1970-Made in Fullerton, California

completely CHOPPED

maybe you've seen this, maybe not-its all over that hamb. I've seen it a bunch in old mags like car craft and cycle world/cycle guide, choppers. but here it is in color. Larry Gormans Knucklehead with a Larry Watson Paintjob and a more than likely Bill DeCarr molding. Ripple Pipe. VL forks. Raked. Insanity. Can you imagine walking into Watson shop with your knucklehead "Hey Larry, i got this idea..."

one step forward...

Two steps back...

Got my new FMA #3W Apes on the shovelhead just in time for one of my exhaust valves to finally say "no more"...d'oh! These bars are the first set of FMA bars that are another inch taller, little more pullback than the regular FMA #2 bars...but these are also a little wider in the clamp area to fit my 1949 Panhead triple trees...

kustom paint

Lime Gold Metalflake Busonic By Larry Watson. Its restored to its first rootbeer version now, but was found a lot like this. The Roulette whell center consol was my favorite part.

Laced 60 Eldorado with 66 Impala hollywood top by Bill Carter

dig the big Carter poster hanging in the background. Bill told me that at shows like these, Watson would have his area with his cars and then he would have the other side.

showtime

check out the poster for the Nash show. going to be a nice party. lots of people singing happy party. june 4th. a splendid display of motorcycles art music and perhaps some pretty girls.

1969 XLH Sportster Chopper for sale

Gotta pay bills. This is OG boys and girls. The Sporty was built back in the day with a gooseneck front and rigid rear, extended early 33.4 frontend, 18 and 16" wheels, mini drum used as a spool, comfy ol' two-up seat, frisco mount sporty tank, all the great old goods. This picture is from the early 1980's when it was still in it's prime. It's not too far off this, but shows a little age, but that's what's kinda cool about it. It has a current CA title, runs, but it is electric start only and the starter is bunk, needs some attention. I have a new V-twin kick start kit available if you so desire. email grant@getchoppedout.com to buy. Will ship world wide.

Saturday May 7 @ the Garage Company

PASS IT ON!!!

tagging

made in the USA

Hajime

FMA and US2000, Tokyo, miss you friend.  If you want an AEE/FMA work jacket let me know, we have a few left...

727

At work...was behind a 426 hemi...

Parts for sale

Got some parts on the chopping block...email grant@getchoppedout.com to buy.

Crazy Frank fender. Yep, one of those. just sand blasted and given a coat of high build primer. (sale pending) 

Panhead Adjustable sidecar 41mm wideglide triple trees. Old chrome.





Ok, this narrow wideglide setup came off a panhead that used to run around in SoCal (no kidding). Old narrow aftermarket 41mm triple trees from the '70s that also has an axle and 21" spool wheel complete with ribbed hub. It is all dirty, as found, but you can see it might clean up alright. I am selling just the trees, wheel, and axle. All or separate. This is shown with my tubes and lowers, add your own.

PSSSSSSSSST! Saturday May 7th...bike night at the Garage CO in LA!

We love working with Yoshi and crew at the Garage Company in LA! It has been a fruitful relationship thus far bringing the Born-Free crowd into Yoshi's world and visa-versa.

Well, we have another shindig planned at the Garage Company Saturday May 7 from 3-9pm. Ride out. We'll be giving away a Bear Parts CO seat and P-Pad combo to one lucky Born-Free poster/ticket buyer of two or more...

Garage Co. 956 W Hyde Park BLVD, Inglewood, CA 90302

Sorry & Thanks...

Man, been quite a log jam here for the past little while with everything that's been going on...Sorry to those of you that have been waiting for your FMA orders, they are pretty much all on the way now! THanks for hangin in there........................

Period

This Bitchin 48 pan with the choice flanders setup was part of a cargofleet of bikes with Arizona plates that I saw near my school on a lunch break. Must've been headed for export, no sign of them at the swap.

Jose's Knucklehead is pretty sweet. This beauty was outshining the sun at the long beach street chopper party. Alonzo built the motor right and slipped the first ever set of FMA cork rocker-tin gaskets in there.

handleBAR-bie's playhouse

Well, I really like to go apehangin around and was happy to pick up these 16"s and Grant was ecqually stoked to swap on some oem glide risers so he could install our latest product, the narrow handlebars everyone has come to know and love but now for wide-glides! There is a rack of countless handlebars up in the garage that I have run and I love my new bars but the apes sure aint good for splitting lanes. . .

Bars Back in STOCK!!!!

At LOOOOONG last we have the old NOISE Narrow Apes back in stock! They have a new name, FMA #2 Bars, but are still made in the USA and are available in raw mild steel or polished stainless steel. They have a nice comfortable 8-inch rise and are super narrow in the base, for risers with 3.5-inch center to center measurement only!
CLICK HERE to buy. 


Our friend Wil has had these on his Panhead for some time now(which also features a Harpoon Paint job and an FMA Velocity Stack).

tonight in Long Beach

Go to Tubb's new joint!

Street CHopper Party this Saturday

Head out to LA Speedshop on Saturday for the release of the new issue of Street CHopper. If you can't find a copy near you check out Lowbrow Customs, they stock it now!

New Hats!

man....been busy and sick, sorry for the absense, BUT we have something new to throw at you! We did our SPLITTING LANES IS NOT A CRIME design on hats! put it on your dome and let everyone know...choose either a white or black panel mesh hat, $20 each and like always every order gets stickers! CLICK HERE to order.

Sendai Update

i have been emailing back and forth with some of our friends in Japan since the earthquake and while most everyone we know is in the Tokyo area and west in Nagoya and Osaka, we've been anxiously waiting word from Sendai. Rikiya Katsuta (the owner of the shovelhead on the right in the photo) sent me a couple of email updates. Lucky for him, he lives in Tokyo near another friend of ours, Gaku Yokomizo from Hawgholic, and had been despiratly trying to reach Daisuke Miura (on the left of me) who built Rikiya's shovelhead at Cosmic in Sendai. this morning i woke up to another email from Rikiya saying he he found out Daisuke and also Osamu-san are ok. Their shop is in great disorder from the earthquake, but that them and their families are ok.

With all devastation in north east Japan and with thousands dead, it's good to know that at least a few that you know are ok. That's not to say that they don't have one hell of a road to go down from here to get back to some sort of normal. It's too bad that this kind of tragedy is what it takes for us to think more about those that are close to us and just how delicate life is.

I am lucky to come from a big family that apparently has good genes, we live a ling time and suffer from little to non-existent genetic troubles. My only problem is that i have been the better part of a thousand miles away from my family for over a decade now...following all my crazy hopes and dreams...which has worked for me for the most part, but the distance of family is the greatest cost. i am lucky to have great friends who i have considered my stand-in family for most of this time and think nothing of it now. I am coming close to having spent more holidays with friends both old and new than with my blood family which we usually connect via the phone during these times, but as some of the elder family members like my grand parents get older ( i think the 3 remaining are all in their 90's and grandpa John would still be with us i'm sure if it weren't for one reckless drunk driver in the early 1980s...

Anyway, make a call, write a letter, send an email, print a photo out and send it, flowers, etc to some of those you love. you can't take it with you, all these pictures on blogs, internet, crap in your garage, etc, because he who dies with the most toys is DEAD.

THis is all the more reason to be as passionate about what you love while you can, learn as much as possible, see the world because even language is a small barrier when you find a common ground with people halfway across the world.
I may have mentioned in some post before about feeling at an early age that i already wouldn't have enough time in life to do everything i wanted (even back when i was 16 or 17) let alone now that i am 31. Life is too short to be angry, to be jealous, to squander your time here in negativity. That to me is the biggest tragedy of all, wasting the most valuable thing you have that you didn't cost you anything.

Anyway, i am probably pretty far off base now, but we are all thinking about you in Japan.

Twenty-five bucks gets you this:

Get your poster/ticket HERE, what are you waiting for? This thing is NICE~~!!!
Turn it up!

Sendai City

I woke up to texts wondering if we in California were ok and not having TV for a couple of years now i wondered why and the replys told me about the threat of a sunami from a huge quake in Japan. News to me! so i hoped my crappy blackberry would find it's way to the internet while i was lay in bed this moring and read about the 8.9 quake that rocked Sendai City.

i imediatley thought about all our friends in Japan which are mostly in the Tokyo area and then out west in Nagoya. Sent some emails to them and luckily everyone says they are fine so far, but as Gaku from Hogholic told me, the city is chaos right now. I asked Gaku if he knew of anything from Rikiya of Cosmic CHoppers up in Sendai City and am still waiting to hear. Riki is one of the few people i know up in that area along with Shop Sam's and i can only hope for their safety. I met him at this last years Yokohama show and we talked for a while about things before i gave him and the bike my STREET CHOPPER MAGAZINE pick.
Hang in there guys, and let us know if you need anything....

THe Doctor is in

Ha, just found these pics i took at the Chino Fab shop one sunny day last year during the Born-Free Panhead build. Mr. Mike Davis doing it to it on this little guy, good form.
I was kinda hoping he'd use the first one as a header for his BLOG, but guess he didn't like it...or was being too humble and didn't want to make everyone jealous of his sweet moves.

stuff in stock

We have more Knucklehead rocker tin CORK gaskets in stock! These gaskets have always been made of thin paper which might have been fine over 70 years ago when Harley first came out with the knucklehead, but for those with motors still kickin we have these made out of high quality gasket grade cork to help stop those pesky leaks! Like all FMA parts these are made in the USA and are $40 a set. CLICK HERE TO BUY

Also, we have our Splitting Lanes is Not a Crime shirts in BLACK! A few mediums, larges, and XLs for now. We're doing more next week...sorry no pics on black, but you get the idea...CLICK for FMA online STORE

 

Born Free Knucklehead is almost done!

Spent my lunch hour checking in at the Garage Company where Kiyo is just about done with the Born-Free Knucklehead giveaway bike! Can't believe how nice and how quick it has come together! I am real happy not to be thrashing to finish it by Saturday...
All that is left is the tank which is probably there by now, A little more wiring, gas, and to light it off tomorrow. Harpoon is going to pinstripe it at the party for all to see and then it'll be ready to do wheelies down the 405!

Doctor Davis and Kiyo try the new seat on for size

Remember if you buy two or more poster/ticket combos between now and 7pm on saturday night you could take home the Lowbrow Customs Alien tank painted by Harpoon, see you at the Garage Company or buy your stuff HERE
The Garage Company is located at 956 W. Hyde Park BLVD, Inglewood, CA 90302

Greetings from Italy

Our pal Cyrus sends these in from Italy. Gotta be the only guy living on the boot to have a Crazy Franks fender. Dig his blog here

http://roadcrewfirenze.blogspot.com

My Brother

Is rockin the new shirt having a good time for all of us right now.

FMA knows how

To make an S&S carb look good