Buco Jackets

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Via Come Chantrel





Buco brand designs of the defunct Joseph Buegeleisen Company of Detroit.
The Joseph Buegeleisen Co. started business in 1933 providing motorcycle accessories & saddlebags, and began producing motorcycle jackets in the 1940’s.



the Joseph Buegeleisen Company, commonly known as "Buco." The Buco J24 design was referred to by Rin Tanaka, author of Motorcycle Jackets: A Century of Leather Design, as "the coolest motorcycle jacket ever."




Take time to visit those cool website : http://www.lostworldsinc.com/ and http://www.vintagemotorcyclejackets.com/

More Free Battistinis Custom Chopper Wallpapers

Just put three more great Battistinis Custom Cycles wallpapers up on www.inter-bike.co.uk for you all to download. They are available on the Battistinis Wallpapers page.
Below are images of the next 3 stunning wallpapers available.





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Jon Booth
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One picture One bike : SWM

SWM was founded in 1971 by Piero Sironi and Fausto Vergani and was based in Milan, Italy. SWM manufactured Observed Trials, Enduro, Motorcross and off-road motorcycles in the 1970s and 1980s. They started with small capacity Sachs engined enduro bikes and began making Rotax engined trials bikes in 1977.

Spitfire & Norton : 2 British legends

By Come Chantrel


Copyright by : clavework graphycs

My father went through flight training in the RAF during the late 1940s and ended up in the cockpit of the Spitfire MK XIV. Back in those days, fighter aircrafts really meant something. A few years before the same airplane had defeated Hitler in the skies of England. The Spit was a legend and the MK XIV was its sharpest version.

Meanwhile all my dad kept talking about was not the fun he had flying the Spitfire but the fun he had riding his Triumph and Norton motorcycles on the British Roads. As an aviation buff who’s never owned a bike, that makes little sense to me although I understand the comparison.





By the time I was born, the only thing that was left from his time in the RAF, was one of his log book. The picture is not him but it could have been as he flew the same airplane and wore the same outfit. I dreamed of wearing his long lost Irving jacket and his flight boots when I was a kid. I remember that he used to call his flight uniform, a "battle dress" in typical British pilot form and that his description of flying the "Spit" included variable pitch propeller, stick and rudder synchronization and trimming the controls, all concepts that I had a lot of troubles both to understand and to include when I played with my model airplanes...




The Rolls Royce Merlin engine of the previous version was replaced by a Griffon engine. Although the Griffon engined Spitfires were never produced in the large numbers of the Merlin engined variants they were an important part of the Spitfire family and, in their later versions, kept the Spifire at the forefront of piston-engined fighter development.



The first one of these was flown by Jeffrey Quill on 20 January 1943: Changes to the aircraft were restricted to those essential to enable it to accept the new engine...I found that it had a spectacular performance doing 445 mph at 25,000 ft, with a sea-level rate of climb of over 5,000 ft per minute. I remember being greatly delighted with it; it seemed to me that from this relatively simple conversion, carried out with a minimum of fuss and bother, had come up with something quite outstanding...
It was truly an impressive machine, being able to climb almost vertically - it gave many Luftwaffe pilots the shock of their lives when, having thought they had bounced you from a superior height, they were astonished to find the Mk XIV climbing up to tackle them head-on, throttle wide open!

Walt Axthelm an Off-road Rider

. Via the AMA Motorcycle hall of fame museum


Walt Axthelm was an influential off-road rider of the 1950s and ‘60s. He was one of the first Americans to compete in the prestigious International Six Day Trials (now called the International Six Day Enduro). Axthelm won numerous off-road events in Southern California during his racing career, including a class in the popular Catalina Grand Prix. He rode with backing from several factories during his career and was one of the first riders in the America to race factory-backed Suzukis in off-road races.



Axthelm was born in Upland, Pennsylvania, in 1933. His family moved to Southern California when he was 14 years old and shortly afterwards Walt got a junior motor license and his first motorbike, a Schwinn-bicycle-framed Whizzer. He later got a more advanced Whizzer with springer suspension, a two-speed gearbox with chain drive. He raced against his buddies who had Cushman, Powell and other brands of scooters. He lived in Compton and in the afternoons he would go down to the Los Angeles riverbed and practice riding until dark. By the time Walt was 17 he began racing his first true motorcycle, a rigid-framed Royal Enfield, which had no rear suspension and all of two inches of front fork travel.



He began racing in Scrambles events on an AJS in Palos Verdes. Gradually, he worked his way up to become one of the leading off-road racers in Southern California. His first sponsored ride came in 1954 when he was backed by Louie Thomas’ BSA shop in East Los Angeles.



Axthelm was sponsored indirectly by BSA, through Thomas’ shop. "Hap Alzina (BSA’s western states distributor) was supplying the bikes to Louie and they built them there," Walt explained. "Off-road riding didn’t pay anything back then so I never got any money from BSA. No one was making money from that type of racing back then."



By 1980, Axthelm was in his late 40s and he decided to retire after getting hit by a big rock thrown up by a racing pick-up truck in one of the long-distance desert races.

"I decided that it wasn’t fun anymore," he said. "I had a small sailboat at Dana Point and just packed it up and went sailing and that was it."

Free Battistinis Custom Chopper Wallpapers

I'm delighted to announce that thanks to the team at Battistinis Custom Cycles we have series of nine stunning desktop wallpapers of some of their fantastic choppers in a variety of screen resolutions. The first three have gone up on the www.inter-bike.co.uk site today and can be downloaded via the Battistinis Wallpapers page on the site.

Below are images of the 3 stunning wallpapers currently available:-




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Jon Booth
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Harley-Davidson announce 2010 model lineup

Over the weekend Harley-Davidson released details of their 2010 model line up which includes 9 new models.
The highlights are:-

The Electra Glide® Ultra Limited model delivers the performance upgrade of a Twin Cam 103™ engine, and features standard equipment items previously offered only as accessories on regular-production Harley-Davidson Touring models.

- The new Road Glide® Custom model looks lean and mean, with a slammed suspension, 18-inch front wheel and a new 2-into-1 exhaust system.

- The Wide Glide® returns as an all-new Dyna® model done in old-school chopper style, with black laced wheels, a chopped rear fender, black “wire” sissy bar, 2-1-2 Tommy Gun exhaust and an optional flame paint scheme.

- The new Street Glide® Trike brings stripped-down, hot-rod styling to the three-wheel category, and joins the Tri Glide™ Ultra Classic® in an all new Trike family for 2010.

- The new Fat Boy® Lo presents a darker and lower interpretation of the motorcycle that still defines the fat-custom segment.

- Updates to the 2010 Street Glide® model include a larger front wheel, slimmed-down exhaust, and a new tail light assembly.

- Harley-Davidson Custom Vehicle Operations™ (CVO™) will offer four new limited-production models for 2010: the CVO Softail® Convertible, CVO Street Glide, CVO Ultra Classic® Electra Glide® and CVO Fat Bob®.

As always we've some pic's of a few of the models:-

The Dyna Wide Glide.


The Softail Fat Boy Lo




The Touring Electra Glide Ultra Limited Edition




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Jon Booth
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Ace Jacket : The G-1

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The G-1 Flight Jacket was issued to the US Navy, Marines and Coast Guard, and has been in service since the late 1930's. The original G-1 design features bi-swing back and underarm gussets for greater mobility, and single entry button down flap pockets.



Made famous by the AVG in China and Hellcat pilots over the Pacific during WWII! The G-1 is the USN and USMC leather flight jacket, worn with pride by the Phantom crews during Vietnam and the current Tomcat and Hornet pilots. The G-1 is also worn by members of the US Coast Guard.



More technically, the jacket may be considered the U.S. Military flight jacket developed in 1947 and used in the Korean War since the term "G-1" was not used as a label for this fur-collared military-issued jacket until after World War II. However, the term "G-1" has come to be used for this style of naval leather flight jacket. Technically, prior to the end of World War II, and starting in 1940 when it was officially named by the Navy, the jacket had the military spec number of M-422.





This jacket was brought to use by the U.S. Navy in the 1930s, and standardized by the Navy in 1940 as the M-422A. In 1943 this jacket, also named by the Army Air Corps and Navy as the ANJ-3 (Army Navy Jacket 3) replaced the iconic A-2 jacket, the most famous of U.S. Military jackets, hence the name of ANJ-3 (vs. A-2). The M-422A replacement of the loved and famous A-2 was, however, in the form of a non-fur-collared version of the "G-1", currently referred to for obvious reasons as the G-2.

The Sunday Movie : 24 heures du Mans 1964

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A Man and a Woman (French: Un homme et une femme) is a 1966 French film. The movie was written by Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven, and directed by Lelouch. It is notable for its lush photography (Lelouch had a background in advertising photography), which features frequent segues between full color, black-and-white, and sepia-toned shots, and for its memorable musical score by Francis Lai.

Sturgis Motorcycle Rally - August 3-9, 2009

Each year, hundreds of thousands of motorcyclists head toward, what many feel, is the motorcycling mecca of the world, Sturgis, and the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.

The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota takes place this year August 3-9.

Check out my article on this great motorcycle rally. See if you can see me waving in the picture when I attended the 1993 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. I really need to go back at least one more time.

Motorcycle Pictures of the Week - Silver Shadow and Jimmy

Here are my Pictures of the Week as displayed on the Motorcycle Views Website. These are taken from the Moto Pic Gallery. See Silver Shadow on her 2007 Honda Shadow Aero. Also see Jimmy on his 2003 Kawasaki Vulcan 1500 Nomad. For details, see Motorcycle Pictures of the Week.

If you'd like to see your bike as Picture of the Week, submit a picture of you and your bike along with a description of the bike.

Built for Speed

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By Eric Johnson



Last February, I alighted from a rental car in front of the massive grandstands that surround Daytona International Speedway. Affixed to these massive structures constructed of aluminum cross beams and steel girders were massive sepia-toned posters featuring great moments in NASCAR. One of them immediately caught my eye. The image was of the #40 Petty Enterprises Plymouth Superbird, driver Pete Hamilton behind the wheel, crossing the finish line in victory at Daytona in 1970.



While Daytona is now known as the stomping grounds of great drivers like Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch and others, in 1970, the Superbird was the star attraction at the speedway. Reason being? It was the most outlandish, futuristic and downright frighteningly fast stock car to ever leave streaks of rubber on superspeedways such as the 2.5-mile, 31-degree banked tri-oval of Daytona and the 2.66-mile, 33 degree high banks of Talladega Superspeedway. An exercise in the fantastic, the Plymouth Superbird was brought to life for one reason and one reason only: To beat the then omnipotent Ford Torino Talladega.



Throwing caution to the wind, Plymouth gathered around its finest engineers. Armed with T-squares and new technology. The engineers were told to ignore the accountants and immediately set about creating a stock car the likes Planet Earth had ever seen. Through their research and development efforts, the Superbird was designed aerodynamically by using a wind tunnel and computer analysis. Pure Detroit muscle, the Superbird’s body was silky smooth and seamless and graced with a shark-like front nose and a 23-inch high tail wing.



And with a 426-cubic inch big block dropped in the car, the Superbird cur through the air like an arrow, drivers like Richard Petty and Hamilton surpassing the 200 mile per hour mark like a NASA rocket. With Hamilton mashing the gas pedal into the floor, the Superbird won the first race it entered – the 1970 Daytona 500. So supernaturally fast was the Superbird that by 1971, NASCAR stepped in and restricted the car’s engine size, effectively clipping the Superbird’s wings. The car would effectively go the way of the dinosaur, but man alive, what a brilliant legacy it left behind.

Don’t believe the hype? Check out this YouTube segment.

Mad men : What are you waiting for ?

Mad Men is an American television drama series created and produced by Matthew Weiner. It is produced by Lionsgate Television and is broadcast on the cable network AMC. It premiered on July 19, 2007, and completed its second season on October 26, 2008. The third season is scheduled to begin August 2009.
Set in New York City, Mad Men begins in the early 1960s at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on New York City's Madison Avenue. The show centers on Don Draper (Jon Hamm), a high-level advertising creative director, and the people in his life in and out of the office. It also depicts the changing social mores of 1960s America.



Mad Men has received widespread critical acclaim, particularly for its historical authenticity and visual style, and has won numerous awards, including three Golden Globes, a BAFTA and six Emmys. It is the second cable series to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series and the first basic cable series to do so.

Academy of Country Music's Chairman's Ride

Great new Harley-Davidson video featuring Wille G. Davidson

Video includes country stars Eddie Montgomery, Troy Gentry, Toby Keith, James Otto, Krista Marie, and more.

Ride safe.


Jon Booth
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Buell 1125RR released (race use only!)

Buell have produced the 1125RR version of their 1125 sports bike to give privateer racers a turn-key machine to compete in the American Superbike class in AMA Pro Racing.

The Buell 1125RR has a modified Helicon 1125cc (103mm bore x 67.5mm stroke) liquid-cooled 72-degree V-Twin engine. Power increases come from various components including a larger airbox and intake manifold, revised valves and camshafts, a higher compression ratio, titanium exhaust system and other weight-reduced components.

Ride safe.


Jon Booth
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HD Police Motors

In the last five years, Harley-Davidson police sales have more than doubled. Today, just as in the late 1920s, more than 3,400 police departments Harley-Davidson motorcycles in the U.S. alone. Harley-Davidson motorcycles are used in 45 countries.

Photo provided by Harley-Davidson Archvies

This dramatic increase from the Motor Company's 80th Anniversary twenty years ago, when just over 400 state, provincial, county and municipal police departments were equipped with Harley-Davidson motorcycles.

Photo provided by Harley-Davidson Archvies

After the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Harley-Davidson donated 37 motorcycles to the New York Police Department, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the New York State Police.
Follow this link to this amazing website about Police H.D History :
http://www.policemotorunits.com/

The Chase

.by Eric Johnson



I was only four years-old at the time, but somehow I remember parts of it all. So much so, that to this day, when I refer back to my memories, my dad knows I have it all right. In 1968, my dad went to go see a film called Bullitt. Directed by Peter Yates, the film was described as an action thriller. The premise of the film involved a California politician named Walter Chalmers who was trying to bring down the Mob. For protection before a heavy-duty court hearing, Chalmers hires a Lieutenant named Frank Bullitt. Bullitt is played by the great Steve McQueen. Okay, now that we have that all out of the way, here’s where my story begins.



Bullitt is best known for featuring the best car chase scene of all-time. In it, Bullitt, behind the wheel of a 1969 Ford Mustang 390 CID Fastback, is chased by two hit men in a Tuxedo Black Dodge Charger R/T 440 Magnum. The chase ate up exactly 9 minutes and 42 seconds of film, but for any man (or four-year old for that matter) in America at the time, the chase would, in their memory, last forever. It would also make more than a few men reach for the wallets. I know my old man did. According to my mom, my dad saw the film on a Friday night, and the next morning, went straight to a Cleveland area Dodge dealer to buy the same Charger that was driven by the actor Bill Hickman in the film.



I don’t remember how it exactly all went down, but I do remember waking up from a nap, being led outside and seeing a shiny black car my dad had just bought. It looked mean. It looked mad. It looked cool. Not long after, my dad took me to see the movie. At that age I didn’t remember much of it, but I remember one part very vividly. I remember the part when Hickman – sitting in the driver’s seat and dressed in a trench coat – pulls up behind McQueen, puts on his seat belt and looks over to his shotgun. Seeing him in his rearview mirror, McQueen mashes the Fastback’s gas pedal to the floor and boils the rear tires. Hickman does the same and the chase begins.

Oh yeah… My dad started racing that car a few months later. He won’t admit it, but my mom later told me he traded his younger brother his entire record collection he had amassed while in the Navy for a new crankshaft.

Apollo 11 Moonwalk

Courtesy NASA Apollo 11 Moonwalk Montage This two-minute video montage shows highlights of the Apollo 11 moonwalk Apollo 11 Partial Restoration HD Videos

Moto Morini Corsaro 1200 Limited Edition

Moto Morini have launced a limited edition of their 1200 Corsaro, it comes with £1500 of extras.

The 140hp V-twin will be supplied with lightweight Termignoni silencers, comfortable gel seats for rider and pillion plus carbon fibre bodywork, including rear hugger, tank and seat inserts and key cover.

Looks stunning in yellow/black me thinks :-)


Ride safe.


Jon Booth
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B.S.A & Triumph Renewal

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Towards the end of the 60’s, the British motorcycle industry was in decline under the assault on the market of Japanese bikes in particular by the Honda 450cc DOHC. In an attempt to stem this tide BSA & Triumph management planned the development and sale of a motorcycle which could compete in the marketplace against the Japanese bikes. Thus the BSA Fury & Triumph Bandit were born. Essentially the same bike which were badged under their respective brands..





The Triumph TR6 Trophy was introduced in 1956 and lasted until 1973 when it was replaced by the 750cc TR7. During this time it was a successful model, particularly in the US. The competition variant, the TR6(S)C, popularly known as the "desert sled", won numerous competitions throughout the late 1950s and 1960s. The bike's appearance in The Great Escape and Steve McQueen's fondness for the model are well known. Although not quite as quick as the Bonneville the Trophy is considered by many to be Triumph's best all-round 650cc model.



By the 1960s, small, reliable, oil-tight Japanese machines were gaining momentum. To strengthen its position, BSA merged with Triumph, and had mild success with its Rocket 3, a three-cylinder bike that shared its engine and drivetrain with the Triumph Trident. Nevertheless, by the 1970s, performance Japanese motorcycles had displaced BSAs in the minds of many motorcyclists.



The BSA Lightning was designed as the 'all-round' sportbike of the 1960s, planned largely for export to the US market to complement the touring BSA Thunderbolt and the supersports BSA Spitfire. Development of the engine aimed to make it more reliable, quieter and less prone to oil leaks, with top speed sacrificed to improve mid-range and rideability. With twin carburettors the A65L could still reach 108 mph (174 km/h), however. Improvements included an oil pressure warning light which had a tendency to malfunction, so riders learned to ignore it.