REINKE BROS
Our October photoshoot for Thunder Roads Colorado took
a bit of doing and several people coming together to make
it happen. Lisa and I talked about the project back in May, I
kept my eyes open looking for the perfect bike and I wanted
very much to do the photos at Reinke Brothers Haunted
Mansion in Littleton.
makes great photographs. Drew’s gothic side comes out on
occasion on Facebook so I had asked him to join us as well.
Vampire teeth! Lisa’s fangs are not plastic pop-ins,
these are the teeth she smiles with year round. Of course
everyone who meets her including myself has to ask the
obvious question, “Are those your real teeth?” Depending
on her mood she will either smile at you or bare all for a testbite preview and say, “Yes, they are.” I can vouch for her
that she always has them--even at work escorting patients to
the exam rooms. So of course I was more than pleased that
she was interested in being on this project.
I had just thrown a Hail-Mary pass on Facebook to find a
bike, since the one I wanted was on its way to Las Vegas for
a show; another I had in mind from Paper Cycles is on hold
for a future shoot. But then I went to cover the Bike Show at
Mile High Harley Davidson in Aurora. I walked in and started
to drool and had to pop my eyeballs back into my head. I
have never seen so many high end show bikes in one place.
Someone grabbed me and said you’ve got to see this bobber,
so off we went to check it out and the stars aligned and a full
Halloween moon came out and I knew it was the one! A
springer front end with so much gleam and detail I quickly
asked whose bike it was so I could try to persuade the owner
to bring it to Reinke’s and get the Vampires to sit on it for a
photo shoot. Dave Weaver was happy to bring his beautiful
custom bike!
Then there is Drew, a very handsome young front man on
the local band scene that I enjoy chasing around with my
camera whenever I can. The first time I met Drew he was
singing with a band performing at one of the Bike Runs I
was on last summer. He was comfortable with the camera
in his face and was playing into the camera and this always
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I knew both Lisa (you may have seen her before on a
motorcycle centerfold) and Drew have modeling experience
in the past so this made my job easy, but I just could not find
that perfect bike or get a hold of Reinke Brothers.
October 2015
Thunder Roads Magazine® Colorado 9