Every year, Yosi Kosaka, owner of the Garage Company, puts on a serious dog at the Willow Springs Raceway in Rosamond California. This event brings vintage racers from all over the country to run like fiends at the famous Willow Springs Raceway. Although this is a two day event, Saturday is the big day and it is always good to see Glen Bator bring out a bevy of vintage bikes from his collection. There is a small swap meet out back and plenty of racing action up front. The best thing about this event is that you can walk right into the pits and stand right next to all of the race bikes and ask enty of questions of the racers and crew. This is an American Historic Racing Motorcycle Association meet and the big boys of vintage racing show up to match up their chops.
After just a little bit of use, valves start to look pretty bad. They get black and burnt looking easily, they get sooty and brown. So you buy a used cylinder head and it still has the valves in it. You have no idea how much mileage is on the head. You pull out the valves and springs and you look at the parts including the seats. It may all look pretty alien.
This event coverage blog might not be the timeliest one I have done, but it certainly will have the most bikes. I was lucky enough to go to the Mooneyes Custom Car and Motorcycle Show in Yokahama, Japan back in December. What an incredible rush! This show is, for the lucky foreign participant, a two day extravaganza of motorcycle LUST. Bar none, it is the best motorcycle show I have ever attended.
Some great motion with sound… You’ll find part 1 above and the remaining three parts after the jump. Together, it’s over 30 minutes of great vintage video. Enjoy! Read the rest of this entry »
When your email handle is Flatheadjedd, I guess you have to have a flathead motorcycle. Well that is not a problem for Jedd Levin, Co-Founder of the Wingnuts Motorcycle Club, because he has the coolest bobbed Flathead you will ever see. Lots of magazines and people in general throw around the term “bobber” without really knowing what that means. Well, if you want to hold up one bike as being what a “real” bobber was back in the forties and fifties, you can use this one. This bike represents what a lot of guys were doing with their bikes back then.
Well we had a super fun Sunday morning. My good friend Jedd Levin, owner of the flathead soon to be pictured in this blog, and I, along with Chopper Dave, started the Wingnuts Motorcycle Club as an hommage to the old boys and racers of the 1940s and 1950s. If you have not already done so, check out the blog. Jedd maintains most of it and is chiefly responsible for the array of great photos.
