Viva Las Vegas Show

My wife and I didn't make it out to Viva Las Vegas this year.  We will be set up in the car show area next year selling some goods.  Always have a good time during the show.  Look forward to next year.  Couple of shots I took at last years show.

Fatal1ty Brand Book

Couple of the pages I designed for Fatal1ty Digital Gaming Company brand book.  This was a huge project for me and that was taking up all my time for the last month.  Just finished the project and now I'm working on getting the Joyrides website finished.  Still got a lot of work to do on that and I hope to have most of it done this coming week.  Looking to go and do some shooting tomorrow so I can post some new photos for the upcoming week.

New Top Shelf Ad-Barnett Magazine

New ad I shot and designed for Top Shelf Customs.  Will be appearing in the upcoming issue of Barnett Magazine.

Chopper Daves LFR11X Story

This is a re post of a earlier story I did on Chopper Dave.  I just wanted to combine it into one post so I can make it a direct link  for archive purposes.  So for those of you who haven't seen it here it is in one sitting. 

Welcome to Chopper Dave's Street Tracker LFR11X story and photo gallery. This is a presentation of Dave talking about the LFR 11X and our day together shooting around Long Beach, Ca. Enjoy

Chopper Dave’s newest bike he built really isn’t that new. He started this project way back in 2005 and built it in a few months. As Dave tells it, “It came together because I had a lot of extra parts and I came across a Evolution engine. All the pieces kinda fell together.

The frame is my old panhead frame, my buddy, Frank Kaiser gave me the wheels. Another buddy of mine, Todd in Hawaii sent me the Ceriani fork pieces I needed.


I kinda mixed all the fork pieces together because it’s partially a dirt bike fork and a road race fork. The rest of the parts came from all over.”

“I ran it at Ventura, at the flat track. The motor was wasted. Ton of blow by. Like zero compression. It was impossible to start and of course I had to put a magneto on it.

But I raced it up there and did shitty cause I geared it up way to tall.

I mean, I was at the top of second gear, halfway through the straight, like buzzing, and it’s a short track and I couldn’t shift.

So I did really bad. I did better on my panhead in 2000, but it was super fun.” says Dave of the LFR 11X.

The following year Dave planned to take it to Japan, but he didn’t get the paper work fixed up on it so it didn’t go. Because he had other projects going on and he focused on finishing those the bike sat for 3 and a half years. Once he got all his other projects finished up he decided to finish up the LFR 11X. So around April of 2008 he started working on it again.

He sent the frame out to powder coating at Specialized and Harpoon did the paint. Motor is now 11:1 compression. “Tempermental” he says.

As Dave explains, “Only because it’s getting the starting combination. It runs fucking great. It’s a weird combination of cam and compression. So it’s kinda hard to dial in, but I’m getting closer and closer. But it runs super strong.

It’s just getting it fine tuned a little better.” Dave had a quick turn throttle on it, which made it twice as touchy. “You just turn it a little bit and your at full throttle. It was knarly. It’s also got tons of ground clearance, handles bitchin, it’s just fun as shit.” added Dave.

The LFR 11x was finished around the end of May of 08. Right now Dave finds himself more obsessed with the Flat Track stuff more so than the Chopper stuff right now.

“I’m pretty much over the whole chopper thing for the moment. I’m just over unfunctional choppers.

I’m just not in that mode anymore.” He is looking to build bikes that are more fully functional street tracker style as evident in LFR 11X and “The X Wedge” bike he also built recently.

The LFR 11x was something he wanted to build that was fast and functional.

The way he describes himself, “I’m just a motorcycle guy that likes stuff that works. I like something you could really ride and use.”


With the LFR 11X, Dave has acheived his goal for now. He already has been doing research on his next project build. Stay tuned.

Kyle-Death Machine

So a few months back I flew down to Hawaii for a couple of days to take care of some business.  While I was down there I called Kyle from Death Machine to see if he wanted to hang out.  Kyle came out and picked me up at my hotel down in Waikiki area and we drove back to his house.  He showed me his set up and we took a few shots of his motorcycle by his house.  After we were done he grabbed his skateboard and we headed down to Kapolei Skatepark.  Kyle rode for a hour or so and I snapped a few more shots of him skating.  We drank a few beers at the skate park with some guys he knew as the sun went down.  It is always great to get away and head to Hawaii and now I have another reason to go down there and visit my buddy Kyle.  Super cool guy and has a pretty successful clothing company called Death Machine.  Go to his site and buy some gear when you have some spare change. 

I posted some shots from the trip before but here are the rest of them.