DOGTOWN pictures

GAMBLER · #1 (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 01:31 AM

hanging out down at the beach & snapped some pix for you guys
camera had a charged battery for once

Bartels' Harley-Davidson :: The World Famous Harley Dealership on the West Coast.

inside Bartels HD MEGA MEGA Store, pretty much what you'd expect...
floors clean enough to eat off, wall to wall Harley Davidson TM R LLC merchandise, the HD lineup gleaming with easy financing

XR750 mill was WICKED. bring $17K

GAMBLER · #2 (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 01:42 AM

a few of these Introducing The Hot Rod Hawg parked outside
looked fun... drop a ZX14 or Busa in & they would be FUN

GAMBLER · #3 (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 01:50 AM

few blocks away is the polar opposite of Bartels HD MEGA MEGA boutique

the GARAGE COMPANY
vintage motorcycle
dirty greasy floors, no bling bling

GAMBLER · #4 (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 02:05 AM

I saw this bike a few months ago in Costa Mesa & thought it was one of the best looking Evo chops ever, simple, clean, low budget, race styling in spades... but that's all I knew about it. So I asked around on the bike forums to no avail. No information on it. I was suprised as **** when I saw out back.

Yoshi explains... entire front end, forks, wheels, brakes, controls are GSX-R, only had a neck fitted to adapt to the frame.

I tell him I have all the parts in my garage except for that bad ass tail... I'm gonna rip you off, with sincere respect of course.

one of the best Evo's for sure!

GAMBLER · #5 (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 02:11 AM

like master Yoda teaching a young padawan in the ways of the force... Yoshi overseas a young mechanic wrenching this K model Harley

seen a few of these engines in trackers, but not in a street bike
rare stuff... look at those jugs

viper1 · #6 (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 02:12 AM

Yup.....just like MV wanted it to be!!!!!

GAMBLER · #7 (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 02:21 AM

you can't sit on any of the bikes here... you can't walk around any of the bikes here... knuckles & shovels, MV's, old Honda race bikes, on & on

welcome to the moto temple, now pray

GAMBLER · #8 (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 02:30 AM

you pick something cool up, under that is something cool, you pick that up, wow... under that is something cool

so prolly 3 layers of cool here

GAMBLER · #9 (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 02:34 AM

no fat book, no custom chrome catalog... just projects here & there waiting for life

DicE Magazine

GAMBLER · #10 (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 02:47 AM

the shop was closed today... but it didn't stop this gentleman from inviting me in... putting his wrench down for a moment to ask about my son racing dirtbikes & show me treasure collected over a lifetime.

If your in the neighborhood stop in, buy something. I hope the Garage Company is still in buisness after I'm gone

247 · #11 (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 02:24 PM

I thought you were going to post pictures of Jay Adams and Tony Alva.

GAMBLER · #12 (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 04:31 PM

here's my old deck, wish I still had it

drsus · #13 (**permalink**) 09-03-2008, 03:44 AM

i see you were in my backyard...i grew up more or less right in that area.
Bartels is an awesome shop with the biggest prick salesman unfortunately.
Good for everything else. Theyre Dyno room is insanely nice, shame they only do Harleys because the Tech is very good, he has jetted and tuned the bikes ive owened or built in the last years since they put the station in. I keep asking him to learn the "crotch rockets" so he can tune those for me to, he has a knack for doing it right.

THe Garage Co is a sort of museum and junk yard but its all gold i there..... and as expensive as gold to.

You should go into Checkered Flag across from Bartels, check out some of those classic cars in there.. Barrret Jackson would be jelaous.

Munky · #14 (**permalink**) 09-04-2008, 09:22 PM

My favorite board that I still have is the Alva Bill Danforth. Second from the left. Still ride with my kids today on it! Old School style.

GAMBLER · #15 (**permalink**) 09-04-2008, 10:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drsus

i see you were in my backyard...i grew up more or less right in that area.
Bartels is an awesome shop with the biggest prick salesman unfortunately.
Good for everything else. Theyre Dyno room is insanely nice, shame they only do Harleys because the Tech is very good, he has jetted and tuned the bikes ive owened or built in the last years since they put the station in. I keep asking him to learn the "crotch rockets" so he can tune those for me to, he has a knack for doing it right.

THe Garage Co is a sort of museum and junk yard but its all gold i there..... and as expensive as gold to.

You should go into Checkered Flag across from Bartels, check out some of those classic cars in there.. Barrret Jackson would be jelaous.

cars aren't really my bag... Ferrari's are pretty much just another metal box. flame suit activated.

like to see some of the bikes you built, post some pix