Retrograde Mechanica

Tuesday, 5 June 2012

Sideburn!!!

Was a great day, apologies for the lack of racing shots, but the internet is littered with them.......they're out there!
And shaun, seriously give us a smile.....just the once!

Friday, 1 June 2012

The Project we wish we'd finished - Marc Woodwards awesome SR500

Our Friend - Marc Woodward's Awesome SR500, we started this project before needing the cash for the Nickel Triumph, got as far as the frame mods, pipe, seat and tank.....Marc took it off our hands and turned it into the sleak, gorgeous cafe racer you see here.

Stunning level of finish, front end transplant, all the right bits.....all I can say is WOW!

Excellent work dude, look forward to catching up again!

Pics up in the gallery soon!

Jacks Hill

Great Day for a ride out and meet with Shaun (3t), Terry (red Pre-unit Bonnie), Chris (A10) and a few others. Fat Tyre'd Bonnie chop ran like a raped ape all day long - perfect!

Friday, 17 February 2012

Random workshop pics

Pretty much got the T140 buttoned up now - minus a few details so thought it's time to sort the T100c's engine out once and for all - then I ran out of hands so it's still sat in the frame........damn and blast!

Tuesday, 31 January 2012

Christmas presents from Margo - Cheers Love!

T140s coming along nicely

Just the pipes to go.....

I sold 3 of my Bikes last year - regret every one!

Sold three of my bikes last year - I miss them all!

T140 chop tank

Thanks Nicolai - excellent Job!

Check out the Ornamental Conifer Website here!

Sarah's Seats

Sarah covered the seats for the T140 chop - lovely job!

RM workshop coming along

No more playing with bikes in the lounge then......

Pre Unit Project

"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"