Thursday 16 February 2012

1982 Montessa Cota

Pipped to the post by the Deristricted blog but anyway, here's my mate Coopers Montessa. It's super clean int' flesh. Coops is a legend for bike riding round these parts - one of those people who was born with style. Rides his BMX like his moto x. Lad's not feared at all. He and his dad are mega skilled mechanics with the best living room / garage conversion ever. Photos of that soon. Anyway - bike check ahoy...

"I’ve recently finished a nice restoration project of an ’82 Montesa trials bike. It took me 5 weeks to complete. I bought the bike from an auto jumble pretty cheap as a non-runner.
After a fair bit of research I found everything I could about the bike. I tracked down a brand new original piston in Arizona USA, Re-bored the cylinder and fitted new seals. Painted the engine, fixed the kickstart mechanism. Made several new bushes for the swingarm, rear brake pedal, footrest etc. Bead blasted the fork bottoms and rebuilt with fresh seals etc. New rear twin shocks came from Shocktech Suspension. Had all the nuts, bolts washers footrests and spindles re-plated. Polished all the aluminium parts including carburettor, fixed the sticking choke lever.
The frame, forks, swingarm, side stand, petrol tank, sump guard and wheel hubs were painted back to original factory colours!
Fortunately a supplier in the south of England specialises in trials bikes of that era so after £700 quid it started to look like it did when it rolled off the showroom floor in 1982 and it now runs sweet!!
All the pictures were taken by my cousin Tom who’s a keen photographer."





Wednesday 15 February 2012

Sideshow Cycles

These good bikes from Sideshow Cycles in Austrailia, the second one is a work in progress,
Check this  M20
 "I highly modified that m20 engine.. got it out to about 714cc.. goldstar cams, alloy head, hi comp, belt drive, lytedrive clutch."






bsa m20 bobber rigid hardtail custom customised bsa tribsa rat bike etc

Tuesday 14 February 2012

The Blat 1991

Red careers through the cornea, pulverising the pupil, lens, canal of schlemm, zonules, ora serrata, and sclera before thundering like a freight train into the retina. The Blat.


Pics from Eat the Rich heads up from BP

Monday 13 February 2012

Kingdom of Kicks

Go and look at this. UK stuff goin down, a brand new site to keep Your eye on for the future. Kingdom of Kicks




Kingdom Of Kicks from Ladoja & Sons on Vimeo.





DIRT QUAKE

From the creators of ROLLERBURN comes another extra-ordinary bike event like no other.
DIRT QUAKE promises to be an amazing spectacle for any type of bike fan.
I just want to bullet point some of the things that make it more than the usual beardy snore.
• STUNT RIDERS
• LIVE BAND
• RUN WHAT YOU BRUNG DIRT TRACK RACING
• BARS
• INAPROPRIATE ROAD BIKE, STREET TRACKER OR CHOPPER DIRT TRACK RACING
• UK'S FIRST CHOPPER DIRT TRACK RACE
Be there or be shrivelled and hunched.
All the info is here
Saturday 19 May, Coventry Speedway Stadium.