Dice Magazine Release Party Nov 20.....Lost Vegas

Dice parties are always a blast, and where better than sin city to have a real blowout? Tyler is flying into CA and meeting up with Bill from Biltwell and riding in...no 4 hr straight line ride mind you, but an epic road adventure! Get the details HERE if you want to meet up with them! I will be flying in direct that morning for some proper Fear and Loathing style warm-up. Come out and have some fun! Cheers, Kyle

Lowbrow Customs Bonneville Speed Week Support T-Shirts!!!

We here at Lowbrow are headed out for Bonneville Speed Week this August, Tyler with his 1955 Triumph and Kyle with his 1967 Triumph to do some land speed racing. We have been pouring blood and sweat into these bikes all year, and decided to do a commemorative shirt for our first year racing on the Salt. All proceeds from the sales of these t-shirts goes to help pay for gasoline (driving cross country and back), entry fees, hotels, meals and all the expense that comes with racing, even if you are doing it low-budget!
These shirts feature a left chest and full back water based ink print for that vintage look and feel, and also our sponsor logos on the left sleeve. These are printed on a natural, unbleached cotton, or black (the street version!). A big thanks goes out to Four Aces Cycle (see you at Bonneville, Wes!), Vanson Leathers and Biltwell, Inc.

Finned Aluminum Magneto Caps!!!

We got a shipment of these finned aluminum magneto caps in yesterday!! These are hand made in small batches so get them while you can! Every time we get them they sell out in a few days and I get emails for a month asking when we will get them back in!

Todays vintage racing fix....

Is he going right?

Jet bike...errr....bicycle...

Jet Bicycle you ask? Yes....homebuilt too.....seems a bit sketchy to me! I am not that daredevil!

Wall of Death....

The Wall Of Death or motodrome is a carnival sideshow featuring a drum or barrel-shaped wooden cylinder, ranging from 20 to 36-feet in diameter, in which stunt motorcyclists ride and carry out tricks. Derived directly from US motorcycle boardtrack (motordrome) racing in the early 1900s, the very first carnival motordrome appeared at Coney Island amusement park in 1911.

The following year portable tracks began to appear on traveling carnivals and in 1915, the first "silodromes" with perpendicular walls were seen. These motordromes with perfectly straight walls were soon dubbed the "Wall of Death." The first known Wall of Death in the UK appeared in 1929 at Southend.

This carnival attraction became a staple in the US outdoor entertainment industry with the phenomenon reaching its zenith in the 1930s with more than 100 motordromes on traveling shows and in amusement parks.

The audience views from the top of the drum, looking down. The riders start at the bottom of the drum, in the center, and ascend an initial ramped section until they gain enough velocity to drive horizontally to the floor, usually in a counter-clockwise direction.

In the 2000s, there remain only a few tours of the wall of death. We got to see one in person last year at the Barber Vintage show, and it is still amazing 99 years later

Cookie Ayers- Queen of the Daredevils

Cookie Ayers the "Queen of the Hell Drivers" made her living crisscrossing the eastern and southern United States with various carnivals and shows as one of the pre-eminent female riders of the motor drome, or as it was more commonly known, the Wall of Death.

The motor drome earned its nickname as one of the early-to-mid-20th century's intersections of shock value and entertainment, and performers occasionally did die on the wall or die years later from repeated injuries from mishaps.

A circular contraption with high, 90-degree walls, sometimes with a sloped section between the Wall and the ground, the dromes married science with the excitement and power of motorcycles and mixed in some panache in the form of the gutsy and acrobatic riders. Riders built up speed on the flat bottom of the drome and then made their way up the vertical sides, sticking for no reasons other than centrifugal force and an extremely well-developed sense of balance and riding know-how. Once up, riders would delight fans standing atop the walls by riding with no hands, sitting sidesaddle, standing up on the cycle or even staging two-person races, all while speeding around parallel to the ground.

Icy Riders....Check this DVD out!

ICY RIDERS

Buy it here...LowbrowCustoms

I pulled one of these DVDs off the shelf the other day and sat down to watch it last night....and all I can say is awesome. These guys are insane and Posa the rider they follow in the film is 59, riding on the ice for over 30 years. It is truly impressive. This film is about an hour long, really well shot with tons of great racing and multiple locations. It is mostly in Sweedish but well subtitled so it doesn't matter. Theres also an extra hour of special features including more race footage, vintage ice racing, and a mini documentary on the basics of ice riding. Made me wanna go spike my big wheels tires and hit the pond!

Bad Ass

My last post with the rad stunt monkey and the fact I am sitting on the couch nursing injuries of my own (although I didn't get them doing sweet fountain or bus jumping stunts) made me think of Evel, and what a badass this guy was. Some people get injured and never touch a bike again, this guy does his first public stunt, wrecks, spends nearly 29 days in intensive care, heals up then says hey, I'm gonna jump the grand canyon? Maybe insane, but definately bad ass.

As for me, someone asked me if I was done riding, and just out of the hospital I said no with no hesitation. We all fall, it happens. I am already planning on the repairs and modifications my bike is going to get as soon as I am off crutches.