Motorcycle Police Classic "HONDA CB750 POLICE"

Just when you idea you’d seen each feasible model of Honda’s iconic CB750, right here’s any other: the outstanding-uncommon CB750P/K0 Police version. The extremely good motorcycle proven here's a 1970 example owned through a collector in Japan, and it’s a sensitive antidote to the overblown style of its Harley-Davidson and Moto Guzzi contemporaries. 

The mixed headlight/speedometer is derived from a layout created for the CB77-based Superhawk ‘complete get dressed’ Police motorcycles, and a blue light is built into the box geared up in the back of the stubby solo seat. The siren (bottom image) is a cable-pushed mechanical object, brought about through a 2d lever underneath the grab lever; a friction drum is forced against the rotating rear tire to set off the siren. There are crash bars on the the front and rear, however they’re so discreetly incorporated into the layout you slightly notice them. I’d take this sort of over a checker-striped CB750 custom any day. [Via Bike Bros.]

Unique OF King Rider 1941 HARLEY KNUCKLEHEAD

Jesse James receives a whole lot of flak nowadays. It never seems to be about the motorcycles any greater, which is a disgrace, due to the fact the person knows his stuff. His customs aren’t usually to my taste, however he now and again hits a domestic run. Like this Knuckle he created for Gilby Clarke (who spent 3 years because the rhythm guitarist of guns N’ Roses). Gilby had been seeking out a Knucklehead for a while, and West Coast Choppers had already constructed a ’65 Panhead motor for him. A new deal turned into finished, and now Gilby rides this scrumptious ’forty one Harley EL—nevertheless antique in the average appearance, however WCC within the finer info. At the the front there’s a 21” rim, and at the lower back a sixteen”. WCC constructed the body and springer fork to authentic specs, but the engine has been closely modified: it’s boosted to seventy one cubes, mounted to a WCC exhaust gadget, and managed via a custom-made jockey shift. Pretty candy, don’t you think?

DUCATI 750 GT Show Im 1972

I’ve continually concept the early 70s Ducati 750 GT become a looker. That silver body, the flat seat, the hint of metalflake inside the paint and the upswept exhausts: it’s the archetype of the conventional unfashionable style so famous these days. The ‘spherical case’ GT turned into designed by Fabio Taglioni, and turned into additionally the first Ducati to characteristic the now-acquainted L-twin motor. The photos here display a 1972 model; after being restored, it spent ten years in a shed, unridden. A few days in the past it was wheeled out, the dust was dismissed, and it turned into taken to the Toulouse studio of French motorbike photographers Guerry and Prat. As you might count on, they’ve performed a superlative activity. Enjoy.

DUCATI 750 GT Show Im 1972

DUCATI 750 GT Show Im 1972

DUCATI 750 GT Show Im 1972

Classic In 1911 CURTISS MARVEL

In case you understand the name Glenn Curtiss, you’ll probable keep in mind him for his aviation exploits earlier than global struggle I. Flying his own planes, he trounced hooked up names inclusive of the Wright brothers in competitions. And no matter being American, he turned into awarded the #2 reputable French pilot’s license—after Louis Bleriot, who flew the English Channel in 1909. However Curtiss’ first hobby become bikes as opposed to airplanes. He now not handiest set the bike land velocity record, but additionally beat the amazing Indian bike agency in endurance races.

only a few Curtiss motorcycles have survived the passage of time, but this lovingly restored 1911 surprise unmarried 500 is one in all them, and it’s going under the hammer on Thursday on the Bonhams sale in Las Vegas. In line with the catalog:

“the new marvel was quite resourceful and bristled with innovation. At a time whilst maximum producers used atmospheric intake valves, the brand new wonder engine featured a jug cylinder with overhead valves and a completely unique actuation layout that used a single pushrod to open each the intake and the exhaust valve robotically. The 500cc engine advanced four to 5 horsepower, substantially advanced to something else available on the market at that time, and became one of the earliest overhead valve applications. Curtiss may additionally have also had targets to race this engine, because the pinnacle of the cylinder has a spare boss supposed to add a 2nd spark plug within the head. An open magnet Bosch magneto supplied dependable ignition to run the engine and a pitcher bowl Heitger carburetor managed the gas supply.

“The chassis turned into as unusual because the motor. In place of surely clamping the fuel tank and oil tank on a traditional frame, those components had been brazed into the body, which used forged bulkheads. The engine served as a strain member of the frame. A strong fork of Curtiss’ own design dealt with the poundings obtained on the street.”

The sale estimate is $50,000-70,000. Head over to the Bonhams internet site to test out the 200 other uncommon bikes going below the hammer, which include an 1894 Hildebrand & Wolfmüller.

The 358 antique road Racer "358 VINTAGE ROAD RACER"

This is one of the maximum uncommon creations we’ve visible for some time. It was constructed by means of Paul Brodie of Washington kingdom, a talented engineer with a penchant for classic bikes. Brodie changed into reverse-engineering an Excelsior boardtrack engine the use of present day materials, and wished a take a look at mule for his embryonic motor.

The 358 antique road Racer "358 VINTAGE ROAD RACER"

So he constructed this ‘358 vintage street Racer’ using an pretty various variety of parts from Aermacchi, Moto Guzzi, Honda, Kawasaki, Aprilia, fuel gas and Jawa. The engine is a current activity of the layout utilized in a 1919 OHC Excelsior boardtracker: It’s 1000cc, and the dyno statistics 70.9 rear wheel horsepower at 6000 rpm. (In a motorcycle weighing simply 300lbs dry (136kg), which means quite severe performance.) Bolted to this engine is a Triumph 5-pace transmission, controlled by way of a Jawa speedway take hold of. The carburetor is a traditional 40mm Amal, however ignition is cutting-edge digital. Brodie files his tasks in detail, with clean pictures of all stages, so his website is worthwhile stuff for motorbike developers.

The 358 antique road Racer "358 VINTAGE ROAD RACER"

The 358 antique road Racer section is 13 pages in all, covering nearly two years of fabrication and building. And for the reason that engine changed into first fired up in might also last yr, Brodie has put in an extra 500 hours refining it.

The 358 antique road Racer "358 VINTAGE ROAD RACER"

It’s an old style exertions of love blending vintage and new generation—and i don’t realize approximately you, but I reckon the sector is a higher location for this sort of factor. [Head over to the Flashback Fabrications website for this and other Excelsior projects, plus restorations ranging from an 1895 Roper Steam Bike to a 1972 Aermacchi Ala d’Oro.]