That is a gorgeous Scout, it looks more like a period Bobber to me than a chopper. I love the stance! Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Ive been trying to sell my Hoard of junk Motorcycle & parts. asking $400 and so far no takers. I will probably end up hauling them to the scrapper.
I always knew H.A.M.B.ers had some excellent bikes. Little by little, I'm building an early-style Triumph chopper. For those who are interested in that sort of thing, I've started a build thread. (There's a link in my signature.)
Just came across this old picture that my Grandfather took of my Grandmother on his Indian Motorcycle. Any guess as to what year it is? I was told 1910 but don't really know.
Wow how cool is that! Remember these? I have this one now, a friend gave it to me for some work. When I was a kid on a Briggs/Taco mini bike these were big machines. I got this one running, slower than mud. It is street legal though, guess I could go to the corner store on it.
My mid 60's Bultaco Matador mk 2, Bultaco Metralla mk 2 and BMW R60/2 w/ 1953 Steib S500 Luxus side car. I sold the car sometime ago. Thumbs up!!
Nice, always wanted a Metralla but I'm too big and fat. I do have a /2 rig though, took it out to the coast yesterday in fact. Can't pull it out of the garage without the dog jumping in so he went too. It has a later R90/6 lump. Also have a stock R50/2 solo. Great bikes.
OK, just got word that the Indian in my above post is a 1911 or 1912 single 4 HP from Matt at Wheels Through Time in Maggie Valley NC. He is stoked to see the picture and may use it at the Museum.
Rigs are real fun in the snow. I stuffed mine into a snow bank once trying to keep up with a snowmobile on the street. Power slides and donuts at will on snow. With precise steering/handling, a powerful double leading shoe front brake and close ratio gear box the Metralla begs for twisty roads. The Matador MkII (1965/66) is a bit heavy and has only 19 HP. but great for the time suspension and pulls well from 0 RPM It is not exceptionally quick until the woods get tight or the water crossing deep when it becomes virtually unstoppable. fun fun fun
Yeah I bet it is exciting in the snow. One of my more embarrassing, albeit less painful since I didn't actually fall off for a change, motorcycling moments was when I put my first chair on a bike, a Matchless G15. Rode it around the neighborhood a bit, then showed up with my weekend warrior pals for a ride to the coast. Reaching the destination and dead last as usual piloting a sidecar rig, they left me an open spot in the lineup at the curb. As I approached I underestimated the width of the sidecar and knocked over three bikes before my opening, a Commando, a Kawi KZ900 and something else. Which left a bunch of guys laughing, 3 guys very pissed and one guy severely embarrassed. The money I had to pay out paled in comparison. Here's the Matchless, sans sidecar.
Looks like a Yamaha twin. Nice looking chopper. Check out the rear pegs and bitch pad. Apparently likes her sitting close, with legs up! Speaking of Jap mills, as a kid my neighbor bought a new Kawasaki 500 H1, the three cylinder two stroke 'Widowmaker', that also coined the term 'tank slapper'. He let me ride, scary fast, never will forget screwing that thing on. So, many years later I got a chance to buy a beat one for $300. Got it running, rattle can restoed and had some fun with it. Turned out it was a first year model, a friend wanted to restore so he got it.
OK, so if we aren't limiting this to American iron, here's my '76 KZ-900 that I bought new in '76. I'm the original and only owner.
..............and here's another one that a friend of mine just finished restoring. Bone stock original down to the much sought after original pipes and even the correct rubber bumper under the license plate to minimize vibration. Beautiful job he did .
Yeah those Kawis were really king of the hill back then for power. I had the 650 version, unfortunately no photo, looked just the same. Later on I had a GPZ500, one of the first generation of racer replica type bikes so common today. These days I keep a beater bike at my cabin, something no one would bother stealing (I hope). 1966 Yamaha 305 two stroke, the predecessor to the famous RD350. Ride it to town for breakfast. Also a little 800cc beater I use on the property. And a Husky saw.
Wow......does that bring back memories.....when I finally got out of college in 1974......my first job was Parts and Accessories rep for Kawasaki Motors working out of the Minneapolis Branch Office. I covered the dealers in Minn......Iowa......Wisconsin.....Illinois. It was a really, really cool job. Got to meet a lot of great people and travel regularly to the Kawasaki U.S headquarters in California......great stuff for a small town Iowa boy. The 900 was truly a work of art and bad fast.
I heard from my Mother that it was an early teens and looked at the picture and compared it on what I could find. Amazing at what you can find in this interweb in this day and age. Research simplified. I have a lot of other old negatives, highly flammable that my older cousin is attempting to get printed off. I hope he is able to get them printed and will scan and show more of them here.
Never saw the bike or ever will. My grandfather was riding it across Wheeling Creek back in the mid teens and it fell into about 15' of deep water. I don't know where it was but Wheeling Creek floods several times a year so it is long ago washed away no doubt. There are pictures of locomotives, cars, street scenes, a baseball game, people, all in the early teens to mid 20's. I hope ha can get them printed so we can possibly tell where some of the places were, like the baseball game as it looks possibly early professional.
Halloween 1977 , with my 1941 knucklehead. It was a hot rod ,88 cubic inches,camed , big carb , disk front end so I could stop . 12.18 quarter in hand shift class 1978 at Sturgis . Fun on the street for a hand shift . Blue
I would expect you to smash someone's guitar up against the wall in the next pic. You kind of looked like a cross between D-Day and Bluto from the Animal House movie KILLER BIKE THOUGH
Enloe , here you go . Next three , can’t show the rest . First time I met these two . In the back of the bar . Had a lot of fun on that bike !
Friend sent me this photo. Look out, might steal your ice cream! If the middle guy can figure out the shift pattern.
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