Polished and Brushed Axle Adjuster Collars!

Polished Brass Axle Adjusters! We make them to replace OEM Part #47577-86 & 47577-00 (matching wheel spacers available)

Rippled Stainless Neck Stem Nuts for 1"-24

Rippled Stainless Neck Stem Nuts for 1"-24 stems have dropped! These match our 41mm & 35mm fork caps too! Pick yours up at DeepSixCycles.com

Shifty (AKA Grab Em, Don't Grind Em)

We offer our USA-made shift knobs in aluminum and brass with a variety of finishes. Check out this “diamond in the rough”! That brass sure does make an impact when it’s polished up!

Snow Go (Aka Riding it out)

There's no feeling like riding choppers when there's snow on the side of the road or flurries in the air. It's a feeling I just can't explain especially in the mountains. On this day I found where they stopped maintaining the road when it snows in WNC.

Double Bar Rabbit Ears (AKA Polished Pullbacks)

Special order Double Cross bar Rabbit Ears! Always a pleasure to send out the top of the line stuff like these Polished Stainless bars. We have been waiting a long time for some one to ask us to double or triple up cross bars! Thanks for coming to us for all the rad stuff!

What's old is still old again... (AKA Cobbler's Shoe Redux)

Another in progress shot of the Cobbler's Shoe with the new to us Nikon. I've always been interested in photography and have needed a decent camera around the shop forever.

We may have something kind of big up our sleeves with this build. We'll have to wait to see which way things are going to turn out. We have some fun ideas for this build. Hopefully we will break them out this time around! The ole shop truck is always a work in progress…

Brass and Stainless-ness

Check out these brushed Stainless Super Deluxe T Bars with Polished brass! Available at DeepSixCycles.com

Just barely had a chance to shoot these with our new to us but old Nikon d5000 before we sent them out! It's really nice to finally have a decent camera in house. Hopefully I'll get the hang of it sooner than later. If they weren't all packaged up to ship I think a slightly different F stop would have been ideal. But I'm still rather pleased.

Special thanks to intheweedsphotography for letting me bug him a little about photo stuff when I was trying to pick a lens, etc. 🍻🤘🍻

Halwade's SpartanKiller

Back in the beginning of things, in the days when our little chopper scene was just an under current surfacing on blogs and forums beneath a sea of beach ball back tires and mile long stretched tank mainstream “customs”. A few short years after founding the shop I saw a thread on Chop Cult. Some one was looking to build a bike sourced with parts from as many solid little cottage shops from the 33 community as they could. I reached out and we made a deal. I remember polishing those manually machined pegs for days before I sent them out. I am so glad I have streamlined the process today. I did manage to see a few photos of the bike completed. I believe it had a feature on Chop Cult but honestly it could have just been a thread.

The other week I was searching around the web and found a link to it being featured in Hot Bike Magazine in the April 2015 Issue. I believe this was several years after having sent the pegs out to Magoo for the bike. I’m not sure why we didn’t make the build sheet in this Hot Bike article. We didn’t even have a website at the time of the sale and we were not as well known as we are today. But we’re still so stoked to have parts on the build. Thanks again Magoo! Check it out the article at the Hot Bike link below for more info!

https://hotbike.com/spartan-killer-ss-powered-custom/

Our Issue of Hot Bike April 2015 at the Milling Machine!

I believe this was posted on Chop Cult Back in the Day

I believe this was posted on Chop Cult Back in the Day

Check out the these Hot Bike Shots and read the original article at the Hot Bike link below!

https://hotbike.com/spartan-killer-ss-powered-custom/

Back at the Blog! (Aka Blogness Monster!)

Ok, I’ll try to keep this short and sweet. Although I’ll probably fail… It has been nearly 5 years since I’ve updated the blog. I feel we are at an cross roads of sorts. Or maybe we already blew through the stop sign and never even noticed the option to turn? The internet is changing. Long gone is the internet of the early 2000s. A place where people shared ideas and creations. A place where a personal website or blog with good content could rise to the top and the little shop busting their butts could would be recognized. The internet was a great equalizer. For a time money mattered less and content and heart nearly ruled. We have turned towards “social media” for our entertainment, info and inspiration. I watched the decline of organic reach to those I interacted with on Facebook around the time that Facebook rolled out their Business “Pages”. A place where they take away the bulk of your natural supporters and your posts natural reach so that they can sell it back to you. The apps main feed is so manipulated that you can never “catch up” on missed posts and often see post from only the same handful of people even though you “follow” many more. When I discovered Instagram it was with much relief! But I knew as soon as Facebook bought it I would watch history repeat. Enter the age of InstaFace… And where do we go next? Will history just repeat there again?

I feel we are in a very strange time. The internet is or has killed most magazines. Blogs are dead and a few internet forums persist. Where are we going? To a world where we are subject primarily to paid content? Where is the grass roots bike culture we came up in? We all know it’s still in the oddball low down chopper shows, In our garages when you help a brother out with a new build/mod, or the gift of a part. It’s on those long backroad rides, when you forgot your rain gear or overcome a break down with some crazy zip tie fix that never should have gotten you home. You used to be able to feel it online. Now there are so many “life style” profiles reposting content that we often loose track of who’s who and if it was real or just a fabricated photo shoot.

Due to all of this and my uncertainty about what comes next. I am going to try to be more diligent about sharing the things that I would with my social media here in the blog. Will many see it? Likely not. But it will not be filtered and fed back to you. And it will be here as long as my site is up. So the least I can do is share to it when I make other social media posts.

As for you. I suggest we all support the places that support our culture online. If you have a blog maybe think about posting to it when you post your bike content on social media. Support the online forums we have left. The Jockey Journal is still out there and The Chop Cult Forum is cooler than ever and facilitated by people in our world who care about it. One positive thing this era has brought is the rise of the podcast. We do have some amazing grass roots podcast available to us. If you’ve not heard any of them you should have a look and support them. Maybe we can hold on to the little bit we have left strengthen it and grow something new. But no matter what don’t stop doing what is in your heart and chop on, blog on, forum on!

Now back to our regularly scheduled posts of a couple photos and few short sentences. Thanks for your ear…

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