2009 Iron & Lace
Custom Bikes & Centerfold Model Calendar
Featuring the top bikes of the 2007 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show
and the beautiful FastDates.com Calendar Kittens
sponsored by Mikuni American and Performance Machine



2007 Performance Machine / LA Calendar Motorcycle Best of Show Winner Greg Westbury from Westbury Hardcore, Concord, CA, took home $4,000 cash and some $3,000 in awards from our Calendar Kittens, past and present Iron & Lace Calendar models: from left KLSX radio host and former Penthouse Pet Sam Phillips, Playboy model Tiffany Toth, and Miss Texas Rockin' Robin Cunningham. CLICK FOR BIGGER

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Shooting the 2009
Iron & Lace Calendar
By Jim Gianatsis

I had two principal shoots for this years calendar in an attempt to kil many birds with one camer shoot. The first was a location shoot a the work shops shared by Jesse Rooke and Todd Silicatio - Todd's Cycle. Joining me for the multi bike shoot which was filed by WATV for SpeedTv were two of our prettiest Calendar Kittens, Tamara Witmer and Corona Skiner.

The second major shoot for this year's Calendar again came the day after the 2007 LA Calendar Bike Show Weekend to photograph the winning bikes at Rhys Adobe ranch in Calabassas, CA, next to the famed biker hangout The Sagebrush Cantina. I trusted fate by booking to all new models I'd never met before, Katerina Van Deerhan and Carrie Ann Stroup.
Carrie Ann snared the cover with Greg Westbury's best of Show winning bike, and I liked her look in front of the camera so much, as I'm sure you'll agree, I had her back for many more calendar and adverting shoots.

My two other shoots, one at the Queen Mary which was also used for our 2008 Bike Show ad campaign, and one in my studio with two new Shinya Kimura retro racers featured beautiful Playboy model Tiffany Toth.


Tiffany Toth

The Models:
• This year we had two beautiful new discoveries for the 2009 Iron & Lace Calendar, who we also featured in our other calendars Fast Dates and Garage Girls.
Tiffany Toth has been modeling for the Playboy Website and their newsstand specials. She also was photographed as a Playboy Playmate but her centerfold was never published. Hugh Hefner must be getting old....because Tiffany is incredible and we are excited to have her in the Calendar. Tiffany also shares the cover of Garage Girls 2009.

Our other new favorite find is cover girl Carrie Ann Stroup, who is also featured on the cover and inside Fast Dates 2009, and in Garage Girls 2009. We also photographed Carrie for calendar sponsor Mikuni Carburetor's new ad campaign "Fantasies" a copy of the ad of which appears on Calendar page 2.

Returning again this year in Iron & Lace is Playboy Playmates Tamara Witmer and Miss August 2005 and Calendar Kitten Cora Skinner both who joined us both days at the 2006 and 2007 LA Calendar Motorcycle Shows.

Builders featured in the IL09 Calendar include:

• Greg Westbury of Westbury Hot Rods, Concord, CA, took Best of Show at the 2007 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show.
westburyhotrods.com

* Ron Simms is one of the legendary West Cast builders who has had his bikes featured in the Iron & lace calendars since the early 1990s. Ron brought us a number of bikes to photograph this year, the day after the LA calendar Show, but we were so filled up with bike to put in the calendar we had to narrow it down to just one, a beautiful original 1919 factory Harley Davidson board track racer.
RonSims.com

• Shinya Kimura of Chabott Engineering, former founder of Zero Engineering in Japan and Best of Show winner at the 2004 LA Calendar Motorcycle show, has now moved to America and started a new company, but still builds the iconic retro customs which Zero has always been famous for.
chabottengineering.com

• Yasuyoshi Chikazawa of Chica Custom Cycles again returns with one bike in this years Calendar.
chicacustom.com

• Joe Takai of Mercury Custom takes is one of the most professional builders on the custom bike scene, building very beautiful, clean and functional bikes.
MercuryCustoms.com

• Kevin Brooks of Thunder Thunder Mountain Motorsports in Mount Shasta, CA, built the only chopper to sneak into this year's calendar. Hi bike "under the Influence" also took Best of Show at a 2007 Easyriders Bike Show.
ThunderMtnMotorsports.com

• Jesse Rooke won Best of show twice at previous LA Calendar Motorcycle Shows. This year he returns with a couple of his well known style kit bikes, built in associated with Todd Silicato of Todd's Cycle. JesseRookeCustoms.com

• Todd Silicato shares his work shop in Huntington beach, CA, with fellow Iron & Lace Calendar builder Jesse Rooke, and Todd build one original bike of his own, and one Jesse Rooke kit bike which appear in this years Calendar.
ToddsCycle.com

• Barry LaCour / Top Shelf Customs built customer Albercio Rapiso's bike which won Best Performance Machine Equipped Bike and a $5,000 product award from performance machine at the 2007 Calendar BikeShow
TopShelfCustoms.com



Jim Gianatsis photographed Greg Westbury's 2007 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show winner for the for the 2009 FastDates.com Iron & Lace Calendar and Website with model Carrie Ann Stroup at the Rhys Adobe Ranch in Calabassas, CA, the day after the Calendar Show.

Greg Westbury's "Lucky" Best of Show Winner
from Westbury Hand Crafted Motorcycles at the 2007 LA Calendar Motorcycle Show
and featured on the cover of
2009 Iron & Lace Calendar

Our 2007 Best of Show winner Greg Westbury offered up a beautifully simple alternative to the plethora of raked forks, gaudy paint jobs, too much chrome and polish, and senseless theme bikes that often proliferate any show, and our Show is no exception. Greg's unique Bobber named "Lucky" proved to be just that as it won him his 2nd Best of Show award at Long Beach. We didn't learn until after the awards ceremony that that Greg's same bike had won Best of Show at Artistry in Iron at the Las Vegas Bike Fest some 9 months earlier. Two premier Shows think alike when it comes to choosing one great bike.

"Lucky" is bare bones as any Bobber / Bar Hopper should be, but it goes further that most as a total design package, with fit and finish which is far beyond what's been seen anywhere else. The stunning flow of the very unique creame white rigid frame with matching contour fuel tank with a ergot Pan Head style engine that blends in perfectly. The pivoting girder brushed stainless steel front fork, working with a variable linkage coil/over mountain bike shock mounted at the steering head. To the adjustable chain tensioner on the rear frame rail feeding the drive chain to a Westbury logo engraved alloy sprocket turning beautiful wood grain painted alloy wheels. Craftsmanship and detail is every where to the extreme, it's almost excessive, but it all flows together beautifully without being outlandish. The LA Calendar Motorcycle Show is America's Autorama for future bikes, and Greg Westbury's "Lucky" could be that exotic prototype that everyone wishes would go into production at an affordable price.
- Jim Gianatsis

Westbury Hand Crafted Motorcycles
P.O. Box 665
Concord, CA 94522
Office PH 925 682-9482
Cell 925 682-9481
westburyhotrods.com

Greg Westbury 's
"Lucky"
Best of Show Winner

Motor: 88ci Pan Head Replica|
Carburetor: S&S
Frame & Chassis:
Modified rigid frame, tank, fabrication by by Greg
Forks: Rigid frame, pivoting with coil over shock assembly on linkage
Rear Suspension: None
Paint: Marcos Garcia's Lucky 7 Customs, bodywork and paint.


Tamara Witmer

Calendar Kitten and Playboy Playmate Tamara Witmer serving as our Hostess & Master of Ceremonies at the 2007 LA Calendar Motorcycle show Weekend.