He needs to ditch that rotopax and get a greasy jug of some type! :laughing
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no flies on Kalle:
check out the NorCalTT sticker ... he actually rode this hand-shift, foot-clutch, extended forks, minimumal suspension travel death-trap chopper on that two-day, 500 mile vintage rally ... “never again” was his comment, after surviving. :laughing
he’ll just put that ugly-but-functional Rotopac on his latest project, a ‘39 Chief ... that’s the chopper engine installed and being fettled:
he sez he wanted a pre-war hard-tail with the leaf-spring front-end. check out the front disc break, it’ll be a rider. apparently flat-head engines only get like 30 mpg, hopefully he can mount the chopper Rotopac down by the rear wheel. guess the billy-biker ball-peen hammer tool-kit, too ... :teeth
It's a long slow ride to reflect on the process too.
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the voice of experience (which we’ve all had). :facepalm
Fillmore and Jackson, used to live on Jackson a half block away, in the early seventies. At one point that coffee shop was either a Tullys or Peerless, pretty sure Tullys.
Beauty of a Vincent!
yes, super pretty. “ride it for an hour, clean it for two hours,” sez Mark ...
cool that you lived near Jackson and Fillmore back in the day (think I remember it was a Tullys, too) ... the SF vintage guys met up at Blue Bottle again on New Year’s Day:
the gentleman in the red jacket is Mr Magri of
Vindian fame, he built and rides one ... he also owns several other Vincents, and was helping Mark chase down a solution for an exhaust leak at one of the joints on the ‘48 Series B Rapide in the OP pics.
SF vintage bikes, out and about to greet 2021 ... :gsxrgrl
Looks like you found a little bit of normal. :laughing
Cool pics of cool bikes and cool people. :thumbup
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Chiefs on tow trucks have been a theme, recently. hopefully out of the system for a little while ... :ride