Indian Larry: Chopper Shaman - Softcover

Dave Nichols; Andrea " Bambi" Cambridge

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9780760338278: Indian Larry: Chopper Shaman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0760338272 ISBN 13: 9780760338278

Publisher: Motorbooks International, 2010

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Indian Larry This book offers a closer look at stunt man and sideshow performer Indian Larry Desmedt--that chopper shaman admired by so many--by those who loved him best. Full description

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Biker, bank robber, heroin addict, Indian Larry filled all these rolls in his too short life but he also filled other rolls like lover, healer, mystic, and artist shortly before his untimly death in 2004. This paperback edition of the hardback book chronicles his incredible journey through his early outlaw years to his rise to the top of the chopper world. Indian larry Desmedt is best remembered for his remarkable custom motorcycles, wild tattoos, and his love for building and riding rolling art, including the Indian motorcycle he rode ceaslessly through New York that gave him his name. Eritten by the two people who knew him best, this book is full of photographs documenting a uniquely colourful life, from his humble beginnings to international stardom in the world of custom bikes, from his life as a petty criminal doing abnk robberies, prison time, spiral into heroin addiction, and his rebirth in 1994 as the spiritual bike builder revered by so many riders and builders around the world - and running through it all the love of hot rods and motorcycles that finally bought him happpiness, making this a book sure to appeal to any chopper rider, custom bike enthusiast. an interesting and fascinating look into the life and times of this exra-ordinary, rather larger than life character. With mroe than 250 photographs many of them excellently detailed shots of fantastically exquisite bikes alongside candid snps depicting the life and times of this one-off rather inspirational man. --Pinstriping UK, March, 2010

About the Author:

Dave Nichols has been involved in many forms of media both in front and behind the camera since 1978. He has written and produced over 1,200 TV commercials with Shadoe Stevens, Inc., a series of television comedy specials for HBO/Cinemax, and American Top 40 for ABC Watermark. He has produced live events for Jani International and live sports programs for television, created early-learning software for Microsoft, and developed ad campaigns for radio, TV, and feature film trailers for New World Pictures. Dave has been the editor-in-chief of Easyriders and V-Twin motorcycle magazines since 1998 and is currently overseeing ten automotive and motorcycle magazine titles for Paisano Publications, including the new Road Iron custom touring bike title. Nichols was the on-camera host of V-Twin TV, a 26-episode motorcycle-related television series seen on the SPEED channel. He is also the bestselling author of Top Chops, Indian Larry: Chopper Shaman, One Percenter, and One Percenter Code, all published by Motorbooks. He lives in Ashland, Oregon, and Los Angeles and is currently creating TV series and feature film projects with HBO producer Michael Hill.

Better known by her stage name, Bambi the Mermaid, Andrea Cambridge is a performer at Coney Island, where she met and married Indian Larry in the late 1990s.

Since the early 1980s, Michael Lichter has been photographing custom motorcycles for the pages of Easyriders magazine--often hanging from the beds of pickup trucks during rainstorms or photographing packs of bikers in such places as Daytona Beach, Florida, and Sturgis, South Dakota. He has written and provided photography for a number of books, and he lives and works in Boulder, Colorado.

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