Bike porn no. 15

By The Zor, 3 September, 2010, No Comment

To compensate my last post this one is a little bit longer then the usual Bike Porn post. But hey! It`s with Francoise Hardy.

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Go fast! Turn left! Exit the city!

By The Zor, 3 September, 2010, No Comment

Just one event for this week-end which I will attend if no major weather disaster is on our way.

Old timer championship and Old timer BMW meeting in Vrsac – Serbia, 4 – 5 September.

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Ian Barry’s Kestrel Falcon motorcycle

By The Zor, 2 September, 2010, No Comment

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Weekend warrior tales

By The Zor, 31 August, 2010, No Comment

Searching for a garage at the moment is like taking up a nomadic lifestyle and at a sudden point stopping for a rest in a very small garage. All my tools, motorcycles, bikes and parts are stuck in my father`s small garage. All enduro-rides are postponed due to some bad logistic; my KTM was the first to find shelter in the small garage and then came all the rest.

The dilemma. Finding the perfect space is a fine balance between budget, square meters and future plans. From 100~80 sq. meter I am down to 50~40 sq. meter.

Since I missed to inform you about some events I write in advance about the BMW Old timer meeting from Vrsec/ Serbia and the old timer race from the same city. Date – 4, 5 September.

Motorcycle Cannonball September 10-26 September from North Carolina to Santa Monica/ USA - This fall, men and women from across the globe will gather in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina for a ride of epic proportions. The world’s first “Motorcycle Cannonball Run” will kick off its coast to coast journey on September 10th at the birthplace of aviation in North Carolina as over 70 participants gear up for a true test of man and machine(built before 1916) on their way to Santa Monica /USA

Loic and Aurel reach Tanzania, and one of my childhood’s dreams – Kilimanjaro, even if some of the pictures are fake, . Read more about here.

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Bike porn no. 14

By The Zor, 27 August, 2010, 1 Comment

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Interview with Basty from Basty`s Machines

By The Zor, 26 August, 2010, No Comment

Globalization just sucks. At this moment I know more about Deus-ex or Mule motorcycles, both at opposite ends of the world then I know about a guy who lives a few hundred km away from me. His name is Busty and makes some awesome custom motorcycles. Some of them even made it to the famous Rats Hole Custom Bike show at Daytona Bike Week. And this is my interview with him:

Dark Mill: Where did you find the motorcycle to start with? (The Ducati Café racer)

Basty: I didn’t find it… I choose it the 916 is a beautiful bike itself … designed by famous Italian designer Tamburini … but after a while I started to get my interest for 50′s 60 ‘ racers … so I thought it would be great to have a powerful modern Desmoquatro engine with 60′ racer look redesigned …

DM: Did you do some sketches with ideas or did the look of the bike come during work?

B: most of the look is inspired by the early Ducati racers…

DM: Where do you find inspiration for your work?

B: hmmmm

DM: On such projects like the Ducati Café racer do you work by a set dead-line or that would limit the creative potential?

B: I really hate deadlines, so at the bikes I build for my own first rule … no deadline

DM: By the way, do you have a name for the bike?

B: the 916 is called “bullet with butterfly wings ” because it is like a bullet … but still a modern racer that takes corners like only a butterfly can do it is also nice song from The Smashing Pumpkins

DM: What other bikes do you have in making?

B: Indian scout, H-d police special.

DM: With the Ducati Café Racer do you intend to participate in some bike shows? Which one?

B: Wherever I can have fun and meet nice people!

DM: When did you have your first contact with the passion for motorcycles?

B: At the age of 17 I made the first successful modification to a frame…

DM: What would be your top 5 motorcycles at this moment?

B: 1 Chicara Nagata Liquid chrome,

2 Chicara Nagata Liquid chrome bike 2,

3 Chabbott engineering 1974 Ducati 750cc flash,

4 Se service Sweden “Hulster”,

5 Bullet with butterfly wings :)

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Basty`s machines

By The Zor, 24 August, 2010, No Comment

Basty Bikes – a true custom workshop from choppers and bobbers to café racers. The Ducati Café Racer and a custom made power hammer was all it took to spend hours surfing Basty`s site and blog. The credit for finding it goes to my better half, H.

I discovered that he already had a little part of fame with the motorcycle called Rising hand built around a Dnepr 650 cc engine. It came 3^rd in show at 16^th Padua Bike expo show, prize which made his bike fly to the famous Rats Hole Custom Bike show at Daytona Bike Week. Interesting details on the motorcycle, especially the seat which looks like a corset. More pictures on Basty`s site, here.

Back to the Ducati Café Racer, I prepared an interview with Basty about this bike, due to be posted the following days.

This time all pictures are owned by Basty, so this time please ignore my Creative Commons License. He is the owner, so ask him before using them.

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Two stroke

By The Zor, 24 August, 2010, No Comment

This one I sniffed from Sideburn`s blog.

I am more then happy to hear that an other vintage company is investing in two stroke engines. I have to dig in the subject, but unfortunately my Italian is not that great.

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Weekend warrior tales

By The Zor, 24 August, 2010, No Comment

When you have a wedding in the week-end there is not a lot to be told about motorcycles. In all the fuss around the wedding I remembered this quote:

“Every man’s life ends the same way. It’s only the details of how he lived that distinguish one man from another.” – Ernest Hemingway

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Bike porn no. 13

By The Zor, 20 August, 2010, 1 Comment

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Go fast! Turn left! Exit the city!

By The Zor, 19 August, 2010, No Comment

EMX2 European Championship – Vantaa/FIN – 22.08

EMX Open European Championship – Nelidovo/RUS – 22.08

Supermoto European Cup – Vransko/AMZS – 22.08

Supermoto Romanian National Championship – Bucharest/RO – 22.08

Ausbike Bicycle Expo – Melbourne/AUS – 21.-23.08 – site

Baja European Championship – Veszprem/HUN – 27.-28.08

MotoGp Grnad Prix – Indianapolis/USA – 29.08

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Weekend warrior tales

By The Zor, 17 August, 2010, No Comment

This weekend could have been a real war over at Sziget Festival in Budapest, but luckily there was a change of plans and we ended up in Vienna. So instead of a rock mayhem in mud with bands like Iron Maiden,Muse, Kasabina (I realy like them…no, realy!) and more it was all about museums and chilling in Vienna.

So this:

Got replaced by this:

My view on modern arts got an update with the current exhibitions at MuMoK . The exhibition- Keith Haring 1978-1982 offers an impression of the artist`s manifold maturing process and shows Keith Haring as a philosopher and untiring initiator of political activities, performances and groups exhibitions, reflecting his collaborations with other artists.

Next stop – The Moderns, Revolutions in Art and Science 1890 – 1935, The exhibition deals with the period 1890 – 1935 with paintings, drawings, photographs from the MuMoK permanent collection, including works by among others Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Kupka, Mondrian. A new generation of artists who sought to combine the revolutionary advances in science and the ensuing new knowledge about the world with equally revolutionary perspectives in art.

Next day started with a perfect breakfast for an enduro ride.

But instead it was the Technisches Museum Wien, a perfectly laid out museum, with a simple and honest message about the impact of industry upon our planet, alternative energy and among others motorcycles.

Pick one

Potty trained Fiat.

The grandfather of the lathe mill.

The museum reminded me that there is nothing new under the sun. Does the following picture look familiar? Just think of the “new” trend of filming all kinds of action sports.

Trust me, the camera is there, in the back.

And now some other events:

Known in the F1 and road racing scene, Cosworth has decided to enter the MX market in the USA this year and are doing some development with the BikeIt.co.uk team.

Pipe budies from Bucharest had their first bicycle pipe ride because we all know that smoking is resistance training for the lungs. Picture was taken by Humidor.