Two tasty – and contrasting – Sporties, both soon to be featured in GKM.
TOP: Benny's Cutter, currently for sale on Ebay starting at £2500 with no reserve. Early seventies chopped frame, '79 motor.
Bottom: '73 Sporty built by The Gas Box in Lakewood, Ohio. Handmade fender, sissybar, handlebars, pipes.
Mop my brow!
You're right about Ironhead Fever; in a pick-up, west on the M50 on Saturday we overtook a bunch of bikers. Coolest I've seen in ages; Greasy Kulturists - rigid ironheads, Triumphs, flatties -nothing newer than 1970. All the guys had mini shades and metalflake helmets, retro leather jackets - it was a sight very reminiscent of the old days of Hunter S. Thompson - 'a burst of dirty thunder...' No idea who they were - no patches but a bit like a retro chopper club... Cool as.
ReplyDeleteI have an idea who they were...
ReplyDeleteI haven't had to worry about getting custom bike features in magazines for years but after we passed them I kept thinking how a tracking shot from the back of the pick-up of them all in the sunshine would have been a great opening spread shot... Old habits die hard. Caz
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ReplyDeleteI do too - especially as you overtook them in a pickup.
I think that may have been us! Hunter S Thompson 'The Edge'
ReplyDeleteReal small world huh!
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