dimanche 20 octobre 2013
RACING LEGENDS: COLIN MCRAE
The life and times of Colin McRae is a tale that could fill multiple full length feature films, this documentary does a great job of covering all the bases, it’s presented by Sir Chris Hoy, a man with multiple cycling world championships under his belt and a long held love of motor racing.
This BBC film is about 60 minutes long and it’s worth watching just to see Colin’s car collection and to see Colin’s Dad take Chris out for a high speed run around the Scottish countryside.
RVA OVERLAND BY ATOM BOMB CUSTOM MOTORCYCLES
The RVA Overland is one of those motorcycles that looks so utterly perfect that I just want to shut the hell up and post the images. That said, it would be doing the bike a disservice to not share a little about its construction and the work that went into creating it.
As you may have guessed from the title, this bike was built by Clay Rathburn over at Atom Bomb Motorcycles, the garage is based in the historic town of Richmond, Virginia and Clay specialises in building custom vintage British motorcycles from discarded, damaged, abused and forgotten Triumph and BSA relics.
The RVA Overland is a personal project from Clay, it’s quite different from his usual work and it’s nice to see attention being paid to the off-road/enduro motorcycle genre. That beautiful black engine is from a 1974 Triumph Bonneville, it’s a parallel twin with about 49hp on tap and that power is fed to the rear hub via a 4 speed transmission.
1974 was an interesting time at the Triumph factory, the workers became enraged on hearing of the impending shutdown of the Triumph Motorcycle factory in Meriden, so they shut it down themselves with a major strike in October 1973, just as production was being changed over from the 1973 models to making the new 1974s. Production wasn’t fully resumed until 1975 which means that very few 1974 Bonnevilles were ever made, making it one of the rarer Triumphs produced in the 1970s.
From a purely technical perspective, the RVA Overland is a tour de force. Starting from the front of the bike, Clay had DC Plastics custom-mold the fenders, KYB forks were added and that frame was handmade from scratch. That air-cooled Triumph engine is powdercoated, the exhaust was made by Burns Stainless and if you take the time to really look at it in the pictures, you’ll note just how meticulous it is.
If, like me, you fell in love with this bike after taking a look through these stunning photographs I have some good news for you. The RVA Overland is currently for sale. If you’d like to shoot Clay an email and make him an offer on what is quite possibly the most beautiful vintage Triumph enduro bike ever made, hit the link here.
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10ème édition du Rallye Jeanne d’Arc Historique / Trophée Historique des Régions de France
Le rallye Jeanne d’Arc Historique a vu le jour en 2003 à l’instigation de deux anciens de l’époque, Yvon
GASCOIN et Jean-Luc GIRARD. Il a vécu une première interruption en 2005 avec des soucis
administratifs mais a repris dès l’année suivante. Depuis cette date il a continué sa route, toujours avec
le même esprit et il clôture le Trophée Historique des Régions de France depuis 2007.
Ce sera sa 10
ème
édition et dernière édition sous l’égide des anciens ; il sera en sommeil à partir de
l’année prochaine mais peut-être renaîtra-t-il dans le futur porté par de futurs anciens.dixit Jean Luc GIRARD
cette 10éme édition aura en tout cas été dès plus arrosée !
photos Pierre Xavier
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