Category Archives: Photographic

A stylish French machine

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Images of a 1936 BSA Y13 V-twin, a recent arrival in Nelson.

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Images from the Men’s Artistic Gymnastics section of the Top of the South Gymnastics Competition, Nelson, July 2015

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The Ner-A-Car from 1922, the motorcycle that Cannonball Baker once rode from New York to Los Angeles in 8 days.

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A selection of images from the 2015 “Top of the South” Gymnastics Competition

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Details of the 1913 Henderson Model B, one of the classic motorcycles at Nelson’s famous “NZ Classic Motorcycle Collection”

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Another in the series of classic motorcycles, thanks to the NZ Classic Motorcycle Collection.  Text courtesy of Mike Murphy and NZCM (and the photographs are of course mine). “In 1893 Charles H. Metz co-founded the Waltham Manufacturing Company in Massachusetts to produce the ‘Orient’ bicycle. As part of his sales promotion, Metz trained a bicycle racing team and constructed a motorised tandem pacer bicycle with the rear passenger operating a De Dion-Bouton single-cylinder engine fitted in the rear of the frame. The machine helped to train his bicycle team to achieve considerable success and he began experimenting with motorised pacer bicycle designs with a view to marketing them. After trying tricycle and quadracycle configurations, in 1989 he mounted an Aster/De Dion-Bouton engine in a heavy-duty version of his production bicycle. Several prototypes later he launched a catalogue in 1899 advertising his ‘Orient Motor-cycle’ pace machines, possibly providing the first published…

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Images from a couple of days on the West Coast, from Tauranga Bay to Karamea

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The NZ Classic Motorcycles collection is heading towards becoming a major attraction in Nelson, for good reason.  It is an amazing collection of fascinating machinery. .I was recently commissioned to photograph some new acquisitions and their management has kindly given me permission to reproduce some of them here.  So here’s the first, the oldest in the group.  It’s a 1907 Indian: The following description was commissioned for the launch, written by experiencing motoring journalist Mike Murphy. “Oliver Hendee, a very successful bicycle racer who established the Hendee Manufacturing Company to manufacture ‘Silver King’ bicycles in 1889, saw one of Oscar Hedström’s motorised bicycles pacing bicycle racers at Madison Square Garden in 1899 and commissioned Hedström to design one for general sale. Hedström was a machinist who had acquired skills in developing and producing internal combustion engines, including redesigning the De Dion-Bouton engine. The two men produced their first prototype Indian motorcycle…

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A closer look at the Britten 1100 motorcycle

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