Distractions

Something about this reminds me of Vaughn as a baby.

Mooneyes

Enough of being a negative dick. You've seen this all elsewhere. Cool stuff.

Mooneyes

I have to preface this post by saying I'm pretty serious fan of most of the Japanese custom bike and hot rod scene. From what I've seen I'd have to say they are by and large they are kicking our ass in terms of execution. Most of what comes out of the Mooneyes show is nothing short of a wake up call. Even the stuff that's not really my taste is pretty damn cool. That said, as much as I love to see any old bikes get ridden something about bikes like the ones below just rubs me the wrong way.



I guess the idea is to look like they were farm fresh farm-boy butchered... just pulled from a barn. If that was really the case, cool. I suspect in fact they are super original survivors being butchered in the name of hipness. Awesome. You've done the equivalent of turning an original paint Jaguar XK120 into a rat rod.

I could be wrong. If you know the real story please fill me in.

Maybe the objective is to offend purists (have I become a purist?). There ARE cool ways to do that, just look at Jeff Decker's Crocker or Vincent.



I love bikes like Pete's BSA BB34 (above), built from an incredible parts stash to complete an esthetically amazing bike. He didn't butcher an impeccable original survivor to piece it together though. Maybe I'm just missing something...

It all just reminds me of when Boyd Coddington bought a restored Model T to cut up and build into a butt ugly rat rod. What an a-hole.

Tuning the Triumph Tiger 100

VMCC Library

I stumbled across the VMCC Library for the first time tonight. Pretty interesting stuff. Anyone familiar with them or ever used them before? From the website:

The VMCC now has custody of all the original Motorcycle Factory records that have been held by the Science Museum in London since the early 1980s.

This collection contains the surviving records of a very large part of the once mighty British motorcycle industry.

This is the largest collection of motorcycle related paperwork in the world and an invaluable source of information and technical data for motorcycle enthusiasts. Although the library is accessible to all, members enjoy a discount on any charges associated with enquiries, research or photocopies.

Sounds like they probably have the original Triumph factory records. Naturally I'm wondering if they might be able to tell me which dealer my 1951 was shipped to as new.

Minimal

Dockland's Speed Shop

T100R

Duke

T110

'51 Flat Tracker

I remember stumbling across this video when I was still just daydreaming about buying my Tiger. How can you hear this bike and not just love it?

'39 Knuck

Matt Olsen posted some pictures of the stunning '39 Knuck they are just wrapping up. Damn son.

Triumph Motorcycle Engine Animation

Totally technically inaccurate but cool non-the-less.