I've liked Crews's non-fiction a great deal. His memoir, "A Childhood," is an unflinching look at rural southern life, and his collection, "Blood and Grits," is equally unsettling.

http://www.ratbike.org/motorcycho/

http://www.thevintageadvantage.com/ - Jacqui Van Ham, Passionate Female Motorcyclist. Her trip around Europe on her shipped over BMW r75/5 puts most of our adventures to shame.

Count Von Tuthrie said:

* http://www.restorationwerks.com

 

Beautiful Work.

 

* http://www.restorationwerks.com

Beautiful Work.

http://themotart.blogspot.com/

Count Von Tuthrie said:

For an incredible collection of photographs motorcycle related, You gotta check out this guy Frank Charriaut's profile. http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100000570487834&sk=wall

http://southsiders-mc.blogspot.com/

HIGHLY recommended.

For an incredible collection of photographs motorcycle related, You gotta check out this guy Frank Charriaut's profile. http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100000570487834&sk=wall

I definitely dig on that vintagent site.

Troop Throwback said:

Great, now this stupid hobby of mine is melding itself into other interests! Thanks to you, Garagepunk.com, now my problems are absorbing other aspects of my life, like music!!! I'm stuck on the Surfcast, which now I guess is morphed into the newer surf trash podcast.

I ride a 1966 Triumph 6T "Saint" Thunderbird strutted and early 60's period customized. I also throw a monthly vintage chopper and show and go custom ride-in here in my hometown of Grass Valley, California. Ride my Triumph everywhere and love all things old cycle. I've even got a little group of likeminded weirdos called the Throwbacks, which you can see here:

http://throwbacksmc.blogspot.com/

Other favorites include:

http://dicemagazine.blogspot.com/

http://4qconditioning.blogspot.com/?zx=866ed3065385aa1f

And the grandaddy of all custom Vintage Triumph blogs:

http://showandgo.blogspot.com/

This one is not to be missed, though much more gentlemanly in content:

http://thevintagent.blogspot.com/

My issue is that I've got Zune and while the old surfcast was available on the Zune marketplace the new one is not. I'd like to take my music with me in the cage, but can't seem to figure out how to download it to my player. Help?

If you needed tips on how to tune your vintage Triumph twin I can exchange info with you. Guidance?

The guy who wrote this story, btw (Michael Luebke) joined the Hideout a while back. I'm surprised he hasn't chimed in here yet.

http://garagepunk.ning.com/profile/AdamMichaelLuebke

Bwahahahah, try again, Charly you sad Fuck of a punk. Your viral marketing killing just don't impress me.

Dude, you really know how to get OUT THERE!! Fucking Awesome adventures.Very cool, Man. Cheers!

David, a.k.a. Crazy Sheep said:

Heading to Leh, in Indian Himalayas, with a lovely Bullet 350. Unless you go there, cannot even imagine what's being at 13000 ft asl sourrounded by 20000 ft high mountains. Breathless.

 

9 friends, 9 bikes, a week, and all the french-spanish border for us. Amazing.

 

Who said that Spain is always sunny and hot? Rally in Teruel, the most forgotten ( and beauty) province in Spain. -13 ºC at night. This is my bike, a '91 Honda Revere with 110.000 km and running perfectly

OK, i know, my 20 years old revere isn't a classic... yet. It will be nice the day i can get an '74 CB 750, or a Norton Commando, or a Kawasaki Kz1000. Until then, i will ride what i got.

 

Forever two wheels!

 

Cheers!

I've had my eye on this shindig for the past few years, even got me a t-shirt with the poster print :P. One of these day s I gotta check it out for myself. Good on you all for creating and/or supporting such an event!

Some real nice work in this thread!  Split 7" cover.

Handy info, cheers!

McVICKER said:

this isn't spam... it's a 419 scam.

these are proper criminals, i have a lot of dealings with them. i'm a member of 419eater, which is a group dedicated to wasting as much time and money of theirs as we can...anyone here also on my facebook can have a nose through my albums... (i like to make them do stupid stuff and send the pictures in lieu of fake western union transfers)

you're best off just ignoring them...or? if you get them in your own email? reply to it using the original header and replace the first part of the mail up to "@" with "abuse"...eg....jobloggs@ladeda.com...becomes...abuse@ladeda.com......it then informs their service provider and gets their mail shut down......anyone needs help with it you're more than welcome to drop me a line.

My name Peggy

Well, spammers or scammers... they're not getting in! Not if I can help it.

Thanks,
kopper

McVICKER said:

this isn't spam... it's a 419 scam.

these are proper criminals, i have a lot of dealings with them. i'm a member of 419eater, which is a group dedicated to wasting as much time and money of theirs as we can...anyone here also on my facebook can have a nose through my albums... (i like to make them do stupid stuff and send the pictures in lieu of fake western union transfers)

you're best off just ignoring them...or? if you get them in your own email? reply to it using the original header and replace the first part of the mail up to "@" with "abuse"...eg....jobloggs@ladeda.com...becomes...abuse@ladeda.com......it then informs their service provider and gets their mail shut down......anyone needs help with it you're more than welcome to drop me a line.

this isn't spam... it's a 419 scam.

these are proper criminals, i have a lot of dealings with them. i'm a member of 419eater, which is a group dedicated to wasting as much time and money of theirs as we can...anyone here also on my facebook can have a nose through my albums... (i like to make them do stupid stuff and send the pictures in lieu of fake western union transfers)

you're best off just ignoring them...or? if you get them in your own email? reply to it using the original header and replace the first part of the mail up to "@" with "abuse"...eg....jobloggs@ladeda.com...becomes...abuse@ladeda.com......it then informs their service provider and gets their mail shut down......anyone needs help with it you're more than welcome to drop me a line.

Check this out. Click this Google search and see how many Ning networks are being hit by "LOVE NELLY." Unbelievable!

We had another attempt by this same spammer to gain access to the network today. Check out the profile (click on the image for a larger view):

As I mentioned last week, whoever is doing this is pretty crafty. They go into the Member directory here and copy biographical data from other members. Check out LOVE NELLY's favorite music, movies and other hobbies. It happens to be identical to this guy's.

This one was pretty obvious to me because I've seen this "LOVE NELLY" name pop up multiple times in recent weeks. I decline them every time, but they keep coming back, trying to get in. Occasionally (as in the case of "Jeniffer Yak" above) they do succeed, only because they used a different name or weren't so obvious in their bio like this LOVE NELLY idiot ("I'm very easy-going, creative, woman who wants real love and can give lots of love," blah blah blah).

Anyway, since I just saw this one I wanted to show you guys how they're going about their sneaky ways of trying to get in. Once they do, they then post comments on everyone's page like that one copied above. All I can do is keep trying to watch for them and deny access, but if one does sneak in somehow and starts sending out weird spam messages, keep your bullshit detectors on HIGH and be sure to let me know about it as soon as possible and I'll delete 'em.

Thanks again.

Harry Crews is great and if you are looking for another sort of Southern brutality I advise checking out Joe R Lansdale. You know him best as the man who wrote Bubba-Ho-Tep, but his detective fiction is brutal and filthy. There are some great videos of him reading from his novels on Youtube.

By the way, since movies get discussed here a lot, here's a scene from "Death Wish" (1974) with Jeff Goldblum wearing one!

OK, will do. I got it a while back and had to order one of those Hat Jack Hat Stretchers to stretch it out a bit since it was pretty tight ("one size fits all" my ass!). But that worked pretty well. I'll have to get the camera out and snap some pics. I wore it to work yesterday and people really didn't know what to make of it. One guy said "What is this, 1935?" Haha!

I am a big fan of Bob's.  If you are not familair with his art here are some links.  I have his stuff hanging in my home. 

http://www.bobdob.com/

Buy his prints here:

http://www.thumbtackpress.com/artists/bob-dob

Funny! 

......Left 4 Dead players might like this vid.....the song was inspired by the game as well....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1id9IGxnKI