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For Sale
this private french collection of motorcycles and parts, every thing must disappear!
including a 500 Monark, Rickman G 80 and Gold Star, Triumph 5T, Matchless G9, Norton Commando Fastback and many others
a dozen of complete engines mosthly Matchless and Norton
Lathe machine, tools and lockers are for sale

all inquiries here: Southsiders.mc@gmail.com

















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Carhartt

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Carhartt, Inc. is a U.S.-based clothing company founded in 1889. It is still a family owned company, owned by the descendants of company founder Hamilton Carhartt, with its headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan.



In the United States, Carhartt is known for its work clothes, such as jackets, coats, overalls, coveralls, vests, shirts, jeans and dungarees.
Carhartt was originally founded to make work clothing for railroad workers. Their initial growth throughout the 1890s was focused on railroad workers' need for durable and long lasting work overalls.



Over time, Carhartt clothing items evolved trademark features intended to further extend durability, including the use of heavy duty threads, reinforcing rivets at vital stress points, and a variety of durable, high technology materials resistant to flames, abrasion and water. Today Carhartt is commonly found on construction sites, farms and ranches, among other job sites.



In the 1990s, Carhartt clothing became fashionable in hip hop culture, and Tommy Boy Records used Carhartt jackets as a promotional tool. In that period, Carhartt jackets achieved popularity with crack dealers. "They needed to keep warm and they needed to carry a lot of stuff," said Steven J. Rapiel, the New York City salesman for Carhartt. "Then the kids saw these guys on the street, and it became the hip thing to wear." In 2007, the company launched a Carhartt for Women line of women's workwear for the Fall season.



In the United States, Carhartt sponsors blue-collar organizations and events such as 4-H, the National FFA Organization, rodeos and the #17 NASCAR race car driven by Matt Kenseth.
During the 9/11 World Trade Center rescue operations, the Carhartt company donated thousands of bib overalls to the rescue crew to be used on scene.




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1983: Kenny Roberts’ Last Stand

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By Eric Jonhson


It’s been said, since the beginning of time, that a picture is worth 1000 words.

Holding true to that adage is a photograph of “King” Kenny Roberts preparing to start the final race of his illustrious Grand Prix Roadracing career. The date was Sunday, September 4, 1983, and the race, the Gran Premio di San Marino.

All along the 1983 was an epic season of 500cc Grand Prix racing. Barry Sheene had returned to the fray after his 1982 injuries on a factory-supported privateer Suzuki. Meanwhile, Honda’s hope for glory, and a first-ever 500cc championship, was pinned on American Fast Freddie Spencer and his 500cc Triple. 1981 World Champion Marco Lucchinelli and Takazumi Katayama filled out the other main Honda rides for 1983.
Kenny Roberts was again riding the Yamaha V4. Despite bike handling problems, fought a season-long battle for the title with fellow American Spencer. Joining them was another American and legend-to-be, one Mr. Eddie Lawson who was riding for the Agostini Yamaha squad. Randy Mamola was still with Suzuki but was left standing, relatively speaking, by the titanic battle between Roberts and Spencer. Franco Uncini was also left behind on the next-best Suzuki, never matching the heights performance-wise from his 1982 title-winning campaign. We did, however, see a Frenchman have some success in 1983; Marc Fontan on a privateer Yamaha became the top European finisher in the series that season.


Freddie Spencer won the first three races of 1983, Kenny Roberts then came back with a win in West Germany, but Spencer piled on the pressure with a fourth win in five races. Roberts won in Austria but again Spencer turned up the heat by taking the next round in Yugoslavia. At the Dutch TT in Assen, the tit-for-tat battle continued, a win for Roberts and the three-time World Champion was about to reverse the pressure game and put Spencer under the spotlight as he also won in Belgium and the UK before the title saw a mammoth battle in Sweden that saw Spencer win, but only after making a move on Roberts at the penultimate corner of the penultimate round which had Roberts claiming he was harshly passed by his fellow countryman. Spencer dived for the pass, and both riders ran into the dirt, although they stayed upright. Roberts claimed it was a dangerous move and lamented he would never have made such a brash pass on a competitor with a title up for grabs.

Kenny Roberts 1983 Yamaha

Going into the final round, the San Marino Grand Prix, all Spencer had to do to beat Roberts was finish one place behind him. Roberts won the last race but Spencer did, indeed, follow him home to take second place and Freddie was crowned World Champion. Not only was it his first title, but also, it was Honda's first-ever 500cc Grand Prix World Championship, and the points margin between Roberts and the victorious Spencer was just two points. It was the final 500cc race for Roberts, who retired to take up a new career as a team owner. A brilliant end to a brilliant career.




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Malcolm Smith

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via : www.motorsport.com

AMA Hall of Famer Malcolm Smith to serve as Grand Marshal for 2010 AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days

PICKERINGTON, Ohio -- One afternoon in the mid-1960s, a man walked into a Southern California motorcycle shop looking for someone to race an unproven motorcycle with a foreign-sounding name. Lucky for that man, he walked into the right shop and found the right racer. Malcolm Smith took Edison Dye's offer, and their partnership would help establish the Husqvarna motorcycle brand as a force in American off-road.

In recognition of Malcolm Smith's contributions to the success of Husqvarna, the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) and Husqvarna Motorcycles North America are pleased to announce that Smith will serve as Grand Marshal at the 19th annual AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days this July 9-11 in Lexington, Ohio. Husqvarna is the Marque of the Year for 2010 AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days.

"Even today, decades after Malcolm Smith's racing prime, his fan base rivals some of the top names in the sport," said AMA President and CEO Rob Dingman. "To anyone who has met him, the reason for that is clear: Malcolm Smith is synonymous with everything positive about motorcycling -- fun, sportsmanship, and excitement. He will serve as an exceptional Grand Marshal at this year's AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days as we celebrate the brand on which he became famous: Husqvarna."






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Gary Jones

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Gary Jones (born April 22, 1952 in Southern California) was an American motocross racer. He is remembered for winning the first three AMA 250cc Motocross National Championships , riding three different brands of motorcycles, a feat which has yet to be duplicated.


The son of a motorcycle dealer, he began racing professionally at the age of 15. By 1969, he earned a place on the Yamaha factory's American racing team. Although there was no American motocross championship series in 1971, he was recognized as the 250cc National Champion by virtue of being the top-placed American rider in the Inter-AMA series which featured European riders touring America after the European-based World Championship season had ended .


The following year, the AMA introduced a 250cc and a 500cc outdoor national championship. Jones won the 1972 title on a Yamaha, becoming the first 250cc U.S. Motocross National Champion. He also competed in the 500cc class, finishing second behind Brad Lackey. Also in 1972, he was a member of the first team to represent the United States at the Motocross des Nations race. The following season, he accepted a job riding for the Honda factory racing team and successfully defended his 250cc crown riding the Honda CR250M. In 1973 he would ride for the newly formed Can-Am team and went on to win his third consecutive 250cc national championship.


After his retirement from professional competition, Jones continued his involvement in the sport by working for motorcycle accessory companies and as a test rider for motorcycle magazines. Jones continues to compete in motocross and desert races, winning the World Vet Championship several times. In 2000, he was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame , and in 2004, he was inducted into the Motocross Walk Of Fame .




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The Black sheep squadron

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Marine Attack Squadron 214 (VMA-214) is a United States Marine Corps fighter squadron consisting of AV-8B Harrier (V/STOL) jets. The squadron is based at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona and is under the command of Marine Aircraft Group 13 (MAG-13) and the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (3rd MAW).


The squadron is best known as the Black Sheep of World War II fame and for one of its commanding officers, Colonel Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, whose memoirs also inspired the 1970s television show Baa Baa Black Sheep, which dramatized the squadron's exploits during the war.

Marine Fighter Squadron 214 was originally commissioned on July 1, 1942, at Marine Corps Air Station Ewa, on the Island of Oahu. Initially called the "Swashbucklers", they participated in the Solomon Islands campaign, flying out of Henderson Field on Guadalcanal. They were disbanded following their combat tour and the squadron designation was given to the Marine command on Espiritu Santo. In August 1943, a group of twenty-seven young men under the leadership of Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington (who was later awarded the Medal of Honor) were joined together to form the original "Blacksheep" of VMF-214. Major Boyington had just returned from a year's tour in China as a member of the American Volunteer Group, the "Flying Tigers". In China, he had downed six enemy planes and became, through actual experience, one of the originators of American fighter tactics against the Japanese. The squadron was not assigned any aircraft or ancillary personnel at first and flew to Guadalcanal and later the Russell Islands in borrowed planes that were in less than satisfactory condition.


On the evening of September 13, 1943 the men of VMF-214 gathered in their commanding officer's hootch during which time it was suggested that they needed a nickname. Originally the squadron called itself "Boyington's Bastards" after its new commander, the fact that all of the pilots had been orphans and not attached to a squadron when they got together and the fact they possessed few reliable planes and no mechanics. The following day this new label was presented to the Marine Corps public information officer on the island at the time, Captain Jack DeChant and found to be unacceptable because civilian newspapers would never print it. DeChant then suggested the call sign "Black Sheep" because the expression meant essentially the same thing. The pilots ranged from experienced combat veterans, with several air-to-air victories to their credit, to new replacement pilots from the United States. Major Boyington and Major Stan Bailey were given permission to form the unassigned pilots into a squadron, with the understanding that they would have less than four weeks to have them fully trained and ready for combat. Although they dropped the moniker "Boyington's Bastards" the squadron still retains the black bar of bastardy across its shield. They chose for their badge the black shield of illegitimacy, the bar sinister, a black sheep superimposed, surrounded by a circle of twelve stars, and crowned with the image of their aircraft, the F4U Corsair.


The Black Sheep squadron fought for eighty-four days. They met the Japanese over their own fields and territory and piled up a record of 203 planes destroyed or damaged, produced eight fighter aces with 97 confirmed air-to-air kills, sank several troop transports and supply ships, destroyed many installations, in addition to numerous other victories. For their actions, the original Black Sheep were awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for extraordinary heroism in action. Following their first combat tour, 26 pilots from the squadron left Munda for a week of rest and relaxation in Sydney, Australia where they holed up in the Australia Hotel. The Black Sheep ended their second combat tour on January 8, 1944, five days after Major Boyington was shot down and captured by the Japanese. The original Black Sheep were disbanded and the pilots were placed in the pilot pool in Marine Aircraft Group 11. Exploits of this incarnation of the unit were loosely fictionalized in the 1970s television series Baa Baa Black Sheep (later renamed The Black Sheep Squadron), starring Robert Conrad as Boyington.


VMF-214 was reformed on January 29, 1944 at Marine Corps Air Station Santa Barbara near Goleta, California. They deployed aboard the USS Franklin (CV-13) on February 4, 1945 to join on-going operations on Okinawa. On March 19, a Japanese bomber hit the USS Franklin. The explosion and resulting fire caused 772 deaths aboard the Franklin including 32 Black Sheep members. Many Black Sheep aircraft were launching for a strike on mainland Japan at the time. One, First Lieutenant Ken Linder, was given half credit for shooting down the Japanese bomber that struck the Franklin. This ended VMF-214 involvement in World War II. During the course of the war the squadron suffered 23 pilots killed in action or missing and lost 48 aircraft to accidents or enemy contact. In April 1945, the Black Sheep were relocated to Marine Corps Air Station El Centro, California, and then to MCAS El Toro, CA in October 1945. In the next few years, the Black Sheep deployed for operations on board the USS Rendova (CVE-114), the USS Bairoko (CVE-115), the USS Badoeng Strait (CVE-116), and the USS Boxer (CV-21).


A flying ace or fighter ace is a naval aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat.

The following Marines from VMA-214 have been credited with five or more victories:

* Gregory "Pappy" Boyington - 28.0
* Robert M. Hanson - 25.0
* Christopher L. Magee - 9.0
* William N. Case - 8.0
* Don H. Fisher - 8.0
* Alvin J. Jensen - 7.0
* Robert W. McClurg - 7.0
* Paul A. Mullen - 6.5
* John F. Bolt Jr. - 6.0
* H. Allen McCartney Jr. - 5.0
* Edwin L. Olander - 5.0
* Hartwell V. Scarborough - 5.0
* Stanley T. Tynar - 5.0

Papy Boyington

Today : Beginning in May 2009, a detachment from VMA-214 deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedomand Combined Task Force 151 (CTF-151) with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit. During the deployment they supported the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade in southern Afghanistan and counter piracy operations off of the coast of Africa.





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Encinitas and Miramar

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More 8mm home movies from AMA District 38 sportsman dirt bike racing in San Diego County in1970. This video shows scenes from four races (motocross and scrambles) during the 1970 summer period.


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Adanac Military Diver

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In the late eighties, both the USAF and Canadian Armed Force had issued these tough looking Adanac watches to their service members. The one pictured in this review was issued by USAF in 1988. It's an interesting watch because it has "Adanac" written on the dial but the case is signed "Gallet". Not only that, the watch was actually produced under government contract by Marathon Watch Co. based in Ontario, Canada.


The styling of the watch is very similar, if not identical, to USAF issue Marathon Military Pilot's Watch that I had reviewed earlier. Adanac is the predecessor to that model, albeit without the tritium vials. A careful reader might have noticed that "Adanac" is Canada spelled backwards. I've been told that it's an old Canadian joke. And these Adanac's were quite popular such that they have made its way into the European scene, with some of the English troops who got these watches issued to them.


The watch has an unusual 0-11 marked bidirectional bezel, which makes it look like a hybrid of diver's and pilot's watches. Some prefer to call it simply a navigator's watch. Anyway, it has a screw-down crown, has fixed bars that takes a 20mm black nylon band, and is water resistant to 660 feet, which pretty much qualifies it as a military diver's watch.


Dial has the usual 24 hour markings found on many military watches. The hour and minute hands are applied with rectangular shaped tritium paint. The second hand is applied with tritium at its tip. Hour indexes on the dial and the zero position on the bezel are also tritium coated. The Adanac shown here has H3 and radioative propeller markings on the dial. There exists a version of Adanac with these H3 markings omitted.


The large stainless steel case, made by Gallet, measures 47.8MM lug to lug and 43.8MM across the crown diameter. It houses a Swiss made quartz movement. There is a separate latch (which you can open with a coin) for replacing batteries, so you do not have to unscrew the entire caseback.


Caseback is marked with the following military stock codes:

GALLET AND CO
6645-01-150-8115
211
F41608-85-D-0179
April 1988

via : Hyunsuk's Military Watch



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Men's File issue # 2

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"Retracing the roots of style"

Within their two first issues, Men’s File has simply become our favorite magazine in the world. It has everything we like : motorcycles, surf, great gear, beautiful girls and much more we could dream of. Co-produced by friend photographer Nick Clements, Men’s File is now available through our blog.
You can order it by choosing adequate shipping location. Enjoy reading as we did and make sure to keep it in a safe place your, as they’re already collectors’s items.


En deux numéros, Men’s File est simplement devenu notre magazine préféré. Tout ce que nous aimons s’y trouve : motos, surf, belles fringues, très jolies filles et + encore. Co-produit par notre ami le photographe anglais Nick Clements, Men’s File est désormais directement disponible sur notre blog qui en sera le distributeur pour la France et tous nos amis du monde entier. Vous pouvez dès à présent le commander en choisissant l'option
correspondant à vôtre région. Bonne lecture et surtout gardez-bien votre numéro, c'est déjà un collector.

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1963 Monark 500

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via : The AMA

Monark’s origins stretch all the way back to 1913, when the Esse brand was introduced. The name changed to Monark in 1927, and when MX got its start in Europe after World War II, the company got involved in the sport.



Monark bikes earned success in the prestigious International Six Days Enduro. And in 1959, Swedish rider Sven Lundin rode a 500cc Monark to the FIM World Championship, repeating that achievement in 1961.


The company’s line of competition machines used the standard formula of the era: a single-cylinder four-stroke engine in a lightweight frame. Monark specialized in the second half of that equation, combining hand-built chassis and top-shelf suspension components. To provide the power, the company purchased engines from several of the premier manufacturers of the day.


This 1963 Monark 500 is a good example. Starting with a 500cc four-stroke by Albin, another Swedish company, Monark came up with frame geometry that moved the rider farther forward, then pared the rest of the machine down to its essentials.


This particular machine, owned by John Sawarzhki, is one of the rarest bikes in the “Motocross America” exhibit in the Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum at AMA headquarters in Pickerington, Ohio. Not only is it a Monark, but it was restored by none other than Motorcycle Hall of Famer Dick Mann, who earned two championships in dirt-track racing, but was also among the earliest American MX enthusiasts.


The Monark company survived into the 1970s, ultimately following its competitors into the two-stroke era of off-road motorcycling. But by then, the Japanese brands were beginning to dominate the sport, and Monark went out of business in 1975.



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Gas pump

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A fuel dispenser is a machine at a filling station that is used to pump gasoline, diesel, CNG, CGH2, HCNG, LPG, LH2, ethanol fuel, biofuels like biodiesel, kerosene, or other types of fuel into vehicles. Fuel dispensers are also known as bowsers (in Australia), petrol pumps (in Commonwealth countries), or gas pumps (in North America).
The first gasoline pump was invented and sold by Sylvanus F. Bowser in Fort Wayne, Indiana on September 5, 1885. This pump was not used for automobiles, as they had not been invented yet. It was instead used for some kerosene lamps and stoves. He later improved upon the pump by adding safety measures, and also by adding a hose to directly dispense fuel into automobiles. For a while, the term bowser was used to refer to a vertical gasoline pump. Although the term is not used anymore in the United States, it still is used sometimes in Australia and New Zealand.
Many early gasoline pumps had a calibrated glass cylinder on top. The desired quantity of fuel was pumped up into the cylinder as indicated by the calibration. Then the pumping was stopped and the gasoline was let out into the customers tank by gravity. When metering pumps came into use, a small glass globe with a turbine inside replaced the measuring cylinder but assured the customer that gasoline really was flowing into the tank.
A modern fuel dispenser is logically divided into two main parts — an electronic "head" containing an embedded computer to control the action of the pump, drive the pump's displays, and communicate to an indoor sales system; and secondly, the mechanical section which in a ‘self contained’ unit has an electric motor, pumping unit, meters, pulsers and valves to physically pump and control the fuel flow.


In some cases the actual pump may be sealed and immersed inside the fuel tanks on a site, in which case it is known as a submersible pump. In general submersible solutions in Europe are installed in hotter countries, where suction pumps may have problems overcoming cavitation with warm fuels or when the distance from tank to pump is longer than a suction pump can manage.


In modern pumps, the major variations are in the number of hoses or grades they can dispense, the physical shape, and the addition of extra devices such as pay at the pump devices and attendant "tag" readers.

Historically, fuel dispensers had a very wide range of designs to solve the mechanical problems of mechanical pumping, reliable measurement, safety, and aesthetics. This has led to some popularity in collecting antique dispensers, especially in the USA.
Nozzles are attached to the pump via flexible hoses, allowing them to be placed into the vehicle's filling inlet. The hoses are made very tough to survive hardships such as being driven over, and are often attached using heavy duty spring or coil arrangements to provide additional strength.
The nozzles are usually color coded to indicate which grade of fuel they dispense, however the color coding differs between countries or even customers. For example, a black handle is used in the UK to warn people that the fuel dispensed is diesel. In the United States, diesel fuel pumps commonly use green hoses and green slipcovers over the nozzle.
In some countries, pumps are able to mix two grades of fuel together before dispensing; this is referred to as blending or mixing. Typical usages are in a "mix" pump to add oil to petrol for two-stroke motorcycles, to produce an intermediate octane rating from separate high and low octane fuels, or to blend hydrogen and compressed natural gas (HCNG).



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One of the most important functions for the pump is to accurately measure the amount of fuel pumped. Flow measurement is typically done by a turbine in the fuel flow. In older gas pumps, the turbine is physically coupled to reeled meters (moving wheels with numbers on the side), while newer pumps turn the turbine's movement into electrical pulses using a rotary encoder.
Most modern pumps have an auto cut-off feature that stops the flow of fuel once the tank is full. This is done by having a second tube, the sensing tube, that runs from just inside the mouth of the nozzle up to a Venturi pump in the pump handle. While the tank is being filled, air displaced from the tank is drawn up this tube. Once the fuel level reaches the mouth of the sensing tube, air is no longer drawn up the sensing line. A mechanical valve in the pump handle detects this change of pressure and closes, preventing the flow of fuel.




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