Graphics - New Additions


This page has links to graphics files that have recently been added to the website. When I get time I later move the links from this page into the two other categorized graphics pages.

I don't want to slow down the loading of the page, so I haven't included any thumbnail photos, but I've included a description and file size of each photo that is available.

COPYRIGHT STATEMENT: I'm retaining copyright to the photos that I've taken, though I don't mind people using them on their sites as long as I get attribution as the photographer (and a link to my site would be nice too). Copyright to photos taken by other people are retained by their respective copyright holders. I've attempted to abide by the "fair use" clause in the copyright laws. I've given attribution where available to the source of any photos that I didn't take. There are some photos from different publications, and while some of these publications are still in business others aren't. I'm not deriving any monetary benefit from these photos (in fact, it costs me to have them loaded on my ISP's server), and I have sincere doubts that my providing photos from publications of 25-40 years ago (especially defunct publications) is denying income to anyone. All photos are offered as a service to interested members of the motorcycling public. However, should someone who retains copyright to any photo that appears here object to the photo being made available, I'll remove the link to the photo upon request.


Many thanks to Off Road Review, formerly published in the UK by Deryk Wylde.

I contacted Deryk to compliment him on the magazine and ask for permission to use some of the photos (with proper attribution), and he graciously allowed me to do that. In addition, he has searched out photos of some of the things that I was really interested to see - private and works specials, bikes with different leading link forks, and specific bikes for which I was unable to find good pictures.

Sadly, the magazine is no longer being published, which is a shame as it was of very high quality and had many interesting photos that were not generally available .


Here is a list (in order of appearance) of links to the different section. Please keep in mind that there is some cross-over between sections, so it might pay to look at everything just in case my method of classifying the photos doesn't quite match up with the way you would have divided them.

New Additions

I'm going to start listing the new additions to the page here when they first go up. When I get time I'll then move the links into the appropriate section below (but that may not happen very quickly - I'm more concerned about getting more material up on the site).

I've found or been referred to several interesting sites devoted to 50/80cc GP roadracers. Some of them are mentioned below, but I'd like to add links to them here:


Good news! After a long hiatus at the end of 2007 I moved all the old "new additions" to (roughly) where they should finally be located, and the following items are truly new additions!

Pat Jeal saw this BSA unit single with Ducati cylinder/head at a show in Malvern, England.

! Here are some more interesting items from Joep Kortekaas:

Here's a copy of the instruction sheets that came with the performance kit for the Suzuki TS50R:

Joep sends along some more photos of his Drixton 450 Honda as well as a period photo shot of Marly Drixyl and a later style of 450 Honda frame, as well as some period photos of some dirt bikes. There are also some pictures from the 1956 ISDT (which should have been in West Germany). The M-72 is a Russian-built 750cc side valve. The Isch 350 was also from Russia.

Some more photos from Joep Kortekaas. Joep gave this information on several of the bikes: The Jawa 350 was built by Austrian Rudi Thalhammer, who got the engine from the Jawa works in exchange for titanium and magnesium the factory couldn't get. He built his own frame for it, and afterwards sold it, after which I bought it. I restored it to perfect running order, but didn't like the look of the bike and sold it to an Englishman, who sold it to the USA. The Triumph special was built by a Dutchman, who gave the engine a dohc and built his own frame and special front wheel suspension.:

I saw a photo of the Jawa Gimo 50cc roadracer at Two Stroke Tuner's Guide to Wisdom at saltimine.org.uk. Geo put me in touch with the owner, Michel du Maine who provided some additional photos of the bike and chassis. Michel owns the Riemanoc monocoque frame Yamaha twin racers and you can see some photos of those and other interesting two-stroke bikes at saltmine.org.uk. You'll notice that the fuel is carried in the large diameter spine frame and the "tank" is just a shell to give support for the rider. Note the different top end on the engine in the frame-only shots.

Danny Messmore sent me these photos of his great looking vintage trials project. It is a 250 Hodaka engine in a Kawasaki KT250 chassis. He reduced the rake by 3 degrees and had to make some new motor mounts as well as trim some lugs off the engine. The Hodaka engine is shorter front to back but taller than the Kawasaki engine. He says the photos I put up of my KT250 exhaust pipe project were of use to him in building the pipe for this bike.

Danny also sent photos of the Hodaka Wombat 125cc trials bike he built before doing the 250:

Here are about 44 photos I took in November 2007 of bikes at Virgil Eling's motorcycle museum. in Solvang CA. Yes, there are a LOT of photos of the replica Moto Guzzi V8 racer. :-)

Here is a page from an article on hopping up a 90cc Yamaha enduro. The main thing I found of interest was the Swenco leading link fork. You'll note the link is an aluminum casting. Swenco LLF

Here is a small ad for a Trackmaster frame for the AT1 Yamaha. Trackmaster AT1

This frame fixture was used by Redline frames. Redline frame fixture

Frank Wheeler is well known in Hodaka circles. Less well know is that he designed a dirt bike that looks like it got fairly close to production. Wheeler 175 Cross Country

This is a Yetman frame ad from late 1967

Daniele Fontana and his new 250mm 4LS brake

Here are several articles on small project dirt bikes built up with VanTech frames:

Bob Braverman's Cycle Guide magazine did a lot of project bikes with special frames. They also published two articles on frame design and construction:

Cycle Guide also did an article on fitting a Roehr Bros/VanTech leading link fork to a dirt bike:

After Bob Braverman left Cycle Guide he had a magazine called "Cycle Rider". Continuing the "special" frame theme, here is a dirt bike built into a CRDC (more photos from them on the second graphics page) aluminum monocoque frame:

Several years ago Hans Hintermaier photographed his family photo album that has many pictures from his father Josef's offroad career in Germany. Hans says "I think I have told you of my father's offroad-activities in the years between '52 and '62? In the sidecar of Karl Ibscher they were "Deutscher Meister" '60 and '61, Karl caught gold another 8 times after that, I think..." This page is about Volker Schach who appears to have been one of the main competitors for Ibscher and Hintermaier and it lists some of the big events they were in. This document from Automobil-Club München shows Ibscher and Hintermaier as "Deutsche Geländemeister" in sidecars in 1961.

Some of the photos are going to be showing Josef in the outfit (or possibly pushing!) and I've asked Hans if that is his father pictured riding the solo bike in some events.

Here is what Hans told me about the bikes in the photos: " AFAIR Maico (#213), Zundapp Elastic, Puch TF (with self made twin-carb conversion, both carbs behind cylinder and burgess-muffler. Must have been runnig better than works-SGSS and Puch SGS. He still loves his TF most, but they are totally unaffordable today. The sidecar-bikes were: 1 Foto with NSU OSL and Royal-sidecar, R52 and R69 with Steib."

Since there are 62 photos I'm not going to put links on this page but instead direct you to the folder where they are stored which is right here. These are great period (1950s/1960s) photos and I'm sure you'll enjoy them as much as I have.

Here is some information on front and rear suspensionr spring color codes

Here are a couple more American Eagle/Sprite MX ads. These are the 360 and later 405.

Here are some more photos from Joep Kortekaas:

Here's another one of Bob Braverman's project bikes from Cycle Guide magazine. This one is a Van Tech-framed BSA B44 (441cc) unit single dirt bike. Thanks again to Mike Braverman for permission to reproduce his father's articles.

Here are scans of a couple of brochures. A friend gave me the Greeves 380 QUB brochure and I picked up the American Eagle 125 material at the local dealer in Albuquerque when I started getting interested in riding MX. The AE chassis was manufactured for them by Sprite in England.

Here are some more photos (and text) courtesy of Pat Jeal:

Pat sent along this information that he recalled about the RaceWaye:

The Race-Waye was basically Clive's idea to build a bike to replace the British singles. It had roughly Manx Norton geometry. The motor was really a pair of Villiers 250 singles mounted side by side in a common crankcase and watercooled. The two cranks were connected in the middle then drove forward to a countershaft which fed the primary chain down the side to the clutch. There was a lot of very clever work in it but like so many specials it took too long to develop, and was overtaken by events, in particular the TZ Yamaha twins. The large streamlining was effective in a straight line but the rider, Nigel Rollason (who had previously won the Senior Manx Grand Prix on a 351cc TR2 Yamaha) told me that, if it lifted, the flat underside held the front end up. He said he'd done most of the Mountain Mile one lap in TT practice with front wheel off the road trying to get far enough forward on the bike to get it down. I asked him if he'd considered closing the throttle but he told me "don't be so bloody silly". Probably explains why he was so much quicker than me!



I've had some questions from people about a Super Trapp mechanical baffle insert I have that was sold for 4-1 exhausts back in the 1970s/80s. Here are some photos and dimensions in case someone is curious.

Pat Jeal just sent me some photos from the early 1970s of Rudi and Dane Kurth and the Monark outfit.

DRS 125 Joep Kortekaas saw the photo I took at the Imola Mostra Scambio of a small disc valve two stroke roadracer that I wasn't able to identify. Joep very kindly provided this photo from his archives and this information: "The D in DRS stands for Peter Dürr, a German tuner and builder of 50 and 125 cc two-stroke racing motorcycles, who lived in Italy (he still might). He also tuned racing bikes for some Italian companies. This appears to be a 1972 125 cc with 25 HP at 11,500 rpm" .

Ian Drysdale (builder of the Drysdale V8) sent me these interesting photos. He tells me "the builder's name is Russell.Sutton, a Kiwi living in Australia. The motor (when finished) will displace 8 litres, it has a similar bore and a longer stroke than the XR600. I think the redline is 4,000 rpm or thereabouts, with a planetary gearbox made from a gear set out of a Caterpillar transmission, to bring it down to 2,500 rpm at the prop. Intended use is an "airboat". Its still missing crank and rods, but these are being made."


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