Old School Racing

That might become the mistake of your life or at least raise a ruckas.

 

Thankee Jesus that HD kept their hands off both marques. Got a bud with an MV.. Rode that one once. They are not that big a bike. Too small for me. Plenty fast enough...great binders..

 

I have always liked the sound and the "organ pipes" on the MV. Never rode one, tracked with a bunch at Miami International Raceway. There is a big MV club down there. A few fast guys making sweet sounds. But thats a little rich for being a track bike for me. Sooner or later it will get tossed down the track. Repairing my 06 cbr 1k is very inexpensive compared to the pretty Italian bikes.

 

Never quite understood the Harley/Italian bike thing.. MV made a gaggle of little bikes too including some two strokers. My fave is the "America". Maybe having dreams of Ago, whuppin ass for several years. Too rich for me blood too especially as a track or racebike.. Lotsa pesos for one of those puppies.

There are some HD bikes made from tooling that are pure Japanese from the 1920's. Harley sold them tooling and they put their own stamp on the marques. Ford did the same in the 1930s. Little Deuce Coupes If ya know what I mean..

 

A mate of mine often talks about wanting to go up in the jungles, hoping to find one of those Jappanese Harleys dumped after the war, don't like his chances. He also keeps on about finding tunnels out here that are full of WLA's still packed in crates that were buried at wars end, all packed in grease. Supposedly hundreds were buried on an Army base in Victoria and people have been trying to get permission to dig there as well. Problem is nearly all the people who had some knowledge of where they might be and how factual the stories are have now died

 

This is the "official" story on the "Japanese Harleys". Not a clue on any mention of the Japanese using bikes in WWII.

http://www.motorcyclemuseum.org/asp/classics/bike.asp?id=81

A few years back A Seattle restoration shop sold out to a guy from SA who knew of or found (fuzzy) some new US built army HDs.. At last look again fuzzy, the guy from SA was still in business.

The military has a history of burying all sorts of things.

 

This one surprised me. A water cooler 2 stroke from Harley?? Yea sure budddy................................

 

Japanese carbs on an Italian Harley. Sacrilege !! I'd like to see them try that nowadays.. The harleydoods would crap their nappies. Whoops.. too late..