fire sale

So we're going to sell Nick's ROLLER. We're saving the shovelhead and 4spd to put in the West Coast CHopper CFL thats our next project. But this thing has gotta go to finance the first phase of operation CFL. Tell your friends. this shit is on the cheap.

7L & Esoteric - Retrospects OFFICIAL VIDEO

Next

Now that the wood bike is done, i can go back to posting shit that isnt related in any way to it. So to kick things off, here;s whats next from the Butcher Shop.

Yup. That's definitely a West Coast Choppers frame. It's Nick's CFL. He bought it years ago when WCC had a sale on shit, paid SHORT money for it. We're going to take the drivetrain outta the green shovelhead to put in here over the winter. Stay tuned.

Here's the tank for the CFL Nick's been working on all week. It was a british Sportster tank he loped the front off of to dish it. We've never tried this before, so it was a learning experience. But some sheet metal from Ace Hardware and some welding, and this is what you get.

Josh from Gengstout.com

Eventually this thing will be gone and i'll find something else to over-post about. Until then...

I dragged Josh from Gengstout over to the cemetary near the shop for a goth photoshoot. If it hadnt started fucking raining we couldve gotten more nasty shots like these.

been busy lately

The first couple pics were taken by a friend of ours. Jesse takes photogs of peoples weddings and what not. This was his first take at shooting a bike. They came out absoultely awesome. I like the leaves piled up next to it in the 2nd one.

Then of course we had to had try something a little different. Dallas Dave put together a shoot at high-end woodworking shop. He got our friend Matt to shoot it and Dave even went so far as to get a girl to donate her time and talent to make the bike (it's there in the back) look that much better.

Thanks to all these people who made this happen. After wrenching this heap together over the past year, it's really rewarding to see it getting the star treatment.

I'll post up all the full size pics sans watermark once Nick and I get together with the photogs to choose the final prints. Until then, enjoy.

more

is done

clinton james

I wanted to put this up. Anne took this a couple weeks ago at Lou's house. Here's CJ's pan-shovel all done. Those are the tins i posted at the begining of the summer, in action.

parts delivery

I'll let the pics speak for themselves. Finally got the gas tanks back. I jumped right in and mounted them on the bike. Now the wooden bike is really falling in place.

dude knows how to handle a Harley

" I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair."

Evel Knievel

traded my chevy

So i wanted a change of pace. And i traded my 50 Chevy for this 51 Ford. It's got a flathead v8.

wood bike...

still waitin to get the tanks back from the wood grainer. we put the bike off the table just fucking around. this was the first time any of us had seen it on the ground and outside the shop since probably last september.

it's gettin closer.

Sometimes they come back...

This bike was the first one i ever built.

Nick and i finished it almost exactly 3 years ago. We had built it for a friend of ours who just never got around to riding it. Evidently it has spent the last 2 1/2 yrs quietly rusting away

under a tarp somewhere. It's gotten pretty rough being carelessly neglected for so long. But scotch-brite and chrome polish should straighten it out.

Very recently fellow Butcher Shopper Kyle picked it up for a good price and had me swap out the crappy ass harley electronic ignition for a set of good old fashioned points. Next order of business will be to clean the varnish out of the tank and carb, charge the battery up good, then fire it up. This is Kyle's first harley.

It's just funny to have built something a while ago, then get to work on it again. Not to mention it's like a time capsule to see how far i've gotten/fallen behind or whatever.

My favorite part of this bike has always been the pipes nick spent like 3 days making. There's prob twenty pieces of pipe joined together to make them.

The stance of the bike is cool, in my opinion, looks like a chopper, stretched rake, over tubes in the front end.

Some people don't like the look of it. But i have a soft spot for it since it was afterall the first bike I helped build at the Butcher Shop.

Anne took some pics...

So...

Bryans girlfriend Anne took these shots. i though i'd post them up here. She is also on her way to becoming the paint slinger for the shop. A few posts back there was a shot of a blue tank with yellow lace she painted.
These pictures, I liked them, and i think they're pretty good for a girl. But im sure if i was using some Eos Rebel SLR camera i'd have bomb lookin pics too.

(best shot)

my apprentice James




the passionate bad boy

i'm going solo

after a lot of thought i've decided to leave the Butcher Shop, no there was no big blow out between me and any of the guys at the garage, but i did have a couple reasons. first the garage has not been the garage since we lost the big shop that everybody chipped in on. as much as i bitched about it being a zoo and impossible to work in , i loved it and now i miss it. the second is that i've just been bummed on motorcycles lately and need a fresh start.
the fact is that i've been doing my own thing out of my garage at home for awhile, and now it's just official. i havn't decided if i'm going to name the shop and all that, but i do want to take buying vintage parts a little more serious. i plan on hitting a swap with Ed this weekend and i hope it gives me the kick in the ass i need to start buying up parts and get excited about this shit again.