Fisherman stories are always hard to believe and if you’re now expecting to hear about “the one that got away” I must disappoint you. This one didn’t get away. In fact, the nets seemed pretty heavy when it was lifted on board, only to discover a rusted motorcycle instead of a record catch.
The amazing experience was lived by a group of four fishermen off Mandapam Coast in the early hours of the morning. Apparently, they set out to sea yesterday morning on a mechanized boat, but never in their lives expected to find a bike caught in their nets.
Not knowing what to do with the damn thing, the group head back to the coast in order to hand the capture over to the Custom officials. This is how the story reached the ears of the local press who also received a plausible scenario for the bike being there.
Because the number plates were too rusted to identify it, officials suspect that the motorcycle had fallen into the sea at the beginning of the summer while being smuggled to Sri Lanka. There, the Tamil rebels are the more likely recipients so the find raises a few question marks on how well state security agencies do their job.
Who knows, maybe in the future, motorcycles which are known to be exported to areas where they can follow the same trajectory in life, will be fitted with secret floating devices which will help at being recovered faster. Yeah, like somebody would want to help the rebels…but it would be interesting to hear somebody comes up with such an idea. Or am I the only one afraid of the water, but with a strong passion for motorcycles?
Set up by John Burgin as a retiring activity, the hidden motorcycle museum is one of the best privately owned collections of motorcycles in the country.
It is located in Spanaway, Washington (so it’s not hidden any more?) and it includes a full set of Harley-Davidson Knuckleheads.
John passed away two years ago, but it leaves behind what could easily be the work of a lifetime gathered only during its retirement.
Gas leaking was a common problem with early Norton and Triumph motorcycles, but who would have expected at something like this in the year 2008? As long as the bike is old, the problems are old but it is a real shame that at an apparently organized show you can’t get your hands on an extinguisher fast enough to minimize damage to the bike. And the guy that was riding…did he actually thought that by hitting the thing with his foot would actually help him solve the problem?
This picture represents the very essence of motorcycle beginnings as it illustrates the first motorcycle that featured an engine functioning on gas.
Built by Daimler in 1885, the machine is as rudimentary you could ever imagine, but well ahead of its time thanks to its motor. Rolling on two massive wagon wheels and being supported by other two lateral ones, this wooden horse must have been a rough ride from just above 0 mph.
This film catches the very essence of boardtrack racing with motorcycles from the 1920’s. These were the days when safety became a thing of worry only after serious deaths, something that has indeed happened in the time as the wooden tracks would suffer serious wearing due to exposure to the elements.
It is very nice to view such a quality film from those days and think at how the tape withstood the test of time. You will see that at one time it was lost and found.
The motorcycles are early Indians racing sometimes even beyond their limits, but that’s where racing starts, doesn’t it? Funny thing how they used to start the bikes!
Here’s a Warrior motorcycle that withstood the test of time with brilliancy. If you are into vintage motorcycles you’ll appreciate the bike as being truly worth its place in a museum, and still enjoy seeing it make a little smoke, early style!
We did not know if it is a reconditioned piece or the original model, but when spotting that impeccable Rolls Royce in the guy’s garage, we started having a hunch.
The incident happens in Slovania during a race that takes place once a year. The idea is to take out of the museums and garages their old side car motorcycles and race the hell out of them. In this case, a certain corner proved a bit tricky, but it seems that the pilots are well determined and get the thing back on wheels immediately.
Honda surely knew how to make a good commercial even in the early days when attracting buyers through such methods would guarantee it the success of today. And presenting a young star such as John Travolta not only manages to help commercialize the bike, but create a clear image of those times on which you can comment today.
Pete Gagan is a motorcycle expert who dedicated its time on learning as much possible about antique motorcycles and when it finally put its hands on one, it designed an identical replica which takes it for a ride today.
The bike, Sylvester Roper’s “Steam Powered Motorcycle” requires an entire process until getting started and it isn’t quite a blast, but it helps showing us where it all began.
Those who fell in love with the very first version of the Véloce will be very pleased to hear that it is now for sale on the net.
As long as you can bid, it is obviously on Ebay. Having a starting price of 9000 € and knowing that this bike is a prototype and an unique one, I’m sure that those 9000 € will not stay posted for long. >> read
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