Retrograde Mechanica: July 2012

Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Art.....

Well it is to me, the Nickel triumph engine is still out of the bike.....and not yet completely fixed, will be very soon however - I forgot how pretty it is - great lounge ornament tho!

Sunday, 29 July 2012

Wet Sunday Ridin'.....

Went for a blast over to Chris 'BSA' Hodge's today on the Bonnie Chop and took a ride out for lunch....oh yeah and watched the ole boy fool around on Ollie's Go Kart!
Good Day....got a little wet!

Monday, 23 July 2012

Took an easier approach on sunday and left the old Triumph's at home and took out the Honda.
Met up a few mates at Twinwood (Glen Miller Museum), then took off for a blast before swapping over to the Triumph to hit Sooty's custom show (see last post)

Twinwood rocks - proper step back in time, and to boot I even enjoyed riding a 'sensible' bike for once!

Sunday, 22 July 2012

Sooty's

Shame I got there so late as by the time I arrived there was not much that floated my boat, but a few that were cool enough for a shot!

Seen some other pics about the web from the event and I definitely missed the best bikes..

Twinwood (Glen Miller museum) earlier in the day was however awesome, posts to follow

Saturday, 21 July 2012

Beetle

Johns old Bug, always liked this car

Thursday, 19 July 2012

John......

....... some would ask why I'm friends with this man - I'd say the evidence speaks for itself!

Ton Up Day - Last Post

Last few pics from Jacks Hill last sunday....and I'm still laughing at Dave's 'off'......

"Not everyone understands what a completely rational process this is, this maintenance of a motorcycle. They think it's some kind of a "knack" or some kind of "affinity for machines" in operation. They are right, but the knack is almost purely a process of reason, and most of the troubles are caused by what old time radio men called a "short between the earphones," failures to use the head properly. A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself"

"That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. There's no part in it, no shape in it, that is not out of someone's mind — number three tappet is right on too. One more to go. This had better be it — .I've noticed that people who have never worked with steel have trouble seeing this...that the motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon. They associate metal with given shapes...pipes, rods, girders, tools, parts...all of them fixed and inviolable, and think of it as primarily physical. But a person who does machining or foundry work or forge work or welding sees "steel" as having no shape at all. Steel can be any shape you want if you are skilled enough, and any shape but the one you want if you are not. Shapes, like this tappet, are what you arrive at, what you give to the steel. Steel has no more shape than this old pile of dirt on the engine here. These shapes are all out of someone's mind. That's important to see. The steel? Hell, even the steel is out of someone's mind. There's no steel in nature. Anyone from the Bronze Age could have told you that. All nature has is a potential for steel. There's nothing else there. But what's "potential"? That's also in someone's mind! — Ghosts"