Showing posts with label jurby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jurby. Show all posts

Sunday, 26 August 2012

ManxGP 2012 - Day 9 - Jurby and the Beach


With the bikes prepped, there wasnt much to do in the garage. The weather was good, so I headed out to Jurby for the Jurby Festival to see what I could see. It was pretty much the same as the last two years... loads and loads of all sorts of bikes with celebrity riders thrashing some of them around the airfield circuit.

The bike parking just kept filling up... they were still arriving on any bike you could think of when I left

Nick Jeffries heading ouout for a blast around the Jurby circuit

I found the rider of the George Shuttleworth Speed Demon - playing the banjo and having a sing-song...

...afterwhich, he hopped on and did a few laps

After an hour of so I headed to a deserted beach on the north-west coast, had a walk about then went to the Laxey seafront. just lounged around and on my way out I bumped into Steve Mann and his wife Mandy. Steve helped me with the fabrication/machining for the SV front-end. It was good having a chat in the sunshine.

Ducati's GP13

There were some nice Doocardis there...
 
Not bad for a camera maker from Bologna

Made in Italy 

Then off for a run, a pubbie and now this. The forecast for tomorrow looks dire. I hope it's wrong and I can get my first dry lap in on the SV after the races.


Laxey seafront

Monday, 30 January 2012

Jurby Festival 1


A few pics of some interesting machines at the Jurby Classic Festival held during last year's ManxGP...



Indian!

Love these old hand-shifts...

A couple of brutish Italian customs with S&S lumps in them turned up. Far too much polished aluminium bling for me... but some real tasty billet bits and interesting ideas.



Love the shock mounting and beam forks on this old beaut

Indian race transport. In the back is...

... an Indian of course!

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

David Knight in training

Found this little vid of David Knight doing a bit of extreme enduro training with the locals at a training track a few miles from his house on the IOM:



The obstacles are nothing to him... perfect balance and control.

Thursday, 30 December 2010

ManxGP 2010 - Manx Classic Festival at Jurby

I found this post that I had saved but never published. It's from the Manx GP in late August:

On Sunday there was a Classic bike festival at Jurby airfield... we went a long and found a huge turnout. There were kazillions of bikes from all over the world... here are just some of them...



Flattrack On!


 Old skool cafe-racer


Got to be wearing a shell-suit to ride this one! 


Love the flat vintage exhausts 

A beautiful Ducati cafe-racer - any ideas as to what it is? 



Tonkin?

Motorradwerk Zschopau


 This group of bikes were all the way from Austria

 Fantastic sculpted rear fender... brilliant seat coming out of the tank... I love it!

 It's a long ride from Austria with that hard-tail... frame rigidity? MotoGP boys can learn something from this!

Not a bike... but has an engine and looks cool... like the tractor in Thomas the Tank Engine books

More Italian exotica coming up...