Today’s metal is from my own way of making a living in this screwed up place called world;o)
Every day I make metal parts for the oil & offshore industry. I work with a 2001 model Deckel Maho DMC 80U Duo Block 5 axis milling machine. In this video you see the machine doing some tolerance cut on a spindle. Enjoy ;o)
Back again after a short break from this blog stuff.. This time around, a few more pictures from our ATV riding days in Iceland. We are still in the early 90s and this time around we are doing some free-riding! Listen kids! Doing wheelies in the neighborhood street is NOT legal!!! Don’t do this at home!!!
Congratulations to the people of the United States of America!! You have just passed 1000 visitors on this totally meaningless blog site ;o) Thank you for your visit and I hope you enjoy your next one thousand visits as much as the first!! Hopefully I will keep posting some meaningless bullshit here so that you, and everyone else from around the world, still want to come around from time to time;o) Best regards from Ozzy c”,)
In the end of May 2009 I went on a little road trip. The goal was to get to the annual Bike Fest in Trondheim and Oslo Open in the capitol of Norway Oslo! The events where held the same weekend, that is Bike Fest on Saturday and Oslo Open on Sunday. I arrived in Trondheim on Friday evening (which is about 1000km or 621 miles from my home) and attended the Bike fest on Saturday and then drove to Oslo on Saturday evening (which is about 550km or 342 miles) Enjoyed the Oslo Open bike gathering and the Norwegian Championship of Custom Bike Building, and then drove home on Sunday evening.. A trip to remember with loads of cool bikes, interesting people and many nice hours in the saddle ;o)
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In Iceland there is a long tradition in building 4x4 cars! The most known concept is “Arctic Trucks” which actually is a company specializing in rebuilding Toyota jeeps and pick-ups. The tradition in changing other kinds of cars is much older and goes way back to the seventies. Back then there were mostly US cars people chose. Now days they rebuild almost any kind of car from any country. And they use them to get in to the back country and on to the glaciers. Check out more of Arctic trucks and other 4x4 on youtube.com ;o)
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jeppaferð&search_type=&aq=0
This weekend I have been busy in the garage. My good friend Benn Peter came to visit and we did some finishing touches on his Sporty Bobber. I welded the exhaust (again) and he did some gas tank repair. We also did some serious drinking on Friday night which included some fine Cognac from a guy named “Hardy” and some Norwegian booze called “Gammel (dirty) Oppland” Akevitt ;o) On Saturday my buddy Helge dropped in for a few hours to work on his Panhead chopper. The pictures are taken with Benn’s unique photo setup. There is no Photoshop effects used to get the pictures this way only a digital Canon camera and a 60 year old Kodak camera!! Check out the equipment and some more unique photos from Benn at http://www.flickr.com/photos/bennpeter/
In the early 90s me and my twin brother started racing our ATV’s in the Icelandic Championship series. Well actually we started the series by convincing the Motocross championship comity to let us compete on the MX tracks. The events in those days where not sponsored and the level of security and other things where at minimum ;o) But it was fun and I can’t recall any accidents during this period. After a few years of racing most of the guys went riding off-road or MX bikes and the ATV series was dropped! A great period in our lives with many great people and lots of fun both on and off track!
A few pictures, of bikes that I like, that have participated in the European Championship of Bike Building. I like the European style in bike building better than the American because they actually ride their bikes. (Not so many trailer queens over here ;o)
Today I got a visit from two of my off-road riding buddies from Kristiansand.I saw Iced Earth and Tim ”Ripper” Owens at Sweden Rock Festival in 2004. He has an amazing voice and, as I have heard, a big ego! He got sacked from Iced Earth and is now singing with Ingwie Malmsteen!? Well what can I say about the Ripper… He’s a screamer ;o)
I can’t say that I like everything the Harley factory is making these days! Many of the new Harleys are ugly as hell (the Rocker-C for instance is one of the ugliest bikes on the market today;o) But once in awhile the designers at H-D come up with something cool. And this time it’s a Sporty. I have always been a Sportster fan, and I was very disappointed when H-D decided to put rubber mounts on the Sportster engine and at the same time making the bike almost as heavy as a big twin! Anyhow I have to admit that the new Forty-Eight is one of the nicest looking Sportys to ever come out of the factory. It still has the bullshit rubber mount on the engine (which in my opinion takes away the Harley feel of the bike) but its cool looking and has lots of attitude! 
