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Hardened valve seats

Hardened valve seats

And so, while you are assembling a sidecar on your own – but with four jacks as extra hands – you suddenly find yourself no longer on your own and in the middle of a discussion about hardened valve seats (and electronic…

Falling is a shame

Falling is a shame

For the past 50+ years I have always dressed for the seasons on my motorcycle. A Husky Difi thermal overall during the bitter cold. And – yes – shorts and a T-shirt during the tropical temperatures. The…

25 of 40 Or never

25 of 40. Or never – Column

Somewhere in our memory we still have that motorcycles (and yes: cars) of 25 years and more experienced were 'ownership-free'. Then you don't pay attention for a moment and it turns out that the limit has gone to forty years (Romanticus: "my new girlfriend is…

Messing around in the margins

Messing around in the margins

Riding solo is hard. At least, if your motorcycle is actually meant for sidecar use. Because of the geometry of the front fork, which is tuned for sidecar riding, such a thing actually only wants to go straight or fall over. This makes a test ride so exciting that you really…

Smitbros

Smitbros

On Texel, in Den Burg, are the Smit brothers. Or would you expect a group of highly professional technicians in the field of Kawasaki three-cylinder two-strokes and Benelli six-cylinders to be on a Wadden island? Well, why not? Then it is certainly…

The Sales Dept

The Sales Dept

Selling a motorcycle? You used to do that to a friend or an acquaintance. Because everyone in your circle of acquaintances rode a motorcycle. Placing an advertisement in De Telegraaf or the weekly magazine Motor was already quite enterprising. Then came free advertising newspapers like ViaVia.…