TRAWLER-RIDER

Haints

2012-01-27T07:39:00.002Z

Gotta love those Haints

Soon

2012-01-25T07:22:00.000Z

Soon it will all kick off and we will be riding with smiles on our faces.

Reminisce

2012-01-22T14:55:00.003Z

I have been scanning again for a little feature
about old gits who still ride skateboards coming up in Kingpin Mag

Its funny that I was talking to friends who now have just reached forty
and say they have regular involuntary fits of nostalgia !

Keep taking photos so you can always look back coz you can never have enough of this shit!

Crantock Cornwall 87

Banbury 91

Couple of diggers

2012-01-19T08:14:00.001Z

Double digger day.
pics from Garry Stuart Harleypics

Prime mover

2012-01-17T12:17:00.000Z

Deak, Stokyo Niteclub May 2011.
Good times will soon be around again.

Bike I Like

2012-01-16T18:14:00.000Z

The Bratstyle shovel.
One of my all time favourite bikes.

Flickr

2012-01-15T10:57:00.000Z

Got a new Flick account to shift out all these photos I have since getting on my first Chop.
Bikes and friends etc...
Its a bit gay but y'know, it has to be done!
Click here to check em all out.

Da Boyz!

2012-01-13T19:23:00.002Z

Feelin old right now.
Hang on I am old!

Ben just turned 13 and he's rippin.

Ross 16 and at Events management college ( I call it roadie school!)
Stoked on my boys.

Straight off the production line

2012-01-12T00:19:00.002Z

Ok so it's not the Triumph Plant at Hinckley!

Its a new business venture with creative input from Mr Benny Thomas.
You dont need the hassle of building your own bike, it's dirty, slow and
you can get arc eye, sore knees and dermatitis!

Check it out
The Black Douglas Motorcycle Co.

Jay-Jay

2012-01-11T00:42:00.000Z

More Jason Jessee shit than you can shake a stick at!
Here at Confusion magazine

Ass burN!

2012-01-10T18:26:00.002Z

A lot of butt sliding went down at Rollerburn.
Should of called it AssburN!
The rollergirl went for miles on her bum.

My friend Sav sent this one,
Me trying to show off at the end of a race run.

Deak

2012-01-09T19:59:00.000Z

Get better soon Bro.

I have faith in you and I wont be towing you ass all the way to Bottrop in June! x

Does it suck or blow!

2012-01-07T17:28:00.000Z

I aint no artist but just trying to get an idea of how my Digger tank will look.
The wind god is going to blow gold leaf scrolls down the tank
It still needs a name, any thoughts?
Gonna get to work with my Digger in February.
Just hanging out here and sketching and scheming.

Flatspot

2012-01-07T10:38:00.001Z

Gonna be decorating another skateshop.
This will be the 5th skate store I have worked on.
Flatspot are a big online retailer with the best Vans shoes collection anywhere.
They want a High street shopfront presence and are opening in trendy Totnes.

minus £400

2012-01-05T00:49:00.000Z

Nothing more satisfying than putting metal trucks to concrete coping.

But Mike Day here let go a backside air and a split second later
killed off Dave Boyle's fish eye camera lens. Oops!

1200 Sportster

2012-01-02T15:20:00.001Z

Sean at SHD sent me a pic of the engine I have pur-chased off him!

Newly rebuilt gearbox, now it needs a clean up
and I think the fins will get powdercoated and it should
be good to go......should!

Get Knitting

2012-01-01T21:10:00.000Z

Got to get me one of these this year.
I cant grow and I need to fit in!

2012 The year of the...

2012-01-01T02:29:00.002Z

This is a pic of a bloke so bored waiting for this year to kick off.

I been out in the garage today just wire wooling my frame
and oil tank because it has been sat around for 9 months waiting
and I don't want surface rust to start pitting.
2012 the year of the UK digger!!

Git sum Get some!

Goodbye 2011

2011-12-31T01:51:00.000Z

2011 in photos.
I did a lot, maybe too much at times.
Worked my ass off in the week to ride
everywhere at the weekends.
2011 was a blast, roll on 2012.

Two!

2011-12-30T12:20:00.000Z

Rumours get started and blow up.
Before you know it the rumour is a reality.

The right to bear arms

2011-12-29T12:21:00.000Z

Jason Jessee and Santa Cruz skateboards are maybe gonna make these...

Inspired by Dan Drehobl and a challenge on the first Thrasher King of the Road.

Geddon Deak!

2011-12-28T14:00:00.002Z

Thinking of my friend Deak today who is in and out of Hospital
over the holidays with pneumonia and chest problems.
It sounds really shitty for him at the moment.
Here's to better days soon Si.
Flick him a message on Facebook to say hi.
Just saying.....

Details

2011-12-27T01:20:00.002Z

With choppers the devil is in the detail.

Twisting by the pool

2011-12-26T12:35:00.000Z

If you have a Digger or a long bike you have to photograph it next to a swimming pool,
Its the law!

PS. Righteous Machine Corp is the No:1 blog for diggers

Happy Christmas

2011-12-24T00:24:00.000Z

Garageland

2011-12-23T20:27:00.000Z

I love it when a plan comes together!
Got a 1200 Sporty motor from my buddy Sean V.

Every other part is at my garage except front forks.
I am excited already.
Gonna be skinnier than a 14 year old crackwhore!

Keep your feet off the Upholstery!

2011-12-23T01:06:00.001Z

Clip of the day

2011-12-22T20:18:00.000Z

Our local skatepark Prime does a clip of the day.
Today it is the turn of my kid Ben.
Giant ollie over the gap - ramp to ramp.
Proud Dad here.

My Skateboard Life

2011-12-21T10:51:00.001Z

Got my son Ben this book last week.
Its a graphic novel about growing up skateboarding in Cornwall.

Ed Syder lived it and I was there too.
Friends of mine like Pinhead and Mount Hawke ramp feature in the book.
Inspired my Ben to keep drawing and now he always has a Sharpie in his hand.

Vans ad

2011-12-20T18:02:00.000Z

From 1979.

Loved this magazine ad.

Is it

2011-12-20T00:51:00.000Z

Kinda like this bike,

Great rims and tyres and colour and that backbone above the tank.
But is it a Digger??

Spitfire

2011-12-18T23:02:00.000Z

I had two of these back in the day
1300 soft top in 1982.
I did lots of work myself because the bonnet would flip right up,
you can sit on the front wheel and tinker with it.
Cowboy welders set fire and killed it in bodged MOT work.
Next it was a 1500 overdrive with hardtop and I fitted twin exhausts.
I never, repeat never jumped over mine on a skateboard!

Hairy legs and Gullwing trucks!

2011-12-18T11:19:00.000Z

Back when shorts were short and boards were wide.
Plymouth skatepark in the old Zoo 79.
That tall wood slatted building was once the giraffe house.

We laid the extra concrete up the wall when the owner wasnt watching,
Skateboarder ingenuity at its best.

It was kool

2011-12-17T11:45:00.002Z

Hello Goodbye

2011-12-16T23:14:00.004Z

Today the Sportster chop was taken up on Dartmoor to its new owner and tomorrow the empty space in my garage will be replaced with my Digger frame which has been stashed away at a different location.
My wife is gonna freak when she sees it!
What we do is secret. It's Chopper stuff and it's on a need to know basis!

Hi honey I'm home

DicE 6 Over movie

2011-12-15T22:34:00.000Z

6 Over - Kick Start from Wild Honey Productions on Vimeo.

2nd teaser for the DicE movie.
Fuckin teasing me, cannot wait much longer.

Sick shorts

2011-12-15T18:57:00.003Z

British skateboarders went through a bad fashion blip in the mid 80's
We mistook what we saw in California as the new cool.

That's me guilty as charged.
Disgustingly bright surf shorts dont look so cool on a halfpipe
under a flyover in dull Crystal Palace 1986.

Bradders

2011-12-15T00:12:00.002Z

This is my friend Adam Bradley.
Drinks in our bar and is my favourite drunk,
so much so there is a huge portrait of him in action on the wall.

Bradders has a shitload of Plymouth pride.
Underlined by his Janner tattoos.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (builder of the first Tamar Bridge)

Sir Francis Drake (Played bowls on Plymouth Hoe before
giving the Spaniards a good kicking)

Geddon Adam you legend!

Ness-ecities

2011-12-13T18:08:00.000Z

Got this itch needing a scratch.
Can't wait to get on with my build in the new year.
If only prices were still the same. $400 bucks for a frame.

Bike I Like

2011-12-12T22:39:00.001Z

Lovin the way this is shaping up.

Benny at DTFP and his Honda Digger.
Those curved risers are killer and the way the engine sits so outside the down tubes
its just Rad.
It's a long time coming to have a bike style coming back but so unique.
Looking at the pic gives me an insight into how my Sportster Dig will come together.
For sale and I reckon its worth £8k.> £9k of anyones money.

Goodbye Tart start

2011-12-11T22:57:00.000Z

I don't need no freekin Shovelhead Tart Start

Sold the electric booter on E-bay.

Made enough to buy a new back wheel for the Digger.

There was a time when I thought I would be rigging this up on the Shovel but

all the scarred shins, wobbly knees, leg cramp and patience have paid off!

I love skateboarding

2011-12-10T17:42:00.000Z

Nam Angels

2011-12-09T07:58:00.000Z

Hells Angels on Motocross bikes kickin' ass in Vietnam. LOOKOUT!

Thanks Sideburn magazine

2011-12-08T21:06:00.001Z

Why was Rollerburn so good?
Dunno why, it just was!

Rollerburn: The Documentary from SIDEBURN on Vimeo.

Traffic Jammin

2011-12-08T07:49:00.000Z

Repost.
This guy is my favourite.
Fuck work, I wanna ride my Shovel!

Road Warrior

2011-12-07T00:04:00.001Z

Gen Katsuragawa won best helmet art at Yokohama show.
I always follow what the super talented Gen is getting up to
here at LOVE EAR ART

Vans Concrete Carnival

2011-12-04T23:19:00.001Z

Back from the best weekend I have had with Skateboarding for a long time.

Did some grinds in the 8ft deep pool.

Photo by the lovely Dave Boyle.
Got to hang out and chat with my long lost friend and skateboard Legend Eric Dressen!

Vans Are famous for their waffle sole, their hot waffles on a stick are a bit rubbery too!

More skate pics and film in the week.

At The Carnival

2011-12-02T23:11:00.000Z

This weekend I will be in the Picturesque Hemel Hempstead.
There is an Over 40's Masters bowl contest which I may enter if my old bones hold up.
Alternatively I could wait until next year and start an Over 50's category!

Spoolie

2011-12-01T23:29:00.001Z

I just bought another Spool front wheel. 21 x 1.85.
Skinnier than the one on the Kooler Shaker that got me into trouble with the law last time.
I dont care coz that was three and a half years ago so bring it on with the digger.
The man is gonna love me!

Krown Company

2011-11-30T17:48:00.000Z

Got a little package from Chris at Krown Company.
So stoked when somebody thinks of me for some good stuff.
Tattoos, pinstriping and art. Check out Chris' blog and his amazing work.

Burning Eye

2011-11-29T20:56:00.002Z

Me, Benny and Sean and Toddy and a camera shy Zippy had our photos taken at Rollerburn.
Kinda like Born Free when they set up a little studio space.
James Sharrock usually works for Metal Hammer mag and has shot stuff with
Iron Maiden, My Chemical Romance and GWAR among others.
http://invade.tv/burningeye.com.au/test.php

This is the one photo he sent to me today.

Gorillas in the mist

2011-11-29T18:18:00.001Z

Paul "captain" Oates sent this photo of Me and Benny Thomas trying to hail a taxi after Rollerburn.
Paul thinks it's great, almost art.
It does have a certain William Friedkin-esque quality about it.
But on the other hand Paul it's freekin rubbish!

Mr Wilson

2011-11-28T22:43:00.004Z

Jonny from Subsculptures has his Rollerburn pics up and I like em!

That girl out front was pretty good at her job of blocking opponents.

Stoked on his photo of me doing the slalom wiggle.
I didn't wear any pads or helmet just my Dickies, Vans and a cut off,
what could go wrong!

By the way Jonnys book "fuel pegs and cider" on the Linkert is still available until January

If you were at Linkert Attacks UK get one for a xmas prezzy souvenir.
If you weren't get one as a textbook on how to run a good bike event!

Bottrop 2012

2011-11-28T18:59:00.002Z

Just got news back from the BOTTROP organizers that my Shovel has been excepted for the Bike show. Comes with a free ticket too.
They have a Skateramp and board rental and rumour is that Jason Jessee will be there.
Looking forward to some Euro riding next summer.

Maxwell

2011-11-26T19:13:00.000Z

Met this dude in the pub late after Rollerburn and we were all a bit pissed.
It turns out it was Maxwell Pastronosta.
Max is the guy who does the Artwork for Lowbrow customs
and his own stuff called Corpses From hell.
The same guy who doodled over the corner of my Shovel feature in
Lowbrow Weirdo magazine.
His BSA is featured in the new Sideburn mag.
Small world eh!

That's a cheap trick!

2011-11-26T00:23:00.000Z

A few diggers got repainted and tweeked.
Question....is this the same bike?

Prime mover

2011-11-24T21:23:00.000Z

Glad I never went to the London leg of the UK vert skate series last month.
They let any riff raff in!

For sale

2011-11-24T00:28:00.000Z

My Good buddy Mr Filler is selling this.
A mint 1930 5 window.
Get down HERE and break his arm off.

Pass the mint sauce!

2011-11-23T18:51:00.005Z

Four Lamb chops and some scrag end please!
Paul Oates up on stage to collect best chops prize from his son Guy Martin

at Sideburn Mag's Rollerburn on Saturday!

Well done Paul. The shovelhead rules and deserved to win.

Me and Mr Murdo had a race

2011-11-23T11:30:00.000Z

SOLD

2011-11-22T20:12:00.000Z

My Kooler Shaker/ Trawler Hauler/ Trawler Hauler II is sold.
Money has been transfered and it is a done deal.
My chameleon like 883 Sportster is off to a new home in Devon.
I have loved you and cared for you and treated you to makeovers
and in return you have served me well.
Time to love you and leave you. XXX

Rollerburn- More Pics Appearing

2011-11-22T00:26:00.002Z

Still Buzzin!

Some pics are mine and collected off the feeding frenzy on the net. Thanks if I used one of yours..x

Rollerburn Drag

2011-11-21T09:43:00.002Z

Charlie Chuck and Guy Martin can Pull the birds!

Rollerburn Bike show

2011-11-20T21:07:00.000Z

Rollerburn was cool and I am finally home and completely Knackered!
The bike show was a good mix of our choppers and cafe racers and flat trackers.
They encouraged us to make a public display of ourselves.
Paul Oates was a favourite of mine he really went for it with a colour matching Xmas tree
and a letter to Santa, it was inspired and very funny and a little bit crazy.

Pete Stansfields Smokin' Triumph chop

My stuff

Modernity

2011-11-18T00:25:00.001Z

New era of Diggers, do these cut it?

You scratch my back and...

2011-11-17T19:35:00.000Z

My sometime shoe sponsor Vans UK came through with some killer 4Q Max Schaaf's.
Thanks Mr Powley.
In return I will parking my Bike on top of my Vans banner at Rollerburn this weekend.
Come along and witness me shamefully prostitute myself for free shoes!

This Weekend

2011-11-17T07:47:00.000Z

Rollerburn is here.

Erics Coming over

2011-11-15T19:50:00.002Z

The world famous Eric Dressen messaged me Monday to say
Vans are paying for him to come and hang out at the Hemel Hempstead pool/ bowl
contest next month.
He is thinking about bringing his tattoo equipment too.

Things are about to get gnarly!

Bike I Like

2011-11-14T23:53:00.000Z

Rude and dirty Shovel from
Sparetime Japan.
Makes me feel sleazy and ashamed for posting it!

It's not going anywhere

2011-11-13T18:52:00.001Z

Maybe selling the Sportster but the Shovel aint going.
This mileage muncher keeps me in awe of Shovelheads.
Plymouth to Birmingham in three and half hours on this beast.
Big plans to ride across to the Linkert in France next summer and enjoy every mile
that me and the bike do together.
We got some living to do.
It's still bigtime Shovel love Baby!

Bike for Sale

2011-11-08T20:09:00.003Z

Pains me to do this.
I need a cash injection and have to make way for 2012.
Shovelhead stays but this one has to go.
So pissed off!

CHECK IT OUT ON THIS LINKER
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220889811862

The Kids Ripping

2011-11-08T18:02:00.000Z

Bitches Be Fronting

2011-11-07T13:24:00.000Z

My son Ross has some crazy creative friends.
Check out Bubba and Benji and their hilarious new song.
Guaranteed you will be singing this for weeks!
CLICK HERE

Inspired me for years

2011-11-06T10:55:00.000Z

"I'm almost 50 years old, I still skateboard as hard as I ever did.
When we are 60 and still skateboarding they are gonna be like, WOW!"

WATCH THE STEVE OLSON INTERVIEW

Goin for a Poo !

2011-11-05T17:17:00.002Z

Cruising to the other side of the Hot Rod Drags site.
No helmet required.

Photo from Harleypics Garry Stuart

R.I.P. Vans man

2011-11-03T23:53:00.000Z

I heard today that Jim Van Doren has died age 72.
Mr Van Doren invented the famous Vans Waffle sole,
the choice of skateboarders everywhere.
I have worn them since 1978.
His nephew Steve Van Doren made me a burger one time at a big skateboard bowl event we did at Donnington.
Top people - the Van Doren's

So slow

2011-11-03T18:56:00.000Z

You're a big man but you're in bad shape!

Coming closer

2011-11-01T22:57:00.001Z

Getting nearer to the craziest event I ever heard of!

Rollerburn from SIDEBURN on Vimeo.

So much going on here and for me I have my bike in the display/show
and I have signed up to get my ass kicked in the skateboard slalom demo.
Friends from Skateboarding and Chopper backgrounds all in one building.
Makes my head spin just thinking about it!
Go to Sideblog for news and info.

Happiness is....

2011-10-31T07:37:00.002Z

A moist helmet!

French

2011-10-30T17:58:00.000Z

One of my favourite artists and friend French was in our skatepark painting the walls with two pieces for the halloween hellfest.
These were repainted using a microfilm and projector.
French's work rules, he is in demand and has done stuff for everybody
including Creature, Independent, Vans and his own company Witchcraft.

Harleypics

2011-10-28T20:07:00.001+01:00

A dude came up to the Hot Rod Drags and took photos of our bikes.
I remember we were a bit hungover and ambushed by his camera we all went a bit shy!
Garry Stuart has worked for Back Street Heroes and other mags and his work is pretty cool.

Harley Pics website. Click and scroll down

Covers

2011-10-27T08:20:00.000+01:00

Last nights discussion down the pub!
Would chrome rear wheel covers look right on my Digger???

Ghostrider

2011-10-25T23:11:00.000+01:00

Got another new skateboard today.

Digger Bits

2011-10-25T08:04:00.001+01:00

All the do-dads have arrived to start my digger project.
Every part that has to be pre-fitted to my beautiful VINTIQUE frame
are now in my greasy mitts!
Just need some more cash right now.

The Hirst Facility

2011-10-23T22:26:00.003+01:00

Some friends of mine have been skating this North Devon indoor facility
that looks pretty plush.
It got me asking what the deal was with these ramps?
I found out today that artist Damien Hirst has done this on his land for his son.

Oakley Liddell, One foot handplant

New bowl

2011-10-23T01:35:00.000+01:00

Today me and the kid are gonna check out a new skatepark.
First day for Paignton.

The Tug Toner

2011-10-21T21:46:00.000+01:00

Til next summer!

2011-10-20T20:13:00.001+01:00

Wheels day

Tea Party

Linkert run

The Dook

Hayride

Lowlevel

Andy and Annas wedding

Drags

Just riding

Oxymoron

2011-10-20T18:29:00.002+01:00

Bloke looks Tough
Dog looks Tougher
Bike is Pink!
That is why I like diggers
They are too beautiful and bypassed the traditional biker image.

The Higsons

2011-10-19T04:58:00.001+01:00

A favourite chapter in my life.
Early 80's, skateboarding all over the UK and going to see The Higsons.
Post punk Funk band that never made the real big time.
Recognize the frontman? That's Charlie Higson, top author
and star of TV shows Swiss Tony and the Fast Show.
We were all so much younger then!

Seat Springs

2011-10-17T07:38:00.002+01:00

Got Seat Springs?

Shovel run

2011-10-16T11:24:00.001+01:00

I went to work in Cornwall on the Shovel yesterday.
It has only just got back on the road after losing
a part on the highway over a month ago.
Knocked off early (well you would on a sunny Saturday
with a 1340 Shovelhead waiting outside!)
Nice long ride up the north Cornwall coast and back across Dartmoor.
Stopped off to check out this unloved skate ramp in Mary Tavy near Peter Tavy!

Speed Tribes

2011-10-15T07:51:00.003+01:00

A movie about the Sayonara Speed Tribes is coming soon.

Shout BOSOZOKU in a deep Japanese accent.

Chopper for sale

2011-10-14T20:11:00.000+01:00

This bike was conceived by a starving artist called Benny Thomas but he is getting very hungry and needs to buy food!

Early Paughco frame, drum brake 16" rear wheel, BCS spool 21" front wheel, 8" over 35 mm forks with all mounts left on.. should you requre a front brake. High mounted Wassel tank, 6" dogbones with drag bars, twin mini headlight, Barons rear fender, Vintique sissy bar. The seat is a rigid mount seat going part way up the sissy bar. If you you would like to own this bike give Benny Thomas a call on 01527575934 or 07913325297

Love Ear Art

2011-10-13T07:53:00.000+01:00

Hey Gen if you read this I will be in contact over the winter
like we spoke about.

Fuck the Factory!

2011-10-11T16:50:00.001+01:00

Outside a huge U.S dealership a few years ago.
Biggest H.D. sign I ever seen.

Old Mag Stuff

2011-10-10T20:58:00.000+01:00

Got loads of this shit!
I found the Sidewalk magazine from 2005 with my Skateboard memorabilia exhibition in it.
I spent ages making a swimming pool coping backdrop and finding and scanning the relevant board adverts for each item from Thrasher mag.
It was a nerdy labour of love but it came out pretty cool and was well received.
Everyone seems to look straight at the beer fizzing up in the bottle, don't know why!

Tom

2011-10-09T23:34:00.001+01:00

This is my Friend Tom.
He plays the banjo, is good fun to skate with and has some stupid tattoos
including a T on one butt cheek and M on the other!
I know that coz he showed me down the pub last week!
He is our new skatepark Janner-tor. See video....

Skankin!

2011-10-09T14:45:00.000+01:00

Love this picture I took of Duane Peters "the Master of Disaster'!
Onstage at the Highbury Garage a few years back.

The most kickass song ever!

2011-10-08T15:25:00.000+01:00

Jeff Tremaine's band Milk created the soundtrack for Jason Lee's Blind - Video Days part;
Tremaine went on to produce Jackass, Spike Jonze who directed the movie went on to be epic
and Jason became Earl. Band only lasted about a year but they ruled and still do!