Rockies regional randomness

[burque magoo]

Jawa-CZ used to rule in the early days of motocross......

[Blakebird]

Originally Posted by Lomax

I somewhat remember the Jawa's from down at Rink-A-Dinks from times past. Very interesting bikes. I think some even had a split cylinder or something like that. ??? It has been a long time.

Cool bike.

Marc

their bread and butter bike was the 350 Californian from the mid 60's on....built a zillion of 'em. They built a twingle too, I think 50's and 60's?

A good buddy works at Motion Pro, I got a tour of the place a few years back when I rode out for MotoGP. The owner (Chris Carter, former ISDT gold medal winner) has a good size collection of CZ's, lots of pretty rare motocross bikes from their heyday.

[James Adams]

Originally Posted by MeterPig

Can anyone identify this?

1954? Jawa 250

[MeterPig]

Close. If I recall correctly the owner said 1961.

[burque magoo]

My Jawa dropped over that one.......

[MeterPig]

Today was set aside to update the work bench area.

The problem: Not enough work space. Dave (uncle dirt) donated a burly work bench that his late father used for years.

Beginning:


Original spot for the bench.



The legs needed to be extended.



Getting jacked into place.


All done. In place and level with existing bench.


Time to go take a ride down to home depot

[Blakebird]

Maybe not as many bikes on the road Memorial Day as I expected I'd see.

[burque magoo]

you skeered em all away with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle........

[grub]

That bike looks like it's going 130 when it's parked....

[Geek]

This is unbelievable.. basically a guy is in the desert and breaks an a-arm and frame in his Citreon car... he spends the next 12 days building a motorcycle out of the parts and rides it out of the desert.

He did things like drill holes by folding a flat piece is half, cutting a notch and then unfolding it back flat

http://chameaudacier.free.fr/moto2.html

[Merfman]

Originally Posted by Geek

This is unbelievable.. basically a guy is in the desert and breaks an a-arm and frame in his Citreon car... he spends the next 12 days building a motorcycle out of the parts and rides it out of the desert.

He did things like drill holes by folding a flat piece is half, cutting a notch and then unfolding it back flat

http://chameaudacier.free.fr/moto2.html

Wow! That beats my favorite story of Roesler carving a plug out of a stick, driving it in a busted side cover, draining the oil from his forks into the tranny to get home... impressive!

[chacha]

Originally Posted by Geek

This is unbelievable.. basically a guy is in the desert and breaks an a-arm and frame in his Citreon car... he spends the next 12 days building a motorcycle out of the parts and rides it out of the desert.

He did things like drill holes by folding a flat piece is half, cutting a notch and then unfolding it back flat

http://chameaudacier.free.fr/moto2.html

Have the English version anywhere? Like to read the whole thing.

[UncleDirt]

Originally Posted by MeterPig

All done. In place and level with existing bench.

What did you do with the vise????

[Gitana]

Originally Posted by chacha

Have the English version anywhere? Like to read the whole thing.

Google Translator works just fine.

He sure had an interesting time after he rode out of the desert. Quite the tale.

[doc_ricketts]

Originally Posted by chacha

Have the English version anywhere? Like to read the whole thing.

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Google Chrome will translate it for you (except for the picture captions). I am not sure I believe this, but one of the pictures looks like he makes his own clothes too. Or maybe that is just the Frenchie look. Very interesting. Now I know what to do when my Dodge truck breaks down in the desert. I certainly carry more tools than he did.