Friday, 31 August 2012

Flat Tracker Zed

Spotted this Flat tracker/ Street tracker styled Zed while over in Germany for the Z1 40th anniversary rally at Edersee. There's a lot of nice work done to the bike, a lot you don't notice right away. Nice job!

Pre Historic Head Cam

John R Walker photo (above)
Back in the 70s/80s this was the way to get your on board footage, as you can see not as compact as the modern helmet cams. The batteries for it were carried in a back pack and weighed in at about 50lbs, this gave about enough power for one lap.... Rider is Lang Hindle, former Canadian Superbike Champion

Saturday, 7 April 2012

Honda CB400/4

This is the latest project that my mate James has bought ( the owner of the BMW R75/6 from a few months back, an update of that later), a 1976 Honda CB400/4. Bought on ebay from DK Motorcycles a few weeks back. A bit rough round the edges, but surprisingly totally rust free (California import). A few things are on the way for it and paint work is off to the painter. This should be a fairly easy tidy up with the plan to have it registered and on the road by the end of the month.......

Monday, 26 March 2012

Second Look



How many modern parts can you see on this bike.More info here

Sunday, 25 March 2012

Steve McQueen


One of my all time favourite Actors, he would have been 82 today. He was not always Steve McQueen, when entering motorcycle off road events he'd use the name Harvey Mushman, mainly to try and keep it quite from the Studios. Think I'll go and put The Great escape on....


Friday, 23 March 2012

Bike Shop in Japan


Nice Kawasaki Z1A




Rows of nice, and very nice Kawasaki's



Show room shot, nice Honda 400/4

Double Up Motorcycles are based in Japan and are one of hundreds of shops supplying the Customer with the bike of their dreams, and some of ours!!