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Yay, Kansas! Hopefully we made it there by now.

We've historically only shipped international orders on Fridays because we had to stand in in at the post office and blah, blah, blah. Well, we finally figured out how to do it another way and now we are shipping internationally via USPS every day of the work week. Of course the best way to get your stuff quick is to order from a dealer in your own country. You can check our International page for a full listing and hopefully find a local stockist.

We blogged a while back about JJ Phipps hitting the road and taking the Hoka Hey challenge. Well, he made it back in one piece and took the time to write up part one of his adventure. You can read it over on the Lowbrow site. It's a long read, but worth it, this an accomplishment of a lifetime for sure. Alaska is tops on my personal list for places I want to ride and seeing all these photos makes me want to go even more. Thanks for rocking the Biltwell merch on the ride, and for being an inspiration to all of us JJ.

This thing is coming together!

Thanks to some new sponsors for jumping in with both feet. Trumpnut, Old Gold Garage Co., Kickstart Cycle Supply and Fastlane Tattoo. These people are into motorcycles and grass roots event and put their money where their mouth is, so support 'em!

Joonas sends these pics of their freshly finished Softy using our Low Drag bars and the Stainless Seat Bracket. I spy an air cleaner from our friends over at Benchmark on there too.

Looking for a barn-fresh LSR Pre Unit? Wes over at Four Aces Cycle might just have what you need. Last run in '93 at El Mirage. Hit him up at at fouracescycle@aol.com

Sweet and simple new work from The Backstreet Bucket and it's for sale.

I would ride with these guys again, anywhere, anytime.

¡Muchas gracias amigos!

Seven nifty new colors will be in stock in under than a month. I think the flat Copper color is my new favorite, but that Primer Red is kind of neat too. Look closely at the Mega Flakes and you will notice a couple two-tone fade jobs. Black over Dark Stardust Silver and Wine over Sunburst Orange. We're doing a limited run of these Duo Tones and when they are gone, they're gone and we'll do something else on the next run.

Old Gold and DicE are joining forces this year for their 3rd annual open house. What does this mean to you? Nothing if you dont haul ass up to Ventura on Sunday Sept 5th(Labor Day weekend) Live music, food & drink, hotrods, customs and bikes are all welcome, priority parking for all of the above, loser parking for subcompacts way down the street.

We are grinding away at the logistics on this thing daily. Huge thanks to all the sponsors who have chipped in. There are more to come, just waiting on a few logos and such to show up.

You might notice we have an official beer sponsor on the flier now. Thanks to Pabst Blue Ribbon for kicking down the frosty cold adult beverages for your enjoyment!

Want to see some backstory on the land that time forgot? VBS has a couple of great edits about the Salton Sea that are worth checking out. It's really quite a bummer what a dump the place has turned into. Except that it makes for a rad place to host a chopper event!

Poached from Kemotherapy and the Dodge.

So BFJosh loaded up his Murder Van on Saturday and we cruised out to Irwindale Speedway to set up the night before so early Sunday morning wouldn't be so rough. We knocked that out pretty quickly and jammed down to Culver City to visit our friends Caleb and J.D. As luck would have it, fellow vanners Matt and Justina in the radical DicE van had just been invited to a triple feature van movie marathon over on Fairfax at the Silent Theater. Of course we vanned on over there after packing our guts with some killer Cuban food. I figured there was no way we could sit through six hours of van movies and Josh was hell bent on getting an early start in the morning. We caught the last half of "The Van" then had a free beer provided by the theater and settled in to watch "Mag Wheels" which I had never heard of but became a fan of quickly. It's basically Van Dudes vs. 4x4 Chicks, with some odd rough trade and skateboarding with knee socks thrown in. A load of popcorn then and we settled in with "The Super Van" which was basically a Barris commercial. Not bad, but the hypnotic sounds the solar-powered van gave off put me in a sleeper hold a couple times. Trucked on back to Duarte for a four hour nap and then back over to the track for a day in the heat. Mooneyes is more of a car event but there were some good bikes and plenty of our usual friends to sit around with. Even managed to sell a few things, though parasols and ice water would have sold better than seat brackets and sparkly helmets with a lot of this crowd. Thanks to everyone who came by, we always appreciate your support! Here's a few vans from around the parking lot. Sure there were bikes, but you'll see those on everyone else's blogs tonight or tomorrow. Oh yeah, there were lots of cars and racin' going on too.

Thanks to everyone who rolled out on Friday to hang out for Happy Hour. We've got to do this more often. Once we get back from the Twine Ball Run we'll put together a local weekend ride where we can all go out and blast around a while and then come back to the shop for some beers and tell each other lies.

Here's your chance to spread more oil around Florida!

Check out the Tar Ball Run 2010.

I've been slacking on updates from the VBS trip. Here's some links to the latest episodes. I wish I had done something cool like rebuild a bottom end with a pocketknife or something, but alas, all I did was change a fuse, replace a few lost bits and find a campsite in a storm-tossed village that no one was stoked on. Heath boxing in San Ignacio was nothing short of epic though. Harv's bike blowing up sucked, but comes with the territory.

jOSH does it again. Neat lid for sale. Already broken in on the outside, brandy new on the inside.