Caferacers RnR and more stuff I like: november 2011

maandag 28 november 2011

Ok as you know I live in Holland.

I went with my Triumph T100 from 1953 to England.

When I'm over there I always try to go on a friday to Heydon.

This is a very little place near Norwich,Norfolk.

Why I go there, well look at the picture.

That's what you see for example, if you visit the pub.

On a good day (summertime) you have easy between

100-200 bikes coming to the pub.

You can see than a Goldstar or Vincent just outside the pub.

Of course also a lot of Triumphs BSA Norton TRIBSA NORVIN

TRITON etc.

So don't forget to go there if you can.

zondag 13 november 2011

This is not a postcard, but a picture I took

in front of a castle in Aarle Rixtel Holland.

The Bike is a Matchless G80 from 1957

So it's a 500cc single and did easy 60mp/h

This bike was completely restored.
UPDATE
I just had contact on email with the man who restored the bike.
and I try to tramslate as good as I can...
He wrote:Hello Peter, here a number of photo, s of the engine in the State in which I bought it. I have the photo, s reshooting with camera, because the original were already (long) erased from the computer. I'm not so handy with a computer so..... The photo, s I did use as a reminder how the everything was mounted. It was the first engine that I have fully restored. Of rebuilding the bike, I have no photo, s. It was a bit tricky frame but the rest was not to bad to do. All the time , I had a lot of fun at the job. It took me around 8 months to restore it. Some other bikes afterwards done, but now my interest is more to motorcycles before 1940. Whole restorations I don't do anymore, that is (for me) become too pricey. Another thing, I believe the BSA Gold Star displayed by your (and then the CB type 1954) is one of the most beautiful motorcycles ever created (unexplained too expensive for me) I had a very nice A7SS BSA also had a very nice bike I am not, however, and do so again. I had over the years a lot of fun doi'it.
Greetings, Andre van der Zwan

Thank you Andre for the response and it was a pity I couldn;t use the photo's of you on this blog
Here an photo of the bike in my back garden

Ridin the Matchless G80

IS IT BETTER TO LIVE YOUR LIFE BACKWARDS

Have you even thought what happens when you would live backwards? Seems to me much more enjoyable. But read on.To begin you stand up from the dead, a spectacular beginning ... If you get yourself out the coffin by your family and best friends, who welcomes you and they all have a flower. Then you should do a year or 20 nice things whatever you want to do, gardening, occasionally a trip at half price, staying in bed whenever you want and check every month your pension paycheck. On a day there is suddenly a guy for your frontdoor with a golden watch. He also offers you a well-paid job. As the years go by, you also get more and more sense to work, you feel that your health is getting better, you can have cigarettes as many as you like, because your lungs are becoming cleaner. You can drink what you want, the hangovers are getting smaller. You loose your belly without doing something for it. In the beginning you have 1 time sex a year, but on the last at least 10 times a week. At a moment you have to go to school but you knows everything, so you don't have to study. And the last years of your life you can play in the childrensgarden, nagging and annoying, and you can eat candy as much as you like, because all your teeth you got, you loose anyway. Than a few months to a woman's breast, then waiting for 9 months and then vanishing in a big massive orgasm ...........;-)