you get the idea. The artist found an old bicycle in the garbage and decided to try welding it up. He got hooked on it and evolved from building crude monstrosities to elegant, well designed motorized (some gas some electric) two wheeled works of art.

Check out his organic versus mechanic designs - the hand blown glass gas tank made to look like a heart encased in a metal rib cage.

For more information (and much better photos) on this guy's stuff, check out Hadar Metal Design.

Married!

Kick start only.

Ride Free

This one's for you Iron Vaquero. This bike won for "best custom" and "people's favorite".

WTF?!

I posted some pics of an open house at a local indy shop and it straight up disappeared. Well, at some point today or tomorrow I will get those pics back up. Until then...

JJ's Open House May 2011

More to come. This was the first open house of the season at JJ's Cycle in Watervliet. The weather was perfect and bikes rolled in from every direction. They literally ran out of room in the lot for them and people were parking all down the street. Loud music. Loud Pipes. Good times.







Triumph in an AMEN frame!

Saturday Night

skynyrd had a different opinion.

Welcome to New Granada

One of my favorite bands, Fu Manchu paying homage to one of my favorite movies.

Fu Manchu


Over the Edge


"They were old enough to know better...but too young to care."

Garage Night

Who loves chasing wires? I do. Not really. Well, I like it a lot better when the wire colors are correct. So far, I managed to get the starter wires all ironed out. Next up is the head and tail lights. Then it's the turn signals and the horn.

This is my uncle's '82 FXR. The first year of the rubber mounts. The tins our off to the paint shop. I'll keep you updated as things progress.

I really do enjoy bring old, neglected iron back to life. And i will be very stoked to present my uncle with the keys when it's all done.

Oh, and by the way, Seafoam...that stuff really works! I bought some on a whim and dropped a cap full in both tanks. Man, once it warmed up, my bike was giving me the nicest "potato, potato, potato" I've heard in quite some time.