Nice Bike, but what is it?

Looks nice to me, but what make do you think it is, take a minute before you click on the title to think what it is.

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Just can't help myself, more BSA unit twin "stuff".

Franks Pick up

The finished truck, and below how it started off







As a follow on from the nice pics of Franks Chevy pick up Larry has sent in some before pics as promised. Hes certainly done a great job of it!
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Mechanical Bike Art

What do these two bikes have in common? Well the were built by Dieter Hartmann-Wirthwein. I don't know much about him other than he had a motorcycle accident in 2002 which left him paralyzed from the waist down, but that hasn't stopped him producing these engine conversions. The four cylinder Monkey Bike took about a year to build, starting early 07. If you click on the title it'll take you to the web site, then go to videos and listen to the small 125/4 engine, sounds great, nearly as good as a big Kawa... As far as I know the V8 Ducati is nearly finished, should sound nice.

Pic below shows the layout of the V8, there is a video of how it works on their web site.

Friday Bike

In the mid 80s SuperBike magazine ran a contest for their reader to designed the bodywork for a Tony Foale designed motorcycle, the Quantum 2 (Q2). The winning bodywork design would be used for the bike. I think the style that won was fantastic. As you can see with Dans Q2 above, it looks just right. If you want more info go to the Tony Foale site, click on articles and you will find a fair bit of info on the Q2.

I am not sure how many were built or have survived and that's a question Dan is trying to find out, if you know of any leave a message on Dans site, click title to go to his blog.

http://www.tonyfoale.com/

Race Retro 2011

I got this email from the ACE Cafe, you can too if you sign up with them, and it sounds like an interesting event, covering Classic cars and Motorcycles.
Wouldn't mind going myself but theres bikes to get ready for the Scottish Bike Show in March...

Race Retro 2011 - Ace Cafe London & Coventry Transport Museum

The iconic Ace Cafe London returns to Race Retro 2011 with a bang when the three day historic motorsport event returns to Stoneleigh Park from 25-27 February as the sponsor of the new "Fire Up Paddock". Classic cafe and road racing bikes will be brought back to life giving visitors the opportunity to hear the motorcycles, as well as see them in all their glory, to include some unique Italian legends raced by esteemed guests such as Giacomo Agostini.


Joining the Ace stand in Hall 3 at Race Retro along with Mick Duckworth, author of the soon to be available seminal book "Ace Times", is Coventry Transport Museum. The two world famous transport attractions, are working together to produce an historic exhibition entitlted "Coming of Age at the Ace Cafe", telling the story of the Ace and the era, opening at the Coventry Transport Museum on Friday 3rd June and running to Sunday 3rd October 2011. More info clive.skelhon@transport-museum.co.uk

Included in the line up of machines on the Ace stand is the Ace 904S Thruxton Special, built by T3 Racing in conjunction with Ace Cafe London's Stonebridge Motor Company. This stunning bike brings together the timeless lines of the classic British motorcycle with state-of-the-art hi-tech and modern high performance.

Ace Cafe London will also be choosing the Best Cafe Racer in the concours competition at Race Retro as well as awarding prizes for Best Mod Scooter and Best 'Rockers' Bike, with all the finalists on display on Ace Cafe London's Mods and Rockers themed stand.

To enter a bike in the Cafe Racer concours, contact David Alderson on tel: 07770 626 173 or by email at david@livepromotions.co.uk for more details and an entry form. To enter a Scooter or Rockers Bike in the Ace concours, contact Darren Williams at Ace Cafe London on Tel: 020 8961 1000 or email: Darren@acecafeevents.com

www.transport-museum.co.uk
www.raceretro.com (click title to go there)

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1975 Kawasaki Z1B 900 sales brochure (USA), one of the many in my collection of Zed "stuff"