ROCKETRamblings

stuff this motorbike milarky, too cold outside,, time to take cover. See you in the spring!! luv Flea x #adoptdontshop #General

via Instagram https://instagram.com/p/-FWLocnacA/ The Harley Davidson Shovelhead engine is one of our all time favourites and has featured in a number of our custom bikes including Gas’d Rat, Bankrobber & Hipster Killer. It was manufactured from 1966 to 1984 by Harley-Davidson and produced 10% more horsepower than the Panhead engine which it replaced. There are a number of companies now producing Shovelhead-style engines but these babies below are originals from the 1970’s.

via Instagram https://instagram.com/p/-BV-76naX2/ Me & a mate doing a promo shoot for knee sliders back in the day … think I’m about to get all sentimental,, better get on and do some work! #rocketbobs #mickhodge #icesliders #oncearacer #General

“When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today” #General

Here’s the latest addition to the Rocket Bobs workshop… it’s an Easyrider M50 (Jincheng) and looks so cute next to it’s bigger cousin 🙂 This babies all mine and Pete isn’t getting anywhere near it.  It does need a lot of work but I can’t wait to get started.  This may take some time…. #General

Happy Holidays to all our friends, we hope your Christmas is a blinder! Thank you for all your support in 2014, you’ve all made it an amazing year for us here at Rocket Bobs,, BUT 2015 is going to be epic, watch this space… 🙂 #General

Great start to the new year,, Rocket Bobs facebook page hits 1000 likes! https://www.facebook.com/RocketBobsCycleWorks #General

I think 2012 is going to be a huge year & finally I am going to have a bike on the road throughout ! The Shovel is here soon, so shoot me a text or whatnot any time and let’s get some miles in.. I tell ya, this year is gonna be awesome 😀 – Posted from my iPhone Location:Cycle Works #General

It’s been a hell of a year, it’s all down to you fellas supporting us and I honestly think that from that we can hit 2012 with even more schnitzels! Still staggered at how this whole business has exploded, at the start all I could think about was just being allowed to work on Harley’s and how cool that was, now 2 years on and we have our own frames, rocker covers and an ever growing array of cool shit. I honestly think life can not get any better than this & all I got to do

Well things at the shop got extremely busy towards the end of last month and we are heading into the holidays flat out trying to get the covers, nuts & kits out to an ever more jittery array of wives & girlfriends 😀 Thing is we have the first set of tubes back from Good Fabs & I am desperate to get them on the jig. The 316 headstocks are done and we are ready to roll out the first frames ! T45 is an astounding material, it’s just so light, but ridiculously strong. All up our

Well the frames are at the final stage, Good Fabs do all our tube bending now as they work a lot with T45. I tell you that is one weird steel! We use 17 gauge, or 1.42mm wall, on our frames and it’s so light that I had to try to destroy a wee off cut the other day & it’s damn near impossible 😀 Obviously a BFH can and did in the end, however this material is amazing. I’m just thinking that the finished frames will be so light the performance with a grunty Harley motor, should

My advice to anyone thinking of re-shaping a late model trans is don’t 😀 !!! So far we have well over 30 meters of filler rod and hours of TIG time. And it’s relentless, as you weld one area so the heat drives out gas and impurities elsewhere in the cases. But I think we got it, so now it’s flipped over and in the shot is the next piece of welding to do. This ally tube will run the clutch hose and rear brake hose, keeping everything clean. Once this is done I’m on the home s

So I got this comin: I had to do this to my trans: And the FCKIN thing is still gonna take a shed load more work: That’s it,, that’s my week 😉 #General

Yep it’s that time of year again and with only 33 days left until Christmas we are getting in the festive spirit and are offering some great discounts on many of our most popular products.  Prices are discounted by upto a whopping 20% so get yourself over to our products page and grab yourself a bargain while stocks last! #General

I had a five year plan. To generate enough business to finance a full frame design & start in on ground ups with our own bikes. Well 2 years in and we are here already! The reason for the Co and the name is right here, our first frame is now days away from production, this is just a crappy iPhone pic of the computer screen but thought I’d share. The frames are made from T45 steel and 316 Stainless tube plus plate. This is a basic CAD drawing so no braces etc,, but my friends,

This is an early (!) shot of the initial CAD programming of the new Dyna frames. We are virtually finished, with about 1 hour left. So next week, hopefully, the first tubes will be bent and we can jig them up and start welding. At this rate we will be in full frame production by end of November ! AND THAT gets me soooo stoked you just wouldn’t believe it: – Posted from my iPhone #General

You gotta have a few prints up in the shop, this is the latest 🙂 Taken from the current issue of Heavy Duty magazine featuring Blackbird. Tough to get over here as its from Oz, however worth it as the rag is massive! The best magazine outlet in the UK for our particular area has to be Magazine Man. He does everything from Cycle Source to Junk. Ok crap pic coming up…………. – Posted from my iPhone #General #Press

We are having a few problems with out website which will hopefully be sorted out by the morning.  In the meantime if you need to get hold of us please email us #General

We got a mini plasma cutter,, expect a lot of shit to get cut up this weekend :)) – Posted from my iPhone #General

Steve heading to the Casino with luck on his side 😀 – Posted from my iPhone #General