Win This Knuckle! - June 25th Born Free 3

Well, here it is...The Born Free Knucklehead!
I got to spend all day with this beast in the studio yesterday. It really is quite special...so the decision was made to shoot it in a special way - large format camera, and my very last box of 4x5 Polaroids!
I will be making a very limited amount of prints, so get them while you can...

A very special thanks to Eric and Jason for helping out on set yesterday...

Love Cycles, Billy & The Haifley Bros

Ok, back to Phoenix...
The first evening of my stay in Phoenix, the Haifley Bros. had a little BBQ with free food and drink at their shop.
Great food, great people and these cats make some amazing seats! Check them out here.
Below is Billy with his Panhead...

Max Schaaf - Born Free Build Revealed...

Max Schaaf for Born Free from Michael Schmidt on Vimeo.

Love Cycles - Part 2

So I got to spend a few days with Jeremiah last week. Had a great time hanging out at Love Cycles, going to a swap meet, some yard sales and doing some riding shots - more on that to follow...
Below are some blurry pics of him peeling out of the shop...it's hard to keep focus on the little bastard, he seems to operate at full throttle all the time.

Love Cycles - Part 1

Utility Board-4Q-Vans

As I mentioned in my earlier post, Josh from Utility and I went to visit Max...
well, here is what we did.

Big thanks to Davey for killing it on the edit!

Vans 4Q Sk8-Mid Lmtd from Utility Board Supply on Vimeo.

Vancouver-Phoenix-LA

Well, the next 10 days will be a little crazy. First Canada, then Phoenix, then back to LA...
It will be a little quiet around here.

Below are Emma and Maya with their friend Ava.

Red Bulls and Gin...

It had been a few weeks since my last trip to Oakland; so when Josh from Utility Board called to pitch this road trip, it didn't take much to convince me...
We loaded up on Red Bull and Gin, and headed north... met up with Max, had tacos and let loose on the sickles...but then it was time to get serious - after all, we where there for business!
More on that later...

Joe King Speed Shop

Check out Joe King Speed Shop if you want a cool custom helmet like Max...

Unicorns - Round 2

Just got back from Oakland...
Jason's post couldn't go un-answered for much longer, so here it is.
We couldn't match your Mr. T, so Round 1 goes to you...but this is far from over...

Oakland - take two

Looks like I'll be leaving early in the morning to head up to Oakland again...
This time I'll be shooting video for some secret project. Stay tuned for that one.

Below is Kim and Pat of Benchmark

Julia

Winning!

See the reverse angle of the first shot here...

Knucklehead - ATR for Born Free 3

Jason was invited to build a bike for the upcoming Born Free show. So naturally I went over to his garage to see what's what...
Well, what I found was pretty frightening! The bike was in pieces, and Mr. ATR was making kissy faces to parts of his bike...
Oh, and he kept mumbling something about trannys...