Motos Anciennes

[RobertArthur]

A German biker (name?) in the roaring twenties, inspiration for one of the students or teachers in the Bauhaus Movement.

[Polarengineer]

Those were the days, aerodynamic flat cap and plus fours. Where was all the fireproof clothing then.

[RobertArthur]

Those were the German BMW days. The production line of the racebike in the Bauhaus Museum in the city of Weimar. More pictures: the R37 and the R47.

[Hotrodder]

I do love the old motorcycles. Hate the modern ones with all that ridiculous plastic that takes an hour to remove before you can get a spanner near it. They've gone the way of the modern cars. Pretty much identical, no character, and they nearly cost as much as a car.

[RobertArthur]

Get your kicks on Route 66, not with Mick Jagger, this time with Johnny Hallyday.

[RobertArthur]

Wthout Johnny, on our side of the Atlantic, English Channel and the North Sea, one hour ago.

[RobertArthur]

This Harley, a price tag of more than 40 K? An investment. The same goes for a real bicycle, more than a century ago, picture from the depths of the family archives in shoe boxes. You bought such a bicycle for life, also an investment. Modern days are here to stay: seeing the pricelevel of a sports bicycle I thought: what's going on? This is four times more than for my first second hand Mercedes diesel with only 100,000 km on the odometer. The magic frontier for many a proud car owner, Oh Lord, I have to buy something new....sooner or later it is going to break down. And I'll be standing there all alone, on a rainy day along a roadside, singing: Where have all the good times gone...

[Hotrodder]

Oh yes, you gotta have carbon fibre. So fashionable. So light. So popular with bike thieves.

[Hotrodder]

Here's a little factoid for ya. In the US so many drivers have never driven a manual shift car that it is now seen as a theft deterrant. The thieves are so used to automatics.

[RobertArthur]

An old 1967 Moto Guzzi, already with modern looks. One of its descendants below.