Cool statue...

Another piece of art we ran into Sunday on another annual sickle expo overhere in the Netherlands... The call it the start of the season but I wonder when the season ends then? This custom build sickle is welded-up sheet metal, the rider is made of recycled glass, kept together by metal wire... Nice one!

(Drink and drive...??)

Cool Roques show...

You better go there if you're into custom-garage-shead built sickles...

(I will be there to make a little image story...)

Cool covers...

Going underground...
Hitting the treasure chambers, that's how it feld last Saturday. Son and me went shoppping for son's new shoes and parked the car in an underground parking underneath an old militairy base in my old hometown...
Entering we were surprised by the amount of classic cars parked there. Most of them obivously collecting dust down there. Some of the owners bought special covers for their treasures, this owner just stole some bedsheet from the cupboard and stitched the together...
I bet the wife is pretty angry when she discovers where her pretty yellow sheets went...

Cool seat...

The Italian Lorenzo Buratti used to ride BMX and off-raod bikes, builds motorcycles and also makes moto-themed one-off furniture. This €1500 1970s endurance-themed seat his the latest work. Check out his website for more details.

www.lorenzoburatti.com

(Source: http://sideburnmag.blogspot.nl)

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)