By 1928 motorcycles were chain drive and drum brakes, a major step in motorcycle development. However earlier motorcycles with belt drives and rim brakes were in use for a much longer period, in fact they are still in use today on a lot of rallies. The down side of their continued use is that these […]
Vintage Motorcycle Belt and Brake Rims. Read More »
Stepping up from single speed and 2 speed drives to 3 speed gearboxes with clutches was a major achievement for the British motorcycle industry in the 1920s. A few manufacturers had achieved this in the late 1910s with their own designs but the majority of machines in the 20s were fitted with Sturmey Archer, Burman,
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Wow, after all this time we finally got around to putting up some content about a Hoggly Doggly (I can call them this as I am the proud owner of one of these fine machines) Barnstormers proudly give you , gentle readers, the 1935 Harley Davidson Riders Handbook for 45 Twins. The PDF may look
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AMAC Carburetters 1923~1928 Any information on vintage carburetters is hard to come by and with the popularity of our earlier posting of the Brown and Barlow carburetter handbook we thought that we would add to the technical library by addition of the spare parts list for AMAL, AMAC and Binks carburetters from 1923 to 1930.
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As previously mentioned in other articles it is getting quite hard to obtain manuals and information on early motorcycles, especially those over 70 years old. So when one of our readers passed on a site for us to inspect naturally I had to follow it through (thanks Wing Nut). There are 2 sites which appear
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