Uncool first snow...

After yesterdays (and todays high water) serious storm, more winter weather arrived overhere in the low lands. Just saw the first snow of this month...
Salty roads and a nice looking bike don't go together, if you want to keep her looking good... I think I have to putt her into hybernation till the roads are clean again... More because I want to keep the sickle good than I couldn't stand the cold, cause I can... (if you read winter posts of previous years...)

Cool reminder...

(Pica source: theworldwidewebster)

Cool bike show...

Yesterday had a nice day at the annual Bigtwin Bike Show... Nice bikes, airbrush and tattoo activities, Bike build competition, load music, load exhausts, several colors walking around...
Saturday the tax-department held a tax check at the entrance of the parking lot and collected 88.000 euro's in overdue tax money... Lucky for me I laft my tax money at home so I could not pay, but hey there was no check on Sunday anyways...

(Bottom pica: at the L&L booth) 

Last ride of the season...?

Yesterday, the wife and the kids went to do their own thing... I got on The Old Gall and rode around our province/state for a couple of hours... Enjoying the good weather and the wind in my face...
This might have been the last ride of the season (on this sickle - commuting is done on the new Young Geisha, the black Honda Varadero)... I got as North as possible (me thinks) in the state without taking the boat to the Northen island...

(barelly being legal, one meter futher and I would be in trouble... not...)

Cool net findings...

Here's another nice pica for ya I found on the net... Hahaha, put something nice between your legs... must be aiming at women riders...

(Pica source: theworldwidewebster)

Shed build...

Ran into the shed build/customised Honda 750 Four... rebuild as a cafe-racer and nicely done as well... I like the gas cap very much as we like to say...

(October 5th and sweating my ass of in my protective suit)

Hiding her...

When your living on a boat in Amsterdam, you don't have a lot of options for storing your sickle...
I can imagine that these old German beauties are gone rust pretty hard pretty soon if you keep the outdoors like this... But hey, if you don't have a shead or garage you're baggered...

(SideseeingAmsterdam)

Cool new ride...

Bought myself a new commuting horse...
Trading in my 2005 Transalp for a 2006 Varadero... Filled with loads of extra's and low milage... Nice colour also, dark black...
Me is a happy boy...!

Cool design...

Making my way trough the Net, I ran into this cool pica. A very nice pair of sickles... Look at that design of these rusty beauties... Very nice airstreamers,... is that a word? Now it is... hahaha... I like to call thisone 'Rusty Twins'

(Pica source: theworldwidewebster)

Cool old scooters...

On an old fairground, in a small carrousel, there were some cool old small vehicles... Here's one of the cool scooters, love the coloursetting... Mind the detail in the flames on the side of the sidecar...

(Yes, kids can be as cool as there daddies for a vew minutes...)

Cool old beauty...

We ran into this old beauty after having diner on a open air market place in France.

She just stood there with all her beauty. Cool stickers on her fender and her roof top open. Giving us an opportunity to have a glance on her interior, finding out the cool design of her steering wheel...

(Always keep your eyes open, also on your vacation)

Cool old shop...

Walking through a theme village in France, everything was old and they wanted to display life as it was around 1900... They also put a little old garage together... Old cans, old tools, old beautiful car...

(Love the old stuff)

Cool connection...

Yes...! Been on vacation to France with the family again this year... Every stop at a petrol station is a hunt for cool sickle and car magazines... Here's a little harvest for this year...
The Freeway Special 'Choppers & Bobbers' makes me think about the time I got infected with the sickle virus... Must been around 1980/82, at that time Easyrides magazine looked like that as well...

(Man... we're getting old)

Gee...

Gee... what can I say...

It's been almost 20 years since I've opened my eyes to the beauty of this letter.

In graphic school, in typography lessons they learned us to open our eyes to the beauty of letters and typefaces. One of my favorites is the lower case g of the Garamond font/typeface. Beautifull roundings,

almost like the shape of a woman.

(I think the designer was a womanloving man...)

Cool mom...

Here's my mom in 1957 or 58...
Today it's her birthday, she turned 80...!!!
Eighty and still goning (less strong then she wants)! Bad hipjoints even after hip surgery (on one side) 5 years ago, daily in loads of pain... She also has to do the other side but hey what do you think... not after this succes experience... Hope she will stay a bit longer, as long as she can handle the pain...
Love you mom.

Cool pitstop...

"Jealousy is an emotion and typically refers to the negative thoughts and feelings of insecurity, fear, and anxiety over an anticipated loss of something that the person values, particularly in reference to a human connection."
Source: Wikipedia

People can react very strange when they are jealous. Specially on the road; jealous when one rides on his motorcycle between the lanes. Closing the gaps...?? Or riding very close behind you when you just overtook them (on the right hand side because they thought they own the fast lane...). Most of the tims it's Volvo and Audi drivers who can't control their feelings of insecurity and fear...

Ride safely...!!!

(Pica source: theworldwidewebster)

Cool summer holiday...

Anyone has cool family vacation plans for this summer...?
Sure looks cool to me travelling like this family does...

(Pica source: theworldwidewebster)

Cool Tuesday...

Must be throttle Tuesday today... Look at these happy postmen...!!!
Notice the pissed-off guys in the back...

'why didn't get I cool scooter like that?'

(Pica source: theworldwidewebster)

Cool style...

The weekend is banging on the door, just let it in... Have yourself a good weekend... doin' it doggystyle...

(Pica source: theworldwidewebster)

Cool findings...

Surfing the world wide webster, I ran into this cool pica... Being a graphic designer I love this sticker...

(Pica source: theworldwidewebsterChurchofChoppersblogspot)

Cool heads...

So the sun is out, the weekend is banging on the door... Have a great ride and loads of fun...!!!

Don't loose your head...!!!

(Pica: taken in legoland, Denmark. BoxeswithbodypartssoyoucanassembleyourownLegofigure)

With honour and Respect...

Tomorrow early in the morning, it's 69 years ago paratroopers entered their skytrains, to fly to the beaches of occupied France and night jump into the into the unknown... 'Round seven in the morning the invasion started on the beaches of Normandy, a start to kick the german's asses and kick them back to germany...
Unfortunately it took almost a year to free Europe...
I think we should have a huge amount of honour and respect for these young men who fought for our freedom. Thousands lost their lives even before they had a foot on dry Frensh soil...

With honour & Respect...!!!

(Pica source: theworldwidewebster)

Cool and (un)True

I know I'll never grow up...!!!

(Pica source: theworldwidewebster)

Cool Australian art...

46-year-old Australian artist James Corbett, creates these sculptures using salvaged old car parts. Selling the buggers for thousands of dollars... Me says: start welding your old shit together and sell like hell...!
Cool...!!!

(Source: myBILPeterNewmanfromthelandofOz)

Cool solutions...

Here is a cool solution for ya guys... Maybe THE solution/cure for road rage... How's gonna bully you when they meet you riding this...?

(pica source: orsmdotnetsuppliedbyPeterNewman)

Cool wharf...

On our family trip to Denmark we stayed in a  holiday home close to the beach... On our day of arrival I captured the top pica... Two days later I went back to capture some more pica's with different angles... Only to find out that someone had done some work to the landing place... They added some wood to the structure, making it ready for the new boating season...

(yourworldchangeswhenyourenotpayingattention!!!)

Cool castle, part 1...

A week a go we went to Denmark and visited a castle. They had a big collection of firetrucks, cars, mopets, planes, helicopters and motorcycles as well...
Here is one for ya, they found in a shead and brought it back to life in a vew hours after 54 years...!!!

Cool day...

Ever since the start of the week, this day is on my mind... As every Friday evening, as the karate hour starts, the teacher will open the lesson with The Easybeats... "...Monday I have Friday on my mind..."
The funny thing: he can't sing ann he will be playing his air guitar...

Thank God it's friday...!!

Color your cool world...

So, since last Sunday spring is back in our country... Man, the waiting was way to long... Finally color is coming back into our nature and lifes again... Ok, spring... don't hold back, come on in...!!!
If you're in that part of the world that goes into authumn and winter; color your world...!

Rogues MC Choppershow 2013, part two...

Here some interesting bikes for you guys... My fav is the red one with the flames and the Indian engine and the blue bobber style with the wide ass...

Rogues MC Choppershow 2013...

Last Sunday, Easter, it was freakin' cold outside, and we had some bloody snow aswell... But got on my Japanse Geisha and rode half an hour North...

Our annual non-offical sickle-season opener; the Rogues MC choppershow in Hoogwoud, the Netherlands. This year 'bobbers' was the theme... In my humble opinion, there were to little bobbers and to much colours...
And ofcourse that couldn't go without a fight. In the first song the rockabilly band played, right under my nose
[one meter in front of me -  trying to shoot a sickle for you guys], some Belgian angels tried to punch out the lights of a local colour...
Sofar for the relaxed atmosfere... Took my pictures and left. In the air was flying that this wouldn't be the only punches that were gonna fly...

This weeks Sunday Special winner...
More picas will follow of some interresting sickles...!!!

(more sickles, less colours next year I hope)

Rogies Chopper Show 2013, next Sunday...

It's freakin' cold outside, some snow fell this morning... Hoping Sunday it will be dry, snowless... You know where I will be...!!

Cool or not, you're getting Bohica-ed...

Sometime you get that feeling somethings ain't right...
Then, later you find out your gut feeling is correct... You confront the other person and he says he doesn't share that feeling, that things are uneven... As soon as you confront him with hard figures he still doesn't want to change the situation... Yep, you get the feeling you're getting fucked... Actually,... you are!!!

In other words; bend over here it comes again...

(Time for a change...?)

Way to cool...

How wrong could I be... I thought (hoped) spring was around the corner, but hey, they treated us with some more snow and ice... Bummer...! 

Uncool to post, but feel the need...!

It's still necessary to keep the people in the
fourwheeled vehicles awake...!!!

Cool morning views...

Temprature around minus 9 degrees Celsius this morning... Slippery, icey and dangerous roads out there... Sickles going nowhere these days...

Cool ice skating...

This weeks' Sunday Special...

Yesterday we went for a quick and short skating adventure... Not much locations where we could bind the blades under but we found one... It didn't take long for the ice to go bad with all these people wanting to ride the blades... To much pressure on the ice and the water came running up from underneath along the sides... Oops, got to get out of here...!

(Pica taken with mynewSamsungGalaxyS3)