15 minutes ago, thaiguzzi said:

I know the Suffolk main Morgan dealer well.

You can buy a genuine new one of these in 2019, check out the prices. Start at around 39k GBP, going up to 45kish  for the ones with nice leather, wood, and paint jobs

He is also an official dealer for MV, Indian, S&S, Norton and a bunch of other bespoke brands.

Krazy Horse Kustoms, BSE, Suffolk.

 

Here's an old Triking;

 

Thanx Guzz' .. Yes they are certainly for the well heeled and eccentric .. 

They were still recently making cars the old way .. Though I'm not sure if they still use wooden chassis and hand rolled wings now .. They also used to use the Rover V8 we had up a few weeks ago to keep it full on Brit' but that engine is 50 yrs old now and not capable of meeting the latest emissions standards so as far as I'm aware they use BMW lumps with all the latest emission control kit now .. 

One of their later offerings the Aero 8 .. reminds a bit of Clarence the cross eyed lion .. ( and these are stupid money to buy ) 

 

Long lost Enfield Interceptor .. The caff racer looks the biz .. Nowt special about the Triumph's apart from the colour schemes .. The one in green and white is ace ..

and the 2 tone blue one is that a standard Triumph colour option .? 

 

 

 

 

 

Saw this on FB today...

Look at the HAMC from 1965 - what style influenced me when coming up ...

After all this time manufacturers and custom builders still chasing it

 

1. Garelli ???

2. Maico 490 Mega 2

3. Banana frame Jawa

4. Death wish - Maico frame, Kawa triple engine

 

11 minutes ago, Damrongsak said:

Maico 490 Mega 2

Maico looks awesome Dam' .. 

And the Kawa is just great .. 

 

5 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

Maico looks awesome Dam' .. 

One of their best ever.  I think they were the first to cant the shocks and move them forward like that and got a lot of travel/clearance.  Apparently handled well.  Back when I was a kid, we said "Maico Breako", as bits apparently would fall off.  I got about a 2 minute ride on a Maico 400 once.  Scary powerful.

9 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

Maico looks awesome Dam' .. 

And the Kawa is just great .. 

 

Nice stuff job, eh?  Heating and air conditioning guys would love the pipe job.

 

Notice the two expansion chambers on the single cylinder Jawa?  Unique.

11 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

They also used to use the Rover V8 we had up a few weeks ago to keep it full on Brit' but that engine is 50 yrs old now

This engine isnt British. Designed by Buick , in the 1950,s it is a 215 cubic inch engine , so had an "odd" displacement of 3532 cc.

2 hours ago, Damrongsak said:

 

 

Fast bikes - not as quick as my YZ490, but close.

 

15 minutes ago, canthai55 said:

Fast bikes - not as quick as my YZ490, but close.

 

Were those equivalent years of production?  Just curious.

 

I only weigh 125 pounds, so a 125 is more my speed.  Years ago I attended a MX race where it had rained and it was very muddy.  They ended up running all the classes in one moto late in the day.  The 125's were outrunning the 400cc bikes. 

36 minutes ago, Damrongsak said:

Were those equivalent years of production?  Just curious.

Yamaha was newer.

Maico if I remember was early 80's. They folded soon after

29 minutes ago, canthai55 said:

Yamaha was newer.

Maico if I remember was early 80's. They folded soon after

Pretty much by 1983-86 and they were gone.  Yz390 came out in '82.

 

http://classicdirtbikerider.com/features-page/yamaha-yz490/

 

In the early/mid 70's, there were a couple of brothers who ran Maico bikes around Maryland, USA at the Budd's Creek track. Meyer I believe was the last name. They could haul <deleted>. I'm sure their Daddy had $$$ and footed the bill.

 

The track at Budds Creek is still going strong.

 

I had a GF who lived almost 350km from me. Gravel/dirt roads beat my HD too much.

Put street tires on the YZ - long before Super Motard was coined

Handled the gravel, potholes just fine.

Geared it up with much smaller rear sprocket. thing just flew. Fun bike.

Sliding around the corners, on the dirt and gravel, at over 70 mph 555

Should have bought a flat tracker boot !

Just been released, the latest "limited to 50" production run from Norton.

Meet the Dominator Street.

Not too shabby, or overly expensive for 22k GBP IMO...

8 hours ago, ktm jeff said:

This engine isnt British. Designed by Buick , in the 1950,s it is a 215 cubic inch engine , so had an "odd" displacement of 3532 cc.

Fair point and strictly speaking it was a 50's GM designed unit used by Buick , Pontiac and Oldsmobile .. but it suffered overheating and lube' problems and was dropped by G M early 60's in favour of iron units .. Rover had an American guy J McWilliams working for them who convinced Rover a V8 was desirable in their cars who then gave the nod .. Mc'W went back to the States over another project but during his time there and aware G M had dropped the V8 struck an agreement with them over the design and tooling to start manufacturing it in Britain from about 1967/68 from whence it was used by Rover , Land-Rover and the Van division and a number of smaller production makers like Morgan , TVR and kit car makers .. 

T'is a good engine light , compact , reliable with good power .. 

Bonkers Be-eM's .. 

 

The Yam has been up before but that is a better shot of it .. Look at the size of that sprocket .. 

V8 stroker said to have come out of a drag bike but can't find any pic's of that .. 

 

4 hours ago, thaiguzzi said:

Just been released, the latest "limited to 50" production run from Norton.

Meet the Dominator Street.

Not too shabby, or overly expensive for 22k GBP IMO...

Not strictly the same bike but a nice atmospheric pic' of a new breed .. 

 

2 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

V8 stroker said to have come out of a drag bike but can't find any pic's of that ..

Here ya go. Built by Roland Broadbent, who had a company called Oxford Racing Services - the ORS on the engine.  2x Yamaha TZ750 4 pots combined to make a 1.5L V8 2 stroke.  580hp with nitro injection.

 

 

 

 

And a video of it warming up:

 

And a "normal" TZ750.  Kicked like a mule apparently:

2 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Not strictly the same bike but a nice atmospheric pic' of a new breed .. 

 

That'll be the limited to 77 production run worldwide Breitling Sport Limited Edition then.

Being a collaboration with watchmakers Breitling, i''ll imagine this one is a bit dearer.

Clicking on Norton Motorcycles website, there appears to be very little pricing shown.

Everything is bespoke and "please enquire".....

Mmmm. Strange. Or scary. Depending on your wallet size....... Innit.

26 minutes ago, ballpoint said:

Here ya go. Built by Roland Broadbent, who had a company called Oxford Racing Services - the ORS on the engine.  2x Yamaha TZ750 4 pots combined to make a 1.5L V8 2 stroke.  580hp with nitro injection.

 

 

 

 

And a video of it warming up:

 

Bloody hell no messing with that baby .. 

Last one on V8's .. 

Top engine is a Rover Meteor ..

Built by Rover in the 50's its essentially 2/3rds of a Merlin .. an 18 ltr V8 that went into some 50's tanks and the Mighty Antar tank transporter .. But as the Merlin was a 60° Vee engine this is too which is unusual for a V8 which almost universally all adopt a 90° angle to keep the firing even .. 

Bottom pic' is the holy grail of Brit' OHV V8's .. The 4.5 ltr version of Edward Turners 2.5 unit used by Daimler in the 250 and Dart .. The bigger version went in a very austere big old saloon called the Majestic ( sort of thing Cabinet ministers used to get shuttled about in ) with only 2000 odd ever being made .. A rare engine anyway they are highly highly prized in historic Motorsport es'pesh dragsters and are so sought after they fetch big bucks if you can find one .. 

 

5 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

... V8 stroker said to have come out of a drag bike but can't find any pic's of that ..

https://www.visordown.com/blogs/cool-motorcycles/15litre-v8-two-stroke

 

 

3 hours ago, thaiguzzi said:

That'll be the limited to 77 production run worldwide Breitling Sport Limited Edition then.

Being a collaboration with watchmakers Breitling, i''ll imagine this one is a bit dearer.

Clicking on Norton Motorcycles website, there appears to be very little pricing shown.

Everything is bespoke and "please enquire".....

Mmmm. Strange. Or scary. Depending on your wallet size....... Innit.

Not too bad.  Cheaper than the Dominator Street:

 

Gotta get the associated watch too though.  that'll set you back another £6,530.00:

3 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Bloody hell no messing with that baby .. 

From the specs: "This monster is 3 metres long, and with the wheelie bar it measures 5.5 metres. It ran 8.3 sec quarters with 188 mph at the top.  According to one of the former riders it could easily do 200mph quarters".

3 hours ago, thaiguzzi said:

Clicking on Norton Motorcycles website, there appears to be very little pricing shown.

Everything is bespoke and "please enquire".....

Mmmm. Strange. Or scary. Depending on your wallet size....... Innit

Does seem to be the way a lot of 'em do business now .. rarely can you get a straight price upfront .. A lot invite you in to make you're choice , select all the options and variants before hitting you with a bill at the checkout with a straight " proceed with payment " .. Friend of mine in ENG went to Mercedes thinking about a new car .. he had a 4 yr old A class as poss' p/x .. He was interested in a new A class but the salesperson refused to give a bottom of the line figure of how much Model X was instead inviting him to sit down and select all the options he wanted ( metallic paint , interior , body-trim etc ) off the computer screen before it was all jotted up and he was presented with a figure to pay if he wanted to proceed .. No negotiation , no chipping the price down above the official dealer discount .. The only concession he twisted out of them was to demand a higher p/x value of the old car against the new if he wanted to go ahead with the deal .. 

Sarolea's take on Be-eM's flat twin complete with 48 balloon style tyres .. 

Put the Panther'esque single up before but that is a better photo .. Is that not one pretty motorcycle .?