Kemenyek: May 2012

1978 GARELLI CICLONE 5V CUSTOM SCOOTER BY VIKTOR VARHELYI

This is our second scooter from Viktor from Hungary. The first one was a KTM restoration, now he sent us a fantastic custom scooter. My favourites are the chassis itself, the seat and the thermos. The bike is built with a Dellorto SHA 14-12 carb, it has 5 gears, and the same amount of horse power. Great Job Viktor.

Ez már a második robogónk Viktortól. Az első egy KTM felújítás volt, most pedig egy nagyszerű átalakított robógót küldött nekünk. A kedvenceim, a váz, az ülés, és a termosz. A gépbe egy Dellorto SHA 14-12 karbi van, 5 sebességes, és ugyanennyi lóereje is van Nagyszerű munka Viktor. .

Labels: ciclone, garelli, scooter, viktor varhelyi

Harry Beanham...I've now done several posts on photos relating to him and as I've several old photograph albums that were his I've worked through some more interesting pics from the 1920's involving Harry...and his ABC motorcycles....Early Australian Motorcycling...

Harry Beanham.... an interesting chap who I've described in more detail in previous posts on this blog and you can find them by typing in "Harry Beanham" in the search facility over on the RHS of this blog....

Worth a look again....

Harry motorcycled all his life and had an interest in the 1920's in the ABC motorcycle and had at least one French version of this motorcycle...the ABC was designed by the Englishman Granville Bradshaw and the first photo is of great interest to me as the text on the back indicated that Harry visited the UK in 1927 taking his then ABC with him, named by HB..." Ziska II ".

The comment from Harry on the small print I've scanned is "At Reading, 1927 ( April) on way back from "Granville Bradshaw" run to London..."
The registration for This ABC was DP4480, mostly visible on the front number plate and you'll see more of this in the following photos...
Since setting this post up I spoken with David Beanham, Harry was his uncle ...David has been in contact with Harry's daughter Pam and they and now myself are pretty sure Harry never left Australia...
The conundrum is who is riding the ABC in Reading, UK....perhaps a friend of Harry's. Harry calls this motorcycle ZiskaII which tends to indicate he may have bought it off this chap/friend...

No text with this pic....

The text says....Ziska II with Fairie Queen up! (July 1926), then perhaps later penciled in ...Nosworthy Bridge....
I Googled the bridge name and there is a Norsworthy Bridge in Dartmoor, UK and the photo I captured from the site and below, taken in May 2011 by Innes Spanbauer to who I acknowledge credit for this photo, looks remarkably similar....

The text says...DP4480 as I first had her.... then later penciled in At The Rock, Yelverton. Again I made the assumption that Harry wrote on the back of the small photo, hence the "I first had her"....

Again a Google search reveals a Yelverton in Dartmoor area...

So perhaps Harry travelled to the UK to pick up a new ABC....pure speculation.

With Ziska II...camshaft troubles...Sept.1926.

Ziska II...tyre trouble, 1926.

The engine unit with "Taylor rockers"....of Diana ...Jan.1925.
I have no other reference to the name Diana, which seems to refer to another of Harry's bikes...

Ziska II in the background...likely still in UK by the car registration number.

We are now in Australia...the reference to the Bendigo centre sets that...

Perhaps another of HB's ABCs..the registration is now 21679 and I believe could be South Australian. 19 Sept. 1926.

ABC rego number 21679, date...1926.

Again two ABCs ....

Again Harry with two ABC's, unsure where or when.

ABC rego 21679 but no information at two the lady and child ,where or when...

A Beanham photo, again with no details.....

Again a bit of a mystery, however the back was dated....5th April 1920.
Finally the pic below seems out of sequence, was with his stuff and I guess could be his parents...

My next Beanham post will be his photos from the early 1960's of many of these motorcycles that he kept, plus others acquired over the years.... Broughs, Harleys and so on...

Labels: Early Australian motorcycling

A miscellania of motorcycling photos from my archive.....

At this moment in time, the Velobanjogent is like a "one legged tap dancer".....so much to do with three blogs to set up weekly,and little time to do it, so some research for another technical item from my literature is temporarily on "the back burner" and this post is a selection of photos from a folder on my computer hard drive titled "my pictures".....actually this folder is where all the good stuff is...

But these are not cataloged and some I've no information on who they are or when the photo was taken...

But they make interesting viewing.....

Enjoy them....

1936 German GP/The GP of Europe....Tyrell-Smith #92,Excelsior the eventual winner, overtakes the Italian Pigorini at the Hohenstein-Erntthal circuit.

Want to know more....chase up a copy of Paul Ingham's "Excelsior, the racing years"

An intriguing early photo that I have no details for...

Bob Foster, A2, during a 1946 scramble.
Larry Devlin from Northern Ireland emailed me with the comment..."The photo was taken in Verviers, Belgium in August 1946, and riding A1 is Bill Nicholson ( Billy Nick) from Northern Ireland....thanks Larry...DQ

Cecil Sandford on a Velocette MOV racer in 1953 at Eppynt.

Dave Jenkins, well known Australian road racer in the late 1930's/late 1940's on his 1935 Mk.1 KSS road bike.

Another evocative photograph showing an untidy start to an event on 4th July 1949 at Haddenham airfield circuit.

Australian Orrie Salter during the 1962 sidecar TT in the IOM. Salter later retired during the event.

Oran Park circuit, south of Sydney, now a housing estate...Noel Manning aboard his Hillman Imp engined outfit. 5th November 1967.

Australian Ted Carey, Bathurst 1952 on what appears to be a MOV Velocette. Ted by then had his special 250 DOHC MOV based racer and I suspect this was a bike he brought along to do some practice on.

My old Velocette Thruxton, bought new by me in Feb.1967 and sold to the pictured rider, Tony Keene. The photo appears to be at an Australian Velocette OC National Rally at Bundanoon in 1986.

And the following photo,is not motorcycle oriented and taken by me as a youth in the early 1950's on a trip with my Uncle and Aunt to Canberra. Taken outside the National War Memorial, it shows a Japanese midget submarine.

There was an attack in Sydney Harbour by three of these subs... one escaped and was lost off the coast, recently the wreck site was discovered.

The other two where depth charged.

The photo is actual parts of the two subs, set together.

A grisly coffin if ever there was one....

Labels: Motorcycle photograph

Following earlier posts of Artur Fenzlau and his camera...great, sharp, interesting photographs-- I'm presenting another selection taken on the 17th of October 1936 during practice and racing on a hill climb circuit on the outskirts of Vienna, Austria.

In earlier posts I presented a selection on photos taken by Austrian photographer Artur Fenzlau during practice and racing on a hill climb circuit on the outskirts of Vienna, Austria on 17th October 1936....

Superb, interesting photographs and I acknowledge the copyright to the family of the late Artur Fenzlau and the Technical Museum of Austria in Vienna, who hold the original negatives and digitised them for our enjoyment...

See the earlier posts by typing "Artur Fenzlau" in the search facility on the RHS of this blog....