Showing posts with label racebike. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racebike. Show all posts

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Built by Gene and Ron Atherton.It is a 83 Honda VT500 Ascot. It was our ice bike, before that Gene tried to dirt track it but it didn't work out. We built it during the winter of 09. Gets road most ever day in the summer.ThanksRon

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Monday, December 6, 2010

Update: Fantastic Triumph Land Sped Racer

Update:  Just got a note from an ADV rider poster who wrote in.Loadedagain of advrider here... I see you've got Tom Mellors silver bullet posted today. Just an FYI... He's got a 1000cc engine in it now. it ran in 2010 as a 1000cc bike....Ii was at his place a couple weekends ago... the crazy dude is going for 200mph in 2011! My bet is he'll make it.Cheers, Colin I bet he does too.  Thanks

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Fantastic Historical Boardtrack Photos

From a REALLY cool site with historical images of all kinds called SHORPY.COM The Caption reads "Fred "Freddy" Fretwell of Washington on a Harley-Davidson" Fair warning. Don't go over there unless you have some time to kill. It's addictive.Here's a great grandstand shot (of a car race obviously) to give you an idea of the scale of the the track sizes. Pretty amazing. Must have been quite a

Monday, November 22, 2010

Wow! you don't see bikes like this very often! Yamaha WR450 with a JVO rally kit!

Hardcore Rally bike! And it's FOR SALE!  No I don't know the owner.  Just an FYI.  I's a practice bike for this years Dakar!

Crossover post from the 2-stroke blog. Konig Racer. Really interesting engine cinfiguration.

this is a crossover post from the 2 stroke blog. I just did a cut and paste so i's complete with updates from the readers. A really interesting bike and story.Second Update: I've got the smartest readers on the web!Lawrence wrote in:A documentary about motor-racer Kim Newcombe, who turned heads in the 70s on a König motorbike he developed and designed himself. He was killed racing in 1973 and

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Reader Ride. Nice CB350 WERA Special. More Smiles Per Mile...

James Walker Writes in:Hi there, ran across your site the other day and figured i'd send you a pic of my ride. when people ask i tell 'em she's a '71 CB350, but much like the Johnny Cash song she's a '69, '70, '71, '72.....I currently race her with WERA in the 350 and 500 GP classes. Love your site, BTW. Thanks, James  Thanks James.  These bikes must be the funnest "bang for the buck" way there

Thursday, October 21, 2010

One more from Kieth Montgomery...

Kieth wrote in:A CB350 i built a coupla years ago that i never got to race. money... always gettin in the way of the things we love. Amen.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Update Request: Can the owner please contact me. A moto Morini Flattracker.

Pete Giammalvo (or anyone who may know him)  if you're reading this can you please contact me.  I received a request from someone to publish these pics of your bike and I'd like to put you in touch with him to work out any permissions.  Thanks!Reader Pete Giammalvo sends in thise pics of what I believe to be a really cool Moto Morini flattracker. I'm also guessing that it's a 3 1/2 (or 350)

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Nifty Little BSA Tracker..

I shot this at Riding Into History Lat year. I still have a lot of great shots from that event I'm yet to post. But you can see them all in mu "links to complete albums" section up top.