A Load of Balls

Spherical-Drive-Motorcycle

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Forward and Back

As you might imagine, there’s a tale behind these photos.

They were taken at a rally held at a rugby club that I attended a few years ago. Someone asked if they could have a go on this quite tidy Jawa 350 sidecar outfit as they'd never ridden an outfit before and were considering buying one. Being a nice chap, the owner said yes.

The newly-fledged sidecar pilot trundled around the rugby pitch for a bit gaining a bit of confidence, as you do when nothing goes wrong. He then decided he'd better turn around and come back so he rode the bike between the uprights of the goal posts and began to turn around, unfortunately forgetting that he had a sidecar attached to the bike he was riding.

Yes, that’s right; he rode into one of the uprights! Luckily, the sidecar was mostly undamaged (see the scrapes in the third picture), but the chassis and mounting brackets got bent somewhat.

The only option was to take it all apart, fix the damage and put it all back together. This with a selection of borrowed tools, on a rugby pitch, surrounded by interested onlookers giving quite contradictory, but well-meaning advice.

This is what happens when you’re trying to do something like that in a hurry!

French Fancy

The stunning French-built 1000cc Voxan Cafe Racer
 

Spotted at Coupes Moto Legende 2012

Inspection Time

Another bike through its annual inspection. This time it was the Skorpion, and just in time for this weekend’s MZ National Rally. 

Einstein-a-go-go

Spotted at National Motorcycle Museum, England

Electric Motorrad

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Mike Hailwood Ducati Replica

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Everyone's New Favourite Bike

Spotted at The Coupes Moto Legendes in Dijon recently, these cool art-deco machines are from the French manufacturer Majestic.

brass furniture on the car-style dashboard

 

I still think that they look a bit like a Basking Shark from the front.

 For more information, there is a good write up on them at The Vintagent site here.

US Topper

H-D attempt at breaking into the scooter market

exhibit in a museum at Niagara Falls, Canada

sometimes the best finds are in the car park at a bike show

French Triple

 

This week’s bike is a 1974 350cc two-stroke triple from French manufacturer Motobecane / Motoconfort. The bikes were apparently badged as both marques, although there appears to only have been limited numbers produced due to the high purchase price when new.

The two yellow machines above were spotted at Coupes Moto Legende last month. The nearest one is a Motobecane, the other a Motoconfort.

  
There's a brief history of the manufacturer on wiki, and some more details about this particular machine here.

Sales brochure