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News 2005
Look what I got for Christmas!
A lot of you are going to be green with envy, so just
skip this part and read on about Matchless parts. The bike was imported by
someone else from Sri Lanka, but he never got around to doing it up and Jan went
to have a look at it and decided that he would buy it to cannibalize it.
Unfortunately when he tried it out the engine started first kick and the ammeter
immediately showed the battery was charging, it made a sweet unassuming
sound, and it was altogether a dear old dependable bike, how can he break it?
Here are a few more photos.
Taking a peep in our secret lab
On the 15th and 16th of October 2005, several
Matchless and AJS
Owners' Club members came along on their way to a meeting not far away.
They came to see our not-quite-a-secret-anymore Matchless G80/85CS engines.
We were outed the month before in MCN and again that month in Classic Bike, so it
was
probably time to spill the beans. For several years now we've been
borrowing complete engines and parts in order to build a G85 replica. It
has taken this long to get the patterns and to make construction drawings and we
were afraid that if we let people know what we were up to there would be too
much demand for getting the engine out so that the emphasis on quality would be
under pressure. Luckily the publicity came when the project was nearing
the finishing stage, we have started taking orders and the first ten orders have
come in already from all over the world. The success has surprised us a bit but
obviously we couldn't be more pleased.
NORBSTAR
This gorgeous bike is a Swedish creation, made by Robert Meland. He
hasn't been able to test it yet because of the thick snow in his area, but it
looks as if it will be as much of a thrill to ride as it is lovely to see.
One photo is not enough for you?
Click on the photo for more of this Swedish lovely.
Photos of the BSA Club visit December 2003
For those of you who miss the photos of the visit of
the BSA Club, click
here, they were sent to me by Henk Joore, who
has a lovely BSA website of his own, which includes lots of historic articles
and pictures, and even a forum. Follow this link to pay his site a visit:
http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/ahum. Lots of information on
the BSA WM20 among other things, just go there, have a look and see historic
pictures like the one below.
ABSAF engine too fast?
www.bt-h.biz is the link
to follow if you want to find out more.
Paul Dobbs wrote to say:
"They (the Lansedowne Classic Series) said I can run the Goldie as my
spare bike but it won't be able to score points, must start from the back of the
grid & I mustn't interfere with the championship racers. They tried to rule me
out on technical terms but Roy Shearwood put them straight on bike & engines
specs. He also pointed out to them that it's more original than Molnar's
bikes!"
Proud as we are to make a fairly standard Gold Star engine that can beat
bikes that are normally considered to be much faster, it hardly seems fair to us
to punish our customers by making them start at the back of the field.
Paul can win from the back, but he will not be allowed to do so as that would
mean that he would have to overtake potential winners. And then, if he won, he would not receive any points.
Apparently it was against the spirit of classic racing for a Gold Star to beat a
Manx. Has there been some kind of misunderstanding? Surely there's
been a mistake?
ABSAF FACTORY SURROUNDED
BY INDIANS
Saturday May 14th the ABSAF factory, normally such a
quiet place out in the middle of nowhere, was suddenly surrounded by Indians.
The Dutch Indian Owners Club decided to pay us a visit while they were camping
down the road for the holiday weekend.
No two bikes were the same and they were all
exceptionally well looked after. All bikes came and went under their own
steam, although here and there a small check was made to see that everything was
alright. For more pictures click on the above photo.
If you want to know a bit more about us read this.
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