Born Free 7 2015

  

I'll be heading to Born Free 7 next year with my Norton that I built all those years ago. Ill be displaying it in the Guest area of the show ....big thanks to Grant and Mike for allowing me to be a part of it.....I have wanted to go since the first year but time and money never allowed the trip.

Here is the bike as it sat in the shed today. I will be stripping it completely and redoing everything including motor and box. It has sat for quite a while while I have been busy with other projects so it will be good for us to spend some time together again.

  

TMF 003 Peter Arundel's 1924 8 Valve Indian Racer

Head over to The Machine Files site for the latest issue of the on-line mag... 003 features the Arundel 8 valve Indian racer from 1924. Having been delivered as a bare motor to Australia it raced here in various different frames and classes over its life.

We have over a hundred and twenty photos of this beautiful machine with a story and history by Paul d'Orleans that details just how important a motorcycle like this one is to our motorcycling world.

Issue 003 of The Machine Files

We have fixed on the next feature bike, Peter Arundel's 1924 Indian 8 valve..... Its a spectacular machine full of beautiful details and gorgeous patina. Off to photograph it tomorrow, hope we get some clear Melbourne weather.

NorVin

Ken Phelps' NorVin from Issue 002 of The Machine Files

The Machine Files Issue 002

Very proud of our second issue.....We worked super hard to get this one looking great. Such a beast of a motorcycle this racing NorVin. Pick up a digital copy for $2.50 or a subscription for $9.00 here.

The Machine Files Issue 002

Getting ready for an end of June release of the next issue of TMF.
Photography is all done and we are starting layouts this week.
Bryon Fitzpatrick's rendering is in house and we will have A2 and A3 prints for sale to coincide with the release of the new issue.

This motorcycle is all class, wait until you see this methanol breathing beast.

Head to themachinefiles.com.au for a subscription or to pick up the latest issue or one of the blueprints from Issue 001.

100th anniversary of the first Australian TT

I headed over to Collector on the Ducati Sport with Mike on his Shovelhead to meet up with all the guys and girls celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first Aussie TT... great turnout, some new people to meet and some from years ago. Here are a few shots from the day...

Blueprints ready to ship out....

Our first order of Blueprints for TMF 001 feature bike have arrived. I'm over the moon with the quality of reproduction. We had a 200MB scan of the original drawing by Bryon Fitzpatrick done then shipped it over to a bespoke printer in Sydney that takes his job very seriously indeed.

We have two grades of paper available in the shop. The standard base grade paper which is a satin photographic paper, and a full cotton rag art grade paper that is completely matt finish

Head over to the shop at THEMACHINEFILES.COM.AU to pick up a print or if you have some spare cash maybe the original drawing....

Big thanks to all who have supported the new venture and bought a print or a shirt in the first week....

The Machine Files

The new website is all up and running right here...... The Machine Files.
There is a new blog attached to that site that I will be using but this one will still remain as an archive.....

Bryon Fitzpatrick

Beautiful work by this man. Bryon Fitzpatrick....

The Drawing Machine - 1947 Sunbeam from Leon Fitzpatrick on Vimeo.

Mark 3 LeMans finished up.

few little things to do, but the 300km shakedown run went pretty well on the weekend. Two brand new fork seals are weeping, cant understand that one, and the main breather pipe struck a leak and decided to spew oil everywhere. Aside from the speedo cable giving it up thats it.

love this

BORN FREE from scott pommier on Vimeo.

my shovel.

finally got the front end of the shovel all sorted....got the new ikon rear shocks on too so finally understood its stance....exactly how i wanted.

weekend away at the tank moto launch ...

last weekend was pretty special....its been a long while since i had a few days away...just me and a bike....did about 1600kms over the few days, met up with most of my friends down there and the weather held up beautifully...

although this morning was one of the coldest i've ever ridden...ice on my screen for nearly 40kms and i had to stop a couple of times to get some blood in my fingers...

jims new place in abbotsford...go check it out and say hi...

 dallas' gold plated knuck...

me and nico

 tim kills u model

we went to the importer and picked up barteks new panhead....and got it started up.

this guy...