Have gun will travel

Johnny's laughing!

But Marvin woulda given Brando a pasting.

Man's best friends

Slave Lewie's Knucklehead

Ever bettered?

Chopmeet's neat

If I try to get to one show next year in the USA, it'll be this one. Those guys at Biltwell are totally sound. When we started the mag, they emailed me to offer advertising, advice and support. (Some CA chopper scenesters offered the opposite; but that's another funny story).

This show has already got a great reputation. And no wonder: all the quality choppers you've seen in the mags were there, and those Biltwell guys know how to organise a shindig. Photos by Blue Collar Moto: thanks man!

Capt. Blaster in issue 8!

Blaster's a legend. Ed Roth called him his "Italian Connection". He's a member of the Sinners Sweden. And he's owner of one of the sweetest Pans in Italy. We talk to him and get the whole story in issue 8, out Dec 1.

New English Library

I've been collecting these books for years, after loving them as a kid. Titles cover all the early seventies English youth cultures from bikers to skinheads, greasers to suedeheads, and offer a great lurid mixture of chain-wielding thuggery and up-against-a-wall teenage sex.

Proper bike shops still exist

Most people in England agree that the country's going down the shitter. But if you look hard, there are still corners of the Old Dart that thankfully haven't been ruined by unchecked immigration and nannying politicians. My parents retired from London to a sleepy village near Thame, where pre-eminent Velocette specialists RF Seymour have been located for as long as anyone can remember. Not all motorcycle shops have turned into boutiques, and this one remains unimpressed by passing trends or any pressure to get 'up to date'. Want your bike rebuilt by a man in a white coat? Come here. My brother took these evocative photos.

Hate jetlag ... love TriBSAs.

Just returned from the land of real ale and fat chavs to the land of kookaburras and thongs, and got some good material for GK while we were away. Now need to get a backlog of mags out (what, you think we have employees who do this stuff?) ... thanks for waiting if you ordered a sub.

The European Tour

We're off to the UK for a few weeks to see family and shoot some stuff for the mag, so I won't be posting much here. Here's a reminder of a couple of things I love about Europe – taken at the Jokers show a few years back.

Buy this book

You can buy a signed copy on eBay right now for thirty bucks. The perfect complement to Danny Lyon's 'The Bikeriders', these photos were taken by a member of the Outlaws MC in the '60s, and compiled into this book by his daughter. Prints are from the original negatives.

The truck

Kutty's. I loved it in the green primer best. Probably my favourite F100 ever.

So much cool stuff in one photo

Even a pedal car!

Daisy's gonna get yer

Oh Bondage Up Yours!

BIND ME TIE ME
CHAIN ME TO THE WALL
I WANNA BE A SLAVE
TO YOU ALL
OH BONDAGE UP YOURS
OH BONDAGE NO MORE
OH BONDAGE UP YOURS
OH BONDAGE NO MORE
CHAIN STORE CHAIN SMOKE
I CONSUME YOU ALL
CHAIN GANG CHAIN MAIL
I DONT THINK AT ALL
OH BONDAGE UP YOURS
OH BONDAGE NO MORE
OH BONDAGE UP YOURS
OH BONDAGE NO MORE
THRASH ME CRASH ME
BEAT ME TILL I FALL
I WANNA BE A VICTIM
FOR YOU ALL
OH BONDAGE UP YOURS
OH BONDAGE NO MORE
OH BONDAGE UP YOURS
OH BONDAGE NO MORE

Poly Styrene (c) 1976

Bondage up yours

Rat Day 08

It's probably the best event in Sydney, though the organisers are now victims of their own success. It started small, cool and ratty a few years back, but has now been overrun by the billet and V-Rod brigade. Anyway, we got together for the ride down (about a 3 hr round trip from where I live) and were represented by everything from a '46 Knuck to a '69 R/T Charger. Then we all went to the Carlisle Castle in Newtown for a few beers and a burger. A good day – and the Pan only refused to start once.

TOH

After punk came Theatre of Hate, with Billy Duffy on guitar (black hair!) and more Gretsches than you could throw a stick at. Listen to 'Original Sin/Legion', it's angry!