3 days and 1000miles

I can't figure out how to upload pictures on this phone that I'm blogging from so here's just a quick progress Report. First day 250 miles to calais, 2nd day 250 miles to Metz ,France (met the crazy Dutch man and his chick) 3rd day rode 370 miles to Augsburg Germany, saw Hank3. Today rode into Austria. The weather is hot and the mountain Roads are amazing. Tomorrow Croatia.

2 WEEK HOLIDAY (AND A CHANCE TO BLOW MY OWN TRUMPET AGAIN)

http://blog.derestricted.com/racing/this-is-dirt-quake/
Have a gander at the link above. It was just sent to me by Hugo. And i'm grinning like an IDIOT.
I'm gunna be away for two weeks now so the BLOGS will be a bit sporadic but ill try and post some progress of my trip whilst on the road.
SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE.
ROB

THE ANSWER IS BUTTERWORTH

The answer to the question is.....
its a Butterworth swing valve inlet 500. 
Archie Butterworth raced cars and built engines in the 50's. This engine belongs to Miles, his nephew (who is a good friend of Paul, my friend) . His engins were usually 1500 or 2000cc but this was Archies test bed engine. 
I Think that makes it pretty damn special.
THANKS TO PAUL FRO THE INFO AND PICTURES.
(you can sleep at night now Pete)

SWEDISH SUNDAY?

 Swedish chop in the snow.

 A Swedish chop more suited to the snow

 Very nice And not a Harley motor

 Panhead with lonnnng exhausts

Gransfors Choppers. Beautiful hand-forged Swedish axes.  http://www.gransfors.com/

SATURDAY IS NOT SWEDISH CHOP DAY

 I have had a mega hectic week starting with taking JACK THE BASTARD to the vets for an opperation he is now 'officially, the Grumpyest dog on the planet.

And ending with me cleaning and rebuilding (after the house fire it was black and stinking) our bed.
I made this bed for my wife about 4 years ago, for a woman that likes sleeping it was the best present she ever.
so im to knackerd to do SWEDISH SAT' so this week it will have to be SWEDISH SUN'.

Earl Hickey rips on a skateboard!

WAAHOOO!!!

This is the best picture i could find to explain how i feel.
Tonight is Friday;
 i have finished work for over two weeks;
 and on Tuesday i am travelling to Croatia, on my Sportster with a load of friends. 
If i could case my tail and lick my balls, i would.....

WHAT IS IT ??

Paul ( a man with more cool stuff than you can shake a stick at) 

sent me this pick

 Do you Know what is the motor is?

WIRED BIKES

I did mean 'wired and not 'weard'
Jan sent me a link to this. This is actally a full size model made from Wire http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2012/03/19/3d-wire-sculptures/ Check it out

BLOODY BONKERS

Shamelesly Stollen from  http://sideburnmag.blogspot.it/

WHO SAID THE DUTCH WERE BIG??

Tiney Celt surrounded by Vikings..

'FORBIDDEN ONES' BIKE SHOW

 It was the FORBIDDEN ONES bike show this weekend and even though it was raining (a bit) it was still a good turnout and a great day. 
Pin-striping above was done by a real nice bloke called Simon Denton (i loved the saws)

 Steves 'Bonkers' MATCHLESS' 500. (proud owner in the background)

 Our very good Dutch and German friends made the journey from, well, Germany and Holland.

 Cool 'Rat-rod'. sounded like HELL-ON-WHEELS

 As i said "a good turn out".

 I really dig this 'Maggot'.(cx 500)

 Always good to see a Rat-bike.

 This GSXR won best metric.

Rinould (bet i spelt that wrong) won a prise for his, Evo engine-streched shovel framed, Harley

 KID from 'THE MAVERICS' won once again for being a star and riding his Trumpet to the moon and back.

 PREDATORS  member won best paint.. Very nice bike.

 Bloody amazing Harley won best 'engineered' and best in show

Andy won  'oldest helmet, on the oilyest head'

SATURDAY IS SWEDISH CHOP DAY

 Nice xs650 check the site http://www.650motorcycles.com/72SwedishChopper.html for lots more XS650's

 Lovely knuckel http://www.spartanframeworks.com from spartan frames.

Sorry that's a Swedish 'copper' not a Swedish 'chopper'...

DAY JOB..

 Incase you were wondering (Why would you ?), this is what i do for a living. 
I'm a timber framer and this week i been mostley getting 'pissed' wet on site. 

Done with this job now so im guuna get drunk tonight with some friends from Holland and Germany and all the guys at THE FORBIDDEN ONES. i hope we dont get too wet there.

SO, YOU THINK YOU'RE A 'HARD ASS'?

 Nacesity is the mother of invention!

Dirtquake

Some great photos of Rod (a hero for tackeling the mud with huge girder forks) at dirtquake courtesy of ,photographer, Sam Christmas http://www.samchristmas.co.uk

20000 VIEWS... HERE IS 6 WAYS OF SAYING THANKYOU

I know youve seen this picture before but its my favorite

MORE PISSING AROUND WITH MY SPORTSTER

 Since ive had my sportster back on the road the front brake has been CRAP.
I hate bleeding brakes and i had to bleed that bastard a 1000 times. 
It only just scraped through the MOT, as it was binding (sticking on, a bit). 
I then bought a piston seal kit, stripped scraped, cleaned then rebuilt and the FUCKING thing was worse. 
As it was a 4pot FZR calliper with a Harley master cylender, the simptoms (loads of leaver travel before anything happens) pointed to the fact that the Harley master-cylender wouldn't push enough fluid for the 4pot calliper.
So i decided to make the calliper fit the FZR forks.
I started with a ply template to get the holes in the right place.

 Then transfered everything onto a 10mm aluminium ( aloominum if your American) plate. I had to drill all around the outer shape then cut with a fret saw, then file , then file, then file and finally file.

 It fits and works a treat (took me 1.73 mins to bleed). when i have more time ill SNAZZ it up with some holes or something so that it looks a little more pleasing to the eye.

Then i had to make a SISSY bar and luggage rack as, Me and my bird and some Dutch people and some Swedish people are all riding to Croatia in two weeks...

ITS SWEDISH SATURDAY..

 Very cool Indian

 Thies two photos are BRILLIANT. I stole them from  http://www.knucklebusterinc.com/
have a look at that blog as it more technical brilliance than a STARTREK convention..

That is a serious SWEDISH CHOPPER...

T'SHIRTS ARE HERE

 My T'SHIRTS are here and they look bloody amazing. 
The pink and Acid-green T's are girls cut. i have 1x green medium and 1x pink small.
The mens T's i have in GREY, OLIVE AND SAND colours ( i did have dark blue but they all went  as they looked too good).
In the mens i have 3x MED AND 3x XL.
IF YOU WANT ONE email me @ robgecko2001@yahoo.co.uk  
They will cost you £15 each. plus £2 postage.

 YOU COULD LOOK LIKE    RABBIT             OR      C'BASS

OR YOU COULD LOOK LIKE THE LOVLEY , JO , HERE...

I ONLY BOUGHT A FEW AS I WASN'T SURE HOW THEY WOULD LOOK.. BUT IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN A T'SHIRT CLICK THE      "COOL"     BOX AND ILL KNOW IF I HAVE TO ORDER MORE