The Way of the Desert Sled
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- Опубліковано 22 чер 2011
- Peter Egan provides historical perspective on the Jack Pine custom Triumph in the August issue, on newstands July 5. Here's a little kick start for you until you can get your paws on Peter's print exclusive feature.
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Peter Egans' is the first column I read when my issue of Cycle World arrives in the mailbox. The finest motorcycle journalist EVER !!!
Been a big Egan since he had to MAIL HIS BIKE HOME.I'M 60 YEARS OLD,AND GUESS WHAT! I'VE HAD MOTORCYCLES ALL MY LIFE!! WAY TO MANY TO COUNT. RIGHT NOW I'VE A BSA A65L. $3000 WORTH 1971BSA. IT'S WINTER IN OKLA. THE WIRING NEEDS A COMB RUN THROUGH IT .MAYBE GO TO A BOYER UNIT, RIGHT NOW IT'S FLAT BAR'S DUNLOP GOLD SEAL TYRES. AND A BLUES BAND. PETER THANKS. 🎤🎼😎
As I keep watching this video afrer years, it keeps being one of the best about motorbikes charm
So two iconic beautiful Triumphs and a Triumph.
Watched this vid about a dozen times, can't get enough, beautiful piece of machinery!
his comments on a carb vs efi....so true. I grew up feathering the throttle to find power when needed...and it's the reason I still own a carb bike today for MY pleasure. When my wife rides with me...we take the giant Ultra Limted with all the goodies (2016)...but when it's just me...I like the old bike. Raw and unrefined and has my heart.
I thought that he was talking about pumper carbs vs non pumper carbs.
@@redtobertshateshandles could be... I'm building an old EVO chopper nowadays, lol. Still like the old school bikes.
@@redtobertshateshandlesHe was. But really, he's full of it. A real salesman. That engine is so underpowered for its displacement, a pumper carb would be a welcome addition. Anything that gets more spunk out of it is the way to go. The real reason he didn't install a pumper is because it would be more expensive and cut into his margins.
I always pick up this issue and read it over and over again by far one of my favourite bikes. Great job!
Love this bike and thank you for this interview. My dad was a desert racer back in the 60s to 80s.
watched this a million times. what a beauty!
That beautiful motorcycle, the cleaning of its incredible lines. Congratulations.
And before I watched this I thought it would just be a show piece. Hats off to you sir!
This is hands down my favorite video and bike.
I like James Loughead's perspective on letting the motorcycle "be what it is". There's a sort of cultural expectation (in the modern age, at least) of making the motorcycle do what the rider wants - a desire to make the motorcycle do the conforming. I tend to be more of the mindset that every bike has their own personality, and that there's an enjoyment that can come from learning to accept each bike for what it is and not trying to make it become something that it's not.
Awesome he rides those roads like he is 100% sure that no one else is on them. SO COOL!
one of the best videos on youtube!!! and the bike............there's few things left in this world that are real cool , but this bike is definitely one of them....
Best interview ever. Love the way it's set up. Also beautiful bikes. Keep it up!
Superb Bike!!! Same as what I do on my 1979 or 1981 Yamaha XT500 enduros every week,,,ride the country roads in Nebraska, and it's the best kept secret among those who do it. Everybody thinks showing off their ego, chrome and loud pipes on pavement is where it's at,,,well go right ahead. I've been a life long rider and said goodbye to pavement, stop lights, road ragers, & cell phone texting drivers. And ego is left in the dust when I can go 5mph or 50 mph on country roads,,,alone in peace!
Yep. Owned XT500, SP500, XL600 all great fun. The last two slightly faster than the XT, but the XT is built reliable.
Best video yet, I hope to see more like this in the future.
Absolutely gorgeous!
Awesome - that film made my day!
Love seeing bikes like this ridden like that.
Wow what a machine. I'm in love.
This the best way to describe what is LIFE about!!!!
Absolutely love it! Nothing beats watching a full size bike flat tracking around fire roads.
That is besides being the guy doing the sliding ! Thanks. . .
@@markcernicky5335Are you the rider in this video?
Great video, scenary and beautiful bikes!
Nice relax film and review !!!
2024 still my favorite build. the Jack Pine
WOW! That was so cool. There are no words to describe how much i'd like to go riding there... Thank you so much for making this video!
/ Thumbs up from me
Great work mate thank you.
Really great video - and now really want a desert sled!
very beautilful bikes, love the off-road style of this video
i like the beginning!it's increddible!
Looks like the Alabama Hills. The hills are on the east side of the Sierra Nevada just west of the little town of Lone Pine (US 395). This is the area where the old black and white western movies were made; Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Lone Ranger etc. The old hotel in town has lots of momentos. Cool place to ride.
I was born in Lone Pine, 1963. Grew up in Ridgecrest. Dad was a "Sandblaster" (motorcycle club.) He and others rode all over the Mojave desert. Hare and Hound, Barstow to Vegas. By the time we moved in 1970 to Utah he was riding a Triumph Bonneville 650. He started on a Honda SL 100. His name is Mitch Miller. Been on the cover of Hot Rod Magazine twice. And, though I don't remember it, he owned a 57 Bel Air Business Special with the fuel injected 283. My dad, his friend that drove, and the car held the track record at Inyokern Speedway for four years. ET was 14:00 in the quarter mile.
Inspiring! Leave it to Cycle World to introduce this wonderful machine, and shoot a video that makes you want to bust-ass to save and buy one, or build your own. After over thirty-years of subscribing to CW and reading religeously, this bike has inspired me more than any other. Classic lines, off-road capability and a coolness that McQueen himself would surely approve of...
When I was a kid I'd send in the coupon and get a couple of free issues before they realised I wasn't going to pay. I still remember the full page colour ads for Norton JPS and Triumph Bonneville. Awesome magazine. Subbed for more free excellence. Thanks and sorry.
Reminds me of my younger days around Taft Ca. Trs & Bonnevilles and BSAs A-10s & DBDs fire roading chasing jackrabbits.
might be the best vid ive ever seen on youtube
Looks like a blast!
The coolest bike ever!
I have an 1973 yamaha sc500 2 stroke. Its a great all around bike. Good in the dirt as well as on the road. The funnest bike Iv ever ridden, and one I will never sell. So easy to control and handle. And I clocked it at 103mph on stock motocross gearing. They don't make bikes like that anymore. Scramblers are great.
Restoring a 1970 Yam 200E Enduro because it was so much fun, I just can't let it die. Yes that's me riding this bike . . .
nebulaunfolding nice. I used to bush bash an XR500 in Western Australia try and keep up with big red kangaroo in the scrub. Happy times and no broken bones!
thats awesome, i want to get my hands on one!
Lucky me! I still have my 1976 Triumph Bonneville T140V purchased new January 10th, 1977. I took the stock mufflers off dropping the weight from 395 lbs to @ 365 lbs, I did put on a wide handlebar, took out the foam seat and raced her on a motocross track against my own (other rider) 1977 Suzuki RM125C. I lead for 3 laps until while flat tracing with the back end hung all the way out in a left curve my left boot got caught up in some really deep loamy powdery grey sand and pulled me down. You need to know my bike was so much faster everywhere. You also need to know that I had crushed my pelvis and dislocated both of my hips back in 1972 so I was just not as strong, nor did I have the stamina to race a street desert sled on an motocross track for more than 3 laps. I'm positive had I been uninjured I could have kept up the lead all day long. P.S. I did win every street cafe race on Long Island NY with curvy back roads (think Isle of Man TT roads) for 10 years from 1977 to 1987 only stopping when I got married and put her in the garage. No one I have ever met can claim winning every street cafe race for 10 consecutive years. That's how good an owner maintained Bonneville really is. I took her out again in 1992 and cafe raced against a brand new Kawasaki Ninja 1100 and Honda V4 1000cc Interceptor and won! Handling is the key that and the ability to stop from 60 mph in 111 ft. as my Bonneville can She is still totally stock. Never spent a penny for aftermarket parts except the wide handle bars and that was because my brothers father in-law wanted to "only" kick start my bike, he froze up and his eyes glazed over and he put her in gear and drove right into a tree in the backyard, bending my stock handlebars. I raced on Stock Dunlap K70-H street tires as well, they look as if they are almost semi knobby they provided the exact amount of grip to let me know when I was sliding and that only happened at 10/10th's riding- which is racing.
You know what she is parked around 20 feet from me as I type this. I love My Triumph Bonneville with all my hart. It changed my life. I went on and became a mechanical designer and I am now disabled and retires but still riding at age 65.
So yes I would recommend a new Bonneville as it still has a Parallel twin with a 360 deg crank or the version in this video which has the 270 deg crank!
im glad my wife left me now i can ride my whole life.
That's freaking cool!
love the back drop of lone pine
Had a 1971 TR7 Triumph desert sled in the early '90's. Guy built it to ride in New Mexico. Had a polished Husky tank, huge screened head light off of I have no idea what. Bates seat, high pipes and nobbies. Traded her for a half finished café racer of the same mark a few years later. Been kicking myself in the ass for thirty freakin years! You wouldn't believe what I traded a set of Moto Guzzi Eldorado's for around the same time! Ah hell, live and learn lol.
Great looking bike, awesome video work..
Great video, thanks 👍🏽
A great portion of this was filmed in the Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, Ca.
Hi, awesome bike!!!! Fantastic!!! Good Ride!!
Great info! Huge fan of desert sleds! Just released a video of my first day out on my '57 Pre Unit TR6. Thanks for producing this great video.
fantastic, More please.
awesome. simply awesome
I love the old school concept and who doesn't. I've got a 2015 KTM xcw and it a rocket but i'm going to go and pick up my aunts 1969 Suzuki 250 and fix it up and its probably going to be more fun. There is something vulnerable about the older heavier bikes.
I love you Triumph
Great video - dirt track Triumph bikes at its best
I love these Bikes!!!!!!
the history of Triumph is built on the vast numbers of guys who saw the wet spot on the pillion seat where the girl sat. It's rather like Harley in that way - the Bonneville was the UK's Harley with it's unique exhaust note and vibration. With the new 900cc Scrambler Triumph revive old memories, for the 270 degree crank on a parallel twin seems to invoke the same sound and vibration that the common crank pin V twin of the Harley does. If Harley and Triumph sell enough of these machines the sex toy business will go bankrupt
This bike- It's my dream
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The Triumph 900 . great bike to ride and have some light fun on, I have one. I took all the heavy crap that Triumph put on it, made 10 kilos lighter , got about 15 bhp more out of the engine ,with some tweaking. and I love it,
i wanna live there.. what a cool vid!!
Still have my `68 TR6R I bought in `69. Still riding it and it's still strong an so purdy.
Great bike,great road
this is my kind of dirt bike!
Well, I never knew until I "HEARD" this vid that the Triumph used a 180 degree crank.... Great vid...
Triumph one can feel the real motorcycle feeling
Insane!
Looks like one of those old Isle of Man TT bikes. I liked the look of the old Matchless TT bikes best.
Reminds me of an XT....in feel with it.
Indeed.
Cool very cool..
I've been wanting a Scrambler for a looong time. Great video! I suspect I'll have one in the garage soon after watching this now. Seems to have the endorsement of the great Peter Egan as well. What else does a bike enthusiast need to know?!
I thought the Triumph TT was one of the best looking bikes back in the 6o's. Great camera work and location.
Love the water bottle.
wow id love to own,n ride 1 of theses bikes,much rather have that than a new bike,its got the look and the sound,great bit of work m8,keep it up.
hi Imolegregg,what i ment was i like the bike,and the way it looks.As it has the old,Brittish scrambler look,☺
NEED IT
RIDE ON BROTHERS:)
Cheers;)
Egan on video. nice. Really nice bike too.
Great bike! Inspiring! What pipes are used in the video?
Very lovely.. this is were the US has it, the landscape, to give you the places to wander over, this long track capability/requirement. This gives you the opportunity to require a greyhound/pit bull cross.The lack of suspension movement, to allow this long sleek line, but the distance to require big soft power, guts & grunt, not edge & zing.Get the dust covers right, the grease nipples to clean bearings & a chain guard to keep the chair ware real, and then old gods of Meriden will smile on you.
Movie Flats Loop (Alabama Hills) tons of old Westerns were filmed there. I think 700 movies.
High resolution but low quality
Love the vid!
Nice. In the day, desert sleds were pretty competative, but then came the two strokes and creamed them. Maico's, Husky's, CZ's, the four strokes were moving over. But it's all about being in the dirt on two wheels in the end.
FUCK TWO STROKES!
Then came the XT500, XL/XR500, DR/ SP500. Nearly 100 mph is fast enough on a dirt road for me.
GREAT CHANNEL! :-)
Alabama hills, Trona and Jo'berg
VMX Handle Bars - you can get them of the hammarhead industries site or online elsewhere
never saw a video with over 30k views without a single dislike, i mean this video and the presented bike itself are just too awesome to dislike...
Husqvarna....King of the desert!!!
James Loughead (aka Hammarhead Industries) took many people's money, but did not deliver the bikes, and has since disappeared. Hipster con man, "perception" indeed.
Apparently he used that money to get a PhD, works at the University of Pennsylvania these days as a professor.
bad ass! I think my next bike build for youtube will be a scrambler !
evocativo...
what type of rear shocks? and is front end stock?? how much travel does it have front and rear??
Don't forget to mention Randsburg Ca.
MUST.... HAVE... ALL... THREE... BIKES!
This uniquely highlights the difference between CA and TX......
It's a great looking bike but if your serious about riding a bike off road then you really should be looking to have the rear brake calliper on the top and not the bottom of the disc as it would only take one rock to knock the brake off.
More of an interview than a short film.
Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, Calif
This is like a modern day cowboy movie
Excuse me, what model is this "Hammarhead Jack Pine Triumph"?
Nicely shot vid ! Cool bike :)
(shame about the distorted audio recording on his voice though)
@stoweVT7170 Out near Lone Pine, CA, but we don't want to give away our secret spots....