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Purchasing classics there

That was once the highest attainable title in motorcycle country ...

 

Because life is so much nicer on a motorcycle where your own blood, sweat and tears are processed.

The Motoport organization is of course a modern institution. And a number of the self-built bicycles will not make us water too warm. But Goos still has the engine heart in the old-fashioned place. He regularly drives to work on his 350 AMF Harley ... He has an Ural sidecar for sale. A new. Yet.

So maybe the trip to Hengelo (OV) is an option. Or maybe you want to show your eighen bastard there too. Because there are more 'classics' with a somewhat vague bloodline ...

Hereby we present the conception, growth and birth of the Uraldneprdafvwhondasuzumaha.

The builder says:

I myself have adjusted my dreams for an Egli Vincent and a Bimota Tesi. I will only make it if the Netherlands and the Postcode lottery suddenly come under a whole new management. So what? Then you realize that where 'upgrading' is the norm, 'downgrading' can be the alternative. I decided to make my own dream engine. Technically, my garage is about the same level as that of a professional hobbyist from some fifty years ago. People with less eye for relaxed anarchy describe my workplace with "Just Srebenica, but after the bombing." Build your own engine with limited resources. Is that still possible these days? Just one old battle cry from the mothballs: "Yes, we can!". In the meantime, there were already nice former Suzuki 600s with GSX 1100 blocks for example. And many Japanese components can get along well across the brands. But of course most of our own constructions are in the more traditional corner. Because you can do more with a steel tubular frame than with an auluminium delta box and electronics plus programming ECUs is quite a big deal for most of us. What can you do if you have a lift, an angle grinder and a very old 220V welding machine? You can build a Dnepruraldafvwhondasuzuki. That usually takes about three years and sometimes you have to wait a few months until the Action has the right color spray cans or you bump into someone who tells you that he still has a BMW front. Of course you also run a Kunduz crisis project like this against your limitations. At the time, when designing the air-cooled engine blocks for DAF's famous suspenders with suspender drive, they hadn't thought that some duts would want to attach such a boxer block to a Russian gearbox. But after a week of fitting and measuring, you have a short, crystal-clear story that you can use to search for someone with a solid lathe after you have scored a thick slice of alumnium at the marketplace, the coupling disk of which can be made between box and block. is also in your area. Explain that the job is not in a hurry and you do not have to have a receipt. The professional turner may have some tips and then it will take a while. A week, two weeks. Never more than three. Because the much wider DAF block is not between the frame tubes the cradle had to be widened. Twenty euros is sufficient for an extra Dnepr frame without papers. You tackle that with a folding rule and your angle grinder. You can then craft the cradle widening around the original frame as a template and attach it firmly, so that it can absorb the possible frame tension of the Russian ingenuity when 'everything you don't need' is amputated with the grinder. Notice here for a moment where the peacock's tail of sparks goes. That fire extinguisher - NOT POWDER EXTINGUISHER! - that was already near the welding work may remain in the vicinity. Also be careful with the angle grinder. The disc will be half a centimeter in your flesh before you feel it. These are nasty, frayed wounds. This is how you can tinker and mess around for three years. And then suddenly there is a motor. Your own motorcycle! Baked all by yourself. With the help of Jan for finishing and better thinking. And what did such a thing cost in material? Hundreds of euros!

What amounts:
A trailer full of Russian parts: “Take it with you. I don't get it sold. "
A DAF 44 block: for € 40, plus a bottle of whiskey
The rear tire: € 50. On the demolition.
The tank: from the old iron bin of the demolition.
BMW front fork plus wheel: warriors
Two carburetors: € 30
Stainless steel pipe for the bends: € 40, -
Paint supplier: the Action
Oil supplier: the Lidl
Small items: Gekra Motors
Rear wheel: Suzuki GSX € 40
Outsourced work on welding and turning: friends' services & returns

Where: At Motoport Hengelo (OV)

When: 9 June, from an hour or 8
Participate? Contact Goos Bos, 074-2438376
http://www.motoporthengelo.nl

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