Great Pages for Understanding Fasteners and Engineering Concepts

I have been using this site for ages. It’s called “The Engineer’s Companion”,and it has information needed to really do great restoration.  No cost to use,no scam,nothing but great information about the engineering aspect of restoring and building great bikes.

From the Introduction:

The FAQs included in the Engineer’s Companion are the result [...]

I don’t own these Bikes.

Most of my loyal readers know that I don’t own these bikes (I wish!). But some people are far more persistent (name deleted):

First email to last.

On Aug 31,2011,at 9:04 AM,R$$$$l wrote:

Is your motorcycle still available?

Thanks for your help

Rac??l

So I responded with my normal “boilerplate”:

On Wed,[...]

Ride or Display? Help a reader out!

click for nice blow up!

A loyal reader writes  (this bike is NOT for sale!):

Hi- I know that you are a fan of small Italian bikes,so I thought you might want to see my new- and I do mean NEW 1972 Benelli/Motobi 250SS. It has 15 miles on the odo but I can’t see any evidence of those miles. My dilemma:[...]

What the heck is that? Mo-toe-guzzi?

Somebody left a camera on their Breva 1200 —turn up the sound or you won’t get it.

Parilla Article in Motorcycle Classics this Month

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The July/August issue.

A taste here. http://www.motorcycleclassics.com/motorcycle-reviews/1957-parilla-175-sport-and-1962-parilla-250-gs.aspx

The facts aren’t perfect,but they’re pretty good!

Want more Parilla info?  There’s a great Yahoo Group,some great websites and,if you look at the menu bar at the top of this page,you’ll see the Parilla Wiki.

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A Couple of Great Blogs –Completely Unsolicited

There are two blogs out there that should be called for just making the motorcycle obsession much more interesting and entertaining.  The first one being Motorcycle Photo of the Day —Let’s see,how would I describe this?  Oh yeah,it’s a blog that features a great Motorcycle picture almost daily.  Always a cool site [...]

Happy 1st Anniversary —70,000 visitors,225,000 page views later.

Thanks to all the readers and submitters.  This is our first anniversary of an experiment to show motorcycles,that we like and think are cool,for sale on the Internet.  Our current direction has been heavily skewed towards small Italian singles with a smattering of very nice Moto Guzzis,Laverdas,BSAs and the like.  We’ve [...]