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My shiny new Blog

Well here it is... I finally made a blog. My name is Ryan Downie and I own and operate Last Chance Tattoo in Las Vegas, My interests include, Tattooing, Drawing, Painting, Building garage choppers/bobbers (anything with a motor really), Building tattoo machines, Machinework/welding in general, Riding bikes, old, cars and anything Vintage, old, greasy, dirty, or loud and fast!! I have bult a few cars over the years, but a lot more bikes, i starting riding at the age of 4 and i havent stopped since! I stated Tattooing at 13 and ended up in a shop by 18... I will use this blog for, random thoughts, pictures of my hobbies, and general whateverness (not a word? owell) If you find anything interesting or not intersting either i guess haha, leave me a comment, or send me a message, enjoy!
Ryan Von Downie Esquire and Associates... :)

Thursday, May 27, 2010

CL 100 is gonna start getting paint and plating very very soon!






Check out the updates, going to tear her down soon and start doing the final touches to her and put her on the road!! Thanks to DJ to doing an awesome job of bringing my drawings and retarded ideas to life!!

Sunday, May 23, 2010

cl100 running for a quick preview, listen to those pipes, wahoo!!!

Should be getting ready to give her a good ol test ride and make sure everything is where i want it to be and then its time, to paint, powdercoat, plate, chrome etc!!! gonna be a mean lil 100cc for sure! Las Vegas get ready to be rocked by a bike that has a smaller motor than your grandmas lawnmower, yet more style than your snappy new haircut!

Digging through more old files, paintings from 5+ years ago









Wednesday, May 19, 2010

A few new progress pics of the Honda cl100

Getting close to breaking her back down and off to the powder coater and plater, then a coat of paint for the tank and were off to ride!!! Thanks to D.J for all the amazing work so far, could not be happier with the results so far :)


Helmet finally finished!!



I am very happy with the final result, i am going to wetsand it a nd recoat one more heavy coat of clear to really get that glassy look, again, this was entirely done with rattle cans, krylon, and wal mart .99 cent clear coat, you can pull off some nice stuff when you put some time and thought into anything i think... thanks for checking this out!!
Ryan

Hahahaha! found some VERY OLD flash i drew, 10+ years ago









Saturday, May 15, 2010

Rattle can helmet in progress...






I forgot to post this the other day so here it is... I need a pinstripe brush to keep working on it any further, should be able to make more progress on it this coming week..

Cl100 Progress again! New pics inside!





Still sick today, layin around trying to feel better, gonna hopefully head back to work sunday night...

Friday, May 14, 2010

Diablo Magazine!!! Free online magazine checkit out


http://www.eldiablomagazine.com/mag/09/index.html
Awesome magazine you can view over 300 pages of this online mag right here, as well as back issues, how have i never seen this before?!?!? go check this out right now, you wont be disappointed!!

Thursday, May 13, 2010

sick as hell since yesterday, still found this to brighten my day!


maybe the best artwork ever done on a motorcycle tank? I am of course talking about the one on the right, although the one on the left is pretty funny too. Maybe i should reconsider how im goint to paint my 650;s tank this weekend? :)

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

digging through old pics again, cars, bikes, toys, check em out!

1949 ford, wish i had more pics of this, im sure if i dig arround i will find more, built over a few years, full 4 link air suspension, molded doors, fenders, just about eveything, stood 42inches tall at the top of the windshield, miss her a lot!!
Mini chopper i built for my ex wife, its a tiny lil bike but it looked huge with her ib it hahaha i have a pic somewhere with her on it, looks like a full size chopper, i sold this 2 years or so ago


rat rod go ped wahoo!!!
this bike had waaaaaay too much power, you could break the wheel loose at 80mph by simply giving it fulll throttle, bought it just because it was such a screaming deal, sold it a few weeks later for more than double i paid for it...
this thing would lift the front end up even if you were both feet at the front leaning forward, had a mean powerband, i love go peds, such fun to play with, ive built some seriously powerful lil motors with these things!!!

Reed valve alchohol motor, 17k +rpms!!
me and a friend built this one night for fun, actually sold it on ebay for a pretty penny too!!