truckd, you would love my local hardware store. It's one of the best ones in the country. They've been in the same location for 50 years, and when it's gone, there'll probably never be anything like it ever again. It makes homo depot seem like the hardware isle at Kroger.
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There is a hardware store in Tehachapi where my dad lives and it it so cool! the owner goes around the country buying mom & pop hardware stores going out of business so he has just about everything, he had a box of carbide lamps for bicycles (never out of the box) and had them for about 10 yrs before someone showed any interest in them and then they bought the whole box containing 20 pieces (complete Lamps), found out about this just a couple of days ago when I was up there, the day after he sold them all MAN! my breathing got real faint for a few seconds but the store is so cool.
here are some old pic's I thought I'd share first lot os of a lewis Motobike,Can't find any info on it only these ol pic's
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Here you go truckd...
http://motorbicycling.com/showthread.php?t=37290&highlight=australian
Or perhaps that's the same source you found?
-Kirk
http://motorbicycling.com/showthread.php?t=37290&highlight=australian
Or perhaps that's the same source you found?
-Kirk
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WOWZER!! I couldn't find anything on that bike and here it has been posted on yer thread fer a long time, thanks! fer waken me up.
I loved the photo archive! Especially the machining photos. The lathes shown are quite old! All predate 1900 as they have loose change gears. Not one had a quick change gear box. My home lathe was built in 1903 and is modern compared to the ones in the photos.
Yup! Thats me and Dad! Just had all my front teeth knocked out from a wicked deathwobble / highside the day before. Musta been doing 15 mph! HAHAHAhahahaa 
I've been doing some detailed work on the Magnito case, as the coil will pertrude out of the (R) side so Ive done some cut outs on the end caps but don't really like the first first one so I'll try it again now that I know what I'm doing and want.
So not having any more pic's from Velos child hood archives I'll share these.
So not having any more pic's from Velos child hood archives I'll share these.
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Interesting fact.
Col.Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) riding a Brough Superior.
Lawrence was killed on a Brough Superior trying to avoid hitting two boys as he rode down a country road.
Had a picture of him on the bike but can't seem to upload it?
Col.Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) riding a Brough Superior.
Lawrence was killed on a Brough Superior trying to avoid hitting two boys as he rode down a country road.
Had a picture of him on the bike but can't seem to upload it?
No Wiggie. Thats not Mom. I'll see if I can find a pic of her latter. Heres Lawerences ride.
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Those were the days when motorcycles looked like art. A combination of machine, and art. I was luck enough to own one of the very last ones. My 1974 Norton Commando.
Soom after that motorcycles became the same as cars. The motors are so ugly they had to cover them with plastic to hide the way they look. Harley was the company that kept style alive, but nowadays even that's debatable.
This is what my 1988 Sportster looks like now, but to get it to look this good took a lot of work.
IMHO the only company's even trying to make bikes that look as good as bikes of old are Harley, and Triumph, but even they fall short. At least with enough money you can still get back a little of the old look.
Soom after that motorcycles became the same as cars. The motors are so ugly they had to cover them with plastic to hide the way they look. Harley was the company that kept style alive, but nowadays even that's debatable.
This is what my 1988 Sportster looks like now, but to get it to look this good took a lot of work.
IMHO the only company's even trying to make bikes that look as good as bikes of old are Harley, and Triumph, but even they fall short. At least with enough money you can still get back a little of the old look.
That is a good look'n Sportster, I was in the Harley Shop the other day and there wasn't much that appealed to me except a couple of Sportsters, I always thought a Sportster with a set of springers was way cool!
All my friends have a lot of trouble understanding how I can love riding my motor bicycles more than my Sportster. Aside from the fact that one goes 130, and one only goes 35, I don't see much difference between the two. If fact my motor bicycles draw bigger crowds of gawkers.