Thumper Club Forum
Club House => Chatter => Topic started by: guest7 on December 09, 2010, 05:48:48 PM
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From the Vintagent website, click THIS (http://thevintagent.blogspot.com/2009/02/dg-mankletow-rocker-photographer.html)
An excellent set of Rocker photos.
GC
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Ah good read, and bloody good photos. Nice find.
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Cheers for that, here's another great article, a rare find, an early Von Dutch chop, see HERE (http://www.bikeexif.com/von-dutch-triumph)
And as for Von Dutch, here's a picture of the lunatic genius himself, looking cooler than hell:
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_i_AovfzNXgQ/TDgCTj9o_LI/AAAAAAABOzg/UY1B3KSG92c/s1600/von+dutch+fuckyeahcarculture.tumbler.jpg)
GC
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The early Von Dutch job was "interesting", a m8 did a similar lash-up with an A10, a tiny Wassel tank and a pair of 15" overstock fork tubes.. a seriously dangerous thing, at anything over 40mph, the bars would turn 10 degrees + before the wheel moved: so much flex in the forks! :D He eventually settled for +6" and shorter back shox..
I believe Von Dutch is most famous for his paintwork rather than engineering?
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I believe Von Dutch is most famous for his paintwork rather than engineering?
Yes indeed, but he was a bike nut his whole life through.
Did you hear about the frame he agreed to paint for a Californian Hells Angel in the 60s? Apparently (due to his intake of narcotics) he became convinced the frame would attack him so he cut it into 2" sections and presented it back to the Angels. It's a mark of how much they thought of him that he survived that incident unmarked.
GC
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As someone without much interest in old bikes I enjoyed those pictures. It must have been great to have a level of technology that allowed real improvement at home and clear enough roads to be able to ride the result on. Far more interesting that trying to make a 180 mph bike noisier so you can run on roads that are so choked with cars they average 40 :-\
Andy