Today was the annual OVM Oaks Park Show. Oaks Park is an amusement park in Portland that has been operating since 1905.


I met up with a friend of mine to ride down to the event. He's got this sweet street tracker, a 67 TT frame and 70 engine. The first bike I've ridden with that made it hard for me to hear my bike! My friend said he had no problem hearing mine even tho' I was ahead of me. The Triumph is for sale, if you're into those things.



1973 BMW R75/5


R50 and R90S


People Slicer says it all.


This guy also had a Jota, but he sold the Jota and kept this.


A Sunbeam and a Lightning




1974 850 Commando



Yes, TWO Proddy replicas.


And an Egli-Vincent, but it seems everyone has one of those...


One of two BMW singles.



And if there weren't enough rare bikes, here comes a Briggs & Stratton Motor Wheel.

Some nice stuff, obviously all is forgiven about WWII, as there seems to be more BMs than anything else.
I like your Yellow tail light swoosh.
What $$$ would the Triumph sell for over there.

Why the heck did you neglect the '65 Bonneville?

...and the '68 CL77 Honda 305 scrambler?

Turkey.

grandpaul wrote:Why the heck did you neglect the '65 Bonneville?

...and the '68 CL77 Honda 305 scrambler?

Turkey.

Not a Bonny, just a T100C.

And who cares about a Honda?

AussieCombat wrote:Some nice stuff, obviously all is forgiven about WWII, as there seems to be more BMs than anything else.
I like your Yellow tail light swoosh.
What $$$ would the Triumph sell for over there.

I think he's asking $5600.

swooshdave wrote:Not a Bonny, just a T100C. And who cares about a Honda?

Yeah, 67. I missed the front engine mount and curled over headers, dead giveaway.

I like the little Honders, I've got one. LOUD, and quite fast for thier size.

grandpaul wrote:

swooshdave wrote:Not a Bonny, just a T100C. And who cares about a Honda?

Yeah, 67. I missed the front engine mount and curled over headers, dead giveaway.

I like the little Honders, I've got one. LOUD, and quite fast for thier size.

This guy had what looked like big washers in the ends of the pipes. You could turn them to make them louder. Was that stock?

Dave:

I haven't seen a Sunbeam in the US before seeing your photo. I almost bought an S7 when I was living in the UK, but my mother was dead set against "motorbikes" and I ended up with an Ariel Leader, because it looked like a scooter. It was actually a pretty good bike except for the two-stroke smoke and an almost non-existent front brake.

I once wrote to Ariel Customer Support to ask whether there were any aluminum bits in the mufflers. They used to get so clogged up with oil, I was thinking of using a lye solution to clean them out. I got a nice letter back saying there were no aluminum parts and using lye would be fine. They then blew me away by advising that the 1:16 oil/gas ratio originally specifed could lbe be revised, based on later endurance testing. With regular two-stroke oil, 1:48 was fine and with Bardahl, you could go to 1:56.

The name painted on my bike's fairing by the previous onwer, "Old Smokey" didn't apply after I switched to Bardahl. I was surprised to find that Bardahl was a Seattle company after we moved here. They sponsored a boat in Unlimited Hydroplane racing for many years.

frankdamp wrote:Dave:

I haven't seen a Sunbeam in the US before seeing your photo.

I've seen a few. Strangely I've see more Egli-Vincents that I have Sunbeams.

swooshdave wrote:(Honda 305)This guy had what looked like big washers in the ends of the pipes. You could turn them to make them louder. Was that stock?

"Snuff-R-Nots" aftermarket 'silencers'