Playing Catch Up.

A new toy.     But before we can do any­thing about that… We have to fix this. Yeah, that’s pret­ty much half of the dash pulled out. Tomor­row night the oth­er half comes out. All because I don’t like cold feet.   (Update …

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and now, for something completely different…

On Sat­ur­day Jan­u­ary 19th, I helped a bud­dy get his (unique) motor­cy­cle down to Down­town HD in Ren­ton for a Vin­tage Bike show. Focus was on dirt bikes, and motor­crossers, but all sorts of inter­est­ing things came out of the wood­work. Here are a few of the pic­tures I took. Grab a tasty bev­er­age for a nice stroll down mem­o­ry’s pit lane here.

ready to head for the show

 

brag stick­er on a Pen­ton-Was­sel tri­als bike

 

Ducati swingarm detail

 

Ducati Scram­bler

 

Bul­ta­co Pur­sang, in the frozen fog

 

an Aer­ma­c­chi-harley 350 Road Racer

 

exhaust detail on a Tri­umph 500cc Moto-crosser

 

a Hoda­ka Super Rat — my first bike

 

CJ-Framed Hon­da 4‑stroker

 

a Pen­ton 125 Six-Days

 

a 1955 Maico tai­fun 400. just wow.

 

Hoda­ka Super Wombat

 

with wom­bat

any­one who would like larg­er ver­sions of these, or any­thing else that was there that I might have on film (so to speak), please just let me know. rub­ber side down!

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A New Space Ship!

Last year, I caught the Sport-Tour­ing bike bug again. I have owned sev­er­al over the years, and a quick ride on a friend’s ’09 BMW R1200RT real­ly remind­ed me what I was miss­ing on  my long-legged ‘Tur­bo Giraffe’ (KTM 950 … 

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