Retrograde Mechanica

Sunday, 2 June 2013

Sunday, Sunday, here again in tidy attire

Headed down the cafe, then for a long ride out round the lanes and on to Thornby. Found a lovely Brough and my favourite bike of all time the TT special....then home for beer in the garden with friends and neighbours and some impromptu VW mechanics.

NSRA Great Billing

Great Day! Great Cars and some Great Pinstriping thanks to Seaside Neil!

Thursday, 30 May 2013

Razoredge on the bay

This thing is killing it - get your slice of cool here

Wednesday, 29 May 2013

Kingdom of Kicks Triumph

I'm really loving what James from the Kingdom of Kicks is doing with his triumph, love the Stance, the tank artwork, upcoming sissy bar, lights the lot - Think it's time I built another / changed up the bonnie!

Check out their site!

Hope you don't mind me stealing the pics dude!

Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Bonnie

Love this bike...more than my others

Monday, 27 May 2013

Honda....

Thinking of trying to get this Cb160 tank to fit, then running a bit of recessed Tuck 'n' Roll into the tank to blend in with a little cafe seat...we'll see.

Sywell Airfield

Took a quick ride out with Terry to see what was going on....not a lot but found a nice old Rover and had a pint so not all bad!

Catch of the Day

Well done Brother

"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"