For everyone who was a teenage two-stroke tearaway

This article will strike a chord if you were. A guy called Jamie Morris has been documenting the end of the Japanese Bosozouko or "speed tribes" . The kids wear outrageous and heavily embroidered uniforms and many ride elaborately customised mid-sized two strokes .... sound familiar?

http://www.gaijinchannel.com/index.php/2011/09/02/sayonara-speed-tribes-a-journey/

Wrenchmonkees

Wrenchmonkees 1979 Honda CB750
Originally uploaded by Ben Wilson Design

When you think of Copenhagen , it's Hans Christian Anderson and Carlsberg... Danish bacon and the Wrenchmonkees.

Based in a basement haven for petrol heads in Copenhagen is Wrenchmonkees HQ. Due to draconian Danish legislation they have to work with standard road bikes and still keep 'em street legal.

Somehow they manage to release something from within the bikes using the basic building blocks from many other designers creations and jumble them together to create something new and individual. Something that screams Wrenchmonkees but stays unique.

I love 'em

http://www.wrenchmonkees.com/

Chop and Stock 2009 Redux

Chop and Stock 2009
Originally uploaded by Scouse_and_Jules

Hey ho , no posts for a while so I thought I would put one of my images up from one of the few hot sunny days of last summer.

The fact is that really good Bike shots are becoming few and far between at the moment; as everyone is bundled up away from the crap weather in the UK this winter.

If this is the future of our climate , I need to see if studded tyres can be made UK road legal!