Loud and Dirty
I like well built machinery, and women.
Cameras, Motorcycles, Cars, Airplanes, Firearms. All sorts of machinery.
A friend, Ira, came over with some of his collection and I photographed Xesia and Karleena with his equipment. I hope you enjoy.
Continue reading “Girls and Guns”
Dave at SpeedDealer Motors has been extremely supportive of me over the years.
If you are a regular customer and have his decals on your motorcycle you are more likely to be photographed.
If you are a regular customer of SpeedDealer consider any photographs I get of you as a fringe benefit of doing business with Dave.
I did not take many pictures this day. Then things happened.
I am looking for grid girls to support SpeedDealer Motors and Mechanophelia at the WMRRA races this year.
The duties would be to look pretty, hand out stickers and cards for Mechanophelia and Speed Dealer Motors, Grid girl work and in general hanging out to draw attention.
The Schedule is:
Round 1 April 25th – 26th Pacific Raceways
Round 2 May 23rd – 25th The Ridge Motorsports Park
Round 3 June 27th – 28th The Ridge Motorsports Park
Round 4 July 18th – 19th Pacific Raceways
Round 5 August 29th – 30th Pacific Raceways
Round 6 September 18th – 20th Portland International Raceway
please contact us if you are interested.
I am still working on the 2015 calendar for SpeedDealer Motors. Here are some teaser shots from my latest shoot there.
I was driving home the other day and I missed a shift and over revved the alfa. it started making an awful banging noise. At first I thought the clutch was starting to come apart because it shifted really hard and pushing in the clutch seemed to make the throw out bearing squeal. Upon inspection the clutch seemed fine. I took the cam cover off and noticed the timing chain was very loose. I adjusted the tensioner, checked the cam timing and the valve clearance. I put it all back together. The banging noise is not as pronounced now, and only at idle and right above, but it is still there. I checked timing again and when I reached down to try to turn over the engine, I noticed the crank pulley rotated on the crank about 1/4 turn without the crank turning. I pulled out the radiator to get a better look, with frars of the crank nose being broken. I see that the pulley spins on the crank, but the TDC mark on the crank nose is in alignment with TDC measured with a dial gauge on the piston. I have not puuled the pulley off yet, I am hoping I just sheared a keyway and the pulley bouncing back and forth is what the banging noise is. Compression checks out good in all of the cylinders so I do not think I bent any valves.
Anyhow, here are some pictures of the engine and my helper, Xesia, working on it.
I was asked to photograph the Thundering Angels Motorcycle Rally today. Here is a quick glimpse of what I saw.
The girls have to go through the pictures first before I release any more
I am working on logos for Mechanophelia and I want to use a silhouette of the TZ250 for t-shirts and cards etc. Last night I set up the TZ by the side of the pool and took some shots. Here is one of Xesia with the TZ.
We went for a drive in my Alfa Romeo Spider. In our travels, we stopped by our friends at Seattle Used Bikes where she played service writer for a bit.
