Want to buy or sell something? Check the classifieds
  • The Fedora Lounge is supported in part by commission earning affiliate links sitewide. Please support us by using them. You may learn more here.

Search results

  1. R

    Show us your motorcycles!

    Do you know whether that mileage was done on the original crank John? Richie
  2. R

    Show us your motorcycles!

    I've had a 1989 FXRS-SP from new John. Done about 130,000 miles on it. Richie
  3. R

    Show us your motorcycles!

    Yea they're producing some fantastic kit, but they aren't really any use to me. All my engines are 1930s road engines; Cameron specialize in race engines and despite their external appearance, there is a world of difference between a J.A.P race engine and a road engine! I don't plan to race this...
  4. R

    Show us your motorcycles!

    Here are a couple of my little engines. They were both built in 1935, the one on the left is a 350cc and the right one is a 250cc. The rest of the bike will mostly be 250cc BSA. I have all that stuff including the girder forks; but I'm still struggling with bits like crank shaft components...
  5. R

    Show us your motorcycles!

    Decided to build myself a 1930s Brooklands race bike lookalike from scratch a few years ago. This picture is of Bill Lacy a very famous Brooklands racer with the kind of bike I intend to build. Although there may be a passing resemblance, these bikes were very different to the board racers being...
  7. R

    Show us your motorcycles!

    It's easy with a sidecar - I carry a full set of spare cables, along with tyre tubes, spark plugs, ignition points, HT cable, fuel line, spare chain links, etc etc... My dad used to have spare cables already in place and just taped to the working cables on his Vincent twin. It looks untidy, but...
  8. R

    Show us your motorcycles!

    Quote "He woulda rode it home, but the guy just spent $1700 on a new tranny, and didn't want to jeopardize the warranty." Ouch! Definitely not worth the risk! Richie
  9. R

    Show us your motorcycles!

    Yea a Commando is a bit of a handful to ride home without one. I've done it and that was on an 850 Interstate; but it got very fraught at road junctions! The most spectacular journey I made with a broken clutch cable was on my Royal Enfield Interceptor. Not only had the clutch cable broken, but...
  10. R

    Show us your motorcycles!

    Wot no spanners???? I had to use one of those tools that you hold to your ear to get my Harley home once. I'd spun the drive pulley off the splined shaft. The old Norton single is so basic, I can carry pretty much everything I need to get me home in the sidecar. Nice Interstate...
  11. R

    Show us your Militaria

    [/IMG]I've been looking for a decent pair of these British dispatch rider boots for years. The problem being the average British DR at the time took a UK size 7 or 8 and I wear 11 to 12. These are a UK 12 and were unworn when I got them. I have since committed sacrilege and had rubber commando...
  13. R

    Show us your motorcycles!

    I don't drive a car so since I was old enough to ride, I have never not ridden through the winter. The weird thing is I definitely don't get as cold these days as when I was a nipper. I'm still wearing pretty much the same riding gear as when I was sixteen - Leather jacket and denim jeans...
  14. R

    Show us your motorcycles!

    Any idea how I can get rid of that? Richie
  15. R

    Show us your motorcycles!

    [/IMG] A little too cool for English ale. I was on my way to the pub when I stopped and took the first pic. I was at the same pub in the summer and was talking to a couple of blokes who'd turned up on full on enduro bikes - knobbly tyres, fourteen inches of fork travel etc etc. I mentioned to...
  16. R

    Show us your motorcycles!

    Hooray! success at last! The bike is a 1954 Big 4 of 598cc and the sidecar is a Garrard S90 sports. It ain't fast, but by crikey it's reliable! Richie
  17. R

    Show us your motorcycles!

    [/IMG] I've made a few attempts at posting a picture today. If this has worked, it's my old sidevalve Norton, which as you can see gets used EVERY day regardless of the weather. Richie
  19. R

    Wartime Farm - reality show

    The actual farm is just five miles down the road from where I live in Hampshire. It's open to the public as a working museum and I regularly used to take my daughter when she was little. Kids could hold the lambs and feed the chickens and pigs etc. I was particularly interested in the episode...
  20. R

    Cordova Handmade Caps / Johnny J's work

    That'll be me in England! Johnny also introduced me to this site.... Up to then, I thought I was alone in the world! Ha ha! Richie
  21. R

    Lewis Leathers Roadmasters vs. Belstaff Knockhill Trainmaster?

    That analogy wouldn't always have stood up on it's own. I bought my first Lewis jacket back in the late seventies and it was a great jacket. However, ten years later, my shoulders had got bigger and it no longer fitted. I took a trip up to the shop, which was at Great Portland street London at...
  22. R

    Lewis Leathers Roadmasters vs. Belstaff Knockhill Trainmaster?

    I still wear waxed cotton over the top of my riding gear when it rains. I have a Barbour International trials jacket, and because the matching trousers wore out, a pair of Belstaff replacements. The Barbour jacket is just about on it's last legs, despite being re-waxed numerous times, and will...
  23. R

    Lewis Leathers Roadmasters vs. Belstaff Knockhill Trainmaster?

    I have been riding in my present Lewis Super Monza for a few years now. I don't drive a car, so come rain or shine... Ice or snow, I'm out on my 1954 Norton and Lewis jacket. The reason I bought it was of course because they are made of superb leather to a very exacting build quality; but also...
View older results

Latest posts

Members online

Total: 2,617 (members: 26, guests: 2,591)

Forum statistics

Threads
108,459
Messages
3,061,566
Members
53,654
Latest member
billmacsworld
Top