Sunday, August 2, 2009

More Barbarians


Dave I believe the gold bike on the left is the same Triumph as the other picture. Nice sprung hub! Neato pipes!

9 comments:

drsprocket said...

Maybe not. Frontend doesn't have gaiters, frame isn't plated, tank's different, etc., etc., etc.

Flathead Jedd said...

Maybe this is the before picture!

epinut said...

Could be of course, but is there any particular reason to why? Not even the pipes are the same.
Really sweet bike though!

Flathead Jedd said...

Ok it's not the same bike! You guys are tough!

LUCKY said...

Am I correct in asuming this is early 60's?

Anonymous said...

Late 50s actually.

FHJ

philonwheels said...

Interesting to see the two Matchless bikes with short dogbone risers. Presumably these pre-date the apehangers in the later riding shot. 'Stateside styling' was pretty much the same in the UK, although we did most of our riding in the rain!

Grumbler said...

When it came to the pre-unit construction Triumph 650 twins, they looked *great* with the '63 and later top-ends. Velocity stacks with screens were way cool.

There were far more britbikes (limeys) sold on the east coast vs west coast during the '60s. Prolly a 3-1 ratio or comparable.

My unit construction Triumphs had that HF buzz thru seat which made longer trips more of an ordeal than a pleasure. Just had to take plenty of *smoke* breaks along the way. Heh.

CycleDelicCycles said...

Barbarians Prez lived on the street behind my Grandma's house when I was a little kid; (early 70's) my uncle and he were buds. I spent alot of time over there... dreaming. Dude had a killer Vette and a Model T dragger,too. Great pic BTW, and there were ALOT of Trump and Norton chops, more than Harley for sure.