Retrograde Mechanica

Monday, 19 August 2013

Brackley Festival of Motorcycling 2

Brackley Festival of Motorcycling 3

Stolen Bike

Some utter **** has stolen a bike - Reposted from Benny's blog.

Some scumbag has just stolen my mates ironhead chopper, It was taken some time today from Port Dundas in Glasgow, Scotland, it's a 79 sporty with a weld on hardtail, repop springers, please can you repost this where ever you are, even if you are not in the U.K people here still read your blogs, if you get offered this bike or any part of it please contact me on 07913325297. We want it back

Sunday, 18 August 2013

Says it All

Desert Sleds

More Inspiration......Living the dream!

Tom's Yam

Looking awesome - love this bike....just the seat to go, can't believe how cheap you've made it dude - so cool!

Thursday, 15 August 2013

Pre Unit Desert Sleds

little bit more inspiration for my T110 project.......

Tuesday, 13 August 2013

Triumph 7" flanged hub and tls brake plate wanted!

Any one got one? give me a shout at retrogrademechanica@gmail.com

Excuse the bad photo...but one of these....

Sunday, 11 August 2013

T110 upgrade

Fully re-conditioned Bonnie splayed head....thanks Terry - I know you didn't want to sell it!

Which means the original T110 alloy head now for sale....interested? send me a mail.

Family

Wicked a'int they...my brother and my godson....and their damn nice 69 camper

Tho gotta say bruv what you doing to my nephew.......

Nice.....

And some inspiration for the '58 T110 project.......

Jacks Hill Sunday

Grand ride out on the Bonnie with a few mates - the Bonnie gearbox is lovely post rebuild (Worth all the swearing).

Nice tackle down at Jacks Hill today...including that awesome Norton/JAP and the Indian i'd love to have ridden home on.......Want!

"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"