King Krimson

The Van, not the band.

Roach Shirts

Heavy Metal Drummer

That's me.

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!