work...

I love it when a car with some history come into the shop..
This 29 roadster has been owned by the same guy since 52. Its gone through many changes since then and now it in our shop for a freshen up.
Full report coming soon..

Naked Bikes Seamless 2-Speed Kickback from ALVERN on Vimeo.

Damn!!

I though I was over all this sickness only to wake up yesterday and could hardly breath..
$200 later I was home with a full round of meds..Yeah fuckin' 10 pills a day for 3 weeks and an inhaler..WTF!!
Oh and the doc said no work for a few days..well sorry doc thats not happening I got tons of shit to do.
it seems like everyday I come home from the shop with a stack of boxes full of parts at the door.
So there should be tons of new paint here in the next few weeks.
First project to knock off the list is the pro mod car jeff and I are working on.
Then its sand blasting and priming a big batch of MC parts..
An update on the pooch..the fucker is getting big..

2 wheels no motor..

Well I'm not much of a bicycle guy but as of late my career as a painter has taken a turn into the handmade bicycle industry. With this new direction(not to say I don't paint motorcycles anymore cuz I do)I have been checking out what this little industry is all about.What have i found? Well, for the most part its not much different than the moto industry other than the fact that the people that are into it are VERY vanilla with a few exceptions.
Recently NAHBS was held in Austin,Tx and I was fortunate enough to have several bikes there that I painted,so well scouring the interwebs for updates about the show and to see what was happening since I couldn't make it I found this.



I have never in my life thought "god damn that's a fuckin' rad bike",ok maybe thats not completely true I did go pretty ape shit when I got a GT performer as a kid but that was a long fuckin' time ago.

This bike was built by a shop calledNaked and there is not one expose bolt on it.. The builder even specially designed the front hub.



I was talking with Tim the builder I paint for and we were discussing the amount of time and thought that went into this bike. Yeah to most its "just a bike" but if you really take the time to look at it and compare it to any other bike you have seen there really is alot of engineering involved. Tim and I wondered how many things didn't work before they found the one that did..



I think if I had a retarded amount of excess funds I would want to have this bike for my very own..

sick!!

I have been sick as fuck and I'm over it...

um yeah it's friday BFD..

All I have to say is today was fucked up..but this made it better..
oh you don't like Radiohead, tough shit..

relaxin'

Not much too report..
Finished up all the NAHMBS bike I was working on for Shamrock Cycles. Tim builds super nice steel lugged bikes that are hand crafted one at a time.
Spent the weekend talkin' up the shop at the Easyriders show in Columbus.Had a "celebrity" stop in the booth and check out the bikes,and no one noticed until Carl was like"Hey Nate,How do I know that guy?"
It was Tommy Flanagan aka Morrison from Braveheart or aka Chibs from SOA..You know the Soprano's in the biker format..There's a pic of him on the the flying w I'm just too lazy to upload it off my phone..
But my SOA lovin' homeboy Chico posted it cuz well he's not so lazy.
Pics soon I promise..