Found this BSA A65 Lightning from the 60's today

Ok just a photo for now

It's with Original dutch license



and almost complete

nice bike to restore

Here is a video of the Matchless after restored the engine

http://youtu.be/FF5V1ww0wVU

I think it runs well

Got new piston, barrel, magneto wiring

Found a video of me ridin the Matchless G80S

Update Matchless: did clean the bike

Did clean the bike and I think it's a very nice bike to look at.

 

Next update will be photo's when I cleaned(polish) the engine

Bought a Matchless from 1957 today

 

It looks very well in restored condition.

It's from 1957

Got good compression

 

the Benelli 250 2c in the Dutch Benelli Club magazine: Benellissimo

 

Yes the Benelli is with story published in the Benellissimo.

This is how I find her and what happened until the price

on Veteranen Treffen Woerden.

Speedfest Eindhoven 23-11-2013

Hatebreed Vista Chino Guana Batz Buzzcocks Peter Pan Speedrock The Monsters Agnostic Front Honky Anti-Nowhere League The P.O.X. Valient Thorr Tech-9 Wildmen The Urban Voodoo Machine Bullet The Sha-La-Lee's Komatsu Bliksem SpiralArms Scorpion Child Spiders Monster Truck Johannes de Boom

Live Rockabilly and more at the Rambler Eindhoven Holland

zondag 10 nov 2013  The Panhandlers (B) (cd presentatie “Big Train”)

zondag 24 nov 2013  The Barnstompers

donderdag 5 dec 2013 20.00  Restless (UK) + (Stray Cat) Slim Jim Phantom

Trio (USA/UK) ft Polecats All star Line up: Tim Polecat and Phil Bloomberg ????? (SJP tour is CANCELLED RESTLESS  TBA???)

zondag 8 dec 2013 15.00  Boppin’ Billy Festival part 5:

mmv Deuce Coupe (USA) + The Rob Ryan Roadshow (USA) +

The Spunyboys (Fr) + The Domestic Bumblebees (Sw)

zondag 22 dec 2013  The WyattChristmas Trio (D) (swingin’ rock n roll christmasparty!!!!)

zondag 5 jan 2014 Rockabilly Neywyearsparty 6:

Carl & The Rhythm All Stars (Fr) + The Hi Tombs

zondag 26 jan 2014  The Town Rebels (D)(Revival party Teddy Boy rock ‘n Roll/Rockabilly!)

 

zondag 9 feb 2014 Spo-Dee-O-Dee (D) 

 

 

Vrijdag 20 dec 2013 The Meteors (UK)  (Psychobilly/Neo Rockabilly)

donderdag 16 jan 2014 Demented are Go (UK)  (Psychobilly)

 

agendapunten optredens elders:   The Atomic Road Kings (USA) (bandnaam wordt gewijzigd in Kyle Jester Blues show) zondag 17 november 2013 17.00 stipt in cafe Wilhelmina, Wilhelminaplein 6, Eindhoven http://www.cafewilhelmina.nl/

zaterdag 26 juli 2014 9e int rock ‘n roll meeting Wilhelminaplein Eindhoven met o.a. The Delta Bombers (USA) The Backseat Boogie (Italy) The Kingshakes (UK) The Unkool Hillbillies (Sw) The Hi Tombs (nl) more tba soon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jawa 500 ohc from 1958

I was this weekend in Germany and saw a little museum with bikes from the past.

So I was wondering what was inside

Well one of the bikes you don't see often was there.

 

Jawa 500 ohc from 1958

 

I wish I had it in my shed

R.I.P. Gene Vincent 11-2-1935 / 12-10-1971

Turn lights in my bar

 

 

Don;t need them during the day....

but in the evening it's mighty handy 

photo rear wheel KAWA scrambler / tracker

 

 

Yes......just what I expected 



Frontwheel picture KAWA Scrambler Tracker

 

YES.......

My Kawasaki 440 LTD

 

 

Is it a trail.....

Is it a scrambler....

Is it a motard......

What is it?

 

Funbike with other parts of Yamaha Suzuki BSA and

a old cross handlebar from the 70's



Benelli 250 2c won a price at Nationaal Veteraan Treffen Woerden 2013

 

The Benelli did win  a price at Veteraan Treffen Woerden Holland 2013.

Here is a picture on stage with other bikes who also won a  price.

Believe it or not....Found the left rubber handle today

 

 

Benelli patented

 

 

 

also found

 

rubber cap

 

aprilia glass with metal inside that's not broken





Nationaal veteraan treffen Woerden 21-9-2013

Update Benelli 250 2c 1972 first serie

Only need a few parts to finish the bike in 100% Original.

 I'm looking for the left rubber handle with inscription Benelli

 

Here a photo from the right handle i've got
 

DID IT....... 

polished drum and borrani rim

incl new stainles spokes and stickers on the fork

 

 

Finally I got them....silencers for the 1972 Benelli 250 2c first serie

 

 

;-)

 

 

without words...........

I got some brochures for sale about Benelli Motobi Moto Guzzi 2 stroke

 

Some are in English

some are in Italian

1 or 2 in german

If you look for something...

you can contact me

and I will look if I got it

 

example:  650 tornado 750 sei 900 sei gentleman minibike 90 trail 250 SS etc,

 

ITALDAY in Holland 18-8-2013



Update Benelli 250 2c first serie 1972

After riding the bike in caferacer style

for a couple of months

I changed it in the Original style

This is better for the engine

because you dont have to go faster and faster

Its better to keep this machine in the Original way it is

I think.......

 

 

 

Moto Guzzi V50 III

This is a wonderful bike to drive.

First I wanted to change it in a scrambler....

than to a caferacer.....

 

and now I think: let it original

 

 

Great sound by the way

 

 



Mine Triumph T140 had Triumph silencers and not from BSA

 

Ok

a lot of people  think that the silencers are BSA ones,

but that isn't so

Triumph had them aswell but they are longer,

so the kickstart won't hit the exchaust

 

So if you looking foor this kind of silincers on you're Triumph....

 

they excist

Benelli 250 2c 1972 first serie different parts

Some may know some don't

but the first serie had different parts

than the later ones or as

the Moto Guzzi / Motobi ones

 

here are some photos of it

 

 under the engine a construction for the footrest

 

Aprilia key

Aprilia headlight

pistons with extra grooves

 

 

Aprilia taillight

 

 

and a photo of the 2 c with a DUTCH gtv

Lot of different parts specially for the Netherlands because way back it was a bycycle with help engine for the law.......

 

 

 



Update Benelli 250 2c 1972 first ride in the street

Ok here's here first ride after restoring the engine

I'm very happy with the results

http://youtu.be/je1y7dbegd8

Click above for watchin the video on you tube

I've been to the Koperteutenrally today 5-5-2013

 

I go every year and of course you see a lot

of the same people and bikes,

but always also new faces.

Here some photos of bikes I saw today.

 

 

First start Benelli 250 2c of 1972 after rebuilding the engine

http://youtu.be/Nk07xmVmj-8

Update 23-4-2013 Benelli 250 2c first serie 1972

I met Sytze van den Berg from Holland and he was one of the mechanics of Rob Bron.

Now Rob Bron was a very good racer in the 70-80's

He drove in the same races as Agostini, Sheene and Turner

He also drove a topspeed of 342 km/u - 212.50 m/h on the 200 miles of  Daytona in 1978.

Now you know where I'm talking about.

Now Sytze is very into Benelli 2 stroke.

So I met him last week and he was very pleased to see me !!!!!

Why?



Now first I asked him te look at mine engine if I need some new bits and pieces

Then he told me that it was one of the first series of the 250 2c.

Even the crankshaft was from the first serie he told me.

(i didn't know there was a different one)

The pistons had grooves (see photo)

And even the manifold (intake befor the carbs)where the early ones

He looked at the complete bike with the different footrests (see photo)

and the early framenumber (just 4 figures)

Aprilia taillight

Borrani rims (record)

Inox mudgards

Grimeca double leading brake shoe (L+R)

Marzocchi front

Tomaselli handlebar and so on....

Than He told me I got a very rare nearly original bike

Just the silentium silincers are from a later model but they are nearly brand new

So, not only I met somebody who knows where he's talking about, even met a nice person who was very pleased he saw all the beautiful original early stuff of the 250 2c

 

Now a few photo's of the Benelli 250 2c