Thank you so very much for all the footage you have posted. It's enough of an honour and privilege to see and hear one of these from afar, but this is such stuff as dreams are made on. Impeccable cornering lines, by the way. This is how these bikes SHOULD be ridden!
Hi, Thank you for your very kind observations... The fact is that we really try to be gentle with our original machines. It's a different story with the Matchless G50 replica... :) That one is getting ridden hard! I invite you to follow up more videos that will come in the future. A new museum homepage will be ready also in 2012.
@goinghomesomeday1 Hi. No, the one you have in mind was a 350 from 1939. The one that won the IOM Grand Prix... But I can guarantee you that this one is not a mute either ;)
@MotoMUSEUM You mean you crank that machine to those angles on 1937 tyres!!? I'm speechless from admiration. Now, some years back, in the Isle of Man, an ex-works DKW with opposed pistons totally different from previous factory designs was run static in the Paddock area. Pictures appeared in the British bike press. I can't find any acknowledgement of this machine's existence online. Do you have any information on it?
@tc19948 Hi, our machines are all original. Yes. We have to use modern fuels and oils and plugs. On this particular motorcycle the tyres are the original Rennrifen AVON from 1937!! Shifting with the cutout is a little too hard for these historical motorcycles today, so normal clutch and shift is used instead.
How do you get these running so sweetly? I expect modern plugs and oils, allied to meticulous preparation, help somewhat. Do you use an ignition cutout to change up, as was apparently done in the 20s and 30s?
Thank you so very much for all the footage you have posted. It's enough of an honour and privilege to see and hear one of these from afar, but this is such stuff as dreams are made on. Impeccable cornering lines, by the way. This is how these bikes SHOULD be ridden!
Hi,
Thank you for your very kind observations... The fact is that we really try to be gentle with our original machines. It's a different story with the Matchless G50 replica... :) That one is getting ridden hard!
I invite you to follow up more videos that will come in the future. A new museum homepage will be ready also in 2012.
@goinghomesomeday1
Hi. No, the one you have in mind was a 350 from 1939. The one that won the IOM Grand Prix...
But I can guarantee you that this one is not a mute either ;)
@MotoMUSEUM You mean you crank that machine to those angles on 1937 tyres!!? I'm speechless from admiration. Now, some years back, in the Isle of Man, an ex-works DKW with opposed pistons totally different from previous factory designs was run static in the Paddock area. Pictures appeared in the British bike press. I can't find any acknowledgement of this machine's existence online. Do you have any information on it?
@tc19948
Hi,
our machines are all original. Yes. We have to use modern fuels and oils and plugs. On this particular motorcycle the tyres are the original Rennrifen AVON from 1937!! Shifting with the cutout is a little too hard for these historical motorcycles today, so normal clutch and shift is used instead.
How do you get these running so sweetly? I expect modern plugs and oils, allied to meticulous preparation, help somewhat. Do you use an ignition cutout to change up, as was apparently done in the 20s and 30s?