Monday, December 19, 2011
Friday, December 16, 2011
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Wal Phillips Fuel Injectors
The guys over at Williamson Metal Works got their hands on a set of these old Fuel Injectors!
I had never seen / heard of them before and theyre AWESOME! Supposedly they can be 'tuned' but adjusting the butterfly valve... but they are so simple that it seems they would only act as an ON / OFF switch for the gas - All or Nothing! I really dont think that idling was ever an option with these - As always, I stand to be corrected.
Heres some stuff I dug up about them, and about the man who
made them back in the day. Some background info acquired from guskuhn.net...
Walter Hartley Phillips (1908 - 1998), known as Wal, was born in Tottenham, North London. He had a natural ability for things mechanical and by his early teens had put together a motorcycle from junk and spare parts. He wanted to be a race rider and financed his first ambitions by taking part-time jobs.
In 1928 the first dirt track meeting at High Beech saw Wal as one of the 30,000 spectators but he was not very impressed with the sport of speedway compared to the thrills of hammering around the Brooklands circuit. Fortunately for speedway, Wal was to go to another meeting. This was at Stamford Bridge where the American Lloyd 'Sprouts' Elderdemonstrated the technique of 'broadsiding' under floodlight conditions.
As one of the first home-grown riders to see off the Australians, he became a national hero and was part of the team picked for the first test against the Australians at Wimbledon in 1930. In 1932 Wal appeared in the Star Championship final and in 1936 he was to appear in the first World Championships at Wembley.
Wal remained an important figure in the sport for many years and was elected President of the Veteran Speedway Riders Association in 1968.
Wal Phillips is now equally well known as the inventor of a fuel injection system for motorcycle and small automobile engines. The system was intended as a high performance replacement for the Amal carburettors
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
very tranny christmas
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011
SKELL ALERT
Dan Climan is a local sign painter who does some absolutley killer stuff
Dan Climan
He painted this sign which hangs proudly in my shop/ house and it seems to be helping with the amount of skell foot traffic.
I fucking love it
saw these on his website...super rad
Dan Climan
He painted this sign which hangs proudly in my shop/ house and it seems to be helping with the amount of skell foot traffic.
I fucking love it
saw these on his website...super rad
Friday, November 11, 2011
summer= long gone
now that the weather is complete shot up here I plan on spending as little time as possible in this shit. Looking through a few sunnier times and already missing the weather
all photos by the annie lebowitz of choppers and our good pal Bret Beadle
Man alive motorcycles
Thursday, November 10, 2011
My" litttle" bro
is a shit kicker...have a million Adam stories a lot end up with him knocking someone out. He has been training MMA for a long time with guys like Vanderlei and Rampage Jackson but has been competing in a lot of Muay Thai fights lately. Clearly he gets his physique from his big brother
He is fighting Nov 25th at the river rock casino in a Team Canada versus Team China in a K1 rules competition, come out and support him
Monday, November 7, 2011
Friday, November 4, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
New Chopper
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Winter is coming...
Thursday, October 6, 2011
more good stuff from Brett
Myk Rock supporting the team
Our buddy Brett Beadle takes such rad photos, he sent me a couple more over
BRETT.
or check his new blog Man alive motorcycles
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Big F"red"
tranny town 10am wig touchup/ hairspray,
hey a guy dressed like a chick sucking dick for 5 bucks for freaks on the way to work has gotta look good right?
m gonna start taking photos of these tranny jons and post em up, the people are unreal
another day in paradise
big Fred
Another lovely story from a week or so ago, out walking homer at 8 in the morning, a 53 foot trailer is parked in front of my shop, a gnarly old tranny gets out of the cab of a truck as two dudes get in the front seats and does the junkie peck walk over and says
Question"Hey hun have you seen any dentures on your walk? i take em out when i'm working and I cant find em"
Me: No
Him/ Her: Fuck you
as Im walking home trying not to puke a limo pulls up to the other corner and drops 3 trannys including Big Momma who looks like a fat tranny Leguizamo
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Still Life
Matt and Kim have opened a new womens store across the street from their mens shop in victoria
still life for him and her
great stuff in the mens store, they hooked me up with a great pair of jeans. My old lady got a bunch of stuff at the girls store
Matt rides and they are both super cool
check them out
STILL LIFE FOR HIM AND HER
a pcture of Matt and his old mans rides
Friday, September 16, 2011
Loser Machine / SOUL SEEKERS - Toronto
SOUL SEEKERS | Toronto Motorcycle Photo Show
Exhibition of motorcycle inspired photographs
Saturday, September 24 · 6:00pm - 10:00pm
Baitshop
358 Dufferin Street, Suite 117
Toronto, ON
Thursday, September 15, 2011
seen on broadway "darrens truck"
SPOTTED - Somewhere driving down Broadway in Vancouver, 2 men driving it ~ KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED, Vancouverites ♥
Stolen from Langley city, late Sunday Sept 11th/early Monday Sept 12th.......
By: Heidi Gerhardt
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