THE UNDEAD OF CHOPPERS (R.HISCOX 2012).

 

Frame brazed up courtesy of Kev at RSD with new rear legs so she can run faster. Rolling chassis otherwise as was apart from a Coker tyre on the back and an old Avon racer on the front. Engine has been checked and rebuilt with 3134s, revised timing and a BTH mag, gearbox is from last years blue framed bike as are engine plates to replace the home made ones. We continue.......

WEARING HER HIGH-HEEL SHOES AND HER LOW-BACK SWEATER

 

 

Get back Loretta.
 Peter called, "no room, do you want to buy it back ?" so.....its back.

ON ANY THURSDAY

Black Sheep of North Yorkshire.

FIRST DAY OF AUTUMN

My day,
Went for dentists appointment at 9.00am, yes all looks OK, X ray, mint up, £96.50 please. Got home opened post, letter from accountant you owe the taxman...lots, also please find enclosed my bill..nearly half as much again!. Guy rang, "fancy a ride out for lunch?", sunny day good idea, check tyre pressures on BSA, 6 miles out handlings a bit loose, flat rear tyre. Kind lady lent me a cig lighter pump thing and pumped it up to try and get home. Managed to get back to the first car park in town left bike and walked to work for my van. When loading the bike up i noticed a lady in a car writing down my reg numbers possibly thinking she was witnessing a theft. I went over to explain but she wound up her window and refused to look at me. Called in to pick up some packaging in town and fell out with a man who objected to my parking, then turning the last corner bike fell over in the van breaking the back light and speedo bracket. I am just taking Ell's car for an MOT now, do you recon it will pass ?



Update 5.39pm, they had forgot to book it in, bring it back tomorrow ...........

TUESDAY TRITONS

Thanks Brian.

MAL

I met Mal this afternoon when i went to buy his old sprint bike chassis, he built it in 1969 and raced it locally powered by an iron 6T motor and later a Hillman Imp engine. This is him in 1970 at Elvington, he flatly refused to be in any photos today!


He is retired now and as his winter project last year he dragged it from under a cover where it had been for 34 years and "did it up a bit". His wife must have thought he intended to use it again hence the sale to me ..



In his tiny workshop there were a few interesting looking sheets which it turned out covered the bike he built in '73 as a replacement to house the Imp engine...


A Kawasaki Z250 powered by a K4 Honda engine that his son used to sprint...



Everyone said he was too old for Streetfighters so he built himself one a couple of years ago, a GS750 with big bore kit, sports cams and nitrous, as with all his projects it cost about £50....


He "found" this ZB350 Gold Star in a shed near his work 20 years ago...


And finally this is the motor he originally used in the sprint bike, he built the Tribsa in the early 80s and still uses it...



He says "i never did any good or won anything, i just like building stuff and i hate standard bikes, if anyone told me to do something a certain way i just did the opposite". I would thank him on here for the bike but he hasnt got a computer and had never heard of a Blog. Top bloke.

EXPANSION PIPE AND SLIPPERS

Top. About 1975, i bought this 185 Suzuki trail bike because i was sick of everything i had breaking down and being in bits, it was loads of fun, rode it to work, in the forests, in the snow, brilliant. Probably did more miles on it in one year than i had in three on all my British tat. No rational thinking behind the jumper though.



Bottom, 1969, BSA C12 my first bike, i fell off and it hurt a lot.

CROSSROADS

Going down to Rosedale, take my rider by my side.
Going down to Rosedale, take my rider by my side.
You can still 'barrelhouse', baby, on the riverside.
You can run, you can run, tell my friend-boy Willie Brown.
You can run, you can run, tell my friend-boy Willie Brown.
And I'm standing at the crossroads, believe I'm sinking down

Riding with Eric, Jack and Ginger today. Speakers on max please.

LITTLE BRITAIN '78

Russell Brand and Matt Lucas out with the Bromley boys before they were famous. Photo from Bike magazine 1978.

LINKERT SHOVELS