n ice b sa in to wn to day....

cool young man by the name of Niall turned up in town today, didn't take long for us to strike up conversation about bikes....he had remembered seeing my mark 1 le mans on the road...he has just finished this BSA with some great little details.

mikes 45

 gettin close to my first ride....

daddy cool...

when i was about 4 or 5 my parents had a record player like this that i had in my bedroom....i used to play daddy cool on it all the time ... i saw one today in a pawn shop...got me thinking about daddy cool so i played the best of on the way home





funny how after watching the video for school days i see that the program it was on was produced by a lady i designed a house for in 2010....love that shit.

ride

5 and a half hours on the shovel yesterday

stopped at joes and took the linkert off his 60 to give it some love... geez those things get heavy in your backpack.

got lost ..

followed a train line

found my way home and had whale ale til i had to sleep.......

thankyou to Iron and Air for the story....

that they did on me....what was super cool was that Kim was in the same issue on his Norton too...

thanks guys....

its ALIVE.....

MIKES 45 FIRST STARTUP AT MACHINE....... from matt machine on Vimeo.

my 48

when i first finished it.....i have not ridden it for almost year after i broke a belt and decided to pull it off the road to make some changes.....(small changes that turned into big plans). im close to pulling it apart...i miss the sound of that baby pan EL.

the groundhogs

.....if you aint before.....then do yourself a favour.

it rolls.....

45.

almost there with mikes wl....i painted the tanks and fender about two months ago.....so i blocked them back and hit them with a couple more coats of clear....

they came up real nice...straight off the gun in acrylic they almost don't need polishing.....

maggy all timed and ready for action...hoping to kick it over by sunday afternoon....cant wait to hear this one go.

nice ride on the weekend with my girl....

shovelhead, winding country roads, beautiful lunch with friends, and a speeding ticket from the man.

still, wouldn't swap it for nothin......

last couple of days have been full of good stuff...

totally cant get enough ...

cant stop listening to this song.....

shovel 24hr makeunder.

stopped myself just short of pulling the front end.

new bars

new (old) lights, new wiring, new (old) horn, new throttle cable, fix exhaust, fix rocker cover oil leaks, fix paintwork with wet and dry sandpaper, fix seat mount, fix loose battery terminal, fix front fender by cutting half of it off, fix inlet manifold leaks, install new (old) e shorty,

rossi modelling the latest in shovelbars

and yes it made it to town for a full tank of gas. ready for 2000kms this weekend?.....not with that busted brake cylinder on the way home...... quote..."shovels.....ride a bit.....tinker a bit".

oil stained brain

im heading down to the show with two other hippys.....if my shovel makes it......so tap me on the shoulder and say hello if you recognise my ugly mug.

shovel love

couldn't find any good original 74 calipers for the front end i have....so i thought i'd use some period ducati brembo calipers instead......i milled about 3mm off each fork leg mounting lug. i will make up a plate to pick up the other mount point.

matched with a new brembo master cyl it will probably stop a lot better anyway.

when it works aesthetically...

...when it just looks perfect.

last weekends ride....

should have been named the tighten your nuts and plug in your wires run... sportster wires loose..no spark, shovel chainguard nuts loose and chain digging flapping guard bouncy bouncy, and no bouncy bouncy on mark IV le mans guzzi when rear shock bolt backs out....

got to see the 50 pan again and fit one of Kims (BCM) sexy filters in tumbled finish...matches the bead blasted fork legs beautifully....

....then rode home and stopped to see the Tianjara Falls....some beautiful country

ps i love my shovel....ugly but good