Sponsor Spotlight Born Loser

Well, not really a sponsor, but our partner in Born-Free (the Born part)Mike Davis from Born Loser knows how to find the sweet old parts and take a 50cc mini bike to the sky!

stones

when Mick wanted to be Keith







and Keith wanted to be Mick

Sponsor/Good Dude Spotlight

Our friend Zac in Minnesota is the head man at Heavy Clothing. He made it out last year for Born-Free with his shovel and a pack of good dudes from the midwest and will be riding out in June for #2. He and his sweet swingarm shovel just made the cover of the next Iron Horse too.
For those that follow Zac's blog, the address just changed to http://www.heavy-clothing.com/ so adjust your links and buy some HEAVY gear. He practices what he preaches/sells as well. Zac is an afficienato of the heavier side of rock&roll and shares plenty of it on his blog along with the best of the midwest chopper scene, the real deal scene that is, DUdes that ride.
Also, we at FMA are collaberating with Heavy on a new design that EZ is almost done with that will flip your lids. It'll be available on a shirt as well as a poster. Stay tuned and support!

NOS Bicentenial decals for sale

I have two fo these new old stock HD 1976 bicentenial tank decals left. This is the top portion that goes around the gas cap and says "the great american freedom machine" on it.

email me @ grant.peterson@sorc.com to buy.






Paul's old panhead..............

vl's

Totallt stock, restored. Best factory paintjob in my opinion

Anthony Robinson, the man, the myth, the legendary Tony Bones put this one together a while back. real badass

the second best factory paintjob

sweet homemade aluminium primary on "Hell On Wheels"
not just a source of frames/front ends, the VL is one rad machine. A little bit chitty-chitty bang-bang in the engineering department, but a looker for sure. some say junk, some swear by it, no match for the twin-cam JD and a definite piston melter. 1930-36

peel slowly and see

this was up for sale a looooooong time ago. Just imagine all the work involved, and it went for a song-think about all that work at todays labor rate. Thought is was cool enough to save pictures of but didnt appreciate it enough to buy, besides at the time i think i had just dropped coin on my panheads engine-what would i do with a little honda. ah' the shame of it all.

hot head

ACADAMY AWARDS TONITE

dont know about you, but this is the best movie I saw last year.

meeting of the minds 1962

never before had so much kustom automotive genius been rounded up. Dig the large father showing some major class. Doesnt look like Wilhelm cares what George has gotta say, though

party

it's almost the weekend, you can't party like these guys without having a few unicorns hangin around.
There are more EZ FMA (the shovel motor with the chicks) pocket tess and hoodies in the webstore. we were out of larges in both, but gotcha covered now.

Burner Digger Pocket Tees now available!

We took EZ's Burner Digger design and put it on our favorite pocket tess for all year cruising. It's a two color back, single color front with the scroll FMA logo on the pocket. We have never really told you folks about our FMA tags either that are sewn into all our new shirts, quality babes. $20 each, order through the webstore HERE

Night of the Vampire

Roky Erickson is on the road and headed this way, he was at the top of his game last time i saw him in Dallas a year or two ago. Don't miss it.
All of Roky's music has influenced many bands over the past 40 years from the legendary 13th Floor Elevators Psychedelic Sounds Of album in 1966 (reportedly the first use of the word Psychedelic when it came to music) to his later stuff with the Aliens, etc, when he thought he was posesed, check any or all of it out.



13th Floor Elevators You're Gonna Miss Me


Later Roky



One of my other favorite bands, Spacemen 3, were big fans of Roky (and the MC5!).

The Stars Are Bright

And shining at night! Tim O'Keefe just got the motor redone (again!) in his fresh shovel and got to take it for a first ride on his birthday. Tim is shooting it for us to be in the next issue of Street Chopper. If you didn't know, Tim is quite the photographer, he has a blog you might have heard of, Blue Jean Blues. It's kinda funny, i shot Tim a few years back for the cover of DiCE. This topsy-turvy world keeps spinnin' and Tim is Born-Free 2 Bound!

Still love it

I've posted this before, but i still ove it everytime i listen to it. It's from the very first UFO album from 1970. I got it at a record swap a few years ago and was blown away...turn it up

pic by Wes D

We started a Born -Free blog and a website (under construction www.bornfreeshow.com) hopefully the website will be fairly together this week. The blog is up and running and has links to all our Born-Free 2 sponsors, so please link back to it as well and spread the word!

Born Winner

Here's an outtake from when i shot Mike Davis' (nice legs) sweet Pre-Unit for Street Chopper (on sale now).
Mike and I sold a bunch more certificates for the panhead yesterday at the swapmeet, there is a link to the Born Free online store on the top right of this page where you can get your own.

227

todays date always reminds me of this Jeffersons spinoff.

Side tracked

from being side tracked.
I have been side tracked from finishing my '68 F-100 for a while now, but this little treat in the form of a 550HP blower kit from my friend at Ford Racing really lit a fire under me...a coupla months now...i put an '08 Ford 4.6L 3-valve engine and a Tremec T45R 5-speed in her......

Naturally aspirated:



After forced induction:

Panhead Progress

So we got together today at the Chino Fab Shop to start back on the Born-Free '50 Panhead. We wanted to get it to roller status cuz we wanna take it to the swapmeet on sunday to show you folks what you could win and that we're serious.
Mike D and the Bobber GOd were slingin parts when i got out there and by the time Shawn showed up we had this thing roughed in pretty well. It's a chopper folks. for tickets paypal inrements of $25 to bornfreepanhead@hotmail.com

Big News! Get your Born-Free Panhead tickets now!

As many of you know we are building a 1950 panhead that might be yours at the next Born-Free 2 on June 12th. We have finalized the route in which to get in the running for it and it goes like this:
We are selling this killer mini Born Free Panhead poster created by Adam Nickle for just $25.00 and with that small donation you will get a Born Free Panhead ticket for " free", you are buying the Panhead artwork not the Panhead ticket!! This is so we will..{ comply with the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy }.
The deal is, each poster purchased will come with one "free" ticket..so buy 2 posters get 2 "free" tickets..and so on...Feel free to buy as many as you want. The pay pal address to purchase the posters is... bornfreepanhead@hotmail.com so just go to your pay pal account and send payment straight to that email address.It's very simple to do. If you have any questions or concerns about this or you would like to purchase poster & gift a different way please email Mike Davis directly @ jimmy.dickens@hotmail.com This is not the lg. show poster that we will have for sale soon !! This is the small Panhead poster and is only available online..... FYI about the only stipulation is you must be present to be awarded the chopper. More details and build photos to come....

So let it be writen!

Here is one of the major Born-Free announcements yet to come real soon. We have at last (and final) count 55 gracious sponsors of the Born-Free 2 show! We honestly couldn't do it without every single one of them (and you!). Some of you have seen the few sponsor spotlights over at Mike's Born Loser blog and we'll all be doing more of that over the coming months to help those that don't know any of them get better aquainted.
Thank you everyone, and feel free to repost this poster that Harpoon just got done with. The new born free website inst functional yet, but soon, kepp checking the blogs. Also, we made a small revision to the poster for anyone that saved it over night, save the new one instead.


OK, so we've had to make a few revisons to the poster today...I swear this is the FINAL one!

Whoa Double Double Take Trip out

I think i posted this before, but some how neglected to see how FAR-OUT the shovel is in the foreground! It puts the Crazy in Crazy Frank!