Lets have another go.......

Well, it's been almost 2 years since I updated this blog - where did that go ??

We've been very busy building and touring so as well as posting our latest doings, I will be playing catch up to let you see what we've been up to over the last couple of years

Our latest outing was last week to Motorcycle Live at the NEC, Birmingham with our little Triumph, Ramalamadingdong appearing on the BSH Custom Extreme stand and winning Best Custom - thanks guys !!!

Good to catch up with Nik, Lauren, Glyn, Jules, Pete, Greg, Billy & Dave as well as all the other bike builders there.

Our latest customer bike made its debut on the Carole Nash stand, where it was much admired and the colours perfectly matched the Carole Nash livery of  white, blue and green.

It will also be in the Harrison Billet Custom Show at the MCN show in February at Excel for anyone else who wants an up close and personal view of it.

Destiny's Invader is Suzuki based in a Destiny Goldrush frame, as always, designed and built by Vic with much fine machining by Woody, stitched black saddle hide seat by Les and Sandy at Saddlecraft Seating and painted by Dave Dickinson at DDK Kustom Airbrushing .

see photo below

Shovel Engine from Punta Bagna

Fantastic Best-in-Show prize - an S&S Shovel Motor -  from Punta Bagna being put to good use
Merci beaucoup a l'equipe de Wild Magazine, France
Thanks Guys !!

Back in Black

Frame back and a beautiful black, engine and box back in, getting there....

1990 Supercup Snetterton Sidecar

Vic qualified 2nd fastest and finishes 2nd after a great race against Rob Fisher/Trevor Crone and Derek Brindley/Nick Roche  and the Dixons.

Silver Memory

 

Vic's Silver Replica  was won at the Isle of Man TT Races
Vic visited the Isle of Man TT Races once in 1989, the last year of the F1 sidecars.
Although it was his first and only visit to the island, he and passenger Pete Hill managed to set the lap record for the fastest ever sidecar newcomer at 102.98 mph in the sidecar A race  and achieved an average race speed of 100.79 mph , which gave him a 7th place finish and was only a little over 2 minutes behind race winners Manxman Dave Molyneux and passenger  Colin Hardman.
This was an even bigger achievement because the TT races are not started all together as on a short circuit but in pairs at 30 second intervals.
 Vic started 38th on the grid!!

( At that time the lap record was still held by the late Jock Taylor and his passenger Benga Johansson  at 108.29 mph, set in 1981 after  winning the Sidecar World Championship in 1980. He was sadly killed in the Finnish Grand Prix in 1982 ).

Time to Spoke The Wheels

Ready to twist 'em into place

Even them all up, steady as she goes

Spins like a good 'un

Vic's happy, wheel spoked and  trued. No run out either way - Next! 

Exhausts on next

Catching up fast, exhausts fitted and sanded ready for polishing