More assorted bikes from JAY

Too much good stuff here not to post it all.

I have two more r65 and I am building another one as a bobber.I hope to purchase two more ls this week as i need to create a giantkiller.I’ll try to send you pictures of my balkans trip r100gs,dick tracy r75/5,the virago 240 bobber,The black r100rs/5 was just completed 2 months ago and has just turned 3000 miles

Here we are in no particular order. Great Stuff!

Looks like the Daytona Vintage Motorcycle Auctions are alive and kicking.

It was looking like the Daytona vintage races and the Deland motorcycle auctions (just west of Daytona) were almost a thing of the past.  Well good news!  They’re not going without a fight.  If you’ve never been to the J. Wood auctions in Deland in the past I highly recommend it making the trip this year to the new location at the Volusia County Fairgrounds. Sounds like a great new location and that they need all the support they can get. It’s not on the Bonhams or Barret Jackson level but it’s not far. There are a LOT of great vintage and classic bikes on the block and I’ve been tempted many a time.

More info on the J Wood Auction Site and check out their site here for all the specific info! I’ll be there on the 16’th (my birthday as it turns out) camera in hand as well as checking out the Flat Track races. Hope to see you there!

And here is the early  CONSIGNMENT LIST (which will no doubt quickly grow) so check it often!

And a sweet TZ shown here in the flyer.

Gorgeous Honda 350 Four. Big hurry today but I have to post another great bike from JAY.

I’ve got several more sweet bikes from JAY and I’m a bit  too rushed to get to them all at the moment but I HAVE to post this sweet little Honda 350 Four cafe he sent in.  Wow that’s nice. Gorgeous!

 

Reader Submittals. A sweet BMW and a fantastic album link.

Update:  All links to his previous posts now included in the post.  After looking at them all… All I can say is wow! You have some great taste!

 

A fantastic album and a sweet R65LS form JAY who wrote in:

Included are pictures of my r65ls,a bike i fell in love with when i met my first wife at laconia at the time she was dating manny’s brother ralph.Thanks for posting my others bikes,the red engine BMW,the blue and white HP1 scrambler and Caroline ,the burgundy café racer,la reine du circuit du castelet.Regards,JAY

Here is just a small taste of the Photo Album he sent in. Do yourself a favor and click over.

And here is a stunning BMW R65LS he included.  What a swee bike.

Lets play “Name What That Bike Started Out As”!

I know I don’t post many Streetfighters but that’s not because I don’t love them. I do actually. Style performance and WOW factor suit me just fine. A well built fighter “can” be THE best way for a skilled builder to show off his talents. There are literally no boundaries. And when properly done you have a bike that you can actually use everyday if you like that really IS one of a kind.

My general problem is that the “Streetfighter universe” is so freaking huge. Even on the better dedicated sites and message boards there are way too many folks who just pull the fairing off stick on some dualsport headlights, add a few decals and call it a fighter. And that’s fine. You’ve got to start somewhere. But when it comes to finding good material for the blog it’s a little hard to sift through the haystack and find that shiny needle. Anyway, what caught my eye about these top two bikes isn’t JUST the build quality and styling (which are excellent) it’s what they started out as. I actually tripped across them in separate places before I made the connection that they all came from the same builder. A shop called “Full of Hate” Customs. If you like the genre head ove there and check out some of their work. Nice stuff.

Anyway, here’s our 2 mystery bikes. Can you guess what they started out as?
#1 For the Answer Click HERE
By the way Hat Tip to The Fuzzy Galor Blog on this. Cool site.

#2 This one floors me. See Here.

And here’s some of heir more straight up work. Sweet stuff.

A Sweet (and street legal) Aprilia RS250 2 stroke.

A carry over from the 2 stroke board. I’ve seen a few of these titled and street ridden in the US and it always makes me drool. As realistically close as you can get to a GP bike on the street. Brace yourself for the maintenance costs though.

Hairu wrote in:

I consider myself a 2stroke lover. I always believed that 2stroke is the most ideal engine for a sportbike. I think MotoGP made a big mistake by banning the 2stroke to compete. They should have let the 2stroke to compete with what ever type off engine. Anyway I just recently owned an Aprilia RS250 1997 model. This has been my dream bike back then and now I own 1. Riding it takes some time to get use to as this thing has freakish power delivery at ultrahigh RPM…..but ones you get use to the power delivery you would enjoy the superlatively devastatingly fast riding you could ever have imagine. you can even take a very steep angle short corner without any brakes being applied from a very high speed. Of course your feet will be very-very busy changing the gears but it still fun doing it. Anyway this is my picture with I consider my 2nd wife…….she is 1 of my big extended family.

Thank you.

Hairu Al Akmal

It’s always a great day when you land your dream bike! Nicely done! (oh and I agree about the Moto GP comments)

Living the dream!

Awesome vintage racing video all in Dutch from 1974. I did understand the words Assen and Ago

When I see video’s like this I start to think that I was born 10 years too late.