Very cool flat tracker.

[firko]

I'm posting this photo for no other reason that to show how beautiful a dirt bike can be. The bike is the ex Ramon Perez rigid framed BSA DBD34 Goldstar from Northern California, restored by Tom Horton and owned by my friend Bob Neilson until his sudden death in 2010. To me this is one of those special bikes that are visually just perfect. The only change I'd make would be to replace those excretable Excel rims with period Akront or Borrani mudcatchers.
                                                           

[MX?]

That is stunning! Would sound as good as looks I'll bet.

[pancho]

 Tweety birds in the exhaust!

[Curly3]

That is an awesome bit of kit, I'd sell a lot of my bikes to own that and probably would have to.

[AJ]

A credit to the builder.

[Slider29]

Yep,
That is just a beautiful machine to look at. Maybe just remove the Excel logo from the rims?

[firko]

Here's another rigid framed flat tracker that presses my buzzer...A Sonic framed Royal Enfield Fury 500 (fathead). A fellow Klub Kevlar member has one of these rare engines that he promises will one day be fitted to a Goldy Beeza frame for pre 60.           
                                                 

[firko]

Or perhaps a Sonic framed Triumph?                       
                                                   
                                                   
                                                                                                         

[Tim754]

That Amal carby on the Enfield looks huge Firko. Do you have any info on the Fury engine? thanks Tim754

[matcho mick]

That carby on the Enfield looks huge Firko. Do you have any info on the Fury engine? thanks Tim754

uh oh,looks like the "forks on backwards club"s at it again  ,

[firko]

That carby on the Enfield looks huge Firko. Do you have any info on the Fury engine? thanks Tim75

Here's a little bit of info Tim......
With the introduction of the Fury in 1959, Royal Enfield at last had a 500cc sports single to take on BSA?s Gold Star and Velocette?s Venom, though sadly for UK enthusiasts it was for the US export market only. Based on the latest, ?big head? Bullet, the Fury came with a tuned engine incorporating an enlarged inlet port, raised compression ratio and lighter flywheels for a claimed maximum power output of 40bhp. An Amal GP carburettor was standard equipment, though hardly ideal for the bike?s intended off-road role because of its lack of ?tick over?, and the Fury was available with or without lights. Enfield sales literature talked about a top speed in the region of 95-100mph, which should have been easily attainable.
 
Only 191 Furies were made between 1959 and 1963; this example being one despatched to Royal Enfield distributor Tozer & Kemsley in the USA on 18th June 1960. The machine was supplied without road equipment for competition purposes, as most were, but has been restored with road use in mind. One of a consignment of machines brought back to the UK many years ago, it was purchased by Alan Hitchcock, of marque specialists Hitchcock?s Motorcycles, and restored by Enfield specialist, Steve Hart. The completed Fury was featured in Classic Bike magazine (November 1995 edition) for whom it was road-tested by Mick Duckworth
                                

[pancho]

 Very impressive looking machine.

 I only ever owned one R.E, a 700 cc 'Super Meteor'.
 Pulling power of a tractor from 15mph in top!
 "Built like a Gun", but not generally considered as 'in', those days.
cheers pancho

[sprint76]

Firko, love these rigid flatrackers, how do you think they would go on Aussie dirt tracks and do you think they would have a problem with the current MOM's 

[steve234]

Firko, love these rigid flatrackers, how do you think they would go on Aussie dirt tracks and do you think they would have a problem with the current MOM's 

Those old rigids are usually brakeless, but if you made one with brakes?

go for it!

[Curly3]

One in all in.
I'm a Short Circuit traditionalist but we need numbers or the Slider class is in danger of dropping off the radar.
As much as I hate most things US, we need to let em in or die.