KTM Superlight

A real nice little KTM streettracker/caf racer on the Café Racer Culture blog...

BSA Streettracker - For Sale

Will be sad to see her go... but got my old, super-cool BSA A65 Thunderbolt Streettracker up for sale.

Spread the word... she's a good 'un and needs a good home.

This Classic TT Ducati build is bleeding me dry!

Harley Cafe Racer by Deus Ex Machina

Called the American 1200... I like the flattracker/café racer mash-up.

 

Words by Deus here

SR 400 FarmRacer

A neat little machine from Cafe Racer Culture

Indy Dealer Expo 2

...more from Indy...


A sweet lookin Roland Sands Victory streettracker styled custom



Roland Sands' desmosedici engined streettracker...


 

... a whole lot of work went into this one!



Uber-cool Metzeler tricycle for nipping down the shops on

 

'Scratch' doing some cool striping



Championship winning Zanotti Harley-Davidson XR


Also saw Brad Baker, Jake Johnson and a few other flattrack racers... and Roland Sands. Got to meet Chris Carr and have a chat about flattrackin in the UK too... a good day out in Indy!

Awesome Images

... from Raffaele Paolucci on his Streettracker blog

Miss Hyde

Check out this bad-boy KTM 950...

From El Solitario M.C.

Streettracker

More fantastic flattrack photography from Raffaele Paolucci on his Streettracker blog...

Keep making those beautiful images Raffaele!

Flattrack Not On!

Today is the last round of the ShorttrackUK championship at Scunthorpe. We've had awful weather the last week... hasn't stopped raining the last few days.

Prepped the Flattracker yesterday, packed and left this morning in the rain. Got 10 miles up the road and decided to turn back. I'll gladly go short-circuit road racing in the rain - my best results have been in the rain. I'll gladly do enduros in the rain. But flattracking? Nah. I didn't have fun at Amman Valley when it was soggy.

Couldn't be arsed to drive 3 hours to a muddy paddock to slip and slide around a dirttrack. Besides... got quite a bit of work to finish off. The thought of being in my warm, dry house finishing some pressing work sounded a much better proposition. I do this flattrackin' malarkey for fun and if I ain't having fun, there's no point is there?

Anyways... here's a cool Husqvarna streettracker from Krook Street Racing:

Thanks Sideblog for the link. This is what I want the KTM to look like by the springtime. Got a lot of work to do!

Cool BSA StreetTracker

A cool BSA Goldie StreetTracker (Dick Mann tribute?) from  K&S BSA in Somerset... I must break out my BSA Thunderbolt StreetTracker this summer and do a photo shoot.

Thanks Sideburn

Sunday - A Day in the Garage

Minging, drizzly weather yesterday. Spent it in the garage prepping the BAMF and Nic fixing the BSA.

(Brit iron and weather - oil and water)

Turns out the crap handling over the Mountain on Saturday evening was caused by a puncture. I must have picked up some debris from Ryan Farquar's crash at Guthries. It must have been sharp metal - it was picked up, pierced the tyre then flew around under the rear hugger and smashed a hole through the carbon-fibre. War wounds.

(War wounds from the Isle of Man)

Also stripped, checked and cleaned the throttle and linkages on the throttle-bodies. Couldn't find anything to explain the strange behaviour at Bedstead Corner on Saturday. This doesn't give me piece of mind... mabe the wheel was just spinning up in the punctured tyre? Dunno. All looks and feels fine.

(The broken BSA or foul weather didn't dampen spirits)

Nic spent the day up to his elbows in oil and grease fixing the BSA Streettracker. A piece of the steel chain-guard got ripped into the sprocket and went around a few times! It sliced through a wire from the magneto - that bike is an absolute pain in the arse to work on... but he eventually got it sorted.

(The BAMF gets finally gets some graphics)