Cool old shite...

Thisone I took in the center of Courpiere... The cool old shovel was parked next to a 30 thousant Euros costing OCC style chopper... Liked thisone way more... Nice wheel (new Roadking, right?)...

Cool & rusty Sunday Special...

Here is this weeks winner... A Cool & Rusty Sunday Special, found in France near the village of Egletons... Made me think of my own blue Renault 4 F6 back in my Psychobilly days... The band including double bass fitted without problems...

Cool Courpiere 2010...

Here's a cool detail shot of some sickles parked in the streets in the center of Courpiere where the Free Wheels festival was held... Pica take whilst sitting in the shadow holding a beer in my other hand...

Cool Sunday Special...

At our old hometown's oldtimer meeting, today we ran into this beautiful VW beetle... Love the lowering and especially the details on the roofrack... Notice the board on the side of the roofrack... This makes this car this weeks winner of the Sunday Special...

Cool Free Wheels...

Walking along the campsite at Free Wheels, we ran into this apehangered, flamed, Streetbob... Nice view...

Cool Aronde 2...

View on the cool ass...

Cool Aronde...

Here's another one I made in France... I thought Aronde was the brand but that seems to be the type... The brand is Simca... Below is how they used to look like (without fender bending) in the early days...

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Cool boatings 2...

Because I know you love it... A Russian tallship...

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Cool boating...

Today is Sail Amsterdam 2010, for people who don't know what that is... It's a huge boating fest in Amsterdam with a 'sail-in' parade of tallships... Above is the 'Stad Amsterdam'...

The daily route I ride to work,... you guessed it, is (along) the same route as the ships and million of small boats sail today...

They come from allover the world; Oman, Russia, Italy and so on and so on... Millions of spectators are looking for places to park their cars and take their folding chairs to sit along the canal...

I knew the road next to the canal (above) would be oneway and be block on my way home... I didn't know they would try to block me going to work... They thought I would take a detour because of a couple of boats sailing from 10 AM...? Think again...

Just took my normal route, passed some traffic attendents pointing me the other way, and ended up at my work the normal time... The Young Geisha comes in handy again...!!

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Cool Rusty 5...

On our way back to the campsite in France, we passed a small field with some old rusty vehicles... I stoppped to take a vew picas...
There was a sign up saying private property and the owner is living on the other side of the road... No place to sneak into the field to make more picas...
A couple of days later I went back and asked the owner for permission... Here is one of the (more then 100!!) picas I made that day...

The paint was totally gone on this Renault 5, completelly rusted...

Cool Free Wheels 2010...

About a hundred kilometers from our holiday campsite was the village of Courpiere...
Indead, where the Free Wheels bike and car show/festival was held... My family and I had an optique overthere and wanted to walk from the Free Wheels campsite to the village... We were stopped by the Frensh guy in the red shirt, a member of the White Troopers mc... I acted stupid (easy role for me) as if I didn't understand him and almost pissed him off... " No, to dangerous...!" he said... I replied: "No, we just want walk to the village" Him more crumpy then before: "No!... To dangerous..!!" Me: "Ok, merci..."...
Ooops... didn't want to get my ass kicked in front of the kids...
We tooks some picas and returned to the car, took a loop around and ended up almost in the center of the village by car (!)... Took a load more picas, had a drink and scooted off again... Next time: going without the kids...

Nice chopper by the way...!

Cool theme...

During our summer holiday in France, we ran into quite some car wrecks... They just leave them where the are or you'll find them at old garages in villages... Especially the Citroen 2CV's had my interrest 'cause I like the curved lines on them... Specially the older ones are beautiful... The blister (from snapping my camera) on my right pointing finger is just starting to heal...

Cool sons...

Like my father did, I'm cruisin' around on motorsickles as well... Something tells me my (almost) 4 year old son has a thing for sickles as well... (he had a real good time @ Free Wheels by the way!)
Like fathers like sons...

Pica take with mobile phone...

Cool theme...

For this years holiday I came up with the theme 'Wheels'... In all kinds of ways like; bicycles, mopets, cars... any means... Here is one of the first, a nice postal mopet we ran into in a small village near some waterfalls somewhere in France... Me like the bags...!

Cool returns...

Aaaaaannnnddd... We're back again...
We had a very good stay in France and here you see a little of my harvest I had overthere... I had to buy another card (4GB) for the cam 'cause I couldn't stop clicking...

This years theme was 'wheels'... boy, did I get my piece of all kinds of wheels... Even went to Free Wheels...

So, now... Let's unpack...