Sprinting just 10 bucks can buy you a very tasty classic ride in the form of a custom built vintage Triumph offered by the Venice Vintage Motorcycle Club (VVMC) as part of their upcoming Sept. 19 2015 8th annual bike rally/show. Last year’s event attracted some 8,000 mc fans and this year’s party will see very likely that and more with one lucky guy or gal thumping off on the bike seen here, one named “The Black Knight.”

The VVMC has been building and raffling off cool machines at their events, previously including vintage Hondas and now this sleek British classic built by Doug Stedman, an aerospace electrical engineer by profession. Asked how the build went, Doug laughs and sums it up with one word, “Arduous. Seems the bike, a ’73 750cc oil-in-the-frame model, was a personal ride with some history. “I love the old English bikes and asked the club if they wanted me to build it. The bike had been on a lot of runs and just a fun bike to ride, capable of blasting 90 mph no problem at all. So I knew the bike well and that helped since I had a short build cycle to get it ready for the VVMC event.”

Several sponsors provided a bunch of goodies to add to the mix including Cone Engineering’s trick stainless steel exhaust system plus an advanced electronic ignition Power Arc and Harley style Dyna coil set-up matched to a MotoGadget CPU “brain” provided 7th Gear Designs. All the wires are new silicone pieces so spark is good for one kick dependability. The seat is Italian leather hand crafted by Ron One Too Many. The clunky stock air box assembly was tossed and new side panels fabbed with a bunch of stainless hardware. The list includes powder coated frame, stainless spokes, LED headlamp and tail light with a bunch of parts provided by Steadfast Cycles including the new brake rotors plus Doug wrenched in new bearings all around, brand new fork tubes and seals, Buchannan stainless spokes, Hagon shocks, and powdercoated wheels. The forks lowered and topped off by vintage Flanders dogbone risers holding Brit made Norman Hyde bars.

Stepping out of the box, Steve grafted in a 1960s Honda Bentley headlamp. The rebuilt motor, fed by a single Amal Concentric carb allows for a two-into-one ram air type system Steve designed. The motor also wears custom chrome originally done back in the day and now gleams again popping nicely with acrylic polyurethane PPG Austin Healy car black.

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Cone Exhausts who provided the stainless exhaust also has also produced special event trophy for Best Exhaust Award.

Raffle tickets are available via the VVMC website, from individual club members and also at Deus ex Machina, the shop the scene for the unveiling of the bike on this past Friday night.

The VVMC
In 2007 a group of local bike fans were looking for a good party complete with cool bikes plus hot food and equally hot music. Not finding what they wanted and with backgrounds in a variety of professions…graphic artists, engineers, musicians, film makers, bike builders, computer geeks, the decided to “build” the party themselves. Like they say, if you want to do it right, do it yourself, so they founded the Venice Vintage Motorcycle Club which over the years has orchestrated one of Southern California’s most popular bike party/shows/rallies, including the upcoming 2015 shindig. More raffle info: www.venicevintage.com

Previous VVMC Raffle Bikes

2014 VVMC Raffle bike
In “real life” Scott Di Lalla is a film maker including the award winning motorcycle documentaries Brittown and Harbortown Bobber. In this case he spent a summer wrenching together the VVMC raffle bike based on a 1973 CB350G. The donor bike was provided by Shannon Sweeney of SS Classics. Scott named Skyler based on the sky blue color theme. Scott and his buddies then tackled a complete ground-up build in his home garage aiming for the “Street Tracker” look. Parts sponsors included Steel Dragon Performance, Andrews powdercoating, Buchannan’s wheels, Hagon shocks, Kelly’s Machine Shop, Dean’s Metal Polishing, One Too Many upholstery, Sudco International, Forking by Franks plus Joel Meyer England spraying the custom candy paint.

2013 Raffle Bike
Shannon Sweeney of SS Classics created this stunning Honda CB 160R café racer for the VVMC’s first raffle bike. After finding an original 1965 running “basket case” with 4300 miles Shannon did the full nine yard rebuild while focusing on keeping the bike 100% 1965 (minus the new Avon tires). Says Shannon, “Basically I wanted to reproduce a 160R race replica complete with rear sets. I was able to make that happen by utilizing the adjustable factory magnesium foot peg mounting system from a ’65 Honda Super Hawk.” Hagon fabbed the custom shocks stock original seat was modified for the factory race look while the paint is a Scarlet Red by WAAG Powdercoating with brass accents since proceeds were going to benefit the local fire department. More info re Shannon’s activities via www.ssclassics.com

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