Kemenyek: May 2011

HONDA 125 RACER

Bill C-sbio sent me this pic and the description of this fantastic little Honda. When around check out his Old Racing Memories album on Facebook.

This bike is super rare (even in Japan). It's a Honda's 125cc racer built into a street bike around the same era as the original Super Hawk.

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NICHOLAS FRANZ HUBER AND HIS 1979 DUCATI 900 GTS

Nicholas Huber, German Auto Mechanic and vintage Motorcycle nut resides in Minneapolis Minnesota, Known on the Local scene as the drummer for The Idle Hands Band aka " Fancy Nicco" This is my latest Project Ducati It's a 900 GTS 1979 with the stronger more robust Darmha bottom end, Much better the the very week cams from previous years. Here in the states the vintage Ducati market has gone crazy with very few parts and sky rocketing prices have made near Impossible for the youngsters to enjoy Italian Glory, I laid my eyes on this particular Ducati 10 years previous at a motorcycle show in all it's stock body work " which I still have on the shelf" I recognised the owner 2 years ago at the local cafe and he was more then happy to sell it as it had sat since the last time I laid eye's on it all those years back, Upgrades include 36 mil, del orto pumper carbs, Evan Wilcox costum aluminum race tank and an upgraded electrical system, conti pipes, clip on bars, and a ton of other go fast parts, Next up when money alouse is a ss race seat and rearsets, cheers Nicholas Huber.

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A montage of photographs from some recently "re-discovered" negatives in the Velobanjogents archive...

It's a wet series of days here in Sydney and winter approaches so I forsook my shed and prowling around the "mess" I call my office, I spied some of my negative collection for the 1970's and scanned some in...
It became addictive...so let me share some of the scanned prints with you.
Again no particular theme, although many are from the Easter motorcycle races at the Mount Panorama circuit at Bathurst, NSW in 1978 where they had a classic machine race.
Thanks to Phil Hine for searching through his 1978 Bathurst program to supply some names to machines...
He emailed a pic of himself on a Petty Manx at Oran Park...

Left click on the images to enlarge them....

Kel Carruthers 1960/61 ex works Honda 250/4.

This IS NOT Bathurst!
It's a ripper of a picture, from a negative I acquired somewhere...
comment on the covering envelope was...."German passenger at Monza for motorcycle Grand Prix, 10.09.1956, at rehearsal"...

Dennis Fry bought this 350 Manx Norton together with a 350 Mk.8 KTT engine fitted, from NZ...nice bit of kit....but this pic I now believe to be at Amaroo Park.

Elmer McCabe, an Ulsterman long resident in Sydney and an AMC racing man made up this road going 7R...he fitted racing numbers to it so he could ride in an historic parade at Bathurst in 1978.

The late Ross "splinta" Pentecost also an AMC man regularly rced this 500 Matchless, which from memory was a Shelsey Walsh model (??...correct me if I'm wrong...). Bathurst 1978.

Jack Rasmussen's Reynold's 1956 500 Inter Norton...Bathurst 1978.

Dennis Fry's 500 Manx Norton, Bathurst 1978.

My Smith framed, Carey engined MAC #55 ridden by Tony Hatton...well known Velo man Ron Kessing, someones youngster, Alan Burt speaking with who?, Bathurst 1978.

Allen Armour's 1948 350 AJS.....

AJS 7R...unsure whose...,Bathurst 1978.The program list #33 as a 1957 Triumph ridden by Des Searle..

Thought I'd finish off with this...photographer that I am...even I fell for the "double exposure" trick....the camera was a 2.25" x 2.25" Mamiya twin lens and unless you remembered to wind the film on you got a double exposure....
Interesting 1000 JAP featured...again at Bathurst 1978.

I've had an email from Michael Brudar who currently owns the big JAP in the above double exposure.
He says...
"..the double exposure is of my Hargreaves_JAP, built in Melbourne in the mid 30's - CS1 Norton frame, Coventry Eagle flying 8 side valve crankcases ..Dunelt heads and barrels.
The bike was used for all sorts of competition in Victoria including road racing, hill climbs and later grass track with a sidecar.
The photo below is at Ballarat road races, ridden by Dennis Skinner.

And the bike as it is today.....

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1976 YAMAHA RD 400

stolen from: http://www.2strokeworld.com/forum/index.php?topic=10249.0

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B&W COLLECTION

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DON'T BELIEVE

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GREEN KAWA

Sweet tiny green Kawasaki:

stolen from: http://bubblevisor.blogspot.com/

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HELP WANTED

Dear all,

We have nearly finished with the conversion of a 1994 Suzuki GS550. We have a great problem now. The wiring was pulled apart in order to remove the engine, and we lost that little post-it on which we had jotted down that makeshift wiring diagram. Now this is badly needed as the wires coming out of the engine are not the original colors, and it makes it quite difficult to redo the wiring. Does anyone have any hints on solving this problem?

Please help us.

Thank you in advance