SECTIONS: GENERAL - JAP - JAWA - WESLAKE - ODDMENTS - JUNIOR - ICE.

 
NOTE: New or Recently Updated Machines are Highlighted in Yellow.
 

  General Bikes On The Bench
  Year Machine Detail
  1926 AJS  The AJS "Special Racing" GR7 Big Port.
  1951 AJW  The AJW "Speedfox" machine.
  1950 Apfelbeck  A rare Machine from Vienna
  1983 Bellini  The Italian Bellini Engines.
  19?? Benelli  A rare Italian Dirt track machine.
  199? BM500  The latest Czech machine
  1929 BSA S29  The Poor Man's Speedway machine
  197? B.S.A  The British Mk1 and Mk2 BSA
  1929 Calthorpe  The 350cc Calthorpe "Speedway Special"
  19?? Champion A "Champion" Framed JAP (we think)
  1973 Cole MK3  The Cole and Elstar Cole Machines
  1985 Comet  The Comet with the "Flexiflyer" frame
  1929 Coventry-Victor  The 488cc OHV Flat twin.
  1934 Crocker  The American Crocker DT machine.
  1984 Datzmann  The German Speedway and Longtracker.
  1978 Denco  The Revolutionary engine from N.Zealand
  1966 The Dirtrax Bert Kingston's Australian Dirtrax
  19?? D.K.W  Information needed on the German DKW
  1928 Douglas  The - RA, DT, Langton and Red Devil
  197? DR500  The German engine designed for Longtrack
  1967 EiCoH  The Japanese Machine by Engine Honda
  1928 Enfield  The Royal Enfield JAP
  197? ERLA  The German SOHC 2-valve Longtracker
  197? ERLA Godden/Ducati  Featuing a Ducati Desmodromic motor
  1936 Excelsior The Excelsior with Long 5 JAP
  1949 Excelsior Mk2 The Excelsior JAP Mk2 Model
  1946 Fairchild/Roccio  The Horizontal Fairchild/Roccio
  197? Fairchild  The American Jerry Fairchild design
  197? FBM An Italian 4vv DOHC machine
  1956 F.I.S  The Polish copy of the JAP
  1953 Galbusera  The Italian O.H.V machine 
  1928 Glanfield Rudge  One of the earliest purpose designed machines.
  1979 GM  Giuseppe Marzotto's Italian Motor - The Story
  1978-91 Godden  The Story behind Don Godden's Engine
  1968 Greeves  Don Smith's Speedway Greeves.
  1936 Grosskreutz  The arrival of the modern day frame type.
  1929 Harley  The Legendary "Peashooter"
  1934 Harley  The Lesser Known Two Port 30.50ci and CAC models
  1988 Hasegawa  The Japanese racing machine
  1967 Hedlund  The Swedish DOHC Unit Construction
  1984 Hejisun  The "All-Australian" machine
  19?? HSG  The The Norwegian built HSG machine.
  1998 Honda  The engine for the future?.
  1931 Husqvarna The Swedish "Husky" Dirt Racer
  1975 Hynes The Dave Hynes Motor
  1928 Indian Spencer Stratton's Indian
  1929 James One of Speedways early Works V-Twins
  1979 JLR Camel  The John Louis "Humped" Frame
  1947 Kermond The Exeter built Kermond Machine
  197? KT2  The Japanese KT2 built by the Kyokuto Co
  1987 Kyokuto  The Japanese Mk2 Kyokuto
  1966 Lito  The Motocross To Speedway Engine
  1974 Maely  America's first purpose built machine
  1938 Martin Comerford  Victor Martin's Comerford
  1938 Martin Rudge  Victor Martin's Rudge
  1997 Masek The New JawesoMasek with Stuha frame.
  197? Matchless  Jack Emmott's Classic Speedway Engine
  1928 Mc.Evoy  So you thought Laydowns were new?
  1979 Mantovani  A revolutionary rotary Valve Jawa conversion
  1939 Moseley Alec Moseley's "Super Frame"
  1920 Moto-Guzzi  OHC 4 valve bronze head Guzzi factory racers [early 20's]?.
  1967 MSM  The Australian Meirson Engine
  1974 MTRM  The 1974 MTRM Desmodromic machine made by Carlo Mazzucato.
  1930 Norton  Norton's Dirt Track Engine
  1989 Pinfold  The Revolutionary Pinfold Frames
  1985 PPT  The Phil Pratt Motor
  1928 P&M Panther  The Phelon and Moore "Panther"
  1992 RB232  The Renato Battaglia Cylinder Head
  1929 Rex  The Vintage REX dirt Tracker
  1951 Rogers  The Rogers Steering and Throttle mechanisms
  1972 Roth  The German Designed motor.
  1928 Rudge  The First appearance of the Rudge
  1930 Rudge  Major changes are made
  19?? Schneeweiss  The Austrian Speedway/LongTrack machine
  1930 Scott  The "Yowling" Two-Stroker
  1975 SHORT-UTEC  An engine developed by John Short and the UTEC Company
  19?? SIWA  The Siegfried Wartblichter Austrian Motor
  1967/68 SR60  Australian Fred Jolly's 60bhp Machine
  1949 SRM  Leif Hveem's SRM (Swedish Racing Motor) engine 
  1929 Sunbeam  Sunbeams first Dirt Tracker
  19?? Trava  The early Italian 250cc Machine
  1946 Utensil  Built and ridden by Bill Kitchen
  1949 Van Gorcum The Nico Van Gorcum machine
  1929 Velocette  The KTD 411cc from Velocette
  1979 Villa  The Italian OHV and DOHC engines
  1947 Vincent  The Vincent Vampire Prototype
  1948 Vincent HRD The Mosleley follow-up to the Vampire
  1934 Whirlwind  Wal Phillips built just two of these engines
  1979 The Williams  Built by Ken Williams and his Father
  1994 Yamaha  Trials For The Yamaha YZ250cc Engine

 
  

  The JAP Workbench
  Year Machine Detail
  1928/48/53 OEC Three of the O.E.C Machines
  1928 OK-Supreme  JAP with magneto in front of engine
  1928 Lady The Belgian twin port machine
  1930 Wallis  350cc Wallis TT Twin Port engine
  1930  Comerford Housing L.H Horizontal Carb Motor
  1931 Dog Ear T/P  The Dog-Eared Twin Port Engine
  1931 Dog Ear S/P  The Dog-Eared Single Port (Twin Plug)
  1932 Short 4  L/H Carb-Short 4-Open Valved
  1932 Comerford Comerford with the latest Short-4
  1933 Rudge/JAP  The Short-4 housed in Rudge Frame
  1933 Suecia  The Swedish SMT-50 machine
  1933 Long Four  First with Down Draught on Inlet Port
  1937 350 JAP  The 350cc 5-Stud engine
  ** 500 JAP  The 5-Stud Long and Short engines
  1938 V.Martin  Victor Martin Housing the JAP 5-Stud
  1948 Vic Duggan World Champion Vic Duggan Design
  1948 W.Phillips Wal Phillips Horizontal JAP
  1948 Staride  The Erskine "Staride"
  1948 Martin  Housing the JAP Long 5-Stud motor
  1948 Les Wotton Housing the Long JAP 5-Stud motor
  1949 Hynes The Dave Hynes JAP
  1949 Langton Eric Langton Mk4 Machine
  1949 Sloper  Bob Lovell's Sloper JAP
  1949 Payne  Payne JAP housing converted Short4
  1955 Arnott  Frank Arnott's Desmodromic JAP
  1955 Huck Fynn With the earlier "Trombone" Forks
  1965 The Bewley George Bewley's Spring Forks machine
  1967 Erskine  Restored JAP as ridden by S.Sjosten
  1960's Mattingly With "Trombone" forks and 4A motor.
  1960's 500 JAP Using C.B Ignition not Magneto
  19?? Jackson JAP  An early Jackson JAP
  1952 Jackson-Rotrax-1  The most famed of JAP's
  1972 Rotrax-2  Rotrax with 4 valve engine.
  1962 Emstar  John Patterson's Emstar machines
  1970's ERLA SOHC 2-Valve Conversion
  1970's RO  Norwegian JAP with Weslake Head
  1975 84S  The 500cc 4-Stud motor
  1970's Street JAP Neil Street's 4-Valve Conversion.
  1970's 4 Valve The rare 4-valve DOHC engine.

 
  

  The JAWA Workbench
  Year Machine Detail
  1934 PreWar JAWA  A look at Pre-War Jawa machines
  1947 JOLI/ESO  A look at the change from JOLI to ESO
  1955/61 ESO Various ESO Machines and Engines
  1968 Jawa 890 First of the Post-ESO Jawas 
  1970's "Smiley" Jawa 890  The Jawa with modified Fuel Injection
  1973 Jawa L/S  The Jawa Long Stroke
  1970's Drake  The American Drake 4v Conversion
  1970's Street  The Mk1 and Mk2 Street Conversions
  1970's Luckhurst The Luckhurst 4 Valve Conversion
  1970's Watercooled  The Jawa Watercooled D.T Engine
  1975 Ricksson Swedish OHV 4 Valve conversion 
  1976 ERM/JJM The Swedish ERM and JJM Engine
  1977 Briggo Jawa The Barry Briggs Conversion
  197? RTS Jawa The Roger Taylor RTS Conversion
  197? LS Jawa The LS DOHC to SOHC Conversion
  1976 Jawa 894/895 The DOHC 894 and 895 models
  1984 Jawa 896/897 The SOHC 4 Valver
  1990 Jawa 898/893 The Jawa 898/893 Tech Sheets
  1984 JWS The JWS Mk1 & 2 Conversions
  1997 Brian The Jawa and Brian Frame
  1997 JAWA 898.5 The Latest of the Jawa's
  1998 Longtracker The Latest Jawa W/Cooled Longtracker
  1999 880 An 880 c35occ converted to 263cc and then to Laydown 
  2001 NEW Pictures of the Latest Jawa 

 
  

  The Weslake Workbench
  Year Machine Detail
  1974 Prototype The first ever Complete Weslake.
  197? Weslake 250 The Antig Mounted 250cc Weslake.
  197? OHV 5v Otto Lantenhammer first ever 5-valver.
  197? SOHC 5v The BVR SOHC 5 Valve Weslake engine.
  1977 Weslake OHV Roy Young's OHV 2-valver.
  1979 WeslakeSOHC The Manual for the SOHC Engine
  1975 SOHC Special The special with electronic ignition.
  1979 WeslakeDOHC The Weslake DOHC Four valve
  1975 Weslake Mk 4 Alan Grahame's Mk4 Weslake
  1979 Weslake Mk 5  The latest of the Weslakes
  1982 Weslake  The New Prototype with fixed Bearing
  1983 Weslake The Otto Lantenhammer Weslake 

 
  

  Other Machines On the bench
  Year Machine Detail
  1994 Ellwood  The Ellwood Hybrid - 2 Stroke or 4 Stroke?
  1974 GMT  The George Mossmer Trauchau Conversion
  1998-99 Magnum Laydown A converted Magnum of Thomas Irming and Thomas Hartzberg
  1980-1 BHS Australian Bob Humphreys Special
  1982 ESO OHC Conversion A rare conversion by Rune Arvidsson.
  19?? The Gilera A post war adaption of the Gilera.
  19?? The BSA-Jawa An unusual BSA road bike.
  19?? The Dave Thompson Mystery JAP More Photo's of the "Mystery" machine.
  1970 The Bast American Mike Bast's machine.
  1934 The Killer An interesting story on this one.
  1973 Triumph An unusual Triumph Speedway Bike
  1977 JAP Moto-X An unusual JAP Scrambles machine
  1960's Hynes/Bond The "Back to Front" JAP ??
  1970's Gold Bikes When all that Glitters really is Gold
  1970's Higgs Platinum Bike JAP 4 valver with Street Head and Philips Injector
  193? BSA "Sloper" David Burgess's 1930-ish 500cc Sloper
  1925 Royal Rudge An Interesting Rudge Story
  1951 Enfield JAP  Dick Tolley's Grass Machine
  1967 Aaen  Norwegian designed 2-Stroker
  1970's Hagon The Hagon Range
  1974 Heath Hagon Roger Heath's Hagon
  1965 Aberl The Aber/Alfenbeck 4vv Longtracker
  19?? BobJones Bob "Mr Swindon" Jones's Machine
  1970's Maely-AJS A Maely Framed AJS 500 Machine
  1971 Vincent-Triumph A Vincent - Triumph Sidecar Outfit
  1970's Mistral The Last Remaining Mistral
  1970's Dula-JAP Gavin Davis's Dula
  1975 Porkchop The sectioned Harley Sporster
  1979 Cagiva-Hagon The Twin Cylinder 6-speed Longtracker
  1981 Heathen The JAWA conversion that never was.....