Foot pegs on the scavenger bike were – well a little bland to say the least, so armed with an idea, an old pair of Harley foot pegs, some old ‘bear trap’ cycle pedals and a ton of enthusiasm, Mac ventured over to Heisenburg who chopped, drilled, machined, tapped and – well you get the picture – and produced these lovely little items!
Master Heisenburg is enlightening Mac – his padawan learner, about the mysteries of the lathe and how to turn dull,blunt metal into objects of desire!!
Our Heisenburg chose his career path at an early age
Winter’s here so time to strip down the ‘scavenger chop’ and sort out the ‘niggles’ that were evident whilst riding it last year.
As Mac is getting old and his hips can’t cope with the ‘squatting frog’ rear sets – time to try some forwards?
Time to adapt some forwards off another bike – this’ll mean new exhausts and a re-tune. Took some piccies of the tank for the very talented Mr. Stroud (Hairy Designs) to take a peek at with a view to splashing some paint on it too – funds permitting!
All’s going well – especially since Mac’s boy Josh has entered into the Scavenger spirit and started spannering on the chop.
Something good has to come out of any tricky situation?
If you need a tank sorting – take it to Wolfy at Farthinghoe. Stunning work (you want to see some of the exhausts he’s made – I’d have them on display as sculptures!!) Any way – he cut off the hideous flap mount and sunk in a Harley neck to accommodate this push and rotate filler cap. – time to get the filler and sand paper out.
Sarah’s Electrics………….. time to get all this ……………..
Into this…………….. She wanted her bike to look like a WW2 dispatch rider / apocalyptic survival bike……….. so be rude not to use an ammo box!
Mac has said goodbye to the ‘Marmite bike’ and it’s off to pastures new.
As a treat to himself – and an acknowledgement that he’s getting too old to be scrabbling about on the floor imbedding screws in his knees, he bought himself a lift with the cash………. yum!!
You don’t get this sort of precision engineering from your usual high street motorcycle boutique.
Fruitshoot’s pipes for his xs needed some gentle persuasion and Heisenburg is just the man with the ‘ology’ in pipe bending!
This is Josh – the ‘mad profs’ boy. Josh had a major off on his motocross bike 13 months ago and ended up paralysed from the chest down.
After meeting the guys and girls from the ‘Bike Experience’, Mac asked josh if he’d like to meet him up at Silverstone last week for him to see what the guys do.
Neither Mac nor Josh expected Talan (the main man) to offer (insist) Josh a ride as soon as he tipped up.
At this point its fair to say that josh is now officially our hero of the first order. No winging or whining from this boy – oh no – he was straight into a set of borrowed leathers and with the help of a launch crew and catch crew was straight in there.
We’ll make no apologies for the number of pictures of this event. The experience was truly humbling.
Josh was strapped onto the bike, made a couple of runs to and from his support teams and then he was off – ragging it around the circuit leaving the ‘guide’ struggling to keep up !
Truly impressed!
Josh – on the bike and taking some advice from Talan (also paralysed from the chest down and I understand also a demon on a bike)
This is Josh after his first ride to and from his launch team – whilst you can’t see the smile – look at the eyes!!
Off again!
Bigger smile!
Stopping for a break.
….. then time to pick up the pace…….
…… and faster…….
……. and faster…….
……. go on boy!…….
At the end of the day – big grins all round!
Bloody hell…… even Mac was smiling!
The team and participants!
And an arty shot courtesy of Dave Holloway (as all pics above) who helps out as photographer for the Bike Experience as well as The Brackley Festival of Motorcycling….. Thanks mate!
