Bayles 2018....Castor Oil and Milky Ways

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Weird, patchy morning-muck/ fog across the Yarra Valley.
Johns Hill Reserve, Kallista

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The Slide....with maybe some sunshine over Glenburn


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The last of the colour along Bourke Creek Rd.



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Sun's out in Bayles...and Sgt. Schultz is already there:D



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Dual drum, Ram Air!
And a Springer Front End with a ...parking brake?




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Cantilevered swingarm, ride-height adjusters....man, those Vincent boyz had it all!



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This years' show-stopper!
The word "MINT" doesn't even come close! :eek::clap::clap:


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Me+You...and a dog named Boo


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Cantilevered swingarm, ride-height adjusters....man, those Vincent boyz had it all!

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Tut. tut Glitch your eyesight is obviously failing. :p
What about the dual ratio rear sprockets? One on either side flip the wheel one way for the highway and the other for more arduous conditions or when the chair is fitted.
 

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Tut. tut Glitch your eyesight is obviously failing. :p
What about the dual ratio rear sprockets? One on either side flip the wheel one way for the highway and the other for more arduous conditions or when the chair is fitted.

Right you are!


I would be more inclined to the lower one being a compression release.



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It's this thing here....sitting like a guillotine-blade on top of the front hoop. W-)
I looked at it a few times and couldn't make any sense of it....but know those "blades" as early bicycle-brakes on dutch-made pushies.




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Another cantilevered swingarm, about 40 years younger, on this fabulous Yammie XV1100? engined cafe-racer...the standard of workmanship on those home-made Specials is mind-boggling.
No Ebay-Bolt-'Em-Ups here, sir!

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Occasionally there's some ridiculous stuff around....a custom-Staintune on an R80ST. Any longer and they should angle it up and make it into a flagpole :doh::doh:

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Bike-Nuts....ageless!


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This stuff makes your eyes bleed, spud? Too right!


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I know what he's looking at, coming off that crotch-rocket...


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A COMFY SEAT! :bs



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Back this year, one of my all-time favs....


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125...175....still tossing up.


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One for Steve (there were actually 2 Waterbottles there, BOTH SUPERB!)



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One extra pot per side.... and she wouldn't need a sidestand! :thumbs:
A magnificent looking Kwaka Z13-6pot from the late '70s/ early '80s :drool:


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The water-cooled Scott with its humongous front-brake-cable-splitter was back, too...


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A Douglas with its "leather-topbox" complete with a couple of longnecks idling away at the sides of the venue....the meat-slicer flywheel going full bore.


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A rare bird indeed...a mid/late '50s German Maicoletta.... built by Maico, renowned for their international success of MX-events like the early 6-Days Trials and longterm supplier of 175cc Strokers to the German Military.
The Maicoletta was a 175cc chain-driven 2-stroke MX bike in a scooter-skin.
Scooter-wheelies? Pissacake!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maicoletta



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Gearchange pedals up+down on the left, rear brake on the right.
No place for practicing the Makarena :doh:

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More soon...
 
It's this thing here....sitting like a guillotine-blade on top of the front hoop. W-)
I looked at it a few times and couldn't make any sense of it....but know those "blades" as early bicycle-brakes on dutch-made pushies.

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Saw that. It is just a wiper to stop water from the road rotating around the wheel then getting shot forward off the top of the wheel then getting blown up into the riders face. A pseudo mudguard in effect.
Its the same reason we used to mount a mud flap to the front of the high guard on Japanese trail bikes in the 1970's. When you rode them in the rain in NZ with your open face helmet you copped a face full of dirty water from the road without one.

Anyway. Roger had one and what Roger had was cool and fast.

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Hmmm...
I didn't want to get too close and touch that 'blade" material, but it looked like some thin metal....and it was sitting right on the tyre, no gap.
With the mounting point behind the forklegs, that would mean a good chance of the tyre collecting the "blade" at some stage and tearing it off its mounts due to the blade being held in position by its restricted location.

If it'd be mounted forward of the forks and angled up in the direction of travel somewhat, the splash guard idea makes sense.
Not important....just one of those "what the hell's that for" things...
 

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The "Flying Brick"....the "Whiner"....make mine "The Short-Arse".


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"Tools of the trade"....:so


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Another "bewdiful thang"


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Gotta give it to 'em...they were tough buggers, the old farts.


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Random shots


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We're going?


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Somewhere along Huxtable Rd.


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The stuff one trips over when playing with Google Maps....


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As luck would have it, the gates were open and some friendly words exchanged. What a spot up there on the ridge :thumbs:
And they do have Open Days, for a bit of a closer look.
http://mtburnettobservatory.org/

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Great to see quite a few AT-regulars (and not so regulars) for a lazy Sunday-in-the-sun.
Can't wait for next year :chug:
 
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