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Surprisingly there doesn't seem to be many shots around of Japanese bikes. I'm guessing production took off post war?

 

Actually - the Japanese produced licensed copies of the Harley-Davidson "VL" sidevalve during the 1930's, under the brand name Rikuo, hence the Harley "clone" above.

The German two-strokes look like Adlers, going by the pressed-steel-formed girder forks.

 

Don Geffen with his Hurricane and Enfield.
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RACE!!!!

 

I take it you have see the R1 race a Porsche and a Jet fighter down a runway ?

YouTube - PORSCHE vs YAMAHA R1 vs F16 -- The Original

Place your bets please

 

Don't know what it is, but this is certainly not a Royal Enfield...

Jan

 

It was taken in India... (Maybe he was confused as to when production started out there)

 

I'm pretty sure that it's one of those early 1930s Triumph economy lightweights. A real 'depression special'

There's one here captioned as 1927 but I'm sure it's later than that. 1931/2 or so.

VintageBike.co.uk - Picture of 1927 Triumph Model W

 

I take it you have see the R1 race a Porsche and a Jet fighter down a runway ?

YouTube - PORSCHE vs YAMAHA R1 vs F16 -- The Original

Place your bets please



Bollocks

first of all its not an F16, its a Jaguar.

I dont think its an R1 either.

Dont know what porshe it is buit the R1's Ive ridden i doubt they have any problem at all going 160 mph plus, so i reckon hes got it in 3rd or porsche is 200 MPH+ .

whats the Russian flag got to do with it?

Kev

 

Steady on old chap.....

I didn't make it but I've heard it was filmed in Russia. Not sure the aircraft is a Jag but not really looked at it if I'm honest. If it was I thought it would jump out at me. As for the car...Don't know, I know even less about cars than I do bikes which is zero.

The R1 is a old model (It's only got a single can) but out of the shop and on the road they will stretch to 180ish mph without being tweeked but it has got a race can fitted.

In short...I just enjoy watching the bike accelerate down the runway



Just checked looks more like Soko Oraos J-22 to me </P>

 

I'm pretty sure that it's one of those early 1930s Triumph economy lightweights. A real 'depression special'

There's one here captioned as 1927 but I'm sure it's later than that. 1931/2 or so.

VintageBike.co.uk - Picture of 1927 Triumph Model W


Are you sure, decrotive ,pipe, chrome tank?? Llove the fishtail pipe, its lovely, is it a side valve or a 2 stroke Rich?

Kev

 

I'm not really a Triumph man but the model as introduced in 1927 was a 'flat-tanker'. I'm guessing really based on the saddle tank on this one. It was a 250ish cc side valve with a very low kerb weight designed to fit into some odd taxation class at the time.

 

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Awwww cute! An Indian Four. Looks like Hawaii or the West Coast.

 

Made me pick upa book this one. What was a rating doing on such a flash bike. Thought it was a very nice bike for a rating, (Indian 4's where very expensive, a gentlemans ride, compared to the cruder twins). But according to the book the white square rig uniform was for officers, so I guess this man could aford his very un warlike nice ride.


Hey got it. 2 stripes. Petty officer!

Kev

 

Kev, you've made me look at this again, in more detail. What immediately shouts out is his FEET...he's not exactly wearing issue footwear LMAO

Drew - is there a date associated with this pic??? It would remind me more of Dad putting on his service uniform for a few minutes for that first postwar "Welcome Home" pic...on his garaged-for-the-duration ride.

 

Kev, you've made me look at this again, in more detail. What immediately shouts out is his FEET...he's not exactly wearing issue footwear LMAO

Drew - is there a date associated with this pic??? It would remind me more of Dad putting on his service uniform for a few minutes for that first postwar "Welcome Home" pic...on his garaged-for-the-duration ride.



yep, and the pannier is on the pipe.

 

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Well, the top one is a folding British para's "Welbike" - and looking suspiciously clean and pretty LOL Looks faintly like a factory "touched up" photograph - factory colours and transfers (no olive drab to be seen) and no numberplate - some of the highlights and shadows look a little artifical, especially around the silencer and front mudguard, for example. Artist's brushwork to create extra highlights/lowlights and emphasis lines was very common from ALL the factories right up until real photographs replaced "styled" static shots in the late 1960's, typically where simple black-and-white photography wouldn't emphasise chrome or high-gloss paint properly.

The SECOND shot is...a load of scrap iron being delivered to a foundry in the Ruhr LMAO "Mom, it wasn't bad enough that they dropped me into Occupied France in a goddamn aeroplane with no engines....THEN they made me ride a motorcycle with no brakes!"

P.S. I think it's a D-Day pic, possibly training or just after the initial drops - for the guy nearest the camera on the right is wearing a life preserver

 

Well, the top one is a folding British para's "Welbike" - and looking suspiciously clean and pretty LOL Looks faintly like a factory "touched up" photograph - factory colours and transfers (no olive drab to be seen) and no numberplate - some of the highlights and shadows look a little artifical, especially around the silencer and front mudguard, for example. Artist's brushwork to create extra highlights/lowlights and emphasis lines was very common from ALL the factories right up until real photographs replaced "styled" static shots in the late 1960's, typically where simple black-and-white photography wouldn't emphasise chrome or high-gloss paint properly.

The SECOND shot is...a load of scrap iron being delivered to a foundry in the Ruhr LMAO "Mom, it wasn't bad enough that they dropped me into Occupied France in a goddamn aeroplane with no engines....THEN they made me ride a motorcycle with no brakes!"

P.S. I think it's a D-Day pic, possibly training or just after the initial drops - for the guy nearest the camera on the right is wearing a life preserver


Yea, well spotted PR its a civvy that one, nice lining on the battery/toolbox.

Kev