That is a great set-up Hicksy…
I bet you saw some good times camping that way.
Are such trailers legal?
And that Shagpile seat would suit Cuttle…
Josh
Surfboards and scooters all about Style!!
http://kiwihobo.blogspot.com/search/label/scooter
As a Scooter rider i love my single fin 7’6" and 9’6"
but love to get the gun off the wall too
as for the funboard my Mctavish Carver is the bomb!
The shagpile/sheepskins have their place. When I first landed back in Oz I got a job as a contract courier with Repco delivering parts to the mechanics in the area.
I straight away asked the boss (Guzzi nut) if I could use a scooter to do deliveries as well as the obligatory white Ute (pick up truck for non-Aussies).
Along came a Vespa GT 200.
Mechanics didn’t know what had hit them. Repco didn’t know what hit them.
I got paid per delivery and I was faaaasssstttt.
At the end of a year the branch office just simply didn’t want the contract courier pulling in more money than any of their staff including the shop manager. Embaressing for them.
The sheepskin was brilliant for all day work.
At least I didn’t have to only bolt for the early and late surfs anymore.
hi, speedy,
i have always been into bikes , mainly british and italians, i have only one left at the moment, race tuned round barrel 1000cc guzzi , gsxr 1100 front end in a hand built monoshock frame , its a track bike that i intend to put on the road at some point , i have had it for 12 years or so ,
i bought some carbon fibre to make some parts but instead made a board with it and then got back into board building again ,
i will have to put some effort into getting the bike sorted out before i get too old to ride it,
the board is the second sunova i have , i bought it off a guy who comes from burts town in western aus, pete
This thread got me thinking of a little bit of Hunter prose that relates to surfing, from Hell’s Angels.
“But with the throttle screwed on, there is only the barest margin, and no room at all for mistakes. It has to be done right… and that’s when the strange music starts, when you stretch your luck so far that fear becomes exhileration and vibrates along your arms. You can barely see at a hundred; the tears blow back so fast that they vaporize before they get to your ears. The only sounds are the wind and a dull roar floating back from the mufflers. You watch the white line and try to lean with it… howling through a turn to the right, then to the left, and down the long hill to Pacifica… letting off now, watching for cops, but only until the next dark stretch and another few seconds on the edge… The Edge… There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others- the living- are those who pushed their luck as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there. Or maybe it’s In. The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.”
And have a read of ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’ by Pirzig, lots of parallels there!
I’m a Speedway Bike fan myself.
Short or long track.
Fast,two gears ,and…NO BRAKES !!!
Too old for Freestyle motoX…Any viewers out there into FMX ?
And oh ya…
Burt Monro is my Hero !
H
back in junior high, speedway was king(that and midget wrestling)both at the local fairgrounds…!
Hey Herb,
Yep, hellmen…
Those guys and the “Board-track” racers of the early 20thC. Basically, beefed up bicycles with 1000cc engines, no brakes, no gears and no chance…
Over 100 miles an hour on banked wooden Velodromes…These were the very first Factory works bikes and the product was pretty much the advancement of the internal combustion engine to what we know today.
The sport was banned…such regular deaths.
Josh
Reverb man, that is beautiful. I just love pre-unit Triumphs.
I can’t find any pics of my old brit bikes just a couple of japanese bits and bobs.
Sold my last bike a couple of years back (FZR 1000 Exup), after realising that my days were numbered if I carried on the way I was. Been thinking recently of another cassic brit, the missus aint keen though.
…thank you,
those Brits are fantastic motorcycles
and still on the road!
here we have a group of 10, only one unit (a 3TA from 1959)
the other day I just found a collectable piece: a pre unit Bonneville! in totally mint conditions!
also the guy have a Kawasaki 1000 MK II (very rare model) I dont like Japs but I can appreciate the bike
Today a guy sold a Norton 500cc pre unit (1951) for US$ 1000! that needs a couple of sprockets, etc in the gearbox
in addition to my yamaha 175 enduro-circa 1969, i also had a bsa 441 victor and 650 bsa street bike…