Classic Motorcycle Picture Gallery

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There are too many cool classic photos getting buried in our other threads. Let’s post the real old stuff here, and I’ll move what I’ve posted over. Post up any information you have/know about these old photos, the bikes, folks, etc.




This 1938 German Prototype goes by the name of its designers, Killinger & Freund. It’s front-wheel drive, with a 600cc three-cylinder engine, although I’ve seen some arguments that it has three one-cylinder engines. It was found in a German warehouse by the US Military in 1945. Whereabouts today, unknown.

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This is supposed to be a couple leaving for their honeymoon

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I think the photo in Reply 1 ^^^ is the best Classic Motorcycle Picture of all time! 

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Agreed. Anyone know who that is?  I can see he's on an old board track. How did they get that picture?

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1929 Norton ES2 (Expert)

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1947 Vincent Rapide




1955 Vincent Comet

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Agreed. Anyone know who that is?  I can see he's on an old board track. How did they get that picture?

Found it...

Harley-Motorcycles.org: Otto Walker was a leading motorcycle racer in the 1910s and early 1920s and was one of Harley-Davidson’s first factory riders. Walker won the first major race for the Harley-Davidson factory team on April of 1915– an FAM 300-mile road race in Venice, California. Walker set numerous speed records during his eight-year professional racing career. He earned the impressive distinction of being the first rider ever to win a motorcycle race at an average race speed of over 100 mph in 1921

http://www.harley-motorcycles.org/tag/harley-motorcycles/

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Lady on a Lady (Belgium) 




Lady motorcycles were manufactured between 1924 and 1940 in the Antwerp region in Belgium.
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1942 BSA M20 (500cc). The guys in the photo are from the Royal Engineering Corps of the British Armed Forces.

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Purty girl on an Indian Chief, mid to late 40s, I imagine.

$$$$$$$$$$$  BTW--the pic of the Indian is a 1940

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1942 BSA M20 (500cc). The guys in the photo are from the Royal Engineering Corps of the British Armed Forces.

@@@@@@@@@@ Actually, the motorcycles are both  G3 Matchless. You can always tell Matchless because they werre the sole UK WW2 motorcycle with telescopics. 

################# But why does the truck have a Chevrolet logo

$$$$$$$$$$$  BTW--the pic of the Indian is a 1940

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@@@@@@@@@@ Actually, the motorcycles are both  G3 Matchless. You can always tell Matchless because they werre the sole UK WW2 motorcycle with telescopics. 

################# But why does the truck have a Chevrolet logo

Wow! It's one thing to know old bikes. It's another to recognize old bike "forks!" 

Here's the description from the site:

"Thanks to Steve Pierce for this picture of his father John (Jack) Pierce, who is now  95 and still going stong (on the right) riding a BSA M20 500 fitted with teledraulic forks from a Matchless 350. It was taken in 1942 while serving with 660 company Royal Engineers. He built the bike from salvaged parts after the M20s front end was damaged in transit, with help from a New Zealand engineering company who were able to harden the head bearing cups in the field and supply the ball bearings."

As far as the Chevy logo, you never know...there are a lot of creative photoshoppers out there. This photo is far too cool; I hope its not shopped.