FLAVIO

Our Lucky Monkey Noli Coronado builds a bike for ron Poe of P&P tattoo. Ron is the son of Legendary Filipino actor Fernando Poe Junior.

Fernando Poe's most famous role was of Panday( blacksmith in Filipino)

He played a blacksmith named flavio who made his own swords and fought evil foes.

The build started out as a CB550 f from the 70's complete with raked out neck and flamed tank. The bike features a girder front end, rigid frame painted in rust inspired by pandays costume. Flourishes using brass and other found objects such as wrenches were integrated into the build. Agimats Filipino brass amulets were also used to protect the rider.

Noli lucky monkey

Our Lucky Monkey Noli used to make toys, plastic , rubber vinyl toys of superheroes, villains, wrestlers you name it. He'll still cobble up and occasional action figure but now its all about the metal. Oxidization and rust

A short feature on his life his bikes and his passion for creation.

read it here NOLI ARTICLE

Thanks to the guys on the action figure hub for the pics and articles on our lucky monkey noli.

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New stuff

Weve been banging on new stuff. Im back to painting and striping pictures to follow. Nolis been sculpting and he accepted commisions for 4 new brass sculptures. The sculptures will be pounded out of 16 gauge brass sheets oxidized distorted and distressed.

The apprentice

Our apprentice david did his first show at the white room gallery.

Noli has been training david for the past year and a few other kids, he aslo teaches Philosophy to college kids at the One school. David has been working with epoxy and clay and has experimented with different mediums. David has also infused his art on pipes which work as well as they look. Here's a peep at his first exhibit.

P&P tattoo aniversary

P&P tattoo parlour our neighborhood tattoists celebrated their 1st year aniversary with a fashion show. They had Joel Poniente, Ron poe, Myke samabajon , jake Cuerpo , Alex Botelho and our own lucky monkey Noli Coronado walk the runway in Shop shirts. Noli wore his trademark ELvis shades and a shop shirt upside down, having a piece of duct tape only for cover. Jauhn of onewayride.blogspot rode over with me in his suicide shift, skinny bars and high mount chopper. I was amazed at how zen he rode with through the traffic splitting lanes and going thru narrow gaps in crazy manila traffic. I brought along my Benjies cafe racer gb400 and was fumbling in traffic since i havent had a lot of ride time on that bike, I struggled with my tall bike as i watched Jauhn haul ass on the skinny chopper. It was a good night to ride split lanes and celebrate tattoos

Noli's Elvira

Noli the sculptor of Lucky monkey is not only a sculptor he is also a passionate bike builder. His bikes are usually far out, raw metal rolling scultptures. As with our jewelry we still adhere to raw metal, raw angry aggresive machines that baffle onlookers. Last sunday during breakfast with Benjie of Benjiescaferacer.com he unveiled his creation. A Kawasaki KZ750 with no registration, chopped dropped and inlayed with brass and embellished with Brass Agimats( Filipino protection amulets) . Kustom touches such as the jeepney fender 4.5 liter gas tank, old ducati handgrips, old gilera seat, a discarded avon white side wall. The bike is mean in fact it kicked noli in the shins a few times getting her kick started. Another machine for the streets of mean manila