the Ernst Ferbler dirty roader takes to the Hills, 110 miles no explosions Postvak IN x

Remember Captain Simon's RS streamliner?
This is his latest creation, the Ernst Ferbler dirty roader

"similar route to the dustbin last sent last year, great roads, beautiful day after the misery of storms and floods....

7,000 revs 110 mph, 110 mile round trip, seat comfy, neck OK handling sort of there, bottom end go gone, full steam ahead with 97 degrees on the telegraph wrist full down eventually full ferble on the open road 7,000 revs and building, Burt Munro rest easy sir....

A5 Ogwen Valley, road built around 1840 the first national road in UK, linking London to Dublin the outpost of the Empire, apologies to my Irish brothers, pre bigger Empire, apologies to the rest of the world, it's OK now we are third world, apologies to third world...wish I never mentioned it, 

a beautiful road carved through mountains 150 years ago when horses carried people and carriages were slow, the mail took 22 hours London to Dublin by horse, coach was 4 days until the road was built and the it was 1-2 days....280 miles

The BMW R80 is probably similar speed to the horse and maybe a similar ride, but its real fun, the mountains are also wonderful to climb in sun or snow, a day can take you a long way and into another world, so similar to motorcycles, elation and misery, cold wet, vistas to die for, adrenalin and joy

so it goes

xxx simon"

 

Simon you're great! Thanks you so much for you're brilliant pictures and story's

 

Justin Jankus - John

Bubble mail:

 

"The other are images of my friend’s shop.  I know him from this organization we both belong to, the Massachusetts British Iron Association, a group of die hard Brit Bike fans.  John has deep appreciation and knowledge of Velocettes and airhead BMWs, enough that crammed into his basement during the winter there are around 19-21 bikes, all in various states of repair.  The coolest new addition is his Velocette Scrambler build which can be seen in the black and white images that I shot with a 4x5 film camera.  As the weather over on the US East Coast convinces itself more and more that is actually spring, I will be headed back to his shop to get some of these absolute beauties into the nice warm sun.  I still have to take photos of his garage which houses two Urals, a lot more airheads, and a few 100cc Hondas he’s building to race each other.  Should be pretty rad!

If nothing I hope you like the photos and thanks again for featuring me!!

Sincerely,

Justin"

 

Thanks Justin, great stuff!

Check more of Justin's pics on his Flickr stream

And on his blog

Justin Jankus - Jimbo

Bubble mail: 
I've featured Justin's pictures before and yesterday he send me some more great pics!

"The “Jimbo” images are of my friend’s rebuild of his CB550 cafe.  He just had everything bead blasted and ported and was fitting larger pistons to get it up to 600cc or thereabouts."

 

Here is a link to his Flickr stream

And one to his blog

 

Thanks Justin!