Beautiful Motorcycles

[Bess]

Ok how about this, there's loads of cars but the might throw up some interesting ones, any takers. I'll start with a reincarnation .:)78455

[Bess]

78456
Sorry that first one was a shocker so here's a better one:o
Regards Chris

[jerryd]

I remember buying one of these for 30 pounds in my youth, I didn't keep it long as it was to hard to kick over :D

1961 BSA A7 Classic Motorcycle Pictures (http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/pictures/1961-bsa-a7/#.U5L2x8aKBok)

[Bess]

78457
Or this!:)

[V8Ian]

A lovely looker, especially in Wineberry.

[Tank]

Have you seen my Triumph Trident in the motorcycles section, Regards Frank.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/06/1295.jpg

[lebanon]

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/06/1290.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/06/1291.jpg

[V8Ian]

I always liked the R100RT too.

[loanrangie]

Vincent HRD

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/06/1272.jpg

Quite partial to my Trumpy though

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/09/843.jpg

[V8Ian]

Even when motorcycles were more prolific the Black Shadow stood out.

[shorty943]

Vincent HRD

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/06/1272.jpg



I would have to argue a finer point or two here.
Looks more like a Vincent Ugly,,,,errr, Egli, to me.
Nice yes, I'd like one in my loungeroom, beautiful, that's in the eye of the beholder as always.

[V8Ian]

I would have to argue a finer point or two here.
Looks more like a Vincent Ugly,,,,errr, Egli, to me.
Nice yes, I'd like one in my loungeroom, beautiful, that's in the eye of the beholder as always.

:oops2: Here's the image I meant to post. :redface:

[jerryd]

Even when motorcycles were more prolific the Black Shadow stood out.

As 13 - 14 year olds we'd buy old BSA Bantams and turn them into scramblers and ride them down the green lanes :) All for a couple of pounds !!

The BSA Bantam HomePage (http://www.mistgreen.com/)

A friend's father was lucky enough to own a Vincent Black Knight which we thought was a pretty weird looking bike at the time.

RealClassic.co.uk: Vincent Black Knight and other twins (http://www.realclassic.co.uk/vin030515.html)


My last bike was the Suzuki GT750 Water Wagon, previous to that I'd had the 125cc, the 250cc and the GT500. I guess I liked Suzuki's reliability :)

As a youngster in the 70's I always thought this would have been the ultimate machine to own.

MUNCH MAMMUT 1200 TTS (http://www.nitromax.nl/MUNCH.HTM)


My next bike (when funds will allow for such a toy) before I'm too old and decrepid will have to be one of these. Now I just happen to know where one is parked next to an old '30s Harley ;)

Review: Ural Motorcycles - Gear Patrol (http://gearpatrol.com/2012/05/25/sidecars-snow-a-mountain-ride-with-ural-motorcycles/)

[digger]

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/06/1269.jpg

1947 Indian - beautiful

[olbod]

Besides my 500cc Manx Norton and other short circuit racing BSA's, AJS's, I owned a beautiful 1938 500cc Excelsior Manxman factory built for the isle of man tt. Same as pic below. I liked to take it out to ride on club days.

Owned my first bike at age eleven, it was an Acme, of course it was stripped down to be a racer and I used to ride it everywhere including over to the old Winstanes track down in the scrub behind the farm and pretend I was Tony MacCalpine, great fun.
My first legal registered road bike when I got my licence was a 1948 500cc AJS, same as pic. I loved it even tho the brakes mostly didn't work.
Then Betty RIP and I got a 56 thunder bird and for her a Tiger Ten.
Seems a lifetime ago.

[Ausfree]

As 13 - 14 year olds we'd buy old BSA Bantams and turn them into scramblers and ride them down the green lanes :) All for a couple of pounds !!

The BSA Bantam HomePage (http://www.mistgreen.com/)

A friend's father was lucky enough to own a Vincent Black Knight which we thought was a pretty weird looking bike at the time.

RealClassic.co.uk: Vincent Black Knight and other twins (http://www.realclassic.co.uk/vin030515.html)


My last bike was the Suzuki GT750 Water Wagon, previous to that I'd had the 125cc, the 250cc and the GT500. I guess I liked Suzuki's reliability :)

As a youngster in the 70's I always thought this would have been the ultimate machine to own.

MUNCH MAMMUT 1200 TTS (http://www.nitromax.nl/MUNCH.HTM)


My next bike (when funds will allow for such a toy) before I'm too old and decrepid will have to be one of these. Now I just happen to know where one is parked next to an old '30s Harley ;)

Review: Ural Motorcycles - Gear Patrol (http://gearpatrol.com/2012/05/25/sidecars-snow-a-mountain-ride-with-ural-motorcycles/)

Yeah Jerry, back in the early 1950's my father used to own a BSA Bantam. He used to ride it to work. He took me around the block a couple of times on the back of it. I was only a ankle biter at the time.:) He told me that when he was a young man, back in the 1930's he used to ride an Indian motorbike. I don't know which model, he didn't elaborate.

[Bess]

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This is a nod to my Granpop on mums side. Bikes have always been in my family & I grew up with story's of Nan riding sidesaddle pillion behind Pop on his Douglas around the Manning River region of NSW. :TakeABow:
Then my dad making a sidecar with an old tea box ( on an Easy Two Norton ) to help carry the kids before my parents could afford a car.
My eldest Brother not going to sleep unless Dad would start the bike & nurse him on it ( spoilt brat ).:angel:
I still work in the industry but have to admit I find a lot of bike riders today are such tossers,:wallbash: but I still love the bikes.
So who's excited about the TT!:twisted:

[Bess]

78505
Legend

[jerryd]

Isle Of Man TT..........now you're talking :)


Enjoy this :eek:


INSANE BIKE RACE (http://www.youtube.com/watch'sns=em&v=vx1LAaJdrRE&app=desktop)

[Ausfree]

Isle Of Man TT..........now you're talking :)


Enjoy this :eek:


INSANE BIKE RACE (http://www.youtube.com/watch'sns=em&v=vx1LAaJdrRE&app=desktop)

Jerry, those blokes are nuts!!!!!!:eek:

[LandyAndy]

Only ever owned one mojobike,bought it as a basketcase off a mate for a bottle of Jim Beam.Did it up and it went well as a 175,it died.I rebuilt the motor with a 250 barrel and piston,went REALY well.Eventually the gearbox siezed.A visitor saw it in the shed and offered $500,wish I still had it.Was the first of the mono shocks.
http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/Gallery%20%20A/Suzuki%20PE175.jpg
Andrew

[Bess]

78529
Cam Donald flying the flag for Aus & Norton at this years TT.
good luck Cameron.

[disco man]

When we left New Zealand my old man had a Norton Commando in dark blue that i just loved and used to help him clean and polish.Travelling around the bay of plenty area on the back of that beautiful bike is some of my most fond memories.And the sound it made was awesome i could here him coming home from work at least 3 blocks away.

The freedom i felt on the back of that Norton is a feeling i have not felt since,but the cost of bringing it to Australia was way to much for my parents so very sadly it was left behind:(

[sniegy]

Had a few bikes & have always loved the BMW range of bikes (as i hate the car range) but own a Harley now. Absolutely love it.
Next year about this time hope to get something a little different, Maybe a Road King.

First pic is day after i picked her up....(Iron 883)
Next pic is the loan bike i get occasionally....(RK)

[UncleHo]

I started riding in 1961,bought a 58 Triumph Tiger 100 secondhand that went for a new A10 Road Rocket,it was traded for a Holden (got married),then when I moved to Sydney bought a BMW R60 had that for a few years and a lot of commuting back to Brisbane after mum's first heart attack,sold it and bought a Customline sedan,but bought another BMW 1950 R51/3 in 75 met the wife shortly after that,but I still have the Beemer and it's 1955 mate (matching numbers) and If I sell them my son will kill me :eek:
He has also got bikes, a 100th anniversary Harley and a couple of pre-war Panthers, I will get another R60 sooner or later :)

[UncleHo]

Aah! gotta go, Britian's Greatest Machines is on Ch 72 followed by "Foyles War" ;)

[disco man]

Aah! gotta go, Britian's Greatest Machines is on Ch 72 followed by "Foyles War" ;)

The Morgan 3 wheeler is very cool, and the big Leyland is quite different.

[UncleHo]

Yes,the 1913 Morgan Runnabout :) Wife's brother has a mid 50's 3 wheeler at his home in England 1000 cc JAP motor ;) I went around Amaroo Park race track in one in the 70's Spooky,I will stick with a sidecar thanks, had a BMW R60 with DJP sidecar.

[disco man]

Yes,the 1913 Morgan Runnabout :) Wife has a mid 50's 3 wheeler at his home in England 1000 cc JAP motor ;) I went around Amaroo Park race track in one in the 70's Spooky,I will stick with a sidecar thanks, had a BMW R60 with DJP sidecar.

I don't doubt it would have been a bit how ya goin:o How cool is that bridge and steam roller.

[waz]

I did like the Britten V1000.

Brilliance in form and function.

[VladTepes]

I did like the Britten V1000.

Brilliance in form and function.

Went hard but wasn't as settled in corners as it's competition.

[gossamer]

My wifes uncle has one of these :D
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/06/1131.jpg

[Bess]

I did like the Britten V1000.

Brilliance in form and function.
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I had the pleasure of watching Stroudie punt the Britten around Bathurst. The lads struggled to get her handling across the top but there was nothing there on the day that could touch it.
Very fond memories of watching Stroudie come onto mountain straight & wheelie all the way out of sight, awesome stuff.
Regards Chris

[Redback]

I had one of these, great bike, lovely looking bike too.


https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/06/1102.jpg

Baz.

[mick88]

My first bike was CZ 125cc as a hack, it had twin exhaust ports, so it must have been a rather radical/sporty design in it's day.
Then I had several BSA Bantams ranging from the a skinny barrelled 125cc with a ridgid rear end, up to a 175cc Bushman with a rear swing arm.
Then came a Honda Benly 125 cc twin that would rev it's head off.
When I got my license one of my first bikes was a Honda CL350 Street Scrambler, great bike at the time. In more recent years I had a 1978 Honda CX 500 and 1984 BMW R80 GS with a PD 33 litre tank fitted.
Regret selling it and the CL350.

Cheers, Mick

[Bess]

78716

I wouldn't say no to this.:D

[V8Ian]

What was the superbike with auto transmission? Posh Pommie bloke built it in England (1970s ??), Norton connection IIRC.

[Bess]

78717

By far the nicest production 750 I have ever ridden.

[Bess]

What was the superbike with auto transmission? Posh Pommie bloke built it in England (1970s ??), Norton connection IIRC.
78718

I've got nothing, the only one I could think of was the Hesketh but I don't think he ever did a auto tranny.
To dear, to heavy & to much competition. Sweet looker thou.

[Is Vic There]

Honda did an auto in the late 70's early 80's, it was called the Hondamatic, a 750cc version of the CB750, didn't sell well!

I love the 80's Jap bikes and buy and restore the ones I wanted as a kid growing up in North West England, I always try to take them back to standard and have spents year sourcing parts from all over the World, took three years to find an original screen rubber for one of them!

I'll try and post some pictures but here's the fleet

1983 Kawasaki Z1000R Eddie Lawson Replica
1984 Kawasaki GPz900R A1 one of the first 300 off the production line
1986 Suzuki RG400 Walter Wolf
1996 Suzuki RGV250 Barry Sheene replica
1999 Aprilia RS250
2000 Aprilia RS250
1982 Harris Magnum 2 with a race tuned Z1000 engine
1974 Mini Moke with a BMW K1100 turbo charged hybrid engine

Just lucky I have an understanding wife.

[pop058]

My brother's old Norton (in the pits at Winton) and parked up in Dad's shed with some old friends.

[Is Vic There]

Pictures as promised


https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/05/424.jpg (http://s1074.photobucket.com/user/parkersint/media/GPz900R/gpZ_zpsdc9a4950.jpg.html)
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/05/425.jpg (http://s1074.photobucket.com/user/parkersint/media/Z1000R/027_zpsnoyr3qah.jpg.html)
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/05/426.jpg (http://s1074.photobucket.com/user/parkersint/media/RG400%20Walter%20Wolf%20rebuild/11100542_10202695149299605_245256160_o_zpsezxjxwdt .jpg.html)
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/05/427.jpg (http://s1074.photobucket.com/user/parkersint/media/RGV/IMG_0451_zps019ea8be.jpg.html)
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/05/428.jpg (http://s1074.photobucket.com/user/parkersint/media/Aprilia%202/IMG_3229_zpsq0tikfxz.jpg.html)
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/05/429.jpg (http://s1074.photobucket.com/user/parkersint/media/Aprilia/9_zpsjpnd7obp.jpg.html)
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/05/430.jpg (http://s1074.photobucket.com/user/parkersint/media/Harris/FullSizeRender1_zps8f418a44.jpg.html)
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/05/431.jpg (http://s1074.photobucket.com/user/parkersint/media/Harris/008_zps8bcf6216.jpg.html)
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/08/812.jpg (http://s1074.photobucket.com/user/parkersint/media/Moke/545_21_01_09_7_00_40_zps1b347b39.jpg.html)
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/05/432.jpg (http://s1074.photobucket.com/user/parkersint/media/Moke/003_zpscea9d2eb.jpg.html)

[loanrangie]

Vic is that a BMW K100 head on the Moke ?

Doh, just read your last post .

[Cap]

I WANT, is all I can say

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/05/146.jpg

Dream ride: Deus Ex Machina and BMW create the ultimate motorbike, Buro 24/7 Australia (http://www.buro247.com.au/entertainment/tech/bmw-x-deus-ex-machina.html)

[harro]

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2015/05/144.jpgCombine Bimota with Ducati and how could you possibly go wrong:D