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There are books stacked like this all over my house…

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garageprojectmotorcycles:

George send me a pic of his bike a few weeks ago and while I really like these type of bikes I wouldn’t normally feature one. However after reading that it was built on an $800 budget I had to post it as inspiration for others

“Here is the story of the motorcycle so far. Bought about a year ago as a commuter in a totally original state (not even an exhaust on it). The bike was doing it’s job pretty well, but i saw that there where some true potentials of beauty in her.

Inspiration came from bike builders like A.C santcuary & Bulldock Japan and i started with a very tight budget of aprox. $800 to build it. A lot of one off parts made by me like the clip on’s, the tail tidy and even the solid brass label on the exhaust is made by hand by me. The color is a unique, one off mixture off gold & green pearl with black stripes on it, and a thick coat of clear laquer (5 hands of it!)

Lot’s of powdercoated parts, wheels, swingarm, triple trees even the levers are OEM powder coated. The fact that I was on such a tight budget made me try something different, the bike is not a bolt on bike.
The exhaust is the original OEM headers 4 to 1, chopped, with a one off inserted silencer. The headlight is a 1978 yamaha xs 400. I changed the brake hoses with braided one, chopped rear light, lever hollowed by hand and a lot of small part’s on the bike are powder coated. Even the seat was remoulded with anti-slip surface.

The bike was built in a room acually with late night’s and rock’n’roll music!
I am very proud of her (here in Greece bikes have a sex when we talk about them)

Yours sincerely 
Gerorge Lavatsis LVTZ
Amateur bike builder/Mechanical Engineer”

This thing is amazing

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coolcatmatt:

Industrial designer Scott Summit makes beautiful prosthetics

This is pretty damned awesome

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This conversation is the reason twitter exists. This was amazing.

stromausfall:

psychopathicactivity:

“Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you’re allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It’s like killing yourself, and then you’re reborn. I guess I’ve lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.” Charles Bukowski

I fuckin love this man

Bukowski

redjeep:

On March 19, 1945… the USS Franklin CV-13 and nicknamed Big Ben, is seen here heavily listing to starboard after a lone dive bomber equipped with armor piercing bombs attacked prior to the Franklin launching her fully armed aircraft that were warming up on deck. She (the USS Franklin) is credited as the most heavily damage Carrier to survive WW II. 

Wow, amazing shot