LONDON INTERNATIONAL CUSTOM SHOW PHOTOS Part 2

Big thanks to Ratz Howes for these photos!

LONDON INTERNATIONAL CUSTOM SHOW PHOTOS

Many thanks to Robert Peacock for this first taster of the weekend's show.

STRIPED!

Thank you very much Mr Simon 'Nefarious' Pollock.

LONDON INTERNATIONAL CUSTOM SHOW WINNER

And the winner is ...

Larry Houghton of Lamb Engineering's 'Son Of A Gun' BSA.

Thank you to Bosun for the photo.

BE CAREFUL OUT THERE...

...Because some of them are as good as we think we are...

324 THROUGH THE DOOR

Despite February being the sort of rubbish month that makes you want to rip up the Gregorian calendar and build something better out of matchsticks and baler twine, and in spite of the fact that we had exactly two weeks and two days to put together this issue while simultaneously sorting out the custom show for the London International Custom Show this weekend, all on a budget of three bob and a rancid otter's pelt (and we had to bargain upwards from a vole hide), BSH 324 has landed with a rather sibilant sort of pfuruffffff. You probably had to be here. Or there.

Anyway, loads of lovely stuff; a proper rideable Sportster from Not-A-Fridge, another super cool CB750 caff racer from Carpy, a Royal Enfield, a Guzzi 'tracker, an XS750 and trips to the Verona Motor Bike Expo, Old Gold Garage Co, Stockport, the Hotrod Hayride, Faak, Yorkshire and South Dakota. Worth the skin and probably the whiskers of any otter.

JORDAN GRAHAM'S ROADSTER

A couple of months ago, when we featured Jordan Graham's Triumph T100C, we mentioned his 1928 Ford Roadster, but, due to space, we didn't print a picture of it. Actually, that's not quite the truth. I forgot where I'd put the photos of the roadster that the way-more-efficient-and-considerably-taller-than-me Mr Kev Elliott had given me. And I've just found them. While looking for some other photos that I can't find...

Photograph: Kev Elliott

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS...

...When you type 'Blokes On Bikes' into Google.

Now I've done it, you don't need to. That was my public service for the day.

TODAY'S FAVOURITE WALLPAPER...

... is the Tony Thacker and Jimmy Shine Model A. Just lose yourself in that photo.

JIMMY SHINE

SOUNDTRACK TO OUR LIVES

Well, today it is...

TWO DAYS TO GO...

Two days left before we plunge into set-up for the London International Custom Show at Alexandra Palace, London, this weekend. Right now, I'm surrounded by show cards, full of cold and only still rolling thanks to black coffee (cheers Paula), good music (thanks to the Supersuckers - you guys still rock) and the vast supplies of anti-illness-of-any-description drugs I brought back from Walgreens in the USA.

But the custom show is looking good, a load of bikes we haven't seen before, and a couple that I know are still being finished. It's shaping up to be a good weekend; come up and find us. I'll be the grumpy snuffly one.

LONDON INTERNATIONAL CUSTOM SHOW

PIN-UP TUESDAY

And Triumph Tuesday, for that matter. Mention of Baron's Speed Shop led me to go digging through the archives (ie, some large cardboard boxes) to find these pictures of the lovely Von Beatnik of Baron's Speed Shop. She's beautiful, she wrenches, she paints and sorry, guys, she's spoken for...

RANDOM MONDAY

It's Monday, it's probably raining and I'm head down into sorting out the custom show at Ally Pally this coming weekend, so here's a load of random photos. Enjoy.

Well, yes it is...

John Reed and Vic Jefford collaborating on a design...

Valentine, Arizona

Paris 2006

Because there is something super cool about a truck on a stick.

Krazy Horse's Model A on its maiden run somewhere in Belgium.

Memphis heat. (And that MAINT REQD light stayed on for the next 10,000 miles...)

Peter Fonda signing a Captain America replica.