I include my bike in this website, as it has soaked up a massive amount of my artistic compulsions over the years and any overview of my art would be incomplete without it. It's the only big bore road bike I've ever had.
I bought it in Cairns in the late eighties for a good price and have had it crawl in under my skin and stay there ever since. I've crashed and repaired it a few times, painted it several times, made the seat out of an old kangaroo skin mat I had, hand made a lot of its parts from nothing, or from bits of other bikes, completely rebuilt the engine (including changing the external shape of it by hand), carved things in it, chopped things off it, lowered it, souped it up, and generally made it into a physical manifestation of my artistic insanity.
Apart from a bit of help with the wiring and shimming the internals (thanks Mark) I did it all by myself, by hand, with little or no money, and for the last ten years anyway, in a lot of pain. Winning a few trophies at bike shows was one of the motivations for entering the art show scene with my drawings. It will never really be "finished" and I'll put more images of it up as it evolves through the years as well as other 'motorcycle art' as I do it (which will take a while as I am always in the drawing studio)
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