Saturday, February 19, 2011

destroyer................


and he is on my team............

do you sells risers for motorcycle handlebars?











it took four photos to get this whole case in........ there are three pairs i would definitely like to have.......

more shiny...............


can you see the kiss marks?

random bits.........


when my uncle john died a few years ago, he made sure i got the rest of all his photos.......when i`d go out to visit him in jersey, he would let me raid his photo albums. everybody wondered what the fuck he was doing when he headed out west for a month."you fuckin` crazy?"

i watched my son scribble this down on a scrap of paper when he was six years old....... "what are you writing?" "1 (one) must obey ones heart or all is lost" whoa son, slow the fuck down. he is too heavy.
sometimes my heart hurts for him..... he is now eleven and still blows my mind.......





i wish i had a video of this in motion..... an impatient hand rolling its fingers. mechanical ingenuity. another triumph of man over machine.........

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

deluxie sale.........................



http://deluxie.blogspot.com/2011/02/whole-sale.html

*今回のセールでは当方の在庫を一掃し、よりコンパクトな形態で
運営できるような作業スペースへの移転を計画したく、
以前より集めてきた車両20台とビンテージパーツ、補修用新品部品を
店内すべての商品を仕入れ価格にて販売いたします。

*開催日までに車両についてはできる限りの情報をBLOGのほうに載せていきます。

*勝手なお願いではありますができましたら御社BLOGなど告知のご協力よろしくお願いします。

DELUXIE  高田泰文

Now,I want to move to the small shop.Then,I will sell all 20 bikes and old parts with cheaper price.Could you update this pic on your site?Let me know what you think....Thanks,Takada

Sunday, February 13, 2011

i don`t want to say, `i told you so`.......Inspiration Show was really cool...........

rin tanaka, the man behind the My Freedamn! large format vintage collections books, put on this 2nd annual Inspiration Show at the Queen Mary in long beach ,calif.......in you like vintage , quality, american made items.......if you like surf, skate, motorcycle, tiki, leather, rock and roll.........this was the place. if you don`t like the stuff i listed......well you are a pussy and a total fuckin geek......










so much stuff my head was spinning.... if the battery on my camara didn`t die, ( i`m always SO prepared), i would of had a thousand
pictures easily.........


i met up with nao, kiyo, wil, their lady-folk and their kind and welcoming ways......i showed up a loner. (as usual)


i loved this swingarm shovel...... so many vintage freaks were out this night....i even saw some Zombies!





























jeff decker`s pieces of m/c history are always crazy to look at.........











































this band was nuts.....still don`t know their name..................














































jeff decker`s goodies and talents..............


















































m/c photo album.........


i found this old ringed photo album, early 60`s style at a thrifter....never been used...... i want to fill it with all the people that are are fellow cycle enthusiasts...... all my friends better send a photo...you know who you are....if you know me or have met me.... god damn it...send a photo to my email of yourself with your motorcycle. i will let it sit on the counter of the cycle lodge in orange, calif. that is born loser and the FMA fellows brand new hatched brainstorm. don`t be TOO cool to send a photo....send it any way you want.....i just want to see you and your cycle. when you come to the born free show you can see your photo with everyone elses......... c`mon, help me out. be a bro.......

nashpill@yahoo.com

dynamite joe has been the first to graciously let me steal his soul with a photo of his newly reincarnated pan....... he already has willed this to me. thanks joe. thats a friend......the photo i`m really waiting for is john edwards. he is really photogenic, kinda like a supermodel/charles manson.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

irish rich promted this post...........Watts Towers




The property, where the towers are located, changed hands, Rodia's bungalow inside the enclosure was burned down, and the city of Los Angeles condemned the structure and ordered it razed. Actor Nicholas King and a film editor William Cartwright visited the site in 1959, saw the neglect, and purchased the property for $3,000 in order to preserve it. When the city found out about the transfer, it decided to perform the demolition before the transfer went through. The towers had already become famous and there was opposition from around the world. King, Cartwright, and a curator of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, along with area architects, artists, and community activists formed the Committee for Simon Rodia's Towers in Watts. The Committee negotiated with the city to allow for an engineering test to establish the safety of the structures.
For the test, steel cable was attached to each tower and a crane was used to exert lateral force. The crane was unable to topple or even shift the towers with the forces applied, and the test was concluded when the crane experienced mechanical failure. Bud Goldstone and Edward Farrell were the engineer and architect leading the team.
The committee preserved the towers independently until 1975, when it deeded the site to the City of Los Angeles, which in turn deeded it to the State of California in 1978. It is now designated the Watts Towers of Simon Rodia State Historic Park. It is operated by the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department.
The towers are one of nine folk art sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and were designated a National Historic Landmark in 1990.
interesting note: while the towers were being built, some neighbors would have their children vandalize the property hoping Rodia would stop his art. the neighbors now-a-days have so much pride having this in their neighborhood. you need to remember, this is smack dab in the middle of a bunch of houses, not like a monument set up my a group of investors to make money. the area has had some concrete seating areas built in and the structure is fenced in but the site is still very original. these towers have survived every major earthquke california has had. bottom line: it is a pretty amazing site. visit the towers in all their glory.
the towers also survived the riots in the late 1960`s plus the riots in the early 1990`s. the towers were untouched, the locals have too much respect for their history...........maybe humanity isn`t that bad.............

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

there isn`t enough trikes on the streets........thanks scott







scott, formally known as T-Bone, blew visitors minds with this beauty. one of the falcon motorcycles madmen........he has so much more left in his head.

Watts Towers 2011..............


All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. T. E. Lawrence

Watts Candy Truck.............


drove by the towers with Nao the other day and spotted this candy wagon on 108th st.....cool job

a couple blocks away from a fancy car show in pomona calif...............


first the liquor sign caught my eye, then the gem parked outside.......


Monday, February 7, 2011

stop listening to conservative radio stations.........

Taxes too high?
Actually, as a share of the nation's economy, Uncle Sam's take this year will be the lowest since 1950, when the Korean War was just getting under way.
And for the third straight year, American families and businesses will pay less in federal taxes than they did under former President George W. Bush, thanks to a weak economy and a growing number of tax breaks for the wealthy and poor alike.
Income tax payments this year will be nearly 13 percent lower than they were in 2008, the last full year of the Bush presidency. Corporate taxes will be lower by a third, according to projections by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
The poor economy is largely to blame, with corporate profits down and unemployment up. But so is a tax code that grows each year with new deductions, credits and exemptions. The result is that families making as much as $50,000 can avoid paying federal income taxes, if they have at least two dependent children. Low-income families can actually make a profit from the income tax, and the wealthy can significantly cut their payments.
"The current state of the tax code is simply indefensible," says Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. "It is hemorrhaging revenue."
In the next few years, many can expect to pay more in taxes. Some increases were enacted as part of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. And many states have raised taxes because -- unlike the federal government -- they have to balance their budgets each year. State tax receipts are projected to increase in all but seven states this year, according to the National Council of State Legislatures.
But in the third year of Obama's presidency, federal taxes are at historic lows. Tax receipts dropped sharply in 2009 as the economy sank into recession. They have since stabilized and are expected to grow by 3 percent this year. But federal tax revenues won't rebound to pre-recession levels until next year, according to CBO projections.
In the current budget year, federal tax receipts will be equal to 14.8 percent of the Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, the lowest level since Harry Truman was president. In Bush's last year in office, tax receipts were 17.5 percent of GDP, just below their 40-year average.
The lack of revenue, combined with big increases in spending, means the federal government will have to borrow 40 cents for every dollar it spends this year. The annual federal budget deficit is projected to reach a record $1.5 trillion.
Lawmakers from both political parties vow to tackle the nation's financial problems. Republicans in Congress promise big spending cuts, and Obama says he wants to reshape corporate taxes, closing loopholes to pay for lower overall rates. Few in Washington, however, are calling for big tax increases, at least in the short term.
"America's tax system is clearly broken," Donald Marron, a former economic adviser to Bush, told the Senate Budget Committee at a recent hearing. "It fails at its most basic task, which, lest we forget, is raising enough money to pay for the federal government."
At the request of The Associated Press, The Tax Institute at H&R Block compared 2008 and 2010 tax bills for families at various income levels, showing how their taxes have changed since Obama took office. Taxpayers are filing their 2010 tax returns this spring, while 2008 was the last full year that Bush was president. The scenarios assume that each family had the same income, filing status and number of dependent children in both years.
Income tax rates remain unchanged. But many taxpayers are seeing their bills drop under Obama because of more generous tax credits for college students, working families, homebuyers and the working poor. Many of the changes were enacted as part of the big economic stimulus package passed in 2009.
Congress also extended Bush-era tax cuts through 2012. Lawmakers let Obama's Making Work Pay tax credit expire at the end of 2010, but they replaced it with a one-year cut in Social Security payroll taxes that is already showing up in workers' paychecks

larry watson photos....................


sorry for the crappy photos......i had to use my camara to take the pictures of the actual photos........he will always blow my mind with paint......i like small painted surfaces like gas tanks. large paintjobs on cars with tons of detail, freaks me out.....my mind can`t take it all in. so does large buildings, walking on tarmacs next to big airplanes, major bridges......catch my drift. don`t judge me.
swingarm beauty...this is what i want next.......clean and simple beauty.