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The Classic Motorcycle Racing Register has been running the Classic Motorcycle Festival in Auckland, New Zealand, for 40 years. The range of machinery on the track is of equal quality to any event held world wide. The club runs all classic events held in the North Island of New Zealand and includes both regularity events and racing to cater for the largest number of riders. A great weekend with good summer weather and well worth my trip from the south. I have not finished sorting the photos yet so have another 100 or so to add. If you would like larger copies without watermarks just ask, I can provide them at no cost.
I have added the watermark after a journalist has used, and continues to use, my photos for a magazine article and their website without asking. Anyway (returning to a happy place), I hope you enjoy viewing the photos.
1957 MV Agusta CSS (Competition Super Sport), 2013 All Italian Car/Bike Display, Tomago House, Tomago Road, Tomago, Newcastle, NSW.
I bought this bike about eight years ago and more or less forgot about it. A couple of weeks ago I attended a Jawa/CZ rally and was inspired to get the CZ running again.
The bike is complete but needs a new wiring loom and I´m changing the points and condensor just to be on the safe side.
1955. 175cc, Ydral engine
Follis were a French manufacturer based in Lyon. They only made the cycle parts and always used bought-in engines.
Ydral were a French company founded by Anatole Lardy, Ydral being an anagram of his name.
Side Valve : Tree Speed Gearbox.
This machine usually has a chain and belt drive combination.
It uses a 350cc side valve engine, raleigh produced many engine configurations from the 698cc flat twins, 798cc V Twins to the 175cc, 248cc, 348cc, 498cc side valve engines and also the more modern 348cc and 498cc overhed valve singles.
They ceased production of motorcycles in 1933.
Raleigh then carried on to be a very successful bicycle manufacturer and were taken over by Tube Investments LTD, an engineering firm who had many connections in British engineering.
Astica en Enero de 2011. Recién comenzaba el año y unos amigos organizan un viaje a Valle Fértil a manera de micro vacaciones. Ellos viajarÃan en automóvil y yo en moto, tenÃa la esperanza de poder cargar el equipaje en el auto pero no pudo ser, asà que como siempre cargue todo sobre mi vehÃculo. En la estación de servicio nos encontramos con « Rulo « quien me acompaño junto a otro amigo una parte del viaje, algo asà como unos 60 km de aproximadamente 200.
Gracias a este viaje conocà uno de los lugares más lindos de mi provincia.
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Description Moto Guzzi Lodola Gran Turismo
Registration 716 UXK
Year 1960
Colour Red
Engine size 235 cc
Chassis No. RDG37
Engine No. RDG33
Builders of high-quality machines since the 1920s, Moto Guzzi was Italy’s leading motorcycle manufacturer and was one of the few makes known outside the country, due mainly to the successful competition machines that appeared pre- and post-war when the flying red machines were always to the fore.
After 1946 Moto Guzzi changed their priorities and, while still producing the sporting large capacity machines they were best known for, they added a comprehensive range of smaller two-stroke machines from 44cc to 153cc.
So good were they at this task, the Italians became kings of the lightweight motorcycle in the 1950s and 60s, producing machines fabled for their power-to-weight ratio and their superb handling. Apart from motorcycles, mopeds and scooters, Moto Guzzi also produced three-wheelers and utility vehicles during this period, the priority being to get the general public motorised in the austere post-war world.
Carlo Guzzi’s final design, the Lodola arrived in 1956, powered by a 175cc single-overhead-cam engine inclined in a duplex loop frame. A Sport version followed and then in 1959 the model was enlarged to 235cc, becoming the Lodola Gran Turismo. Pushrod valve operation was adopted for the bigger engine which produced 11bhp and was good for a top speed of 70mph. It remained in production until 1966.
This Lodola Gran Turismo was first registered in Italy in June 1960, according to the V5C, being imported to the UK about 10 years ago. Records on file show correspondence from 2005 when the machine was dated by the Moto Guzzi Club UK to assist the then owner to register it with the DVLA on an age-related number, 716 UXK. This is a pretty bike eligible for the Giro events in Italy if the new owner should fancy a Roman Holiday.