We've just been going through some old photos and talking about the stories that go along with those days. Looking back it seems like much simpler days, they probably weren't, it's just that you forget all bullshit and remember all the good shit you had going on. We got talking about our different bikes over this years and which our first and favourites were so we're going to put some photos of these bikes and little background on them.
This was my first road bike, I'd been racing motocross for a bunch of years and it was starting to take a back seat to my tattoo career. The less I was riding my dirt bike the bigger the urge was to get a road bike, I had always been drawn towards the chopper scene so I got in touch with Sean who was working at SHD in Stoke. We had met many years before riding motocross, I was very green at the time, with regards to the whole chopper thing. I took a couple trips up to Stoke hung out with Sean and Steve and those guys ended up building me my first bike. It was so cool going to visit every couple months seeing the progress they were making on the bike. The attention to detail was incredible coming from motocross bikes where pretty much every bike looked the same it was so refreshing to me to seeing such a personal stamping out on a motorcycle. I can remember the first day I got to take the bike away with me at the end of October, I was so pumped my good friend Dan and I rode to a tattoo convention I was working that weekend. A 350 mile round trip maybe wasn't the best idea for a shakedown ride but thats just credit to the job Steve and Sean did on this bike, it didn't miss a beat the whole way. That first winter I put so many miles on this bike and learnt so much, coming from small motocross bikes to these big Harleys, I had a lot to learn and fast but thats a whole different story.
CHRIS
