I don't cater to you or anyone else...

I don't cater to you or anyone else...

Never support those who do not support you!

Lisa M. Ballard

• Hello,
  
  I am the new editor for Chop Cult and we need to talk about your blog feed in our blog dump. I am from Mass and have opinions but I do not put them on blast for every one to see. Your recent posts are uncalled for and we find them offensive to say the least. Please make sure you are catering to the motorcycle industry or your blog will be deleted from the blogdump. Your titles have to be shortened and post are to be motorcycle related. Your personal rants can be on your other social media but I do not see it needed on our site. I have the new owners backing and would like to resolve this issue before just eliminating your feed.
  Thank you for your time,
  Lisa Ballard
  
  
  In response...
  
  
  
  
  Masshole Moto

  • Delete me immediately! I don't cater to anyone and if your offended then just walk away, don't tell me to change it up for you and Your "Motorcycle Only Mentality". I post what I want when I want on My blog.
    
    Mike Painter- Masshole Moto.

The Masshole Moto review of 2011

Most memorable memories...

-I can't say that 2011 was a bad year,not sayin it was a good one either but it will be memorable for damn sure.These are some of the highlights in no particular order of 2011 for me...

Cycle Source pics...

Found these in the Jan. issue of Cycle Source from the Indian Larry block party out in Brooklyn,NYC back in Sept of 2010. the same weekend as the Brooklyn Invitational and Dice party, Fuckin sick weekend!!

-The guys I met out there and me are standing dead center of the pic on top and my scoot got on the next page,one on top.

R.T.T.R.

These next two are from the Run to the Rock on Martha's Vineyard in Aug.Gone out the last two years.More of a H.O.G. type event but it has some potential for a good time.Thanks to Katie,Tony,Arthur and Janet for bringin me to this one for the first time.
-Ended up with a trophy for best Rat in the show.

What can I say about the Greasebag 11' ,Grail from Knucklebuster did a gooood fuckin job! What a fuckin hoot this trip was.Started out on Cape,rode up the south shore with my buddy Marc into Boston just in time to meet up with Prohibited Garage's Jon-Micheal at the HoJo's.Next thing you know were heading to lunch with McGoo from Biltwell/Chop Cult and then riding out to the Hated of the World garage for a photo shoot for Chop Cult.That night was the Dice party at the Baseball Tavern,one hell of a time.Next day we all rode out to the meeting spot for the ride to N.H. Got a ride from Wayne of Acme Choppers cause I snapped my Clutch cable.Got it fixed and made camp by dark just in time for beer,pizza and strippers.Sun. was the Greasebag at Acme,sick party,good friends and quality bikes.On the ride home I had more clutch problems resulting in a 85 mile non-stop ride trough 15 miles of traffic,tolls and the tunnel in Boston minus a clutch...

-Ended up with a article on Chop Cult and a plaque from the Choppahead crew at the Greasebag.

Read more about this by searching the Greasebag on the post labels.

World of wheels

Headed to the World of Wheels,Boston earlier this year with some dudes I know.3 days of sitting in a booth drinkin beers and talkin to people,boy that sucks.Met a lot of good people and saw some old friends.Every one in our group made out with a award for they rides

We were approached by a guy who said he was diggin our bikes and asked us to come to the Laconia Biker Build off at the Lobster Pound during bike week.

-I ended up with this plaque for Best in Class for my scoot

My Girl

I still can't believe how good to me she is.All the girls I have ever been with have been about themselves in one way or another.It took a girl named Tracie from CA. to make me believe people can be good to one another.

-Thanks for being you babe,xo!

And ya,that's a full plate of ribs that she is eating in a party dress...

Northeast Motorcycle Expo Boston,MA.

Also known as the Kev-Marv Production shows.I made it up to the Boston show with the Turnup this year and had a blast. 2 days of walking right through the doors of the Seaport Expo Center with a 30 pack of High Lifes in a Cooler and sitting back in our 10'X10' display are/campsite and proceeding to get silly for 8+ hours.Met a lot of interesting peeps and had a good time.

-Thanks to Dinah for hangin out and passing off my award.Pulled 3rd place in this one for the rusty Trumpet

Lacoinia Bike Build Off...

Laconia 2011, 9 days of beer drinking,bike riding,rain soaked, mosquito ridden,chopper building,skirt watchin madness! this was one of the wildest things I have ever done.Right in the middle of bike week,right in the middle of the Lobster Pound,right in the middle of 100,000 people, buildin a bike and drinkin beer all day bullshiting with a lot of really cool people.Hey,it had it's ups and downs through out the week but it was one of those things you don't pass up and I made out fine in the end,even got a pic in Cycle Source too boot!

Full story is on here if you search the Posts...

-Got 3rd out of 4th.Hey,it ain't a loss! Made a shit load of friends too.Thanks too Rocky Road Campground everyone who stopped by.

Down at Choppahead 

Started an apprenticeship down at Choppahead.Had my hands on at least 2 bikes that have gone out the door and having a fuckin blast while doin it.One of which (green one above) went to Johnny Rioux, bass player for the Street Dogs and one good guy.

thanks a lot guys for letting fuck around in your world and play with your toys.

My Boy

What can I say,anytime with my son is the greatest gift of all!

-Thank you for helping with the bike this weekend buddy.Love you kid

Pre Laconia Bash at Gilda's

When we got the invite to head to Laconia to do the Lobster Pound Biker Build Off we realized the money to pull it off was going to be an issue.I made a few calls for help and we got some shirts made.After all the shirts sold and we raffled off our donations we had the cash to make the trip.Great party and awesome people at that one.

-Thanks too all of you that could show up and support M.M. and a huge thanks to I compute Business Service, Theory Motorcycle Products and Boston's of Plymouth for helping us out!
With out you this would have never been possible.

L.A.

As all ways I love goin to L.A. My girl is from CA. and she try's to get us out there as much as possible.Since she likes goin so much I like goin because it makes her so happy,and it's fuckin cool as hell out there.We sorta have a place in San Pedro and some good friends in the area.Might even head out that way pertinently sometime...

-This year was a family reunion in Bakersfield so we drove from Pedro and had a blast.
Also thanks to Tim at Century Cycles for offering to help out with the Build Off.


*Well tomorrow night it's all over for 2011.I'm looking forward to 2012 like a lot of people I'm sure.Let's hope things pick up for all of us.

To anyone that was there along the way,to who I met or to who I may have not mentioned thanks for making it a year to remember!
 

Happy New Year from...

As for 2011...

Now,let's get liqueured up and laid!

This week on Chop Cult...

Mike Painter's Triumph-

• Written By: Harold McGruther

Close your eyes and picture Cape Cod. What do you see? Salty seamen in Nor'wester rain gear? Ivy League douchebags in matching blazers? Ed Kennedy wadding up the family sedan in Chappaquiddick? Squint harder. Any beardos on greasy choppers come to mind? Didn't think so. Mike Painter from Wareham, Massachusetts, is working hard to change America's perception of The Cape, one blog at a time.
I met the man behind MassholeMoto.com at the DicE party in Boston last month. Mike and his crusty Triumph struck me as the kind of team that makes an instant impression wherever they go, and this beer-soaked soiree was no exception. I warmed up to the gregarious chopper freak instantly, and picked his brain about the bike and the scene he's built on the shores of American Camelot. Here's his story…
More here...

DicE Magazine Banner Ad Design Contest!

Found this on Chop Cult... 

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The rules are simple: 

-1) Each entry must include 1 banner ad in any of the following sizes:
• 728 pixels wide x 90 pixels tall
• 160 pixels wide x 600 pixels tall
• 300 pixels wide x 250 pixels tall
Size your banners incorrectly and your entry won't count.
-2) No flash animation. Animated GIF's are acceptable, but file size can not exceed 80k. Static banners are preferred, as these ads are less annoying, generally speaking.
-3) Post each submission on this thread as an attached photo image, one banner per reply. Multiple entries are encouraged, but a different contestant will be selected for each required banner size.
-4) Winning submissions will by selected Matt and Dean on November 15, 2010, and their decision will be final. They will select one each best 728x90, 160x600 and 300x250 banner, and 1st through 3rd place will be determined among these finalists.
-5) The three winning banners will replace all current DicE banners on this site November 20th, and Matt will personally ship the prize packages to each winner.
MORE...

From Chop Cult:
  Lee Bender and the Ride For Lightning

• Written By: Bill Bryant
• 8-30-2010

Lee Bender is a skateboarder and professional vagabond. Raised in Indiana, Lee split his time between Arizona, Oregon and the road for years and eventually settled in the San Francisco Bay area. An Evo Sporty is his bike of choice. Inspired by a friend's rigid XL he sold off most of his old Honda stash a few years ago and bought his first Gnarly Davidson. A run-in with a distracted broad in an SUV left him with fewer injuries than a good skate session, but the insurance was enough to fund the construction of his new bike, another Evo Sporty. Lee's the first one to tell you he's no master fabricator. His bike was built by Rudy at Foundry Moto and has been a reliable road companion ever since. In 2007, Lee was diagnosed Multiple Sclerosis. The SUV didn't slow Lee down, and neither will MS.

MS is a disease which among other crippling symptoms includes loss of balance, numbness, vertigo and loss of coordination. Basically, it messes with all the motor skills needed to do the things that are central to Lee's life: skating, and riding motorcycles. There is an operation that Lee believes will help his condition, but it's not legal in the United States. Here's how Lee describes the operation:

It's called the Liberation procedure. An Italian doctor named Zamboni diagnosed his own wife with MS about five years ago. He said, "Fuck it, I'm gonna stop what I'm doing and figure this shit out." Well, a few months and a million and one tests later, he determined that his wife had narrowed jugular veins. Either from hereditary, or they were pinched between a muscle and bone. Dr. Zamboni opened the space where his wife's veins flowed and almost immediately she claimed that her hands and feet felt warmer. It made sense. Poor circulation to your body means cold parts, right? Basically, they feed a wire into your vein to the narrow part and either blow it up with a balloon or they insert a stent, which is like a chinese finger cuff and they leave it in place where the narrowed vein was. It returns the bloodflow back to normal and you are golden. So, a week or so later, her balance started getting better and her cognitive issues cleared up. She was seemingly back to normal. Amazed at his discovery, he tried this on a select group of his own patients from his personal practice in Italy. He found that some ridiculous percentage of patients with MS had narrowed veins, but not all. Keep in mind that MS is one of the most misdiagnosed diseases known to man. Anyhow, I forget the percentage, but close to 90 percent or more of his patients with MS that had the Liberation procedure started getting better. Balance, vision, numbness, etc. decreased, so the word slowly spread about this new technique. Some neurologist scoffed and really most people looked down on Dr. Zamboni and didn't believe his claims. Think about it, years and years of school, and practice, being brainwashed that one thing is one way, then having the rug pulled out from under you. We've all been there at one point I'm sure. So I can understand the medical world's speculation but, give it a chance, right? Slowly but surely, it's spreading. Poland, Bulgaria, India, even here in the States they are doing a study, but it's for ten people and it has already started. The hoops and red tape the FDA makes people jump through are generally understandable, but this is an old procedure, the same as angioplasty used on stroke victims. There's nothing different, it's not new, but since there will be 9.7 billion dollars lost per year by the four drug companies that make MS meds, it's banned, outlawed, looked down upon, etc. Now I'm not one to jump on a get fixed quick scheme, but, I personally met someone, a friend of a friend that had MS. See how I said the word "had"?  She went to Poland and paid to have her veins ballooned open, and same deal as the Italian doctor. Her vision became more vivid, her numbness and fatigue went away. I got an email from her saying she was doing backflips on her trampoline the other day. Something there's no way I could even think of doing today as a reasonably healthy 31-year-old. So yeah, sign me up.



Frustrated by Lee's situation, friends, skate- and motorcycle-industry coleagues and fans have rallied around him with various fundraising activities. ChopCult member Tim from Death Science (also a Revenge Run organizer) got wind of Lee's need and decided to put his energy to work with an event that could scare up some dough and pitch into the pot. There is a thread with all the details here but the broad strokes are this: Ride around the Carolinas for a couple days on old moonshining roads, camp out one night, then wrap it up day two at a bar with bands, booze and broads. The dates are October 15-16, 2010. There will be a massive raffle, and with a sponsor list like these guys have, nearly everyone is coming home with some good swag. You can details, sign up in advance and purchase swag on the Ride for Lightning blog. We'd like to wish Lee good luck and urge you to support the cause and help a fellow rider if you can/