dinsdag 21 februari 2012

Look at that speedo from SMITHS




This photo I took from mine BSA Rocket from 1964
As you can see on this picture,
the speedo was very rare I think
It goes clockwise, started from the left bottom.
As far as I know it, they normally starts at the right top...
Mayby it was a speedo for a police bike?
Does anybody know.....?

donderdag 16 februari 2012

My first british bike was a Triumph Bonneville T140

I never forget my first british bike.
It was a Bonneville T140 from 1977
Yes it was original a jubilee, but as you see, during
the years changed a lot.

I was very pleased with the bike
It did run like a brand new one
Fast aswell and a beautiful sound with the Norton peashooters

Well now the pics of this bike and later I'm gonna tell you more about the bike



I always wanted a british bike.
I am into the RnR scene and it was for me
the bike for a rocker.
I loved the movie with Marlon Brando, was into 50's music
and my friends drove cadillacs chevrolets pick ups BSA  and triumphs aswell.
So it has to be a fast bike...
Bonneville 750
So I drove the roads with it and was really enjoing it.
It was a very good bike, but I wanted it to change a little bit.
You know how it goes
Bigger petrol tank, other this other that, so before you knew it,
it's changed but it felt not like mine first bike anymore...
It wasn't that red machine I bought
So I sold it
Wish I never did
Now I'm restless with bikes
Always changing
I guess it's mine curse
Well here a picture just before I sold it

woensdag 8 februari 2012

Yamaha XV 1000 special

It's a Yamaha XV1000 V2
It's not finished but almost there
Is it a bobber
is it a chopper
or is it a special?
Well, I don't know but
Its beautiful and I love it