Pannier Patina

This is a Stadium Vanguard that I got off ebay. It originally had a peak which went in the bin pretty damn quickly. What's nice about it is the period stickers. The Yellow and blue one is/was the logo for 'National' petrol stations but the other's provenance is unknown.

Kinda cool that the original owner used stickers depicting helmets.

Poor old Indian Chief

My thanks go to 'magnum45pete' for bringing this to my attention via the excellent Dirty Bobbers site. It's a 1948 Indian Chief. The seller's calling it a barn find but I don't think it was ever lost, it was just taking a breather.
There's a couple of videos too :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtTtl9GJUe0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRZ_xO_aGUw

My crappy Fuji 310 can sometimes suprise me. I took this at the North Weald classic sprint a couple of years ago; came out really well.

Larger here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24819795@N07/3803347293/sizes/l/

Spot the star

Clue: It's 1964, it's East Germany.

I've been selling these T-shirts on ebay for a while now. They're 'tributes' to a shirt that appeared on ebay and sold for a lot more than I could afford. Figured I might as well use my blog to help sales. The one pictured is an off-white T-shirt, they're also available in pure white. They come in Medium, Large and XL. They're £11.50 plus P&P (I'll take a tenner!)

Here's the link: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=140396524713

Here's a neat idea. Want a cool brass tail-light for your motosickle but are short on funds ?

Get down to your local ironmonger's plumbing section and get creative.