Monday 25 March 2013

Danish craftmanship

Yesterday I did my daily browsing around the different bike blogs I know.
I came across The Vintagent and found a article about A dane who wanted a Indian with 4 cylinders but wasn't able to find one and pay the crazy price of it - so he resided to build his own.
It´s called the Alma Four - check it out here    
http://thevintagent.blogspot.dk/2013/03/the-alma-four.html

Sunday 24 March 2013

Maggot day in the north

The winter is still over Denmark and while we are waiting not much happens on the blog. But this weekend we had a cool event comming up

Since I was a small boy, The bike in my dads mind and since garage has been the "Maggot" - A Honda CX 500 B mode from 1981. The bike has done 150000 km, and is still running. It has given me the first bike experiences and introduced me to allot of people. Today the Maggot is retired from its touring duty and enjoying is 3 age as a sundaybike. Last year it did 2000 km overall around 700 km with me and 1300km ridden by my dad.
My Dad and his old Maggot entertaining

The club culture around these bikes has always been great and yesterday we went to a technical day in northern jutland. The day was called "Cx teknisk dag" and gathered around 70 people to learn more about the bikes. I been helping with servicing the Maggot since i was 13 years old so I help the old man showing how to maintain the bikes in general. The guys that did not service their own bikes before they came was impressed and happy to learn and see how things was done on the old bikes. The whole day was great - The people that knew a little and them who knew allot had the possibility to nerd with other that knew allot. A great day - A day that should be a possibility in every club.
Jan - The host and technical expert showing and explaining the program of the day 
"How to make maintain your old bike"


Changing the Cam Chain - Jan tells how its done


Tuesday 12 March 2013

Vinter has returned in denmark ..

Just as we through that Winter was over, it has returned in denmark - The temperaturs is down and there is snow on the ground.
To keep the mood up, we are planning a grill party in the shed tonight ! -In your face winter !

Tuesday 5 March 2013

The Iso - Now running

Sorry for the distance between the posts! I been busy serving and drinking beer and working in the shed.
The breaking news of today is that the Iso Milano startede for the first time in 23 years. it was awesome to hear the old lady run. At first she did not do as told but after a little fetle with the carb she behaved and is now running fine. The gears and clutch cables need replacing and everything needs a final check before going to town  but now we know that she will run.