Dieselbike treffen Hamm, Germany, 2009

Every 2th weekend of september there is the Dieselbike treffen in Hamm, Germany. Being made curious by friend Sander, owner & builder of the famous Daihatsu chopper, we went to this cool meeting, about 180 kilometres across the Dutch border. and what cool things we saw there!!!! F*ck stream-line, let's spoil some diesel! More info: http://www.dieselkrad.info/




BMW K100 with Smart engine... Smart! The engine is leaning to the right side...







... with many kilo's of contra-weight at the left side to keep the bike in balance, hahaha :-)







Neat sidecar combi








Look what this bike has for luggage... baking oil! I assure you, that's not for making pancakes...

Daihatsu dieselbike from Dutchman Wim...

Another creation of Wim. And he's building another Daihatsu in his garage too! Hope to do a photoshoot of this bike soon.

Diesel engine on a sidecar!

MZ dieselbike.

Yes, they really ride!

Hatz Bulldog with nice old sidecar

Pepe's sidecar

Because of an accident, lifestyle biker Pepe recently lost both his legs. The guys of the chopperstyle.nl messageboard helped him on his Intruder again and build a custom made sidecar onto it, with place for the wheel chair and everything. Cool or cool?


Speedlights and an under-exposed background

Niek's GSX400 rigid

Ever seen a GSX400 based rigid chopper? I didn't, till yesterday, when we shot this home brewn old style chopper of 21 year young Niek. He's a really funny guy, but he's really touch when he'd to smile at the bird. Did some late night shots, while the weather was really dreary. His girlfried Brigit did a lot of detailling like the pinstriping and some brass parts. And she posed for some nice photo's too. Cool! More pics later, but I've got a busy day today :-)


Y'see, he really likes this bike!







It's said that choppers make girls go crazy. It's true!! Who's this lady? We don't know either! She just dropped by, smiled one single second for the cam and then dissapeared without saying a word... And no, she didn't give us her numer. Damn! What people might do to become really, really famous!

Evert's highneck

The Dutch chopperbuilders of L&L did it again. This highneck, owned by Evert, is made by L&L and now is splitting lanes in the regions of Hoogvliet.










Look at the weird shades at the ground... Riding shots with sun from the right AND with hard light from left?


Yes! I thought about to make a rack on the car to mount a flasher at! It's made from some old pipes and clamps, and it works!! Too bad, the recycling time of the flash head is (too) slow to make a big and fast serie of shots, but I'll find out something for that...









Photo's are made at the Europoort, a big industrial terrain dominated by oil factories like Shell. Where's my Prozac? The place is really depressing, but worthy for making bike pictures!

Bianca's Walz

Last Friday I met Bianca and her new Walz Hardcore chopper. It's built by Speedhouse from Klazienaveen and the bike is based on real parts from the factory in Hockenheim. This day started dreary... But when Bianca fired up the bike, the sun started to shine and it was a beautiful day to make some beautiful colourfull pictures. It's done with sunlight and a single bare speedlight at the shade-side.




























The saturday after, I visited HD point Leeuwarden for an interior shot. Nothing arty farty or blog-worthy, but it was a great opportunity to have some more experience with long shutterspeed's and speedlights in dark situations.

South East bobbers

I've got plenty to photograph lately, as you can see at this blog. Today I first visited Central HD Veghel for an interior photoshoot for the 2009 Bigtwin HD special. Then I rode to South East Motorcycles to shoot this bobber-duo, based on standard Harleys, but with so much details that these two bikes are real eye-cathers. The weather was pretty dark and couldn't help it playing around with the flashers again :-)

Nice hairlights :-)

Melanie and her bike

The old Chevy of South East, which we used for today's background and as ride for the action pics. Cool!!









Arthurs' mean green machine!









Arthur & Melanie, flashlights and some American Iron. Isn't this cool?

Henk's Bobba'

Henk is the coolest guy in town with this Evo bobber. He's a friend of Thijs, the man who runs CCR95, who made this bike for Henk. Some cool photo's are shot in a machine-fabric (with two off shoe strobes and brelly's) in a short period of just one hour.



I shot some nice riding shots too from the trunk of my new score: a Ford diesel station car!

(two flashes with brelly's)

Me & Henk. Look at the dirt in my face, the best point of view in the hall was a corner with oil and grease... but I just HAD to have that shot... errrr.... so...