Motorbike photos

BMW 600 scarver

12 years old and not nearly ridden enough.

One of my relatives racing one of his classic bikes --- self built

Well Redmires, the bike may Be 12 yrs old but it looks like new. Very well cared for

Paul

A '76 Harley Davidson FXE which I restored in the '90s. 

I don't own any motorcycles at the moment but I started riding them on a farm when I was ten and owned many until about 10 years ago. This was my second to last motorcycle. 

This thread is tempting me back already.

Steve

Cheers Paul

It doesn't get ridden much but I've had bikes for 33 years and not been without since my first one. I'll have to dig out some photo's of earlier mounts.

These are two of my bikes




2010 Harley Fat Bob

1997 Honda VFR750

Too many bloody "greasers" around here 

My last bike.

A slightly earlier pic.

Me on my 1998 Kawasaki ZX7R. Not been out on it for weeks because of the weather though 

Steve,

  Nice photos. like the way you have the harley picture in "sepia" style but the red coil leads really stand out !

Never ridden a VFR but i am told they are excellent bikes.

OK BigH, now you are showing your true colours. bet we can guess what type of music you used to like !

Suppose you are/were a big paul weller an?

Not sure about the leopard skin seat cover though

Paul,  I thought u knew about bikes. !!! A featherbed is a Norton

Double tubes run all around the frame giving it the width & only join at the headstock. The tubes had no welds of joints (except headstock) & were all long radius bends

Various versions of the wide frame had triangulated tail frame (in pic) or a long radius bend  

The road frame started off as a "wide" frame & changed to the Slimline (wasted to narrow at the seat end) in 1960

I don't have any scanned pics of my old beast,  but it was a bit non-standard (naturally)

Dominator 99ss

OS inlet & exhaust ports, OS valves

OS Amal carbs

Sports cam

Semi CR gearbox

Dunstall pipes & silencers

Alloy rims & double LE front brake

Large capacity wasted alloy fuel tank

A featherbed, like this one ?

Not mine, but belonged to a mate. I rode it a few times but was never a fan of old British bikes.

And here's what I was riding at the time. Circa 1981

Triumph engines !!!! 

In a NORTON

Abominable bastardisations

Quite right. It should be a Vincent.

This is from the Barber Museum in USA. It's on my list of "must-see one day" attractions.Some beauties here, including a V8 Kawasaki 1600.

http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/...orsports-Museum.aspx

Have any of our friends in the US ever visited ?

That pic brings tears of joy to an ol' bikers eyes

I had the pleasure of a ride on one once, looked very similar looking to your pic, except it did not have the alloy front fork  mods & the clip on bars.

Its owner & I swapped rides for about a 100 mile section of a week long trip around Scotland

It was not as nimble in corners as was my full width frame 99SS, it had a hint of that dreaded Triumph rear end chop & it felt a little top heavy, like mine did with its big tank full to the top.  

The stnd Norton front brake did not handle the extra engine weight - the owner of the bike I rode was very impressed with my double LE brake he changed his ASAP after we returned home.   

I was way before Paul Weller, he is 11 years younger than me. I was a mod the first time.

Mike B,

    I asked about the featherbed frame, because in my day, it was such an iconic frame that many people took it and used it as the basis for many different bikes / engine setups

And here's what I was riding at the time. Circa 1981

 

I am amazed that you are willing to share such an embarrassing photo.

CX500 ---yuk

CX 500

Don't know about the yuk part but around here you see these things relatively frequently even today. And for the most part they appear to be everyday drivers. Must have been very well built!

yes they were well built. The Yuk is because they were a major launch into mass selling and were the choice of many bike couriers, sold cheaper than other leading edge bikes and using (at the time) older technology. similar selling style was then used for the suzuki bandits, etc which were marketted as wheelie bikes and were great fun, but were a means of using up the oilder design engines at the time.

this is my beloved GS1200 R, 7 years old now. lovely bike but a real challenge to ride

The good old days...

That's probably because you're in California. They corroded like hell in the UK climate so we don't see many around. I do still see the odd one being used by a courier though.

Paul - I thought everyone owned a CX at some point in their riding life.

It was my first big bike after passing my test and thought it was the bees knees at the time