Cool mornings view...

Woke up yesterday, the meter said minus 6 degrees... Opend the curtains and saw my cold cold Geisha... Jezus... she was froozen... A few hours later the sun got her warmed up again...

Cool miracles...

Found another cool blog... http://oldgoldgarageco.blogspot.com ... Check the Old Gold Garage Co. blog for cool hotrods, lowriders, choppers and other motorcycle stuff, etc. ... Cool picas also available...

(Pica source: theworldwideweb)

Cool new findings...

Went through the old shoe box again and ran into some very cool old pictures (not this one) of my dad... I think 1959 or so when he was with the Royal Airforce... Have to get the old scanner up and running again but when I do... ooh man I will share... very cool!!

(Pica source: theworldwideweb)

Cool snoow pica...

No, this is not my car... Just a pica I found on the web... It illustrates perfect how I found my world this morning... soft and white... A 2 - 4 inch thick layer of snoow.
Public transportation for me to commute to work and back... this morning it took me two hours to get there, on The Young Geisha 40 minutes door to door.
Traffic was a disaster, total chaos... all because of 7,5 cm's of snoow...

(Pica source: theworldwideweb)

Cool cold, cold winter adventures...

Man I hate the cold winter...! And we're only halfway now... No snoow at the moment, maybe tomorrow some more of the terrible stuff... Yesterday evening commuting back home from work in Amsterdam, arrived home with -4 degrees at 18:30 or so... For the first time my fingers gone numb from freezing... And hereby, my funky friendws, I can tell you that defrosting fingers hurt, like hell...!!!

This morning it was even colder, just had to jump on the scooter again and see what happend... After riding to work in -5 degrees Celsius,... not so bad... let's wait how I feel this after noon when I get home

(Picasource: theworldwideweb)

Cool Sunday Special...

This nice Frensh camper van is this weeks Sunday Special winner... Handy for transporting your motorcycle whenever brokendown... Handy for holidays aswell... moving furnature, having sleepovers, otheractivitieswiththegirlnextdoor... ha ha ha

Cool comic...

Oooohhhh yes!! The days are getting longer, temp is still above freezing so... Spring is on it's way... can't wait can't wait can't wait can't wait can't wait

(Pica source: someoldbikermagazinefromtheattic)

Cool pica...

I got it from Sideburn, they got it from Rocket...
Is she checking them, like: "F*ck, right is bigger..."
Is this a case of Saucy Bum, nice tits?
Maybe the guy behind the camera told the props guy "I left tit in the toolbox..."
Nice one guys!

(Pica source: sideburnblogspot)

Cool bobber build...

From the guys at Choppertown & Brittown, a very cool movie about building the bobber... Enjoy...

Cool Mustang Graveyard...

A huge car graveyard somewhere on Rhode Island USA, packed with a load of Mustangs (and other cool cars)... Even when they are abandoned and forgotten they keep their style and cool...!!

(Pica source: theworldwideweb)

Cool from the shed...

Found another cool one on the net... Seems to be a guy called Tony (what's in a name?) and his Panchop... "Wheely bin out for a ride, sweetheart...!"

(Pica source: www.choppersaustralia.com)

Cool Sunday Special...

This weeks Sunday Special winner; 'cause of the beach, good warm weather, girl bathing suit on the bike , we had snoow again since Friday, the car in the back and the short rear fender...

(Pica source: theworldwideweb)

Cool personal mission...

Ran into this pica, and a lot of brothers and sisters of thisone, on the net... Veeerrry cool...!!!
Somewhere in Belgium in a forrest about 200 classic cars are left to nature (the story says by WWII GI's)... I think the cars are to young to be left by the GI's, but that's just my opion... My personal mission is to find this location and go there this summer and end up with blisters in my right index finger... Love thse kind of pica's... Can't wait till summer...

(Pica source: theworldwideweb)

Cool Graphic pen style...

Just playing around in the good old Photoshop... Took a pica I took earlier as starting point and played around with some filters... and here ya go...!

Cool Sunday Special...

This weeks Sunday Special winner is this pica of this nice 1918 orso board tracker...

(Pica source: somebookletwithpostcardsfromtheattic)

Cool presents...?

Today it's been 6 years ago that my daughter was born... Sgonna be a hectic day but who cares...? So it gives me another 12 years (and 15 for her little brother) to save up for a nice present on two wheels... Can't wait to ride along with her... Happy birtday Nadine...!

(Pica source: someolderbikermagazinesfromthegoldminecalledAttic)

Cool Pan engine...

I found this pica whilst surfing the net on www.choppertownnation.com ... Veeerrrryyy cool engine!!!
A very nice knuckle in the back as well...

(Pica source: theworldwideweb;choppertownnation)

Cool Sunday special...

This weeks winner for the Sunday Special, parked outside a church... Yeah, right... We can use some of that beautiful sunshine and warm weather... Had enough of the snoowy roads, public transport and the freezing cold... Tomorrow I can ride my Young Geisha again... That will reduce commuting time by half...
Borrowed thisone from an older biker magazine I found in my goldmine on the attic...

(Pica source: anolderbikermagazine[largedouble]fromtheattic)

Cool new toy...

Look what the cat brought in...!!! Someone has a new toy...
It's a Canon EOS 450D with a 18 - 200 lens... Bet I can make some pretty cool picas with thisone... So RFMF (read the fuckin' manual first) and start finding out how it actually works... My first impression... suhweeeeet!!!, very cool!!

(Mad this pica with my mobile phone)

Cool pica of a cool bike...

Here is a cool pica of a cool bike... Yes, it are Obi-Wan & OB1... This guy is really loving his sickle... Picture by Ben Part...

(Pica source: Ben's website http://www.partb.co.uk/)

Cool sign...

Am I glad we don't have Salties here in The Netherlands... Bloody big teeth if you ask me...

(Pica source: theworldwideweb)

Cool inspiration...

Through the net I came in contact again with a friend of a friend... First I found out a pretty cool story... (story 45 on http://www.vintagemotrocyclesonline.com/)




This guy, Ben Part (British Photographer http://www.partb.co.uk/ /publisher > Sideburn magazine http://www.sideburnmagazine.com/ ) build his own (own molding for the tank and bodywork) Guzzi caferace and kept wrenching on it for about 14 years whilst riding (and racing) all over Europe with it (with Frensh plate ha ha ha)... He also used it in his work, for a Davida shoot... (See pica below)


From this bike a copy was build (by my friend Sean Bryant), for the actor Ewan McGregor, called OB1 (pica below). Named after the role Ewan played in Starwars Obi-Wan Kenobi... I know they also attached a tiny detail somewhere on the bike linking to the Trainspotting movie...

At the moment Sean is busy (amongst other things) finishing an OB2 version of the bike with a very special racy engine and Warbird headlight cone on it...

Here comes the coolest part of the story: seems like the Guzzi factory got their hands on some picas of Ben's bike and were very inspired by it... The build a factory custom from it...

Is that a cool story or what?? Check Ben's magazine, blog and website for this guys cool work...!!

Copyright most of these pica's: Ben Part

(Pica source: theworldwideweb, thanx Ben!)

Cool, un-cool commuting time...

Yesterday afternoon The Netherlands was embushed by a snow front... It started snowing in Amsterdam around 15:30, I left work at 16:45... Trains were nolonger riding between Amsterdam and my old hometown... The misses was gonna pick me up at the station I stranded on, 17:30... We arrived at my inlaws to pick up the kids around... 21:15...
So it took me 4.5 hours to get there... Door to door > 25 km's... Do the math...

Took this pica around midnight last night around the corner of my house... we ended up with about 8 - 10 inches of snow...

Cool 100 year old images...

I found some almost 100 year old moving images of my hometown...

(Video source: theworldwideweb,youtube)

Cool stairs...

Here is an old one for ya... Direct from Barcelona where I took thisone in the Gaudi house... Looks like a stairway to heaven...

Cool cool new year...

A very happy new year to everyone and the best wishes for 2010...
It keeps on freezin' here in The Netherlands and almost the whole nation starts thinking about the big race...
200 KM's on speed skates through the Dutch country side, passing 11 cities... That's why it's called the Elfstedentocht > Elevencitiestour... The pica above is from the tour in 1963...

(Pica source: the worldwideweb)

Cool New Year to all of ya...!

Ok, this is the last one for this year...
From the Dirty Hands headquarters we wish you all a very happy and very cool New Year... We'll be back in 2010, 'hope you can handle it'...

(Pica source: anolderbikersmagazinefromtheattic)

Cool pica of a cool bike...

So for the time beeing... waiting for the warmer and snoow free weather, I'll be commuting on the Young Geisha (Honda Transalp)... Can't wait till spring... can't wait, can't wait...!

Cool winter pica...

And again one from the little gold mine called "the attic"... Thisone featured in a mag 22 years ago...

(Pica source: a22yearoldrelaxedmotorcyclistmagazine)

Cool Sunday Special...

Yesterday's news...!! Here is this weeks winner in The Sunday Special... We had it hangin' around for 22 years now and finally it made it to the Sunday Special... Freezin' my butt off I guess...

(Pica source: a22yearoldrelaxedmotorcyclistmagazine)

Cool X-mas present...

Here's a little winter time present for ya...!

Cool Christmas...

Here at the DirtyHand HeadOffice we want to which you all a warm and merry Christmas...

(Pica source: theworldwideweb...)

Cool view...

This is a pica I took on Januari 10th this year... Guess what... looks the same at the moment... "...Walking in a winter wonder land..."

Cool thoughts...

In this winter weather we all need warm and happy thoughts... "... just riding a beautiful bike somewhere in the warm summer wind..."

(Pica source: anolderbikermagazinefromtheattic)

Cool cold freezing pica...

One image says more than a thousant words... Like the Therapy? song: "...Going nowhere...!" Even public transport is a big problem... Don't mind the cold, but the bloody snoow... so damn slippery...

Cool Snoowy Sunday Special...

This is this weeks winner of the Sunday Special...
When we left our beds this morning, it started snoowing some more and till now an additional layer of 8 inches of snoow ended on Dutch ground...
We'll start washing up soon and run out to do some more sleigh riding...!!! Ha ha ha, next week it will be ho ho ho...

(Pica source: thedavidmanngallerysomewhereontheworldwideweb)

(Not so) cool weather...

No, it's SHITTY weather for us motorcyclists overhere in The Netherlands... Freezing and loads of snow... No, it's not cool it's just bloody freezing and very slippery...when snoow... This night the temp will prob drop to a -15 Celsius... Fuck me gently...!!
This little guy is right... it makes you wanna drop your pants and have a shite...!

Cool Pan washing...

In these cold days before Christmas, -4 to -6 degrees Celsius during the nights and mornings (feels like -20 when riding at 80 km's/hour) makes you think of warmer days...
Washing the sickle is one of the things that has to be done during riding season and the guy in the picture has a strange radical way of doing that... Like it!... Only a couple of months to go...

Till then (as long there is no snow or ice on the roads) I'll be riding with the sun in my head to keep me from freezing...! (Did I say earlier it wasn't gonne be cold...? I lieing I guess...

IT'S BLOODY COLD! Fingers are freezing and little ponds are under my key board when I de-frost at work... Ha ha ha

I know, it's my own freezing bloody choice...!

(Pica source: anoldbikermagazinefromtheattic)

Cool Sunday Special...

Since Sunday we have a special guest in our house, it's a Normann... A (un)happy little tree since they had chopped off his feet somewhere in Norway or so... Now he is happy beaver again ever since we adopted him... We as a family decorated him with little sparking lights and silver balls and little angels...

(Looks like he has to leave again beginning of Januari. Pica source: theworldwideweb)

Cool lucky bastards...

Indeed, very lucky... Due to a too loose fit in the socket in the wall, we almost had a in-house fire on the attic... This plug was connected to the laundry-dryer... Not far away from my little gold mine of old biker mags... One floor up from where my kids are sleeping...
Lucky, lucky bastards...!! A new plug is connected again to the dryer, the new socket I will install this weekend... Useing an otherone till then...

(Above the green/yellow wire there used to be a blue wire...)

Cool photoshop trail...

Above a trail I did in Photoshop, turned ou pretty cool I think... Borrowed a pica from the net, used this blogs title and my personal logo and blended them together...

(Pica source: theworldwideweb, my own sources)

Cool Sunday Special...

This weeks winner of The Sunday Special...
Got nothing to do on a rainy Sunday? Or "Is that a mozzy I feel in my nose?"... Heissetip: Nose picking... Nice one Mr. Von Dutch...

(Pica source: someoldbikermagazinefromtheattic)

Cool beard...

Another beauty from the archives... the old mags from the attic that is... must be twins or brothers doing some classic motorcycle with side car racing as well... Cool helmets, cool sunglasses... (Is it the bisshop of Myra and his twin brother doing a runner after giving the presents to the kids...?? It's his birthday tomorrow... > Some old Dutch tradition we exported to the US and Cananadar where they changed it to Santa Claus...)

(Pica Source: someoldbikermagazine(largeduo)fromtheattic)

Cool findings...

Here's a nice one I found on the net just yet... Black is beautiful... Black rhims, fat White walls tires... dark tape around the exhausts... (want the headlight black as well!!!) And that's why, my funky friends, I think this is a cool sickle...!

(Pica source: theworldwideweb)

Cool band...

This year is my ten year anniversary with this cool Australian band... I ran into their music when we were travelling in Australia in 1999... Never stopped loving their music...

"...Ladies and gentlemen... The Living End !!!..."

Cool old mags...

I had some time left and spend it at the attic... Ran into a big stagg of old(er) mags and got my hands dirty... It's a little gold mine and had to control myself...

(Pica source: someolddutchbikermagazine'largetwoofakind'fromtheattic)

Cool shead...

Then I walked into my shead and there was my sickle... So many sheep so little time, which one to choose... mmm... Way nice pica...

(Pica source: theworldwideweb)