free

i can't wait to throw a leg over a bike for a couple weeks...

Free from Andrew Quinones on Vimeo.

My first short film I made for film school. Motorcycles are a big part of life. I wanted to make a film to show how intimate we get with the road. Most people ride to get away from the daily grind and be alone. Even if you are riding with a friend, your own mind is what you have a conversation with. Others like to just take a drive in their car, but once you ride a motorcycle, the open road is never the same.-- Andrew Quinones, director

i just wanna ride...

as i lay me down to sleep, i come across a little film by some suprisingly right-on French guys. Sure, they are doing some stupid shit in this film, but they are doing what they wanna do... and thats all we can really hope for.

I.D.W.P from Edwin Europe on Vimeo.

i wanna ride with these guys

i don't know if it makes me less of a man to say that this still brings a tear to my eye, but i don't care--if i still have any friends and we can ride when we are this old, i will have won the game.



a big thank you to my mom and dad for sharing this video with me, and i hope to ride again with them soon!

important safety message included

the king of cool can not be disputed

Just a Mirage

another cool moto video by some guys who just might be too cool for school... i can't help but think they should have used the song Mirage by the Queers, but whatever, still good.

better than television

So, there is a pretty big movement growing globally with vintage/restored/cafe/scrambler/japanese/euro/american/brit/ton/whatever motorcycles... the general trend seems to be moving away from choppers and ridiculously unrideable machines to more garage-built do-it-yourself type bikes. To me, this is cool... in fact it has made me really get serious about saving all my lunch money for a rebuild of my 1977 BMW r75. I am going to have Untitled Motorcycles do the build in the spirit of their UM3 Street. Adam and the guys in London have vintage Beemers figured out like nobody else, and after literally hundreds of hours of looking through blogs, websites, catalogues, magazines, and looking into my own skillset--i think the Untitled build will be perfect. Just gotta save the cash, get the work visa for Europe (thats a whole 'nother story) and get the bike to London... easy, right?

Anyway, so in the mean-time i have started watching all these videos about all this kinda stuff. Some are good, some are great, some are crap. I know that most people who think they are cool might have already seen some of these before, but i wanted to post them here to start a collection of stuff i like and to have it all in one place for my own personal motivation--to give me something to do when i need motivation to stay on the path...

alright--first up is the video from the French dudes from Blitz. When i saw this i really knuckled down and decided that my next priority will be to get my Beemer built.

MUSIC VIDEO RIDING SEPTEMBER from Hush on Vimeo.