Month: July 2011

1972 Ducati 750 SS And The Entrance To The Barber Museum.

The first thing you see when you walk into the Barber Motorsports Museum..

How I spent one loooong day of my summer vacation!

I’d been working on deal with a friend to do some bike trading for a while now and we got things settled this Friday. As fortune would have it I got to take a nice long drive, scratch a BIG item off my “must see” list, get a TON of material for the site and come home with a bike I’ve always wanted. It only took 19 hours and 1000 miles of driving but I’d do it again anytime.

So… it started at 4 AM with my RD350LC in the back of my truck ready to go.

I then drove 7 hours northwest to our agreed meeting place which as it just so happens is one of the all time great motorcycling Meccas…

As luck (and my bad geography skills) would have it I had forgotten about the fact that Birmingham Alabama is in the Central time zone which bought me an extra hour to go exploring! It gave me time to go in and see stuff like this…

and this..

and this..

That’s juuust a taste.

I then met up with my friend and we made what I feel was a very fair trade. Loaded her up..

and drove another 7 hours back home…

Where this morning after a 1000 mile day and a restless nights sleep I finally unloaded my ridiculously nice ~3000 mile RZ350. I Am Stoked!

So sorry if posting was a little lame but it will be improving shortly. There will be a LOT more on all of this but for now I’m tired from the drive (and the heat is brutal here too) and I’m still sorting out the additions to the photo library. Please stay tuned!

Sweet little honda under a shady tree..

There’ll be a few scheduled posts while I travel…

Going to be travelling for a few days…

I’ll be on a road trip tomorrow and maybe half of Saturday but if all goes well I’ll be bringing in a new ride and some REALLY good material.  Stay tuned.

A Cool Little Cub from the UK.

Ron Machette Writes in with this tricked out  little Honda 90 Cub:
A few pictures of my little honda 90 . I built it to ride to work . I live in Kings Lynn . Good site by the way. I put h100 forks and wheels on it. These are 18 inch instead of 17. I made the front mudguard from an old stainless steel cooking pot. I used Honda Chaly handlebars.

By the way nice work with the lens and that is some absolutely beautiful country there!

Reader Ride. Moto Guzzi Mk 1 Le Mans

Alan Blair included this in with some photo’s of another bike that he had. Unfortunately Alan if you’re reading this the bike you intended me to have didn’t include the complete set and what did come through was unusable so please give it another go. It did look interesting. In the mean time..

Reader Rides. A 1936 Schwinn/Merkel 2-stroke board racer conversion and a 1965 BSA C-15 café conversion!

Jeff from Tuscon send in this nice pair of bikes, I freaking love the small board tracker.

Attached: 1936 Schwinn/Merkel 2-stroke board racer conversion; 1965 BSA C-15 conversion to café.

SWEET!

A Very Fine 69… Harley XLCH.

Maybe my favorite “realistic” classic Harley and this one’s a well photographed beauty. The contributor prefers to remain anonymous.
Your readers may be interested in my ’69 XLCH, but I’d like to remain anonymous if you care to publish photos.
Just the way you’d want one back in the day…and today too. Alloys. Bates pad & pillion. Older slash cut mufflers. Shock covers. PB cams. All black.

Thank you sir!

A Maserati Motorcycle. Yes really.

Another nice contribution from our regular contributor Mr. Ted Guthrie

Ted Writes in:
Hi, Steve. Spent a couple of days at the Wauseon, Ohio AMCA meet. There is always SO much cool stuff there. Among all the great bikes was this little Maserati, on display by the National Motorcycle Museum folks. Coordinator Mark Mederski says the bike is headed for the Pebble Beach Concours.

Thanks Ted,
I can’t imagine how rare this bike must be. Some interesting background can be found HERE