tonight, i am listening to 'box of secrets' by the blood red shoes.

great photo of the infamous roarin' rat gasser at shakespear county, get down to the nostalgia drags that they hold down there twice a year, a really great weekend, jake and me somehow ended up on the dodgems at stupid o' clock after being on the piss all day, it just seemed like a good idea at the time.

isle of man tt races this week, been following the excellent coverage on itv4, reminded me of the last time i went over, [1981 gulp!], i was riding a blue and white gs1000s same as this one, mine had an alpha 4 into 1 pipe, 'cir cycle' bellmouths and some of those horrible foam handlebar grips, nearly got wiped out on the mountain by a mad german on a h2 kawasaki two-stroke, love the isle of man, must try and get over for the manx gp in september.

robbed this picture off jeff's church of choppers blog, xr750 tracker, they have four or five hanging from the ceiling and walls in las vegas harley davidson, what a waste, me and barse were talking on saturday about the triumph flat tracker project in classic bike magazine and why it just doesn't look "right", the rake of the forks on the triumph is wrong, it needs to be pulled in like the xr, they spent a fortune on it but sorry it's not nice.

ncr ducati , pure class, hoped to see it in the flesh when i was in california, made 80 mile detour to santa barbara ducati and they had sold it the day before, typical.

dug this out and played it tonight, it's still a great album, must admit i couldn't be bothered to get the vinyl out so i played the cd, cd's/digital music has made me lazy but i still get a thrill out of looking through the vinyl vault.

16/02/08

on march 31st 1990 up to 200,000 people staged a protest against the poll-tax, a combination of heavy handed policing and known anarchist troublemakers resulted in rioting and mass disturbance on the streets of the nations capital city.

on any sunday.

this is a classic photo, front engined dragster, launching hard, tyres smoking, can you imagine the noise from those eight open exhaust headers pointing directly at your head? i know it's an overused term but... awesome.

timmy loveless, [left] and abk barse[right], don't know who the other two are!, shires show 2008, barse on 1200 rigid shovelhead, me on 4-speed rigid sporty, we rocked it, caning onto the site i ripped my reg/rec clean off, i won best lowrider, not even any paint on the chop, bare steel, scotchbrited, we blew all the big-money bikes into the weeds on attitude alone, don't try and be a sinners wannabe, be yourself, i sold the chop and bought a ducati, barse threw the shovel engine back in the swing-arm frame and bought a fantic trail bike, one season only, you won't catch us living on past glories, another time, another place