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Amazing double engined Kawasaki 2 stroke triple being ridden…

I love this stuff. And this seems to be a REALLY well sorted build.

Offroad Stunting on a Street Triple…

Stumbled across this today. Interesting but odd.. to me anyway. I’d rather ride it stock.

Mystery “bike” solved!

Thanks to Robie who posted these two cool videos in the comments! Excellent find! Thanks!

Victoria FM38 A stock version

And as Robie put it “Schmell the Klotz while watching this”

Nice follow up video to the One Motorcycle Show- Portland OR post I had earlier.

This was in the comments section of THIS post. Thanks to commenter joelskool!

Secret Norton restoration video. I posted this when it came out but it makes me ponder a grander philosophical question.

This is one of the all time great Christmas motorcycle present video’s ever.   It chronicles how two sons secretly restored an old Norton that (while obviously cherished by their father) was sitting in boxes in his basement.  When they surprise him with it he completely chokes up.  It’s a really great story with a heartwarming ending.

But it makes me wonder, why do we let so many great memories that we cherish so dearly and which bring us such joy waste away in out basements and garages?  nine times out of ten it’s not the money.   Are we lazy?  Do we think we’re immortal?

I don’t know…  Anyway, if you have an old project sitting in a shed or basement or rental unit, go fix the damm thing and enjoy it while you still can.  You really can’t take it with you.

 

 

The worlds most amazing “home” garage.

I can’t see topping this for a residential setup.

At 3 minutes in you’ll see why exactly but watch the whole thing..

 

Compare the Yamaha video to these older Triumph and BSA vids.

Thanks to Norrie! Again from the GM video comments.

Triumph

BSA (British Small Arms)

With appreciation to my readers! Some cool motorcycle assembly line videos.

The GM video prompted some great comments with links to more motorcycle related videos.  John shared this Yamaha video and as an old Yamaha fanatic this one reeeealy gets my attention.  Fantastic stuff! Thank you John!

And now for something completely different! The 1936 General Motors assembly line video!

With a big shout out to Travis Lawson of Iron Spade Cycles..  (ironspadecycles@hotmail.com) for posting this to his Facebook Page.  Really amazing.  The 1936 General Motors assembly plant promotional video.  I’d love to see something along these lines more motorcycle related (and I promise to do some looking around)  but this gets the idea across.  The assembly line sandcast engine work just blows my mind.  Honda tried this for a few months on their original 1969 CB750’s and soon abandoned it resulting in some VERY collectible first year “sandcast” unobtanium bikes.

What really gets me is that this was fully five years before the Pearl Harbor attack.  I wonder what the heck the Axis powers were ever thinking to challenge this sort of manufacturering might.