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About us
ABSAF is a small company, led by Jan de Jong.
He started making BSA Gold Star parts to keep his own racer going, back in
1981, and made more and more parts for friends and other racers, it became a
full-time occupation. At that time he had a motorcycle shop, and he was
the first Triumph (Hinckley) dealer in the Netherlands. ABSAF pushed aside
the bike repairs and became much more than a hobby. He has a different
hobby now, he collects small ships' engines which used to be made here in
Appingedam by the Brons factory, and when he has the time he restores them.
Jan is a northerner, he doesn't like showy presentation or unnecessary
expenditure. This means that ABSAF parts will come in plain unmarked
envelopes and boxes, no logo tape, no printed labels. ABSAF does little
advertising and have done so only rarely in the past. No Christmas cards,
no free glossy brochures, not even glossy brochures that you can pay for.
No headed notepaper from real printers and no professional cards, everything is
straight from our own little HP printer.
 Note the old
overall.
He doesn't talk much usually, but every now and then he'll talk for hours,
almost always about engines. He is also a perfectionist, who always wants his tools in the right
place, all the machines and the floor clean, he can't work if everything is not
in what he thinks is the right place. Every half year he decides
that what he decided before wasn't quite right, so then the place gets reorganized.
It is a bit of a mystery to me, I can't work without piles of things all around
me.
I grew up in England and studied French and German at Loughborough
University, but forgot a lot as I didn't have to use it for years. In
1986 I moved to Groningen in the Netherlands and bought a new Triumph (Sprint
900, Caspian blue) from Jan in the early 90's, we got married in 1995.
I've been riding bikes since 1977, there's a photo of me on the
Contact page.
That's enough personal information!
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