The Motif Collective 2016 Vintage Motorcycle Edition

The Motif Collective

2016 Vintage Motorcycle Edition

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The Motif Collective

PUBLISHER, EDITOR & PHOTOGRAPHER

John E Adams

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Welcome to our 2016 Vintage Motorcycle Edition!

This is my 5th issue of The Motif Collective and the very first covering Motorcycles. It was inevitable however as I love shooting bikes just as much as cars!

Every year for the last eight years I head on down to the Riding into History™ Motorcycle Concours at The World Golf Village Hall of Fame near St Augustine, Florida for an amazing day of shooting. This fantastic event attracts over 300 antique and vintage motorcycles each year and has raised over $400,000 for various charities over the last 17 years. The location is perfect for either car or bike events and we hope you enjoy the collection of some of our favorites put together here from the field in this year’s edition.

If you are not familiar with my work I am an Independent Fine Art Photographer, hand process each of my images from multiple exposures, put in an average of 300 hours a year just processing and adding fresh posts and online material for up to 10 months after a given event and put out this magazine for free using my own time and money.

I love bikes, cars and photography even more, and in my mind there is only one way to properly display these magnificent machines, with quality and elegance.

If you are interested in following my works please subscribe to our newsletter online at: www.AdamsViews.net/info/subscribe I do sell prints of these images online and also welcome any comments or feedback, stop by to visit or drop us a line anytime via our Website at: www.AdamsViews.net JOHN E ADAMS Editor-in-Chief

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1964 Norton Atlas The Atlas was a 750CC and mainly an export version of the domestic Dominator. This bike handled very well for 1964 with the renowned “Featherbed” frame and “Roadholder” front forks.

Not a weak performer in its day as it was designed for doing “the ton” (100mph) with other period performance bikes 4

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1969 Bultaco El Tigre

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1973 Triumph TR5T

1971 Triumph Bonneville

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1946 Moto Guzzi Superalce This four-stroke, single cylinder 500cc bike with a top speed 110 kph was the first used by the Italian army in the late 1920s.

In 1939 Guzzi developed a lightened and improved four-speed version, the GT20 which was renamed 'Alce' (elk). In 1943 the Alce was updated with the more powerful overhead-valve engine, becoming the Superalce, which remained in service with the Italian Army and police well into the 1950s.

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1967 Triumph T20M Tiger

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1959 175CC Ducati Factory Racer

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1954 Victoria V35S Bergmeister Victoria was a bicycle manufacturer in NĂźrnberg, Germany that made motorcycles from about 1901 until 1966.

In 1953 Victoria expanded its range with a new KĂźchen-designed V35 Bergmeister. The V 35 is a 350 cc OHV four-stroke V-twin producing 21 bhp and its' powertrain combines chain primary drive to the gearbox with shaft drive to the rear wheel.

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1966 Triumph Bonneville

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1962 BMW R69S

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1949 Vincent Meteor

This 500CC motorcycle has been raced for the past 25 years in Vintage Roadracing. It has been modified from original using period modifications.

Not many are raced today because of their value.

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1960 Velocette Venom

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1969 CZ 969 Moto X

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1979 Honda Moto Martin CBX The Moto Martin CBX frame was manufactured in Brittany, France commencing in 1979. The Moto Martin has become the best known and probably the most sought after of the CBX specialist frames in the world.

There were only about 75-100 frames built for the Honda CBX 6-cylinder and this is one of possibly 4 in the United States and took over 5 years to rebuild.

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1941 Harley Davidson Service

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1963 Harley Davidson CRTT

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1966 Harley Davidson XLCH This Harley Davidson XLCH was kept in storage since the early 1970s and like many motorcycles from the 60s it had been highly modified as a chopper. The entire 50-year-old bike was stripped and rebuilt from the ground up to bring it back to its original condition and the engine and transmission were rebuilt to exacting high performance specifications.

This bike is light and powerful, it is ridden frequently and will easily outperform a modern sportster.

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1965 Bultaco M16 Matador

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1955 Itom 50CC Supersport

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1949 Indian Sport

1973 Condor A350 Swiss

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1967 Velocette Thruxton The Velocette Thruxton was a sporting motorcycle produced by Velocette between 1965 and 1971 with an advertised 41 horsepower at the crankshaft and period tests clocked it at 110 mph without race tuning.

It was important for eligibility in endurance races such as the Thruxton 500 that competing motorcycles were genuine production machines, but although the Velocette Thruxton was sold in a road-going version, it was really targeted at the racing fraternity.

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1972 BSA Lightning

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1958 Moto Morini 175 Tresette Sprint

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1951 Indian Brave Dirt Track Racer Built in 1950 while Indian was run by the British firm Brockhouse Engineering, it was built in England but not sold in the UK. It was a low-budget lightweight powered with 248cc singlecylinder engine with a three-speed gearbox.

This modified version did not have brakes and included ports matched and polished with a large carb adapter, modified ignition and a megaphone exhaust system.

In 1952 Indian sponsored a Bonneville Salt Flats run on a modified Brave with Del Branson on board and it turned a Top Speed of 80.62 MPH.

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1967 Norton P11

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1946 Harley Davision EL

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1975 Bultaco 250 Pursang

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1946 Harley Davision EL

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1974 Honda CB750

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1970 Triumph TR6 Chopped

1977 Harley Davidson Cafe

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1939 Triumph Speed Twin

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1931 Harley Davidson VL74

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1965 Allstate 150

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1963 Messerschmitt 198CC

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1926 Harley Davidson Model J

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1961 Maico 250 Bundeswehr

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Ganna Gran Sport

1959 Harley Davidson Sportster XLCH Dirt Dragger

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1965 Velocette Venom

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