Tom Bowie's

new XS650 footpegs

This Guy

Is putting this on again in 2011
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Good work Gabe.

Go with Nova

Shige's '72

August 19th. The Canyon Club. Agoura Hills. CA.

Just saying.

Crap Post

Great sandwich.

Aw, Thanks Rosie.

Love you too. Now how about you do me a favour and try and find a half decent boyfriend this time eh?! xoxoxox

Highway 33 Revisited

It's been a long couple of weeks. I'm definitely feeling a little burnt out. So either give it all up and go and live on a beach somewhere, tempting. Or go for a long ride on one of the best roads in the world. Let me tell a little (short) story about the black Panhead I have owned for awhile now. It was running like crap and proving very difficult to start. It was time to bin the Super E in favour of a Linkert I got from Davey. And also whack on a really nice G5 magneto that Morris sent us sometime back. Did that, the bike started great but would die as soon I turned the choke off. I messed with it for 2 days, gave up and took it over to Kiyo to sort out. He did, the butterfly was on backwards?!! he then mentioned I had very low compression and did I want him to check it out? hmmmmm, Really? ok, I replied. Turns out the motor was totally fucked, everything from the bottom to the top. Yoshi (Garage Company) quoted me a very reasonable price for Kiyo to do the job. Really, he did. However, being totally skint I could see this was going to be a problem. He wouldn't take the beans I offered him, only hard cash. I went on a mission and sold all the bike bits and pieces I had acquired over the years, when they ran out I sold some of my clothes. Jackets, boots, jeans etc. After that it was furniture I didn't use much. It was getting desperate. Low and behold, some 4 months later I had the money. I picked the pan up last week and what a great job Kiyo did. The garage may be bare, the house half empty and I got nothing to wear but I don't care, I got my bike back!!!! That brings me neatly (?) round to this ride. I needed to break the motor in and get away from emails, computers and desktop publishing.
















Riding with good friends was the icing on the cake. I met up with Caleb (I stole one of the pics above from him btw) and Troy (and one from him too) and off we went. 50 bumpy boring miles later up the 101 freeway we turned into Ojai and onto the 33. I have to tell you this road has it all, it never gets old. Smooth tarmac, mountain views, twisties, straights, long sweeping bends and very few cars. If at the end you then turn left on to the 166 that will take you right up to where it drops you back on the 101 by Santa Maria. That means you get even more long valley floor straight miles and more sweeping curves in hill country. Total pleasure. What you don't get is much gas. One place only in the middle of nowhere. A country store, that roasts it's own Pistachio nuts weirdly, has an old petrol pump. $5 a gallon of regular, that's all there is for miles but it's a great place to stop and take a breather. Go on for another 15 miles north and again in the middle of nowhere is a cafe that does very tasty BBQ. We ate, turned around and went back the way we came for some more awesomeness. We then got on the PCH up by Ventura and followed the ocean all the way back into LA rather than the freeway. So we actually got to see it all. A 320 mile roundtrip and the bike ran like a champ. Everything feels right with the world again. Roll on Monday?!?!
If anyone wants to do this route at some point, and really why wouldn't you?! then email me and I will pass on all the details. matt@dicemagazine.com

Fit Bird

Isn't this bird deflecter rather nice? Mike D has them over on his Blotto blog. I'm not a big fan of those screws I used but that's all I had at short notice. I'm about to leave on a much needed ride. It's been a pretty crap week.

Honda

Jason sent me these 2 pics by email with no subject and no text. So I have no info at all. Other than me thinking, Bloody Hell! and Fantastic!

Been And Gone

Online Poster w/Ticket Sales have ended. Thanks for your support. To purchase tickets locally please visit the Bornfree website.

Choices, Choices.

The one on the right of course, gawd! Mind you, I am feeling a bit peckish. Great issue Guy.

Killer Bobbers

James and some friends are riding from Denmark to the Jokers show in Sweden. James mentioned that he was looking for a fox tail. So for one reason or another he ended up with a whole animal.

Vogue esque

I just got issue 39 off to the printers. I must say I reckon it will be our best yet, but then I am biased and I say that about every issue. Anyway, its going to have a sort of late 60's Vogue feel to it. That picture is Rosie btw, this is her outfit to wear by the pool in Vegas next week. Glam.

Yay.

We are sponsoring Jess's outfit. Ray is painting it. Love to you both. Yay Team Kane.

'50 Merc.

Congratulations on getting your chopped Merc back on the road Dad!
It's about bloody time!
Dean

This Weekend Coming...

...Ill be in Bottrop!
OMG OMG OMG!!!...

Linkert Attack UK.

The word from the top is...
"...FOLKS THE DEADLINE FOR PRE-PAYED TICKETS IS O-V-A-H, OVAH.
THE LINKERT PEOPLE HAVE SAID PLEASE DO NOT SEND ANY MORE CONTRIBUTIONS IN AS THEY WILL NOT BE PROCESSED, YOUR NAME WILL NOT BE ON THE LIST AND YOU WILL HAVE TO PAY AGAIN ON THE GATE....
SEE YOU THERE THEN..."
So...see you there then.

White Sunglasses...

...And A Jacket.

Both are new and in stock right now. The sunglasses are an addition to the multi coloured Wayfarer styled ones we already have and the jacket, well. Oh yes, a black, super light, great quality windbreaker made by Harriton. Printed on the front and back. Warm in the winter, cool in the summer. This rather splendid piece of attire also folds up very small so you can pack it away on your bike no problem. We only had 74 made, when they are gone they are gone.
15 x small
20 x medium
21 x large
15 x Xlarge and
2 x 2Xl

You can purchase right H E R E

Our Sincere Apologies

The Royal Mail, wankers.

This Man Is A Ruler

in every possible way.

The philosophy of Jeff Wright, coming soon.

DicE/CoC Party. Iowa

At the Kung Fu Tap & Taco in Des Moines. Now last year's was fantastic and we had a great time. On the flight out I was thinking if this year was even half as good its going to be brilliant. Well, what can I say? it was even better if that were possible. What an amazing day, 12 noon right through to 2 am. Just a ton of bikes. Lots of old, and now, lots of new friends. The very best of times. It was a PARTY and a half. It gave me enormous pleasure seeing license plates from all around the country. Fatty, John and Jeff worked really hard to put this together. You are the best. And a big thank you to everyone who come out. Roll on next year. If this doesn't happen in 2012 then I'm going to lie on the ground and scream and scream and scream..... and probably punch the ground too.





And these I stole from the Kung Fu blog.