Month: December 2010

Some Great Stuff from a brand new blog! Concept Bikes! A Ural Cafe Racer And Scrambler.


Great Imagination! I like it!  Someone send these to the folks at Ural! Here’s a link to the Blog. LOTS of potential here!  http://sketch-denis.blogspot.com/

Scrambler

Cafe Racer!

And here’s a bonus bike. a GSX1400 Cafe Racer Concept!

Reader Ride. A mercy purchase leads to a cool Cafe…


Keith Montgomery writes in:

To me a bike that doesn’t need to be worked on or”fixed up” is of no use.
I bought this one from a guy whose house burned and the bike was kinda sitting out in the drive for a long time. I was visiting my friends shop,  Monster M4 Suzuki one day and I stopped and left a card with my name on it for the owner to call  if it was for sale.
Sixty dollars later it was sittin in the garage. now what I thought. it was a total junk yard dog. There was decent compression so it HAD to run, right?
The points had been clubbed to death with a dull hatchet but what the heck.  Thanks to my cost+10 deal I have at a friends shop/salvage yard it was sparken.  About 40 dollars worth of cleaning supplies and a LARGE hand full of quarters fed into the car wash it was clean enough to actually start screwin with.  Tapered steering stem bearings, a doner battery, a seat unit and an OLD pair of clubmans I had been saving for 20 years, this and that I scrounged from my goodies and a few pieces from the salvage yard…
I stripped the tank and sealed it with the very effective Caswell tank sealer, fixed a leaky petcock, re-jetted the cleaned carbs to suit the pod filters, new tires/chain cog, a little front brake mod to get in the vicinity of actually slowing down, tilted the pipe up to my likink and cut the end of the cannister to reveal the”reverse megaphone” hidden inside and a bit of elbow grease…it actually rides quiet nice.  If i didn’t need the money I’d wanna keep it. I get attached to bikes that need love….

Thanks Much Keith! I hear ya on all of it.  I love to save lost causes.   Just my 2 cents here but you should hang on to it.  Get a pair of rearsets on there and a spend a little more time on the details and I bet you’d never want to sell it.  You’ve already done the hard parts. Go take a look at Wrenchmonkees. Those guys would have that thing in a private collection without too much effort. I’d think hard about it before letting it go.  Thanks again!

Reader Submittal. SR 500 Custom Rebuild


It there anything you can’t do with these thumpers?  From Frank Naaykens Speed Dealer customs Joplin,mo.

Reader Ride. 1983 KZ1000 R2.


Chuck Margiott Writes in:

Hello, Just sending you a photo of my bike. Just took it out of storage from 13 years ago. It looked like this when I put it away It is a 1983 KZ1000R2

www.kz1000r.com for bike of the months photos.

You’ve got a GREAT storage room there Chuck!  Thanks for the pics!

Update: Fantastic Triumph Land Sped Racer


Update:  Just got a note from an ADV rider poster who wrote in.

Loadedagain of advrider here… I see you’ve got Tom Mellors silver bullet posted today. Just an FYI… He’s got a 1000cc engine in it now. it ran in 2010 as a 1000cc bike….Ii was at his place a couple weekends ago… the crazy dude is going for 200mph in 2011! My bet is he’ll make it.
Cheers, Colin

I bet he does too.  Thanks Colin!
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I lifted this verbatim off of an ADV rider thread.  Just too cool

750MPS-PG class (750cc Modified Production pushrod, pump fuel [gas], partially streamlined — the front wheel must be visible for 180 degrees below the axle), 180.317mph


750MP-PG class (750cc Modified Production pushrod, pump fuel, with no bodywork, but with the rear fairing left on since it counts as being the seat), 159.905mph


Unbelievable numbers for a pushrod 750 on gasoline (remember Bonneville is a little over 4,300′ in elevation). Tom put a lot of people on the trailer with those numbers. Gorgeous bike!

500,000 Hits And Counting!


Wow! Thanks again to each and every one of yo for stopping by and contributing to this site! I’m still having a ball!

Totally Sick! RZ500/R6 Hybrid. Too good not to share. Cross-post From The 2-Stroke Board.


You hear about bikes like this in lots of conversations…. “wouldn’t it be cool to put engine X in chassis Y”..  Well someone REALLY did it.  More on the project over on BARF

“Current generation Yamaha R6 chassis with Ohlins forks and shock, Brembo brakes, forged wheels, and aluminum subframe. Engine swap with Yamaha RD500 (aka RZ500 aka RZv500) V4 twin-crank two-stroke. Handmade expansion chambers with carbon fiber silencers. Mikuni flatslide carbs.”