Bugad bike night - Vintage and classic motorcycle

Sod lawn tennis and cricket, summer is all about bike night season. Here are a few snaps from the gathering every Tuesday eve at Bugad motorcycles.Sweet Honda 400/4 cafe racer.Line up with a pair of 400/4s to the front.A brace of Buells. Both S1 Lightnings.BMW R100RS Motorsport edition.Another view...
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VMCC vintage cars invite evening - Vintage and classic motorcycle

Fine riding weather has been lacking so far this summer but yesterday evening was an exception. The evening sun was a good excuse to get out and make the most of it with a ride over to the local Dorset VMCC meet for their annual vintage car and bike ride in.The weather drew a decent turn out of bikes...
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Douglas in action 1934 - Vintage and classic motorcycle

This snap is captioned 'Douglas 350cc 1934'. Dig the goggles and flying helmet. The stub of roll up cigarette adds to the look to...
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Ariel VB 600cc side valve - Vintage and classic motorcycle

Chopped from a lost family album here are several views of an Ariel VB 600cc side valve machine. A big torquey slogger of a bike more commonly seen hauling a sidecar. The pictures are captioned as 1946, the bike looks to be late thirtie...
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MZing in Turkey - Vintage and classic motorcycle

A trip down memory lane... On holiday in Turkey back in something like 1992. I hired a MZ Kanuni and my mate Will a Honda Lead scooter. We had a great time buzzing around Cappadocia exploring the underground cities for a couple of days. The MZ was a 250 and was a sweet bike, the Honda didn't leave...
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Kreidler R50 Scooter - Vintage and classic motorcycle

Sales brochure for the Kriedler R 50 scooter made from 1954 to 1957.Kriedler R 50 brochure front cover.Kriedler R 50 brochure page 1.Kriedler R 50 brochure page 2.Kriedler R 50 brochure rear cove...
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Post war club meet - Vintage and classic motorcycle

Meeting up for a ride out in the early fifties. Difficult to positively identify many of the bikes in the line up. Second from left is unmistakably a Douglas. Well done if you can name the rest of them.Bike meet fifties style. Looks like winter time from theriding gea...
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Barleycorn Engineering swan neck clip ons - Vintage and classic motorcycle

Seeing as I've now put plenty of time and alas money in to my Gold Star I thought I might as well make it comfortable to ride too. The standard clip on position just doesn't suit me: could be something to do with being tall or I could just be getting older. I get on well with rear sets and flat bars...
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Pioneer Run 1956 / 1957 pt2 - Vintage and classic motorcycle

Here are the rest of the bunch of photos from the 1956 and 1957 Pioneer Runs.Royal Enfield v-twin again.Not completely sure but that looks like the Kerry asfeatured in the last post.Easy ride on a Henderson.Can't identify this machine.1950s version of a go-pro.Terrible blurry photo. Top of the class...
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AJS side valve flat tanker - Vintage and classic motorcycle

Great image of a late twenties AJS side valve flat tanker. baker boy cap, waistcoat, plus fours and clogs - proper riding gear!Late twenties AJS side valv...
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Military left overs in Myanmar - Vintage and classic motorcycle

I passed through Myanmar (formerly Burma) for work recently and came across this ex War Department Chevrolet truck. The truck is still looked after and is pressed in to use as a shuttle bus to take tourists between Thanwe Airport and a resort. There seems to be quite a few transportation remnants of...
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Pioneer Run 1956 /1957 pt1 - Vintage and classic motorcycle

I recently came across a series of images from the Pioneer Run dating from 1956 / 57. Many of these machines were already 50 years old back then. Interesting how the accent of the Run was on really early machinery though the cut off date of 1914 was the same as it is today. I wonder how many of these...
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