Colorod yet again

Even more from the vault. Digging deep into my collection of Swedish magazines from the 1970s. This time it´s Colorod #3, 1973.

Swedish choppers were high quality builds already in those days. I always loved the white pan in the middle picture.

The Norton at the bottom is kind of weird though




I do not watermark my scans because I think it´s ugly and the pictures aren´t really mine to start with, I just scan them from old mags and publish them. So, feel free to steal and reblog my scans, but please do not put your own watermarks on them, and please remember to tell them where you found them! Thanks!

Gjutjärn Charity Bike Show

Gjutjärn Charity Bike Show, Uppsala, Sweden, in the late -80s

more from the studio

patches

Some patches, old and new. Now I just have to figure out where to put them

The Bicycle Book - a bicycle maintainance handbook

more Swedish chopper goodness from the 1970s

Here´s yet another bunch of fabulous Swedish choppers from the golden age. All (again) from the magazine Colorod, this time issue 2 1971 (and actually the second issue ever). Click for bigger versions.

Take a good look at the yellow Triumph at the bottom of the post... the assymetric molded tank and paint job, the crazy high bars, open primary, extended harley springer, sky high pipes and sizzy bar... so weird and oh sooo coool...






I do not watermark my scans because I think it´s ugly and the pictures aren´t really mine to start with, I just scan them from old mags and publish them. So, feel free to steal and reblog my scans, but please do not put your own watermarks on them, and please remember to tell them where you found them! Thanks!

Ice racing

When I was a kid, my dad and I used to go watch ice racing in the winter. It was really cool (and cold)! They used to race on a lake not far from where we lived. I think these pictures, from my dads photo-album, are older than from the time we went together... I´m old, but I´m not that old...

more vintage swedish choppers

More from the Swedish magazine Colorod of the early to mid 1970s. This time I´m not sure what issue or year since the scans are of lose page. I read these magazines over and over and over again as a kid, and some of them are totally in pieces, but at least I never threw any of them away. The shovel was from my hometown Gävle. Enjoy.







I do not watermark my scans because I think it´s ugly and the pictures aren´t really mine to start with, I just scan them from old mags and publish them. So, feel free to steal and reblog my scans, but please do not put your own watermarks on them, and please remember to tell them where you found them! Thanks!

Vintage Estonian Graphics

Nice old Estonian matchbox design

Swedish Panhead, 1977

One more from Colorod (#10, 1977)! I´d get rid of the front fender, and it´s perfect


I do not watermark my scans because I think it´s ugly and the pictures aren´t really mine to start with, I just scan them from old mags and publish them. So, feel free to steal and reblog my scans, but please do not put your own watermarks on them, and please remember to tell them where you found them! Thanks!

shop, shop (now working as it should)

I just found a bug in the system that made it impossible to order some of my stuff in the webshop to locations outside Norway. I´ve dealt with it now, so if you tried to place an order earlier and wasn´t able to get it through; Please feel free to try again now!

Click HERE, or the picture:

Swedish pre-unit Triumph

Another nice old Swedish chopper, this time a Triumph T 100. Page scanned from the magazine Colorod #11, 1978



I do not watermark my scans because I think it´s ugly and the pictures aren´t really mine to start with, I just scan them from old mags and publish them. So, feel free to steal and reblog my scans, but please do not put your own watermarks on them, and please remember to tell them where you found them! Thanks!

Tiny House

Small houses always seems faccinating to me, for some unknown reason. I found this tiny one when out skiing last weekend.

Absinthe

Next season I plan to make my own. I have an old recipe that I got from an apothecary some years ago.

Almost

665 kronor and 56 öre... 44 öre missing...

Baby Doc is back...

...in Haiti

Pope John Paul

Here´s a blessing from pope John Paul (the nice polish one that died a couple of years ago, not the new ex-nazi german one...). There´s a funny sound at the end of the blessing like he´s falling down.

And: No, I´m not a catholic, I´m not even particularly religious, I just think it´s fun having the pope on a key-chain. Bought it in Rome ten years ago.

Arne Anka

This duck is called Arne Anka and he has a lot of wisdom in him. He says:
"I don´t have a drinking problem. I have a problem with reality!"

the Studio

is coming along nicely

Merlin

Iggy back in the day...

Sorry about the swedish captions, the header reads "Iggy Pops Bloody Show"







I do not watermark my scans because I think it´s ugly and the pictures aren´t really mine to start with, I just scan them from old mags and publish them. So, feel free to steal and reblog my scans, but please do not put your own watermarks on them, and please remember to tell them where you found them! Thanks!

the future of the past

Some thirtyfive years ago, this is how I saw myself and my future...

Where did it all go wrong!?!

more fingers

Don´t know if you saw my blog-post from a couple of weeks ago, concerning fingers and hands... It´s here if you want to check it out.

Anyway, I found another great pic that fits right in, at this nice blog: el ciste bravado. Go there and have a look, it´s great!

man in the mirror

today and a couple of years ago

Mean Woman Blues...

... yeah, you can say that again.

As a kid, I used to love this album... for three reasons...



I do not watermark my scans because I think it´s ugly and the pictures aren´t really mine to start with, I just scan them from old mags and publish them. So, feel free to steal and reblog my scans, but please do not put your own watermarks on them, and please remember to tell them where you found them! Thanks!

Just...

some nice graphics

Hush, the genius is sleeping

I had a really good day at the studio yesterday, it´s coming along nicely after the renovation (after water leakage and mold damage)