I've been to the Koperteutenrally today

Here are some picture's I took
The bike's did all well and nice to look at, even saw a lady on a Triumph
and a young lady on an Indian Scout
Of course a lot of Norton Triumph Harley Davidson Indian BSA Junak Douglas Jawa DKW Peugeot BMW etc.

My M8 bought a Harley Davidson WLA from 1946

He wanted a WLA Liberator for several years and yesterday it was the day.

It starts and run, but need attention

He also want to change the color

It was an import from Greece in 1977

I wish him luck with the bike

BMW R100/7

Bought a BMW R100/7 from 1977 today

Got 84.000 km or 42.400 miles on the speedo

want to change it into a '70's caferacer

It has spoken wheels

and double front disc brakes

I believe

it got power and torque enough

for a caferacer old style

979 ccm or 59.74 cubic inches

2 cilinder boxer 4 stroke

60 HP @ 6500 rpm

73,5 Nm @ 4000rpm

192 km/h or 119.3 mph

Koperteuten rally in Holland

If you like old bikes , this is a nice rally to go to

You can see all kind of bikes fom 1900 until the seventies

And of course nice bikes from people who come by bike.

It's only a one day happening, but if the weather is ok, you can see all kind of bikes

for example

Adler Triumph Harley Davidson Norton AJS FN Herstal Moto Guzzi Indian NSU BSA Peugeot Sarolea DKW Francis Barnett BMW and many more

For more info see also

http://www.vmcdestoomfiets.nl/

Triumph Thunderbird or Speedtwin friction toy

Look what I found today

A Triumph Thunderbird (or speedtwin)bathtub friction toy

Must be from the '60

because the bathtub was in production from 1960 'till 1966 I believe

It's 12 cm or 5 inch

Wild Roosters - Ride on Rebels (with me in the clip)

I was looking on youtube for brit bikes and music.
I saw a picture of Wild Bob Burgess and watch the video.
Great photo's and good music, but almost at the end,
there was a picture of me.
It is the photo of the back of me with mine BSA A65 from 1971.
I was leavin that day to a rockers meeting and had mine leather jacket on and the helmet
full with (british) stickers.
You can see the wooden windmill in my garden aswell
How Dutch is that

Click here to see and listen
to Teddy Boy Rockers music brit style

http://youtu.be/ceLp-wuC5rE

Rockabilly from Clint Bradley called Just insane

CLINT BRADLEY with great rockabilly sing JUST INSANE

He was one of the lead singers of the famous british rockabilly band the BLUE CATS.

He is als known as Little Tony, because he had a band called

LITTLE TONY & THE TENNESSE REBELS

Listen to this and you know that good singers never die......

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.....?

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

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

BSA B40 WD

This one is a BSA B40 WD

It´s manufactered from '66 to '72

It's original an army bike

WD means War Department

For the road it was called a B40 STAR

The Star looked different than this WD one

So this one was changed in a 60's (little bit of a)

caferacer trim.

But it had the looks of a Rocker bike, that's for sure

The blue grey colour was very nice to look at.

So you see, not everything has to be chrome or polished

Brakes
Front	Drum
Rear	Drum
Engine
Type	Air Cooled 4 Stroke OHV Single
Bore x Stroke	79 x 70 mm
Displacement	343 cc
No. of Valves	2
Starting	kick
Transmission
Transmission               Suspension Front Telescopic Forks	4 Speed

Weight : 160 kg

12 Volt

Place of Manufacture	Small Heath, Birmingham, UK

Here's a AJS model 14

This was a 250cc one cilinder, which was largely to cut costs made up of parts of James, which was joined in 1951 to AMC.

 Of James, the fenders, the tank, the hubs, the swing arm, the nacelle, the saddle, the wheel, the rear position lamp and initially also the front fork, although later models got the teledraulic front fork.

The 250cc engine was newly developed by AMC. He had the appearance of a block engine, but had-hiding behind the left carter lid-a separate gearbox.

The engine remained in production until 1965.

This bike I found in unrestored condition

So what you see is how I found it.

Only I did new tires and a new battery.

Here are mine AJS model 14 and Triumph T140 on the back of the MATCHLESS NEWS of the

AJS & MATCHLESS Owners Club

North American Section

Ok here's the sound of the little bike

GREAT SOUND for such a little bike (250cc)

Also my dog Laika... and a bit of the Triumph T140

Leaving Norfolk with Triumph T100

Richard a friend of mine from the UK recorded this on his telephone

when I left there after staying a couple of days.

Of course  alot of chat before you hear the beautiful sound of the T100

You hear Richard and his wife Topsy and my friend Kevin an his wife Elsie.

Kevin and Richard also do the disco at RnR gigs

They also do every year a benefit with bands like Flying Saucers - Crazy Jay and more

Last weekend they had a benefit evening with Dynamite Horton

Here a photo with Kevin also known as Big K with mine T100

Triumph Trophy TR25W

Here's a Triumph TR25 W from 1969.

Same engine as in a BSA.

Look at the front brake...it was to much for this little bike.

I think a GP bike don't brake that fast HA

When a lady biker saw this bike she fell in love with it

and the story is now: that she ride the Belgium roads with it.

Specs of the bike:

Triumph Trophy 250 W

Engine type: Single cylinder, four-stroke, 2 valve

247.00 ccm (15.07 cubic inches)

Power: 22 HP 16.1 kW @ 8000

Top speed: 130.0 km/h (80.8 mph)

Compression 10.0:1

Gearbox: 4-speed

Front tyre dimensions: 3.25-19

Rear tyre dimensions: 4.00-18

Weight incl. oil, gas, etc: 151.0 kg (332.9 pounds)

Fuel capacity: 13.50 litres (3.57 gallons)

Yamaha XS650

I always go to a friend of mine who has a little motorcycle shop in mostly '70's bikes.

The name of the shop is: PHOENIX-AZ motorcycles

http://www.phoenix-az.nl

He's  specialized in the Yamaha XS650

So a couple of months ago, he found a barnfind.

Well he knew the bike was there, but never asked the person what he did with the bike.....

So one day He picked it up and it wasn't looking well

It stood there for over 20 years ...........

BUT......it was original and did not have many miles

To keep the story short: we cleaned it, did some new oil in it, new patrol and the bike started.

To be honest: it runs very well

So I bought it today, because I don't have a bike to work on.

Now I ask myself, shall I keep it original, or shall I make a caferacer of it?

I think I go for the first option, because even the original mirrors(and I don't like them because they so high) are on the bike.

Didn't take original photo's yet, but this type of XS is it (european style)

The only difference is: there's an American flag under the 650 on the sidepanel
Here a picture of a XS caferacer I had with a big bore 750 kit

UPDATE

Did change the XS a bit this last week

Here some pictures of what I did

First polished the engine a little bit and painted the cilinders black

Than changed the petrol tank and buddy seat

Put another rear fender and taillight on

and another mirror and signal lamps

Than other rear suspension

And yesterday chrome healight with headlight holders

Are the things I changed new parts?

No they are used parts but almost in new condition

IS IT FINISHED NOW?

NO

Need anorther chrome front fender and exhaust pipes

and mayby 18" rear wheel with drum brake

UPDATE 14-1-2012

Took this picture just a minute ago

Yes the sun is shining and it's 14-january

In the sun it's 12 degrees at the moment ??????

I had choppers and Bobbers aswell

I know mine heart belong to "classic British" caferacers, but that doesn't mean I don't like other bikes

I had choppers and bobbers aswell

Mine first chopper I made with a friend of mine almost 30 years ago

 was a Honda cb750 from the early 70's

As you can see, it changed a lot.

It looks like a hardtail, but as you can see it had rear suspension

I had a lot of looks with the bike because you couldn't buy a chopper at that time

except a Harley Davidson

So when I advertised it to sell, it didn't take long

Sometimes I wished I never done that......

Another lovely chopper I had, was build with a Yamaha XS650 engine

Ofcourse this is a very lovely engine to build choppers caferacers bobbers dirt bikes etc

Look at the helmet I always used on the back of the Yamaha

A couple of months ago I saw the frame of the Yamaha for sale in Holland on a motorcycle site,

such as Ebay

VW LT28 6 clinder diesel engine

Another hobby of mine is mine VW LT28 camper.
It's a 6 cilinder diesel engine.
I made it mine style ofcourse
Of course with a big sticker (home made by a friend of mine) of my favorite Marlon Brando.
I drive to RnR gigs, classic motorcycle racing an hollidays with it
Been to England with it last summer and visit the Ace with her.
Drove to a friend of mine and stayed there for a couple of days.
Easy because you got everything 'on board'.....incl the 50's music ofcourse

Update 14-12-2011

Me and the LT in front of the ACE cafe in London

The LT on the left site,  I met on a country road near Norwich in the UK

The change this happen is less than one in a million I think

That's why I asked the Lady driver ... yes a woman drove this one,

if I could make a picture of the two together

If I remember well, It was a LT40

D24 models

ID(s)	DIN-rated max. motive power at rpm	max. torque at rpm	redline (rpm)	years
1S, ACT[1]	51 kW (69 PS; 68 bhp) @ ?,???			1988–1995
CP, DW[1]	55 kW (75 PS; 74 bhp) @ 4,000	155 N·m (114 ft·lbf) @ 2,800		1978–1992
Volvo D24	60 kW (82 PS; 80 bhp) @ 4,700	145 N·m (107 ft·lbf) @ 2,000	max rpm @5400 rpm before fuel cut

The weight of this engine is 182 kg or 201 lbs.
The D24 was fitted in the Volkswagen range from Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, with factory production from August 1978 to December 1995.^[1]
Specific dates of the variants - CP: 08/78-11/82, DW: 12/82-07/92, 1S: 08/88-07/92, ACT: 08/92-12/95.^[1]
The D24 was also found in a number of Volvo cars - specifically the 240 ,740, and 940 and was coupled to Volvo ZF, AW, M45, M46 (overdrive) or M47 and m47 II transmissions.
The D24 also found use in military vehicle applications.
It was used in the early variants of the Steyr-Daimler-Puch Pinzgauer High Mobility All-Terrain Vehicle, with current Pinzgauers being manufactured with the turbocharged variant - the D24T.

Marlon Brando from the movie THE WILD ONE

Marlon Brando drinkin a beer.
From the movie THE WILD ONE.
He was the one who started me to ride British bikes
So as you can see in earlier blog,
mine Triumph  T 100 from 1953 with all alloy engine and springhub.
Same year as the movie came out.
Here 2 postcards I have of mine idol

Click below to see a part of the movie
http://youtu.be/yCENBce_dls

As you can see, not all of my bikes are in good condition

This is a ARIEL VB 600 from 1952

I found this bike in Belgium and it was very complete.

The man I bought it from had it for years and years.

I never finish it, because when somebody heard about the bike I had

he made me an offer I couldn't refuse at that time

Little bit of a pity

But than again, you can buy something else for it

 

As you know I'm also into the 50's music.

I had my own radioshow called:

Cowboys Guitars & Cadillacs

I went to a lot of RnR gigs in europe

Cruise Inn Amsterdam

Rockhouse meeting Eindhoven

Rockin ballhouse Utrecht

But also Caister Skegness Great Yarmouth & lots more

But also every weekend in our own Rockin wooden place in Eindhoven

called VLUCHT

We had a lot of bands playing there

Flying Saucers Crazy Cavan Blue Cats Mac Taple Freddie Fingers Lee

and a lot more

Yes we talkin about 70's-80's

Abouve picture from that clubhouse and

the rockin boys and girls