Dio - The Last In Line

What can I say!! A true hero of the metal community has left this world! It has been a true privileged to enjoy your music Ronnie! Have a nice trip to your next live and thanks for all the great music and good vibes! See you later friend!

Norway Run..

In 2008 Harley-Davidson Owners Club Norway arranged a road trip called ”Norway Run”. The trip started at Lindesnes which is the southernmost part of Norway. The route went from there along the west coast of Norway and all the way up to the Harley gathering “Run to the Arctic Fun” in Storfjord Troms. Twenty something bikes started the trip and on our way almost 40 more joined the group. Me and Peggy drove the whole way and on the returning trip we visited Vesterålen, Lofoten and took the coast road from Bodø to Namsos.. Look it up if you don’t know what I’m talking about ;o) In other words, some of the most beautiful roads in Norway! The whole trip was over 4000 mile (6500km) long. A recommended trip which I would gladly do again ;-) Pictures of some of the rides participating in the Run and and some of the scenery.. Enjoy!

Friday Metal...

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)

Quadracing..

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!!!

What can I say... Americans rock!!

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”,)

Bike Fest 2009

Oslo Open 2009

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)

Friday Metal...

One of my favorite Thrash Metal bands of all times Sepultura with one of their best song from the 1991 Arise album! Enjoy!!

Big wheels...

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

Friday Metal...

For the past two, three years Lamb of God has been one of my favorite bands! Last Wednesday I saw them live for the first time! They didn’t disappoint me at all! One of the best bands in Metal ever if you ask me! Not as many people at Centrum Scene in Oslo as there where at the Download Festival in England! I personally think it’s much more fun to see a band like Lamb Of God in a small theater with only 1500 people, than in a huge arena or at a festival with 10 or even 100 times more spectators! A great experience that that I can strongly recommend ;o)

Weekend fun...

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/

ATV Racing..

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!

Friday Metal...

Blood Red Throne from Kristansand her in Norway is one of the best Death Metal bands around. The guys are amazing artists and musicians! I went to see them for the first time in December 2009 and they blew me away! The band has been around for some 10 odd years now and they have 5 full studio albums out. The last one called “Souls Of Damnation” is an awesome album that every death metal fan with self respect should have in his or hers collection!
Find out more about Blood Red Throne here: http://www.myspace.com/bloodredthrone666

Euro bikes...

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)
The Swedish style is always cool and I love the bikes “Greven” at Hogtech makes.
These pictures are from the 2006 and 2007 championship. All photos taken by one of Europe’s best motorcycle photographer Horst Rösler.

Snow bike fun...

Today I got a visit from two of my off-road riding buddies from Kristiansand.
They had converted their bikes in to snow-machines with belt and ski kit from Explorer. I was sceptic as usual and didn’t think this was any good! Well, as it turns out the converted bikes where a blast to ride and I haven’t had so much fun riding off-road bikes during winter in a long time… The Ski-Doo (snowmobile) didn’t stand a chance in the deep snow and the bikes handled amazingly easy with the conversion kit. I want one to! ;o)
Thanks to Paul and Ivar for a great day in the snow…