Tacos and tattoos

Heres some cool tattoos levi did in the past couple days. The skull and feather were both free hand and the eye is on levi's girlfriend jasmin, needless to say she loves it. Come by the shop all day saturday we will be grilling and chilling with 25% off tattoos. The adress is 15010 north cave creek rd. phoenix 85032 16026521313 right next to the red onion. Tacos and tattoos?? Count me in.

New lowbrow swag

I got a new box of goodies from the good folks over at lowbrow customs. They sent me a whole bunch of new sticker designs and some weirdo volume 1 mags to make room for volume 2 which should be out soon. Get at me if you want some stickers or a sweet magilog....(magizine/catalog). The borrow my tools sticker is my personal favorite.

Crazy cat

Ive had these photos for awhile I just forgot to post them. I went to debo's house last week after school to hang out for a bit. While I was there he mentioned he wanted to take his cat for a ride on his bike one day, after being silent for a bit he got a big smile on his face and said lets go try. The cat was a little hesitant at first but once she got warmed up she didnt want to get down. The pictures where the cat is sitting on the bike, the bike is actually idling. Once his bike and the cat were warmed up debo sat on the bike with the cat in his lap and took off....now I have to figure out how to get banksy on my bike.

Friday the 13th East Coast style

So this is the first contribution from me. yes yes I know, the ex-journalist Finnaaalllly put some words down, get off my back. So in tradition with the last Friday the 13th we made our way to millenium tattoo in Newburg for some $13 ink. Unfortunatley, the tradition of me not riding was part of it. I had to play driver for my friends and couldn't in good conscience let 'em just follow and watch us have all the fun. It was all still totally worth it. below are the pics of what a few of us got. Jamie is the clipper ship, eric is the bomb, i'm the dear john letter and derek is the box o' fries. My old man got popeye smoking a pipe and my ladies's dad Walter chose an arrow going through his skin, sadly I didn't take pictures of them but they're pretty self-explanatory. What made this years a little more special for me was the fact that my buddy Derek and I had twelve tattoos each and this made it our thirteenth on the thirteen. All very fitting for each other if I do say so myself. I'm going to make this one short and sweet, but to be nostalgic I'd like to add that it really isn't the same with out Mikey over here with the warm weather approaching. I've been riding my ass off to keep up with everyone for when we do finally get to go out together again. But every time I get on a straight away and open up I look over and wish he was flying by doing his usual circus-bear tricks. So much has been going on here lately and now that I've started this I very well plan on keeping the momentum going. Miss you bud.

Friday the 13th

Heres a couple pictures from friday the 13th at satellite. Our buddy hawaii passed out in the chaor getting the decepticon logo on him, so to make fun of him we took a picture of me holding claytons hand and sent it to him....needless to say he didnt respond. We had a blast there was horror movies playing all day on the big screen and some delicious tacos going all day and some music going. I'd weren't there you missed out but don't worry, january 13th isn't to far off.

Bike of the day

I saw this sweet rat sporty before class today, I remember seeing it at the bike show but didnt check it out to much for some reason and im sorry I didnt. This a 1200r sportster that came with a cool dual disc front brake setup stock. I really dig the clutch pirch suicide shifter. Nothing better then then a ratt bike.

Shop spot light

Our first shop spotlight is Sattelite 13 skate shop and tattoo shop. This is our friend Carls shop on cave creek. The shop has a great family vibe to it with skate videos playing up front and tattoos in the back...what more can you ask for? The head artist levi does some amazing work I cant wait to some done from him myself. The bottom tattoo is on our friend cody and from what I understand almost all of it was free hand! Check them out at www.satellite13skateshop.com or give the shop a call at 1602-652-1313 to shedule an apointment.

Fellow new yorker

Last week mary and I,met some fellow new yorkers who,just moved into our complex to attend mmi ironically enough. I had to go to orileys the other day to exchange some fuses and asked dan to take the ride with me. Hes got a cool 77 ironhead thats got a classy stock but not stock feel to it. Check back in tomorow for house first shop spotligh, featureing Satellite 13 skate and tattoo shop. In the meantime check em out at www.satellite13skateshop.com

New bars

Ive been seriously lacking up the updates. Since I last posted, Ive done a few new neat things on my bike. Before I go into it, I have to say.... Lowbrow Customs is possibly the best company Ive ever had the pleasure of dealing with. My old man got me a sweet set of frisco bars for Christmas this past year. After dealing with some shit and broken promises, I began dismantling to put the new bars on. I got everything off the old bars, and then found out the bars my Dad got are 1 inch, and my little Yamaha needs 7/8s. I immediately emailed Lowbrow, and Kyle emailed me back in about 20 minutes. After many emails back and forth, we decided to go with some really sweet Z-bars. He told me I needed to send the old ones back first, and he would send me my new ones. Well, the economy being the way it is, I couldnt afford to mail my frisco bars back right away. After a few weeks, I finally had some extra money in my wallet and I mailed them back. I sent Kyle an email, only to find out that I took too long, and the Z-bars were gone. I went with my second choice, some nice window bars, and prayed for the best. Kyle did really awesome by me, and since my original choice was sold out from under me, he picked up the shipping for the new window bars. About 3 days later and I had my sweet new bars. About 3 hours and a nice long ride with Matty J later, my new window bars were on! Again, big thanks to Kyle and everyone at Lowbrow Customs for really taking care of me.


My new bars, all unwarpped in their shiny goodness


The old bars are now completely taken off


And heres the finished product



Ann and I saw these a few weeks back when we were walking around New Paltz. Ive been dying to put them up, and now I finally have an excuse to

Crazy tony and some new flare

Yesterday after class a couple of us took a ride to monicas friend jd's house, for some advice on electrical and he made me a cool celtic knot to hang my bell from. On the way there I was finally able to get some riding pictures of our crazy friend tony. Tonys a reall cool guy with a huge heart, hes helped me out more then once, his bike is just like him short loud and colorfull. You ever wanna have a crazy night take tony out with you, he is really good at getting rowdy. Special thanks to jd for my new flare.

Breaks my heart a little

This school is filled with so many bikes with potential that get mangled by all the students here.The thing that really kills me though are all the engines the school had just on display! Student services had a shinny twin cam siting on the wall for the looks, the worst part is since they are a publicly traded company they can't sell any parts. Breaks my heart a little

Bike of the day

I have'nt done a bike of the day in awhile and as soon as I saw this bike I knew it would be a great one start with. The engine is out of an 81 ironhead and the rolling chassis is from flyrite choppers. The owner nate tells me shes in primer now but will soon be getting an awesome metalflake paint job so stay tuned ill have pictures up once she gets painted.

New seat

I went to coltons last night after class in hopes of fixing the short my bike had so I could stop spending money on fuses. While we had my rear fender we tried my mock up a new rear fender off of a softail but it wasnt wide enough unfortunately. While putting my bike back together I thought id see if the seat off of matts rigid cb750 chassis would fit on my bike and luckily it did and after making a deal with matt for it I can easily say it makes my bike look ten times better, the back of the seat fits great I just have to make something so the front stays in place for now a bungie chord will do. I cant wait to put my sissy bar back on,the new seat will realy compliment it, this prooves my point you can just put any seat on a bike. Special thanks to colton for staying up late and helping me out even though he had work and matt of course for selling me his seat.

Friday night wrenching

I went to Coltons friday night to change the oil in my bike. Colton got a little restless and pulled my sissy bar off and talked me into letting him paint it. I gave him the camera for awhile  while I was under my bike and his pictures came out pretty good, he's right the ratchet does look like a murder weapon. Ill post some pictures of my sissy bar once I pick it up from him tomorow.