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Good fun and eats @ Kingyo on Denman with Takahashi, Minji and Pettapiece.
Vancouver, Canada.
December 2010.
Why "London Ting"? simple, the whole bike was designed, sourced, manufactured and finished in London Town, no mean effort as any one from a large city will tell you. Other than coffee shops, cafés and boutiques there is now a serious lack of any real trade workshops and genuine skilled craftsmen in city's... just a load of IT and media jerks mixed with bankers, legal practitioners and traders...Yes the parasites of a society! So the name mixed with the regional accent seemed to fit.
The accented flame metallic green ride you see here was my first attempt at a "ground up" build. The finished chopper came out very close to the original design with only one surprise... THE WEIGHT! This turned out to be one heavy ride.
The original plan was to widen a Phat Chopper from Phat Cycles (now 3G) so as to fit the motorbike rims and tyres, but my mentor Helmut Burns simply pointed out that I may as well build one from scratch, and well here we are, and if I may say so myself it' has a damn sight more presence than the scrawny, ponderous efforts for Phat. Why motorbike wheels? remember when this puppy was built there was no "Uber" fat rims and tyre made for bikes around then. The modern day builder probably does not realise just how spoilt for choice they are
The large diameter tubes were bent and dropped by Kew Tubes, fillet brazed by myself ending in my own drop-outs. The original forks were made from Tandem Tubes ending in the previously mentioned drop-outs and held together with a pair of Billet yokes machined up for me by CNC Simon, and finally topped with some scratch built bars with some serious internal work as well as a large amount of CNC components and lathe work going into them. The next stages turned out to be the most expensive of the whole project, yep the plating and polishing. The chrome was perfectly executed by London Chroming with the polishing carried out by myself.... ending with me promising myself I would never do that again. Have a go and you will find out why! The most time consuming part of the project was the stand. Good grief some hours were put into welding and filling those chain links but the overall look of the kickstand made it all worth while.
The bike went over to Amsterdam in 2002 and ended up staying there finally being sold in 2008. Sadly it was off to be converted into a moped/scooter.
The 2012 Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival.
Phil Ting (丁右立) is the Assessor-Recorder of the city and county of San Francisco.[1]
Phil Ting was appointed San Francisco's Assessor-Recorder in 2005 by then-Mayor Gavin Newsom, becoming San Francisco’s highest-ranking Chinese-American official at the time. He began his career as a real estate financial adviser at Arthur Andersen and CB Richard Ellis. Ting had a history of civil rights advocacy. While in office Ting has launched successful programs, such as GoSolarSF [2] that has created hundreds of green-collar jobs and attracted new businesses to the city, and ChinaSF that has expanded the trade program by attracting Pacific Rim companies[3].
Phil Ting is a advocate and activist in the Government 2.0 movement. In 2010, he launched Reset San Francisco[4], an online community that using new media to engage San Franciscans to get engage and participate in the conversation on how to improve their community and to keep government more accountable. As San Francisco's Assessor-Recorder, he reformed the once-troubled agency and increased efficiency, helping generate an additional $290 million to fund the city's vital services.
In February 2012, Assessor Phil Ting commissioned the nation’s first real study of mortgage fraud that has spurred national action [5] to protect homeowners from wrongful foreclosure [6].
Ting is a graduate of UC Berkeley and John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
REFERENCE: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Ting
Blonde Redhead @ The Commodore, Vancouver, Canada.
One of the best shows I've seen so far in Van. They put on a wickedly good show despite getting interrupted by a security guy that demanded I check in my DSLR since I didn't have a media pass. He actually escorted me to the coat check and made sure my camera was indeed put away. I was bummed but I was determined to get shots of the band regardless so I went back to coat check and snuck it out underneath my jacket. So here's my "fuck you security guy at the Commodore" -- I've got my shots suckah. ;)
Nikon D90 + Nikkor 50mm F1.8
The Commodore
Vancouver, Canada
November 2010.