It was a honour to meet Mike: a 17 year old bloke who's into cycles since he was born. He makes the craziest stuf!!! Check out his lawn-mower (!) based hotrod, and a Puch chopper with a one-off frame, wheels, handlebars... you name it. And he did it all himself! He build the chopper when he was 14. The hotrod he started building when 16. What will he make if he is 18? I'm sure we will hear more of him in the future!














































The World's Fastest Moped?!

Joan's Froggy Fat Boy

It was a pleasure to meet Joan and her Fatboy. The bike is airbrushed by DAM Design. It's almost photo-realistic.

On the cover!

Of Xtreme Bikes magazine (Spain)! It's Joris his super-great Honda chopper with the finest details you've ever seen on a low-budget chop. Wow man, this is awesome!!

The Green Machine in Chroom & Vlammen

Shamefully stole these scans from the Kustombart blog. His van, the Green Machine, is featured in Chroom & Vlammen magazine (a American orientated car 'zine from the Netherlands). Kustombart's Van is a surviving custom van, which was featured in Vans & Trucks magazine of 1984. And now, in 2011 it's in Chroom & Vlammen! It's a 6-page feature and even a little photo on the cover. Nice!

Andre's one-of-a-kind custom

There's two kind of bikes which are difficult to photograph: black (with much chrome) bikes, and white ones. Because of the contrasts, colors easily blow out or become pitch dark (without details). Today I went to Andre, he made this white bike. Not off-white or something... No! Pure whiter than white white. By pointing some (softboxed) strobes at black parts like wheels and the engine, things came out really well! The location was awesome too!




























Some experiment: I've put an CTO-gelled flash-gun inside the tube, the bike is strobed too. Looks nice, doesn't it??

BMW & Harton in Fighters magazine

Fighters magazine in Germany published two of the coolest race-bikes from these cold and wet low-lands. Check out Kees' multi-colored BMW, it's awesome! And the Harton (which got some attention last year!) is featured too.

Mr. Ly's Sporty!

Today the trip went to Belgium and we visited Mr. Ly. He designed this cool traditional rigid Sportster and Custom House build it for him. It's got many nice details. Another cool bike from Belgium!!