Black Thunder

The weather still is dark, grey and depressing over here in The Netherland, and so this morning I thought about cancelling today's photo-shoot and set another date with Jose. But it seemed that in Schiedam, near Rotterdam, it would stay dry-(ish) and so we gave it a try. The way to Schiedam, the windscreen-wiper of my car worked overtime. But in Schiedam... it stopped pissing down and we succeed in making some decent shots! This bike is an Evo Harley Davidson, named the Black Thunder, and it features a tuned engine and a 300 mm rear tire.














With this kind of weather it's hard to have some detail in the highlights, but look, there even is a teint in the sky, coz the background is a tiny little under-exposed. Strobe 1/4 power, left (close to Jose's face) and another bare light 1/2 power in front for a little fill-in, about 5 metres away from the bike.














Jose wanted some riding shots (without helmet and eehhh... in the hectic traffic of Schiedam!!) as he liked the action photo's I did for Evert's highneck! But, as said, the weather was really, really dark and because of the long shutter-speed, most of the photo's were shaky... Arrghhh!! But then I bumped onto this lucky shot! (no, we didn't rode really that fast, just about 50 km/h)

Fred's Shadow chopper

It isn't really spring here in Holland, lately, but that doesn't stop us making cool photo's! Today I went to Zeeland to shoot Fred's Honda Shadow chopper under Dutch skies, the way Rembrandt liked 'em. This bike is a endless project which is changing all the time. Fred is a cool guy with a good taste of music too!



Mention the sun, which actually is behind Fred! Three bare speedlight left, right and front @ 100% power

JAS Trikes

We almost cancelled today's photo shoot because there would be heavy showers everywhere in the Netherlands. but then Arie -the owner of this V8 trike - phoned me with the good news that it would be 'dry' in Anna Paulowna, in the North side of the Netherlands. We photographed this bike between the rain, though, but we succeed making some nice shot though!
Okay, this trike is based on a Mustang engine- and driveline. The rest of it? Home made by Johan, Arie and Simon (a.k.a. Joy & Speed a.k.a. JAS trike). What an incredible and wicked ride this is, and fully road-legal too!

Mario's Exile

Everyone who hasn't lived under a rock the last few years, have heard of Exile Choppers. But who has seen one in real life? Do you? Well, I haven't, till today, coz I visited Mario who imported a real Exile chopper, build for an American TV show, all the way from USA to Holland. But as the bike wasn't really 100% perfect to his (good!) taste, the bike has been changed a lot since. Oh, by the way, the car he'd put his front-wheel on for the burn-out pic is my station-car, haha! :-)
This was a great weekend with a road test, three fantastic bike shoots and last but not least a BBQ at my sister's house, where I had to ride to with the Suzuki test bike to see how it handles at night. Yep that's hard work! haha! Back on planet earth tomorrow, then it's monday again...

The father, the son

Ow yeah! This is a great weekend! The weather is to dream about and so I went to Father and Son Beil, today. Although both life a religious Christian lifestyle, they are real lifestyle bikers (and looking like bikers) too!. They're one of the most friendly guys I've ever met! We did a photo shoot of two Honda Shadow choppers they've build together. Looking good, huh? David, by the way, is a great tattoo artist! Check out his website www.truelovetattoo.nl

The Merlin by Dark Star Kustoms

There are some days that I come home after doing a photoshoot and I'm really excited about the result. Today is such a day! We had loads of fun in the Dunes of The Hague during the shoot of Philips Flathead Chopper. The blue skies are under-exposed and the bike and Philip are filled in with three strobe lights. Here two of the shots, but there is much much more cool stuff on the harddisc :-)


































...imagine the soundtrack of *Jump* by Van Halen. Yihaaa!!!!

Suzuki M800 Road Test

Together with Velthuis Senior, Bennie, we went to the Suzuki import dealer today to pick up this Suzuki Intruder M800. It looks great and handles great too. The road test will be published in Bigtwin magazine soon...

Last time I reviewed a Harley Davidson Sportster Iron, but as I'm just 1,65 metres long/short, this bike looked immense big, with me on it. So, some people thought that it was a King Size Sporty that I was testing, haha! Here's me on the Suzuki M800. (this bike looks massive and big in real life, though)

Hmmm, nice photo location :-)