Saturday, May 7, 2011

VINTAGE REVIVAL MONTLHERY 2011

"The Right Crowd, and No Crowding".  Never were truer words expressed.  It was a perfect day.
Warriors at ease: the 1929/30 World Speed Record machines, last together in 1930...read the story here.
Fantasy radial-engine bike.
Photographer Dimitri Coste
Triumph ridden by Frank Chatokhine, the fastest bike of the day.
Jerome Coste of Ruby
The sisters du Bucheron return to steal hearts...
Aude Rageys, with her grandfather Roger Loyer's Velocette KTT, which she rides with great verve.
Ah, the breakdown truck...
La Planche a Dixie
French design genius on display...
Jean Marie Guic'arch, pen at the ready
Sketching the Nougier 125cc dohc special
The Nougier in question; note gear-driven cam drive.
Supercharged MG
Roger Loyer's TT Replica trophy, and the bike on which he gained it.
Montlhery sits in a forest.
New Imperials
Steering gear and suspension of the Napier-Railton, which lives in the Brooklands Museum
Primary Morgans
The 'Crocodile', Sunbeam's experimental ohc racer
The Southsiders
Organizer Vincent Chamon; excellent job, mon amis!
Super Kim; would you dare?