the streets ARE paved in gold

CAN I JOIN IN?

We went across London to see Nation at the National Theatre.

We got off the tube at Embankment and walked across the river Thames

Past the Royal Festival Hall

Past the bright & new South Bank

Past the kids doing tricks

to the National Theatre by Dennis Lasdun

where material is king

and the boundaries of what is inside

and outside are not defined

and the threshold is managed by a local entrepeneur

The interior of the auditorium was as much a play as the play

after the play finished we made our way back home, life had not diminished outside, the skaters were skating

in their appropriated skate park which the authorities have now realised is a part of the architecture

back over the bridge past the busker

wearing his busking shoes

and playing his busking sax

under the gaze of the ever watching eye

down underground

onto the late train

home

TREASURE

HELMET

JAPANESE DARTH VADER

ALDGATE EAST

1970's 50cc MORINI SUPERBIKE

fix my bike NOW Daddy

GARAGE TIME

leave home on saturday morning just before 7am [neighbours not happy] to go to Kempton Swap meet...not a good weather forecast so most people left their bikes at home and came by car...but thats not for Jimmy and I, oh no. when its going to rain we like to get on our shiniest most special motorcycles and get wet....but it never rains that early anyway so it didnt rain on us

found some bits i needed and nothing that I wanted but didnt need so it was a good trip ending back in my garage to do some 'biketecture'... planning a new set up for a bike to go travelling with next summer. new tanks [rather old tanks], some high mount footpegs, police shift setup, a new set of bars and panniers should keep me happy.

CARNIVAL

DISASSEMBLED KNUCKLEHEAD

If only life was really this neat and tidy
if it was you could wear white tshirts and all that stuff and keep them clean while playing with motorbikes like the Fonz

OUT OF THE BATCAVE

and into west london.... saw this this morning in a secret garage location - the enemy of this Batman is Warner Bros. legal dept. apparently.

KNUCKLEHEAD

1946 FL... you are not looking in the wrong place with one of these.

This bike was salvaged from New Orleans after hurricane Katrina and brought back to life in London.

HEAVY METAL

Photos by Lior Kristal

Essentially, everything that I do relates at one level or another to motorcycling [Paladin]

It was only a matter of time that 2 wheeled building had to come into the frame.

Satoshi Ogawa, master builder.