(un)Cool maintenance moments...

The wet season is starting over here in the Netherlands, so I thought I'd better get myself some new rubber on the front wheel... It was getting wobbely anyways...

I was a bit to enthusiast on one bolts and yeah... it snapped... Leaving a small bit of the stud in the lower fork leg... Bugger mate! YOU MUPPET!! Decided to heat the hell out of the leg and with a pair of grip pliers I managed to get the bugger out... Ordered a new one for 80 Euro cents and have to wait till Tuesday for it to come in...

(An old beer crate always makes a good support stand...)

Cool moments caught...

On our local Harley meeting, this year I was more like a reporter then a biker... Went there with "The Love Seat", that's my wifes Kia Picanto, and took the big digital cam...
Love to catch the moments and here are some more I wanted to share with you...
A continued Sunday Special...

Cool local Harley day...

Last Sunday, took the big camera and ran to the annual local Harley day... Organised by the local HAMC and every year a good visited event... Ran into some (old) friends again... Will post more pica's later of this 'Sunday Special'

Cool bicycle stand...

On the way to our holiday destination, in France we ran into an abandoned office building... Next to it on the parking there was this bicycle stand... Great to see how Nature takes over again...

Cool blue...

Part two of the Sunday Special...

Cool day at the beach...

Yesterday we had a cool day at the beach... Prob. the last real summer day this year if I have to believe the weather forecast... Got a sun burned back, what about UV protection...!
Yeah, a real Sunday Special to me...

Cool sleeping beauty...

Yes, we're back from our bloody hot holiday in France. France is always a good source for cool stuff...
On our way to some waterfalls we passed this beauty and some friends of hers... Just standing next to the road, waiting for nature to take over...

Cool sick blues...

The misses and daughter wanted to be swung around, backwards-forwards, up-down, left-right, till they almost had to throw up... Well, the got value for their money... "The ride lasted a bit to long this time..." ha ha ha... Me and mini-me had a good distance and view on it...! Nice fair-ride...!

Cool blues...

Whilst running err-ons, we ran into the old factory hall... They used to produce kitchens and doors here...
After some real de-clay, they started renovation on this site, the top of the building is where they started. That left this bottom corner almost untouched. Had squeeze my but through the fencing to make this shot...

Cool Project 346...

Here is Project 346, posing specially for you guys...

Cool finished Project 346...

Here ya go...! Friday, after work, scored the brown grips and saddle...
Ran into the shed and replaced the old ones with the new ones... Placed the Mecster on a chair have him keep his eyes closed and... taraaaaaa!!!! Open your eyes...
Here is your new bike son... Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow...

Then his sister came home (it's her old bike): Wooow Mec, that is a veeerrryyy COOL bike...!!!

(Who's a happy daddy...???)

Cool bike, under construction - cont'd...

Up-date:
Yesterday afternoon, on my way back home from work, I stopped at 'The Chopperdome' in Amsterdam... A bicycle shop with veeeeerrrryyyy cool bikes and bike stuff... You can spend a load of euro's there...!!!
Purchased the (mini) ape hanger for the bike project, on the receipt 'project 346' was their adm number... Maybe we can call this the 346 project or just project 346...

So, applied the flame stickers and then took the old handle bars off and installed the ape hanger.
Still in search of the brown saddle and grips...
(Was thinking of a small round mirror as well, when I was young I thought that was uber cool to have on your bicycle... and a little bell of course...)

Cool bike, under construction...

Was a pink bike... Found head light on the side of a street, cut the rear fender. Colour > Satin black... Needs a ape hanger, brown saddle and brown grips... Need to apply the flames and take the orange reflectors out...

Cool white pants...

These early day cruiser look very sharp in their club suites... I can't really see myself riding The Old Gall in white pants... They wouldn't last for 5 bloody seconds...

(Pica source: theworldwidewebster)

Cool hidden fources...

Whilst some furniture shopping for our living room, behind some trucks and parts of ships, we ran into these hidden Renault 4's... In total there were 8 of them hanging around, waiting for more decay to happen...

(mademethinkofmysecondcar-arenault-f4,in-homespeakersintheback,psychobillyshoutingfromthespeakers)

Cool catch...

Like Dave Grohl said when Foo Fighters played Pinkpop in 2011:

"Let's wait a minute..., there's a fucking rainbow out there!"

Last Friday evening, coming back from my weekly ass-kicking @ Sportskarate, I ran into these two rainbows... What else could I do but hit the brakes of my sickle and catch these beauties...?

Cool sea of bikes...

It's not Home Depot or Office Depot but it is a bike depot... City of Amsterdam tows away bikes which are parked in wrong spots... If you can find any that is... At the train stations you'll find almost the same image as the one above...
I pass this depot every day... I see the sea growing and growing and after a couple of weeks..., suddenly they're all gone... Sold or dumped...?
So if you're looking for a bike in Amsterdam, go there and buy one for almost nothing...
Jumped off my sickle, took the cam out of the inner pocket and caught this site...

Cool camping...

Found this pica on the webster... Ooh man, do I feel like going for a looooong vacation...

(Pica source: stoleitfromtheroguesmcblog)

Cool beach pica two...

Another shot I caught on the beach... Like to call it; 'Back on track'...

Cool beach pica...

The kids had a beach excursion last Sunday, learning about the animals - shells - plants in the dunes... We did a little stroll on the sand and  found the trash-dumpsters didn't float out to sea... Let's keep the beaches and seas clean...