Thunderbirds Are Go

Pips and Britta travelled up from Stuttgart on their combination. Spent the weekend with us ad then on to Ireland for three weeks. Pips has been visiting Bishops Castle for the last 30 years.

Bristol Easter Weekend

Italian vehicles take over the streets around Corn street.


















Very well sorted Special S & S Motor, Norton gearbox.

Brunel's iconic bridge










Banksy's street art - Stokes Croft.

The Big Breakfast - Prees, Shropshire.

Met up with friends from Bishops Castle.

Classic cars amongst the thousands of bikes.

Show stopper: Jerry Hutchinson's Freemore.

Telford International Centre. Classic and Road Racing show

Classic Off Road Racing Show. Website.

Monster Magnet

Monster Magnet Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton. 14.2.14
The band really now back on form - this was rock with a capital R.

Birmingham Weekend

Spending this coming weekend in Birmingham. Attending the Motorcycle Trade Show at the NEC. Also want to check out the exhibition on photorealism. Our video maker Tom's father will be showing his works, beat up cars and trailers - Modern Americana.

Our Own New Website

At last we have our own self built website online. We now have control over the design and can update daily.

Stafford show 2013

Stafford Classic Motorcycle Mechanics show 2013. 

We showed the Freemore and 21stC Bonneville, Trident and Lightning with accompanying video. Their response was tremendous.
Thanks Jerry, Bill, Jim and Rob.


Phone video of the stand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grRcfN-qtZI

Our promotional video now posted on Youtube. See "Classic British Bikes Reborn"
or alternatively click the link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCyFQXCWumw

For our Stafford promotional video on youtube see "Classic British Bikes in Action".




 

Old Dogs new tricks

http://vimeo.com/76807240

Our promotional video is now up and running. Please use link above to view.
A big thank to Fight the Bear, Fuzz Townshend and of course Thomas Salt.

Bonneville 2013

Bonneville 2013.
Commissioned to build the chassis for team Rooster Booster .
We went over to support Steve, Karl and Nick riding their tuned Bantam 125's.
Combined with a 2500 mile road trip searching out the back roads of the Colorado plateau, we went looking for America - and found it.


The Malarkey chassis, 125cc Bantam racer.
The tuned engine, machined, built by Steve Roberts.
Steve rode to an average of 84mph, top speed 89mph and gained one of the three landspeed records acheived by the Bantams.
100 degrees F, air thinness, 7000 ft. riding on the salt - can give a relative reduction of upto 20%.
Still more tuning to be done on engine and exhausts. Pendine next year!

 Bonneville 2013 - Hotrod heaven















 


Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod

Recently Completed Bikes ready for new Website

Guzzi Cafe Racer.
Re worked 1000cc California.

Owner: Dave Gregory.













Triumph Bonneville Special.
The late great pat French's Freemore 2 frame kit.

Design and built Metal Malarkey/ Jerry Hutchinson.

Owner: Jerry Hutchinson.

Brit style Bobber.
Re worked Kawasaki W650/
Design: Metal Malarkey/ Warren Smith.
Built: Metal Malarkey.

Owner: Warren Smith.

Mallory Park. Festival of 1000 Bikes.

Another very good weekend at Mallory.
Met up with Carl and Paul on the CBX stand.
Jim and his Triton - cool pipes! See Classic Bike magazine.
Simon with the XLCR now on the road and race track!

Pictures show Trevor Pritchard and his very impressive Benelli with Nick the Goffa.
Start line and straight.















A big thanks to the Benelli Motobi GB owners club.
If Carlsberg did a barbeque it would be something like theirs.

21st C Classics Video

       Again in collaboration with the Gysin brothers -                
       3 Brothers Performance the BSA A65 has now                  

       been completed. To mark this all three bikes returned          

       to our workshop for a video shoot.                                      

       Top photographer and video maker, Thomas Salt

       offered his services to film the return of the bikes

       and a ride from Bishops Castle via the Mountain

       Road to Aberystwyth. With music soundtrack by

       Fuzz Townshend and Fight the Bear the bikes

       will be documented riding hard throughout standing

       scenery.

 

        Shown below the brothers with their bikes,

        Jim - BSA A65

        Bill - Trident T150

        Rob- Bonneville

 

    Road testing the Bonneville.

 

 

Stafford Classic Bike Show

Concentrating on the October show for our stand. So this April went just as a
punter.
Met up with Bart, Jerry and John - customers.
Howard on his Disco Volante stall - always good to see him and his goods.
Two bikes in the show stood out for me. The Iron Head Sportster Flat tracker
and Ron of Warlord's incredible Triumph.

20.4.13 Weekend in Bristol

Bristol Italian Motor Festival.
Took over Corn Street and
surrounding area. Lamborghinis,
Maseratis,
Ferraris and other Italian
exotica.

 SS Great Britain.

Some of Banks' and other street art.

15.4.13 Johnny Winter Live

Went to see the legendary Texas Blues man with Wayne, Mandy, Brian and Dave.
Robin 2 Bilston.
29 years since I last saw him.

The big breakfast.

A group of us rode up from Bishops Castle and met up with friends there. Very large turnout.








Very nice Commando Cafe Racer.
Inspirations for next project?

Three lovely Bantams.

BSA Bantam 125cc Bonneville Racers

In the last few months we have been
involved in a project with team Rooster
Booster. Please view BsaBooster.

Have now completed the second of the
two chassis that are competing on the
salt flats this August.

The classes we are entering are:

Pre '56 125cc air cooled two stroke
gasoline modified.

Pre '56 125 air cooled two stroke
gasoline special.

The photos show the 'special'.

Exhausts are being fabricated and

bodywork to be painted shortly.

The guys are busy with the engine
works. SCTA rules require standard
crank cases, barrel, carburettor and
points ignition. Crank cases have been
welded and modified to take new
oilways and larger bearings. Barrel
porting position changed and
aluminium shroud made to cover.
Lightened crankshaft machined.
Cylinder head machined. Aftermarket
conrod pistons, points, carburettor.

Currently, world record stands in the
mid 60mphs. There are many variables
to contend with at Bonneville. Large
variations in temperature during the
day. Oxygen depletion, the equivalent
of anywhere between 4000-7000 ft. A
racing surface the equivalent of baked
icing sugar. Quite a challenge!

Frame and Parts FOR SALE

Harley Sportster 5 Spd Solid Mount.


 Included in the sale:
Girder Forks
One off frame
One off swingarm
Shocks
One off fat wide stainless bars

All engineered at Metal Malarkey by Malc.

Gigs at Wulfrun, Wolverhampton

Industrial Metal tour,
Fear Factory,
Devin Townsend,

Fear Factory - spend 60 odd hours a week making Industrial Metal at Metal Malarkey but still go to watch the gigs. Fear Factory alot quieter and mellower than before and actually seemed to enjoy themselves.
Devin Townsend - first time to see the band. Camp, a bit of a send up but great musicianship and visuals. - checkout Youtube - Juular, Vampira, Trainfire.
Great value for money.

West Wales

Ceridigion coast path

Holiday in West Wales.
Cliff walks, Kayaking, Go Carting and wild swimming in blue lagoon.

Blue Lagoon
The venue will be used in the red bull cliff diving world series in september.
The quarry was being surveyed for water depth. A gantry will be erected on top of the cliff for the event.