"Ride Through Europe" 19th European HOG Rally

The Palermo, Italy HOG Chapter invites everyone to a "Ride Through Europe" to attend the 19th Annual European HOG Rally - Swiss Harley Days - Swedish and Norwegian Nationals, with a post-rally ride to The North Cape.

"Our friends from Palermo HOG Chapter are going on a month "ride of their lifetime" through Europe and are coming to the Sweden National in Åre, joining even more members at the Norway National in Svolvær and topping it all with a visit to The North Cape! We wish them a Safe Ride and a Warm Welcome!" said Rolf of Harley-Davidson Rindstad, HOG Life Member, (who rides a 2007 FLHR with 18" apes) - Rolf is a member of the Arctic Chapter Norway World Northernmost and Jamtland Chapter Sweden, where he lives.

Meet up with riders at the Swiss Harley Days - 2010 European HOG Rally - July 16 to 18 in Lugano, Switzerland. Then meet up with more riders at the Swedish & Norwegian National HOG Rally for a ride to the North Cape.

  

 Awesome video - North Cape on a Harley 2010

 

Traveling "Desfiladero de la Hermida" in Cantabria, Spain

The “Desfiladero de la Hermida” is a narrow valley that was formed by the river Deva. It is located in Cantabria, Spain and is enclosed by high limestone walls, at some sections up to 600 meters high. The valley and road section (N-621) is about 21 km long, with lots of bends through an amazing landscape. It is in fact the longest canyon in Spain and got the name "La Hermida" from one of the very pretty villages that it passes through.

You can read the full article in English, German or Spanish at The Traveling Biker - a blog about motorcycle traveling around the world by Christoph Kieffer, who lives in Madrid, Spain.

Blue Butterfly Tattoo

 Blue Butterfly Tattoo

Another butterfly tattoo - this one is colorful.

Find Tattoo For Girls Style and ur body shape

Tattoos for girls Ultimate Tattoo Collection
 For the first half century after tattooing became commonplace there were few tattoos for girls. In fact, except for the small handful of rebellious women, many girls got tattooed at all.
  But, all of that changed about twenty five years ago when tattooing became more socially acceptable, largely due to the many celebrities who publicly sported tattoos. Some of these were women, and so the girl tattoo became more common and acceptable. Nowadays you see a whole genre of tattoos for girls. I would say the list of the top tattoos for girls would have to include butterflies tattoo, fairies tattoo, stars tattoo, hearts tattoo, flowers tattoo, dolphins tattoo and fish tattoo. But other popular tattoos for girls are tribal tattoo, Celtic tattoo and Zodiac tattoo designs. And the prime location for these tattoos would be the wrist tattoo, leg tattoo, lower back tattoo and even the breast tattoo. The tattoo in the picture is a perfect example of a tattoo for girls. It features a butterfly tattoo that is done with plenty of color and shading. It’s placed on this women’s breast in just the perfect position to highlight both the design and the natural curvature of her breast. I bet if you put your mind into it you could also find a design that fits your style and body shape.

ART GODOY BOARD RE-ISSUE BY H-STREET SKATEBOARDS

I rode professionally for H-Street from 1987 til 1989. I had a few signature decks - one had a turtle graphic on it, it is one of the re issue decks coming out on H-Street. The other shape is a more modern shape with a new graphic I drew. It comes with 2 different drillings for the front truck to change the wheel base from 15" to 15.5". I rode for H-Street after several bad runs with companies which were not quite honest... receiving checks for $4.00 for one month of board sales, companies who didn't want to be a part of competitive skateboarding, some who lacked any experience in how to treat professionals who rode for them. The list goes on.

Art Godoy - Toronto NSA contest 1988

I was stoked that I was given a chance. It was difficult in that time, to find companies who were willing to take us on. We (Steve and I) were not trendy like the rest of the skaters on the circuit. Being a tattooed professional in the middle of 72 other pros who had that "gay" 80's INXS look, we stuck out like a sore punk rock thumb. The queer fluorescent colored clothing, the dyed / bleached bangs was something we could not tolerate!. In our opinion, though a lot of the products were innovative, the fashion was the worst.

In that time, my twin did tons of graphics for H-Street. some are pictured below. It was all hand done color separations and camera work, all decks were silkscreened. Now it's all sublimated transfers... the work took hours and hours to do. There is a book available by Sean Cliver called "Disposable Skateboard Bible". It is full of skateboard graphics from the 60's to today's decks. We have our own pages in it as well, where lots of other decks that we've done can be seen. There is also a story.

There were several other H-Street model decks that we drew: John Schultes large and mini models, Eddie Elguera vert deck, Danny Way's first pro deck, Ron Allen... Some of the decks were pulled from distribution because H-Street heard that there were hidden messages in the artwork... ha ha ha, there may have been!! At the time, we were also doing work for Hobie, Bees Wax, No Fear, Pirate Surf, O'neill, Andy McDonald, Ben Pappas... and tons of other companies and professionals. We were also tattooing part time to supplement our incomes since some of the royalty checks were not so great. When a skateboard career ends, and you don't have a skill to fall back on, life can sure get tough real quick. We were lucky that we had tattooing... some others weren't so lucky. Take a look at "Rising Son"- the story of Christian Hosoi or "Stoked" - the rise and fall of Mark "Gator" Rogowski. These were both TOP professionals from my era who prospered when they were on top and fell hard when it was all done. Christian is back, skating as good as ever.. Gator, still in prison.

IT wasn't the most glamorous life as it is now to be a pro skateboarder, but we traveled all over the world, doing what we loved to do. Skating, surfing, seeing the world. We were very fortunate to have had such a cool experience.

JORY HELMES WINS "BEST LARGE COLOR PIECE!

We are proud to announce that Jory Helmes - good friend and ex coworker has won "Best Large Color" and second place in "Best Portrait" at the Capital City Tattoo convention this past weekend in Victoria BC!!! Doesn't surprise us... in case you don't know, Jory can do anything, any style any size. This is an example of one piece he did while he was with us at Funhouse.

In the early days, Jory started as a client, I tattooed his leg so long ago!!! I can't even remember what year that was... but we were at 15 E. Broadway at the time. He always had an interest in getting into tattooing back then, so, just like anyone who is dedicated to the art, he went to work on the oil rigs in Northern Alberta so that he could afford to pay for his apprenticeship at a shop in Red Deer Alberta. He has done his time and paid dues, which is something of a rarity these days where everything is so readily available for the backyard scribbler - pre made needles, suppliers who will sell to anyone, how to books...

Jory was with us for YEARS before he decided to go to Duncan BC to open Bully Boys Tattoo, his own studio! The transformation he underwent while he was with us was amazing. The work always had potential but one day it was as if the light bulb turned on in his head and this is the stuff that started to come out!!

If any of you readers find yourselves in Duncan, go see Jory... even if it's just to talk sh*t.

Great Vendetta Tattoo

This tattoo character in the Great Vendetta Tattoo is a mask of Guy Fawkes. There is this great movie: V for Vendetta, which is about a mysterious individual William Rookwood (Hugo Weaving) who wears a mask of Guy Fawkes to cover his face, and changes his name to only V. V's mission is to kill all the doctors who had tortured him at the detention center, and bring back justice to the country.