^ Bit further off-road than my comfort zone.

22 hours ago, ballpoint said:

How many pictures to guess who it is?

 

One of the greatest names in motorcycle history takes his mother for a spin on a V twin built by his father:

 

The same man, chatting to a customer riding one of his motorcycles shortly after an accident on his own bike - hence the walking sticks:

 

The customer's bike transported to an inquiry into his death on it:

 

Should be obvious who he is now, sitting on one of the first bikes he produced, and, given the bike, who the customer was too:

 

 

 

 

 

Philip Vincent?

6 minutes ago, Randell said:

Philip Vincent?

The bike's a Brough Superior SS100

Bike builder and his customer, George Brough and TE Lawrence.

 

1 hour ago, ballpoint said:

Bike builder and his customer, George Brough and TE Lawrence.

 

Shows my ignorance but I did in my mind have TE Lawrence right just the wring bike that he died on. Oh well I'm from the colonies 555.

On 5/11/2021 at 9:13 PM, ballpoint said:

Officially revealed recently, the Triumph Gold Line Street Twin, complete with gold retro logo.  Only 1,000 to be made.  I wonder what the chances are of getting one over here?

 

 

 

 

 

Triumph have been they before ,the 1977 Triumph Queens Silver jubilee Bonneville, basically  a T140  750 Bonnie .

Triumph only built 1000,then they sold out ,so they built another 1000 for the USA market .............they sold out ,so they built another 400 for all markets .

This one was destined for the USA market, I always did like that teardrop tank and raised bars .

I wonder if this new modal will sell out ,and some more built.

19 hours ago, canthai55 said:

Is that a Harley flat head in a wide line feather bed frame .

1 hour ago, kickstart said:

Is that a Harley flat head in a wide line feather bed frame .

Its definitely an old flathead motor, but cant tell from this angle if its a wideline or a slimline frame, although it does look as though the top rails are kinked inwards slightly, which would make it a slimline. Either way, its a nice bike...

1 hour ago, kickstart said:

Is that a Harley flat head in a wide line feather bed frame .

Not up on Norton frame design - wrong side of the pond.

But is a WLA HD Flatty

Early tests of the para' safety system were not encouraging .. 

 

 

1949 Honda

1958 Supercub

St. Albans Hertfordshire 15/04/1992 one of the 1st Supersport bikes in UK to change history. 

 

 

 

On 5/20/2021 at 8:38 AM, canthai55 said:

1958 Supercub

Cute scoot ... my son wanted one for his sixteenth -- this year's model, of course. We got him swayed to go with any model that was secondhand and cheap, being his first bike and all. Then surprised the <insert expletive of choice> out of him by asking him to get something in the garage where he stumbled upon his bike of choice and with the exact colour scheme he dreamed of -- cream / black. Happy boy!

3 minutes ago, Thaigang said:

Cute scoot ... my son wanted one for his sixteenth -- this year's model, of course. We got him swayed to go with any model that was secondhand and cheap, being his first bike and all. Then surprised the <insert expletive of choice> out of him by asking him to get something in the garage where he stumbled upon his bike of choice and with the exact colour scheme he dreamed of -- cream / black. Happy boy!

Wow! Drive-chain on the right.!

Just like a bike I saw on Friday. Except the one I saw was all Black

 

6 minutes ago, papa al said:

Wow! Drive-chain on the right.!

Evidently not 'zactly his.

Was going to upload a shot with him sitting on it, but then thought ... well, thought better of it, so found this one on the inter-web of deceit-net. It's a reasonable "fact similey" if you discount anything that may not appear as you might expect.

 

 

11 minutes ago, Thaigang said:

Evidently not 'zactly his.

Was going to upload a shot with him sitting on it, but then thought ... well, thought better of it, so found this one on the inter-web of deceit-net. It's a reasonable "fact similey" if you discount anything that may not appear as you might expect.

Fixed it:

The invisible side stand is nice.

 

 

 

1 minute ago, ballpoint said:

 

 

Fixed it:

Thanks was going to do same at the risk of pasting too many shots of the dang thang. Great tag line by the way. RIP Hitch.

Someone's project.

Norton feather bed frame, Triumph tank logo, Kawasaki engine, box section swing arm.  A Kawanormph?  Trisakiton?

In a similar vein, the Norkaw. 1968 Norton Atlas with a 1972 Kawasaki Z1 engine, and a few other bits from various other bikes thrown in to the mix:

Back to little Hondas, a 125cc, inline 4 Monkey Bike.  What a neat little engine:

 

 

 

 

 

31.25cc per cylinder

 

 

Grand-daddy cub .. one of the longest production runs in history at 62 yrs and counting with a tally of over 100 million manufactured circa 2017 .. the first production bike to incorporate a plastic fairing/legshield affair .. legendary reliability and versatility .. part 2 wheeled transit van , part 2 wheeled mountain goat .. utterly amazing motorcycle .. 

 

Late 50's Villiers 500 V4 2 stroke .. 

Don't think it ever went into production .. 

 

RD700 .. Two 350 engines stitched together and wrapped in a classic Yam' speedblock colour scheme .. 

Luvverly .. 

 

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=saved&v=4689962234363793

22 hours ago, ballpoint said:

Back to little Hondas, a 125cc, inline 4 Monkey Bike.  What a neat little engine:

 

 

 

 

 

31.25cc per cylinder

 

 

How are the valves driven. I cant see a cam chain housing or push rod tubes.