Monday, December 1, 2008

Vintage motorbikes by Ridley

Here's a cool vintage bike for the garage or golf course — the Ridley Vintage Motorbike. Ridley is the company that makes automatic transmission street cruisers. Yeah, I know... I don't understand that either but whatever floats your boat is alright with me.

Anyway, I think these are pretty cool little bikes. They're expensive, though. The frame kit costs $1,440. The engine is another $560, for a whopping total of $2,000 for a 70cc bicycle. Well, I guess it's not that much. Decent mountain bikes cost $2,000 these days. And they don't have motors...

The Ridleys aren't quite as cool as these board track racer mopeds with the Whizzer engines, but still a pretty cool thing to have around the house.

Friday, October 31, 2008

Old school pitbike races - SL70 and XR75

Recently my old school friend Ronnie Welch sent me a bunch of pictures from TVRC's annual "King of the Ant Hill" race in Texas. If you were under the misguided belief that pitbike races were some new phenomenon, well, let me assure you that the only thing truly new in dirt biking is the backflip.

There were plenty of cool XR75s, including some single-shock models using aftermarket swingarms. But Ronnie was representin' for all the Po' Boys who had to ride 'em like they came from the factory. His beater SL70 was sporting nothing more than a Green Weenie filter and a DG-style megaphone.

Wish I had been there. I have two SL70 project bikes sitting around the house here somewhere if I can ever get back to them...

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Vintage tall tales from dirt bike legend Super Hunky

Would you like to see more classic dirt bike stories like this? Let's see if we can build a little momentum to get Rick "Super Hunky" Sieman to make his own "MX Files" video. Please click the [More...] link and post your comment in support.

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Saturday, August 23, 2008

Terrific vintage racing video from 2008 Nostalgia Scramble

Here's some top-notch racing action from the 2008 Nostalgia Scramble at Kendal, Cumbria, England last weekend. The rider in yellow is 67-year-old Terry Challinor. Found via RacerX and artist Rob Kinsey.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Tribute to motorcyle pioneer Don Jones

Motorcycle pioneer Don Jones passed away this past week. Terry Good, of MXWorksBikes.com, has posted this very nice Don Jones tribute page with a variety of personal photos that Don sent him several years ago.