Dropping Out!

A while back I drew up and had my friend Casey from Velvet Oven machine up some swing arm parts for the Ducati. At the time I had no idea what the axle adjusters were going to look like but today it came to me in a vision. Okay, maybe it was more like a drawing than a vision but regardless I figured it out. It takes some nerve to take beautifully machined parts like Casey made and throw them on the mill for some free hand machining.

I am really happy with the way things are turning out!

Speed Shop Design on Facebook

I have decided to create a separate page for Speed Shop Design on Facebook. I recently noticed that my personal page reached over 1000 friends, most of which I don't know. I want my personal page to be that, personal, so I am asking those that want to be my friend because of Speed Shop Design to like Speed Shop Design the Facebook page. Hope this is not too much of an inconvenience.
Sincerely,
The Management ;)

Finally!!!

Got the Ducati frame fully welded this week end :)

Route 120 into Nikko, Japan, fall 2011

Japan, my amazing journey:

I have been back in the states for a few days now after spending nearly three weeks in Japan. My friend Glen and I spent 14 days in Tokyo and 5 days on rented motorcycles touring the mountainous countryside.

This trip was a life altering one for me for so many reasons... Reasons I will touch on in the following posts.

Besides taking hundreds of photos with our point and shoots and phones we also had a Go-Pro camera mounted during our six hours of motorcycle riding each day. The Go-Pro was programmed to take a photo every 30 seconds so needless to say I have thousands of photo's of our journey.

I have barely scratched the surface of all the photo editing necessary and plan to spend the next week or so going through them all, posting online albums and posting on this blog.

Japan is an amazing country for so many reasons. If you have never been I strongly recommend it, you will be changed. For those who have been but never outside of a major city like Tokyo I strongly recommend you get on a motorcycle and head into the country. The roads are simply amazing, the view is breathtaking, the people so friendly, the ryokan and onsen so relaxing.

During our stay we met many amazing people from motorcycle builders to psychedelic painters to major industrial designers, all were so accommodating and friendly it simply blew our minds!

I will cover the highlights of our trip in more detail with future posts but till then here is a snippet as well as a huge thank you to all that we had the pleasure of meeting and hanging out with.

Chris

The sound of crickets...

That's pretty much all you have heard on this blog for a while but let me assure you that lots and lots is happening!

The Triton and the 900ss projects are moving along well and looking more and more like motorcycles every day. Also working on a line of motorcycle components as well as some new details for the Slayer espresso machine.

I will have much more to talk about in a little bit but for now I must leave you with this little bit:

Not a Bro Party, it's a Brough Party!

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Got a nice invite from Paul d'Orleans of The Vintagent for the upcoming Brough Superior party in LA. Unfortunately I will not be able to make it but those who can should definitely check it out.

Cheers