August 2008

THE INSPIRATION BIKE BY DEADWOOD CHOPPERS
Last April at the Northeast Motorcycle Expo I had the goods fortune to run into one of the more creative bike builders in the show,Jack from Deadwood Choppers. I got blown away by 1 of his bikes called Inspiration.

This bike in particular was cool, something I think 99% of the builders out there are striving to achieve. Well Bro’s Jack from Deadwood nailed it.     I talked to Jack and took a few pictures (very mellow dude). His friend Pete also helped with the build and they where very easy to talk too. After getting their card & contacting DonV, & showing him the pics I took needless to say the portrait of Larry on the Tank (Cover) blew him away Jack had Mike Terwilleger do the portait of Larry and on the opposite side is a portrait of Johnny Chop. Thus the name INSPIRATION and you could see it from one end of the bike to the other. I called Jack and told him DonV was very interested and would like to put the gas tank portrait of Larry on the Cover of his 4 year anniversary issue in August. I got to Putt down to middle Island and do a cover story on him and his shop.

JULY 2008
Dee Snider kicked of his march of dimes run without a hitch. Dee well known for his rock band Twisted Sister did a great job,with an estimated 4000 bikes attending and netting $100,000.00 grand. There where lots of Cool things going on in Long Beach which was the Eye of the Storm with plenty of room for all the bikes to park & party I got Dee to take a shot with my ole lady and kid.The Baby Love Bike was up for raffle, along with some cool shop builds, and a nice Old Flathead War Bike and Lighthouse H-D brought along some of their Trikes. Well the whole deal ended with a nasty downpour with people running for there bikes. The clouds rolled in the Bikes rolled out. Till the next Run "United we Stand" "NYC IRISH"

July 2008 
Irish goes to V-FORCE

Finally the Hot Days of Summer. My friend Arson showed up on June 7th at 9am and by 9:30 we hit the road off to Vinny & Cody’s Grand Opening party Upstate, N.Y. in the little town of Rock Tavern.We took the Triboro bridge to the Geogre Washington Bridge and hopped on the Pallisades Interstate. It is such a nice ride and after crossing the bridges of the City it was like getting spit out of a dragons mouth out into the long rolling hills and green forests. Well about 110 miles later we rolled into Rock Tavern and after a few detours found Vinny & Cody’s grand opening. For those of you who don’t know who they are the 2 of them where involved with OCC before. Vinny was Paul Tuttles side kick helping build and wire the bikes, while Cody was taken under the wing of of Sr. I guess they got tired of building for them and went out on their own. Neither one had much time to talk but I did get a couple of Pics. Ted and I ran into Cody right after he got off of his white ricerocket. I think he still thinks he’s still on T.V. Their shop is pretty nice with lots of new machinery they even had a new motorized English Wheel. Vinny and Cody signed autographs for a while then disappeared. It was hot outside but the AC was crankin’ in the office. Well Old man Tuttle and Paulie Jr. where no where to be found. I think the romance is over between them guys.Now the party’s over and them boys need to get crackin’ on their first theme bike for the Tampa Bay Storm Arena Football Team. We are waitin’ to see what you come up with. I got glimpse of the V-Force One deal and there was nothing remarkable about it. The two bikes pictured here belonged to customers and they caught my eye right away. All in all the trip to up state was a great ride and we will follow the so called dynamic duo, x-occ boys. We will keep an eye out to see what they come up with independently. But for now they are in their infancy so the proof will come in the future concerning their building techniques and design ability.The INVERTED V-Frame is a nice start boys,keep it up.Good luck with V-Force Vinny & Cody and remember to BE NICE to your Fans. "NYC Irish"  HEY IRISH DID YOU GET A FREE T-SHIRT ?