Other Other - Meccaniche Veloci Quattrovalvole History

QUATTRO VALVOLE born by a collaboration between the company of Meccaniche Veloci watches and famous manufacturer of carburetors Dell'Orto.

Produced in a limited series in only 487 copies, the one we proposed is the number 115.
Case with 48mm diameter made entirely Ergal, material derived from the carburetor of racing cars. The watch has been used a few times, complete with box and warranty, and with key "BETA tools" made of silicon steel, to be used to loosen the strap and the bottom of the case.

The QUATTRO VALVOLE is a clock that comes from an intuition, create an object of prestige by using the idea of a piston of a four-stroke engine, the heart of the best racing cars. A mix of automotive engineering and personality, that blends the world of motoring with the luxury watchmaking. draws from the world of racing, not just the spirit that animates it, but also the design and key components to realize case and finishes.
So Meccaniche Veloci has created this particular watch, synonymous with exclusivity, elegance and incisive personality.

The case, entirely from billet, follows the same processes of hardening of high performance engines, while a lathing creates four recesses: QUATTRO VALVOLE (four valves) four quadrants with Swiss automatic movements of high precision ETA 2671.

Care detail also with regard to the strap handcrafted in the skin, and attached to the case with four screws in titanium.

via http://www.classicdriver.com

Wheels & Waves 2014 by YOUNG GUNS SPEED SHOP

A short teaser about the time we`ve spent in Biarritz while Wheels & Waves

Mostly filmed by Lorenz Richard, edited by Nik Heer

YOUNG GUNS SPEED SHOP

The Swiss Moto 2015 is a wrap and we are so happy to announce that we won first place in the category "oldtimer sport"! Thanks to Swiss Moto, the judges, our supporters, our amazing friends with their helping hands and everyone else who swung by for a beer at our booth! Photos bylorenzrichard.com









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A KIND OF PASSION, a tribute to classic motorcycles and the people who love them

SQUADRA SUTGE, a group of enthusiasts of classic racing motorcycles, on Jarama circuit during the CLASSIC MOTO 2011 event (classicmoto.eu).

This is a tribute for all the people who love this kind of motorcycles.

A KIND OF PASSION, a tribute to classic motorcycles and the people who love them from Squadra Sutge on Vimeo.

Snapshot, 1963: Look mum – one hand!

It’s 11 September 1963 and Steve McQueen, casually dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, burbles through the streets of London on his Triumph TR6. What do you suppose the insurance is costing him?

Less than three months have passed since John Sturges' film ‘The Great Escape’ celebrated its world premiere at London's Odeon Leicester Square – in which Steve McQueen’s character had catapulted his motorcycle over a barbed-wire fence in his attempts to escape the German soldiers. However, although McQueen often performed his own stunts, he admitted on Johnny Carson’s The Tonight Show that the daring leap had – for the sake of insurance – been performed instead by stuntman Bud Ekins. What the insurance agent would have said about his client’s negligence in this photograph, without a helmet and with only one hand on the handlebars, can only be imagined.

Photo: Michel Descamps/Paris Match via Getty Images

Plusieurs pilotes testent la Renault R.S. 01 à Valencia

 

 

Plusieurs pilotes sont allés tester la Renault R.S. 01 à Valencia il y a quelques jours. Alors que la présentation de l’auto se fera le mois prochain, Renault Sport fait tester sa “GT” à un maximum de pilotes venant de diverses disciplines. La nouvelle formule mise sur pied par Renault est incluse aux World Series by Renault dont le championnat débutera fin avril à Motorland Aragon.

Depuis ses premiers tours de roues, la Renault R.S. 01 a bouclé 17 journées d’essais, soit près de 8000 km. Alexandre Prémat, Nick Catsburg, Dimitri Enjalbert, Renaud Kuppens, Mirko Bortolotti, Albert Costa, Anthony Beltoise, Andy Soucek et Laurent Hurgon ont fait partie des pilotes de développement.

 

Pour les tests réalisés à Valencia, Andrea Pizzitola, Pieter et Steijn Schothorst, Oscar Nogues, Bruce Lorgeré-Roux, Federico Leo, Michela Cerruti, Andrea Rizzoli, Riccardo Agostini, Pal Varhaug, Arno Santamato, Miguel Ramos et Patrick Rocha ont été vus en piste.

 

 

En plus, V de V Sports et Renault Sport ont le plaisir d'annoncer l’arrivée de la nouvelle Renault Sport R.S. 01 sur le plateau GT / Tourisme des V de V Endurance Series dès la saison prochaine.

L’ADN de la compétition

Renault Sport R.S 01 affiche style spectaculaire et performances exceptionnelles se situant entre celles des meilleures GT3 et des DTM ! Elle est en outre capable d’atteindre une vitesse de 300 km/h, notamment grâce à son moteur Nismo V6 3,8 litres Bi-turbo délivrant plus de 500 chevaux, mais pas uniquement…

Renault Sport s’est employé à rendre cette voiture aussi légère que robuste avec une cellule en carbone et bénéficiant d’un maximum d’appui aérodynamique.

Afin d’optimiser l’efficacité du fond plat, les équipes de Renault Sport se sont penchées sur ses qualités aérodynamiques : une voiture très basse, un capot avant agressif doté d’un large spoiler, un énorme aileron réglable en carbone, surplombant une face arrière d’où sortent deux échappements procurant une sonorité envoutante.

Dans le cadre des V de V Endurance Series, des aménagements techniques ont été pensés dans un souci d’équité avec les GTV1.

Ainsi, les disques de carbone PFC utilisés sur R .S 01 pour le Renault Sport Trophy au sein des World Series by Renault seront remplacés par des freins PFC en acier et l’aérodynamique sera également modifiée. Par ailleurs, la capacité du réservoir sera ramenée à 100 litres au lieu de sa contenance initiale de 150 litres.

Dernière spécificité : cette voiture sera exclusivement réservée aux Gentlemen drivers dans le cadre des V de V Endurance Series.

Des tests pour les Gentlemen sont prévus le jour précédent ou suivant les séances d’essais V de V du 6-7 mars à Magny-Cours.

V de V Endurance Series se font un grand honneur d’accueillir Renault Sport et sa nouvelle R.S. 01 dans son championnat !

 

Original Man - how to be a less ordinary gentleman

Will you go down as one of the most exceptional men in history? If not, it’s unlikely that a book will be able to change that – but it can still make for an interesting read, as Simon de Burton discovers…

I walked into the kitchen the other day and caught the tail end of a radio programme about the difference between the 'stars' of today and the stars of yesterday. Who was speaking I don't know, but the presenter's sign-off words seemed to sum up the situation beautifully... "What the world needs now," he said, "is not celebrities, but heroes."

Outstandingly special

It's a thought that chimes with the thinking behind a book just out from publishing house Gestalten, called 'Original Man'. It's not, as the title implies, about the origin of Homo sapiens but editor Patrick Grant's selection of 81, 20th Century men who, by anyone's standards, were (or are) truly, outstandingly special.

Heroes with faults

As journalist and style pundit Nick Sullivan observes in the introduction, they are all 'extraordinary gentleman'. Brilliant human beings, but heroes with faults. And all the better for being imperfect and, in some cases, fatally flawed.

Mixed bag

Indeed, one of the most appealing aspects of this book is that, while there are plenty of names on the list that anyone would recognise, many are more than a little obscure and none is there simply for being handsome, or a great actor, or a great singer. Some, indeed, have such 'characterful' faces that they must have presented a downright challenge for those who photographed them, while the names of others will be unrecognised by many readers who will, undoubtedly, set out to learn more once they have absorbed Grant's summaries of their lives.

Lock up your wives (and daughters)

Alex Higgins, John Cooper Clarke and Alan Clark, for example, might be on the radar of plenty of middle-aged Englishmen - but few 'abroad' will know them for their respective talents of snooker-playing, lewd poetry and, in Clarke's case, for the Lothario's talent that enabled him to bed both the wife and daughter of a High Court Judge in between driving his selection of well-used classic cars through London at illegal speeds.

Artists, heroes, libertines and stylists

In any event, Grant has done a brilliant job of selecting the subjects for this book, which is divided into four easy-to-dip-into sections: 'Artist' (ranging from Andy Warhol to Le Corbusier and Miles Davis); 'Hero' (Adrian Carton de Wiart, Spike Milligan, James Hunt and Rudolf Nureyev, among others);' Libertine' (James Brown, the aforementioned Alan Clark, Keith Floyd and the famously well-endowed Porfirio Rubirosa) and finally 'Stylist' - including Noel Fielding, Little Richard, Quentin Crisp and Boy George.

Thinking men's heroes

These, you see, are thinking men's heroes and this is certainly a book that deserves to be in your library - not least because I doubt you'll ever again find a publication containing the same 81 people simultaneously.     

Photos from the book ‘Original Man’ © Gestalten 2015

The book ‘Original Man’ is published by Gestalten; further information can be found at gestalten.com. 

DEFENDER CHALLENGE IS BACK FOR MORE

By: Mike Goodbun via http://www.lro.com

Following a brilliant debut season, which saw Land Rover Owner’s off-road driving expert Edd Cobley seal the inaugural Defender Challenge title for Team Harford, Bowler Motorsport has confirmed that the Land Rover-supported rally series is guaranteed to continue for at least the next three years.

The Defender Challenge will continue for at least the next three years

Each of the £50,000 (+VAT) Bowler-built FIA T2-spec 2.2 TDCi Defender 90 hard tops features a substantial roll cage, fire extinguisher system, racing seats and six-point harnesses, lightweight bumpers, sills and steering guards, plus heavy duty Bilstein rally suspension with remote-reservoir dampers, new springs, anti-roll bars and bushes. A big brake package is optional. The engines are tweaked to give at least 175bhp (185bhp is an option) and 332lb ft.

They’re huge fun, as LRO discovered in our April 2014 issue, but the ultimate goal of the largely UK-based series is to develop drivers’ skills to enable them to tackle gruelling international rally raids such as the Dakar in South America, or the Africa Eco Race.

Three of the six venues in the 2015 calendar are all-new for the Defender Challenge, with an increased focus on hill rallies compared with 2014 – partly because last year’s drivers enjoyed them so much!

First up is a return to the Somerset Stages in April (last year’s round two), then a new venue for May’s Welsh Hill Rally (round four in 2014) – the Sweet Lamb Rally Complex that traditionally features in November’s Wales Rally GB round of the FIA World Rally Championship.

After a chance to soak up the high-octane atmosphere of the prestigious Goodwood Festival of Speed in June, competition restarts at Walters Arena in July for the second hill rally of the year, before taking in two more ‘new’ stage rallies: September’s Trackrod in Yorkshire, and November’s Tempest in Hampshire. As in 2014, the season finale is the Borders Hill Rally in Scotland at the end of November.

Land Rover Owner International is pleased to continue as the official media partner for the 2015 Defender Challenge by Bowler. All of the Defender 90s in this exciting rally series will carry Land Rover Owner International logos, and LRO will report from each round in the world’s best-selling Land Rover magazine and on LRO.com.

 

2015 Defender Challenge by Bowler calendar

Round 1 – April 18: Somerset Stages, Minehead (somersetstagesrally.com)
Round 2 – May 2-3: Welsh Hill Rally, Sweet Lamb (welshhillrally.com)
June 26-28: Goodwood Festival of Speed, West Sussex – non-competitive demonstration (grrc.goodwood.com)
Round 3 – July 18-19: Walters Hill Rally, Swansea, Wales
Round 4 – September 26: Trackrod Rally, Yorkshire (trackrodmotorclub.co.uk)
Round 5 – November 7: Tempest Rally, Aldershot, Hants (tempestrally.com)
Round 6 – November 21-22: Borders Hill Rally, Dumfries (scottish-hillrally.co.uk)

For more details, see www.bowlermotorsport.com

TRINTA&UM NX650

As you leave greater London along the M40 there are four large green hills which seem oddly out of place. Looking like strange neolithic formations, they were actually made from the rubble of the old Wembley Stadium when it was torn down in 2003. The famous twin towers, now four rotund mounds. Every time I pass them I can’t help but imagine pulling off the highway and taking a run at them. They form part of a park, and were it not for the frowns of the lycra clad joggers, they’d be ripe for a quick blast up and down. The idea of taking an old bike that’s been transformed for a scramble up some re-purposed rubble is appealing; maybe one day my inner child will speak loud enough to give it a go…

It’s the similarity of vista in the images of this feisty Dominator based scrambler by Trinta&Um which triggered those thoughts. Based in Porto, Portugal since 2013, the builders started as a group of friends, in a garage, talking and building bikes as a hobby in their spare time. Simply meaning ‘Thrity-One’ in English, the faces behind Trinta&Um Motorcycles come from diverse backgrounds including a a videographer, a graphic designer, a welder and a mechanic. They became united as a bunch of friends who hung out at the garage after work and on weekends.

Having tinkered with their own bikes for long enough, the guys wanted a fresh challenge and agreed to buy into a Dominator as a group project to sell on once finished. Scanning the classifieds, an old 1990 NX was soon found for an appealing price and things became real. It’s that moment we all know. The difference between an advert and a head full of ideas, and a decrepit bike in a dusty garage contained by a limited budget.

Being the first ‘proper’ build, the plan was to keep things relatively simple and let the mechanics of the bike do the talking. A key influence for the bike’s direction was the ‘Uno’ built by Spanish neighbours Kiddo Motors. This meant the grinder had to come out and the subframe be reworked. As well as the usual rear hoop, adding the double loops on the subframe down-tubes spreads the load of the kinked pipe and looks funky. So pleased were the guys with the outcome of the frame modifications, that a clear coat was applied to the freshly blasted chassis to show it off.

As with any build, it’s the tank that shapes the bike’s character. A dinged up item from a ’79 Yamaha XT500 was bought in from the US and once stripped back to the metal, the guys decided it was too charming to cover up again. Brushed and lacquered with some simple striping applied, the splashes of colour are effective against the monochromatic rolling chassis. They are picked up once again on the Flat-tracker style number board, twin offset lamps giving genuinely useful lighting once the sun goes down.

High level mudguards and tall riser bars give a vintage crosser stance to the machine, the mildly battered tank adding to the ‘just-thrashed’ vibe. Purposely mismatched levers give another splash of colour, a short reach from the classic Renthal grips. The boingy bits at both ends received some love; new seals, progressive springs and a thorough clean up lends a new lease of life. The electrics meanwhile are tucked neatly away in the subframe and in the otherwise awkward intersection between tank and seat.

With the bullet-proof 650 engine providing adequate thump, there was no need to poke around inside. The perfectly healthy powertrain was serviced, cleaned, and painted in satin black to contrast the natural metal finishes of the tank and frame. An Akraprovic system lets the big thumper bark to it’s fullest, while the rejetted carb slurps cool air in through a simple pod filter. Power is laid down to the ground through a set of Continental’s trusted TKC80s, perfect for finding the grip when the going gets loose.

Despite the worries, the bike came together bit by bit. The guys finally reaching that ‘oh-so-satisfying’ first running of the finished machine: the juicy reward after months in the workshop. Taking a step back, they were rightly pleased with the end result: “A mean looking Tracker that rides really smooth and sounds really tough!” Next up on the bench is a ’97 Kawasaki Zephyr 550, also awaiting a tracker conversion. With a full schedule, the prospect is to launch 5 more bikes before the end of the year.

The final words go to the guys, “To build our own bikes was the main reason why it all started. Thankfully nowadays we’ve got a few clients, so 2015 will definetly be a great year! We are pumped!”

As you’ll see on their Facebook page, the bike has already been put to good use on track, roosting it’s way round atDusty Track IV last week. Bom trabalho, rapazes!

via PIPEBURN

EDC: CAPSULED

Omega Speedmaster ($3,500). Hodinkee Black Leather Strap ($149). SOG Dark Energy Flashlight ($105). DSPTCH Keychain ($26). Alder New York Sandlewood Lip Balm ($10). True Utility KeyTool ($10). Nite Ize S-Biner ($8). True Utility Cash Stash Capsule ($10). Columbia River Knife and Tool ($18).

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