Easter weekend me and my Dear K went for a 24-hour cruise to Finland, nice cabin, great dinner, champange breakfast, tax free shopping and just lounging in the spring sun on aft deck. The Stockhom archipelago at this time of the year is soo nice....
Finally, the first Tussilago at Mosta Hill...
This last weekend me and my dear K went to welcome her oldest son, his girlfriend and two girls to their new house at beautiful Hormesta Gård not far from Mosta Hill. The weather could not have been better, a sunny warm spring day, we had Hot Dogs, cheesecake and beer and E shot pictures like a pro....
K's sister and her boyfriend came by on their first ride of spring..
Even the neigbours dog came over to check out what might have fallen off the grill...
Another sign spring is here, tjällossning that makes country roads look like we had an earthquake. Sure it's nice to see the snow go away but some of my favorite riding roads get ruined by spring, soon some truck will come out an fill in the cracks with gravel and the road is ruined from a biker standpoint...
On Friday we got another (and hopefully the last) 5cm of snow at Mosta Hill but both Saturday & Sunday were warm sunny early spring days and today me and K just sat in a chair enjoying the warm sun on our faces, looking at the snow melting and stuff coming out from their white covers, the boat, the tractor and the wagon. We grilled Hot Dogs over open fire, with brie cheese and beer it was a perfect lunch for a great day....
I found this Smaller in Texas house/container and can not get it of my mind, I need some more space at Mosta Hill so me and K can spend more time together without going crazy, the thought that a cool looking rusty on the outside container can be a nice space to hang is really appealing to me, it all fits in with my shine can never replace attitude way of living, it feels soooo right....
Last Friday I got Diesel Doris back from the body shop, the insurance co has finally fixed the parking oops I had last May! now she awaits striping and decaling as a faux Fiat Scudo Abarth, pix soon. Checking out all the news at The Geneva Motor Show I fell for this puppy, The VW Bulli Concept, it looks soo Type 1, with a suede paint, slammed on air and 17" Fuchs, BRM or Radar rims it would rock, if VW then decides to go with a diesel/electric hybrid I would trade Diesel Doris for one....
Today at the Geneva Motor Show Saab showed what a Saab will look like after leaving GM behind. The Saab PhoeniX Concept, btw. why do they have to spell Phoenix with a capital X at the end, it feels so "we'r the Facebook generation and we'll shove it in ya face". The PhoeniX is to me the coolest car from Sweden since the P1800 and mk2 Sonett. The PhoeniX looks Saab, it's not totally unbildable and now I hope the coming 9.3 will look somewhat like the PhoeniX, be available with a hybrid driveline and Saab why not a PhoeniX Speedster? Last Saab I owned was a white 1991 900 Aero Turbo Convetible in Los Angeles, I really liked that car but it was traded for a Volvo 242 GT stuffed with a 350 Chevy....
All weekend the thermometer has been hoovering around 0 and the snow has slowly started to melt away, I bet we get another cold spell but there's light at the end of the tunnel, spring is around the corner. And what's more usefull during the summer months than a caravan? I have for years made fun of people driving around with Tattartermosar, Carvan Club types but after seeing this thing at Just a Car Guy's Blog, I want one, that's one of the coolest things in a long time....
Some 25 years ago during my exile in So Cal I spent a couple of years working as an assistant to a photographer/surfer/skateboarder/artist/renaissance man who's business card read Kyle Martin Studios. It all started out in a studio in the old Post Office in Venice Beach then we moved the studio to Sweetzer Ave in West Hollywood, up the street from Harry Langdon's. During the years Kyle did some amazing work, the pix above are just a few of what I worked with him on, he worked for Details, Vouge, Harpers and other fashion mags, we shot covers for videos and a bunch of art stuff, we had a Hollywood style art show at Carlos & Charlies on Sunset. There were some great times, spending nights in bars and clubs, hanging at Nudes on Sunset, The Viper Room, Le Dome, Roxy, The Troubadour, eating at favorite places like Erehwon, Sushi on Sunset, Hama Sushi in Venice, The Ivy and chillin' at The Wedge and The River Jetty in Orange County. There was an Entourage that makes the TV show look like day care, modells, movie people, surfers, artists, you name it. We also rode bikes, Kyle had a beater GSXR something, green if I remember right, man we had some great times...
Last week at the Stockholm Motorcycle Show I saw and decided that my next bike would be a 2011 Ducati Diavel Carbon, sure the Harely V-Rod is THE power cruiser to have, Porsche design, Getrag gearbox but a heavy iron, the Ducati with 170bhp and 170kilo is the sharper knife untill today, Piaggio at a dealer meeting in Monte Carlo showed this awesome Moto Guzzi California Prototype, that will be my next bike!!!! and it's air cooled....
Built by Harley Davidson Sweden to be driven by DP Race Tech...
