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Tonight!

Wal Phillips Fuel Injectors

The guys over at Williamson Metal Works got their hands on a set of these old Fuel Injectors!

I had never seen / heard of them before and theyre AWESOME! Supposedly they can be 'tuned' but adjusting the butterfly valve... but they are so simple that it seems they would only act as an ON / OFF switch for the gas - All or Nothing! I really dont think that idling was ever an option with these - As always, I stand to be corrected.

Heres some stuff I dug up about them, and about the man who

made them back in the day. Some background info acquired from guskuhn.net...

Walter Hartley Phillips (1908 - 1998), known as Wal, was born in Tottenham, North London. He had a natural ability for things mechanical and by his early teens had put together a motorcycle from junk and spare parts. He wanted to be a race rider and financed his first ambitions by taking part-time jobs.

In 1928 the first dirt track meeting at High Beech saw Wal as one of the 30,000 spectators but he was not very impressed with the sport of speedway compared to the thrills of hammering around the Brooklands circuit. Fortunately for speedway, Wal was to go to another meeting. This was at Stamford Bridge where the American Lloyd 'Sprouts' Elderdemonstrated the technique of 'broadsiding' under floodlight conditions.

As one of the first home-grown riders to see off the Australians, he became a national hero and was part of the team picked for the first test against the Australians at Wimbledon in 1930. In 1932 Wal appeared in the Star Championship final and in 1936 he was to appear in the first World Championships at Wembley.

Wal remained an important figure in the sport for many years and was elected President of the Veteran Speedway Riders Association in 1968.

Wal Phillips is now equally well known as the inventor of a fuel injection system for motorcycle and small automobile engines. The system was intended as a high performance replacement for the Amal carburettors

very tranny christmas

Got the tree all set up in trannytown


real duckling





Also I will be contributing to Church Of Choppers as well, so as if anyone doesn't alreasy go check it out

?... flogging a dead horse?

Price Tag...

Im sure this was a substantial sum of money in 1950...

Tips-N-Tricks...

Rugged Brute Force!

SKELL ALERT

Dan Climan is a local sign painter who does some absolutley killer stuff
Dan Climan
He painted this sign which hangs proudly in my shop/ house and it seems to be helping with the amount of skell foot traffic.
I fucking love it



saw these on his website...super rad

Show Class 3

Another great issue!
get it in the STORE

summer= long gone

now that the weather is complete shot up here I plan on spending as little time as possible in this shit. Looking through a few sunnier times and already missing the weather
all photos by the annie lebowitz of choppers and our good pal Bret Beadle
Man alive motorcycles

My" litttle" bro

is a shit kicker...have a million Adam stories a lot end up with him knocking someone out. He has been training MMA for a long time with guys like Vanderlei and Rampage Jackson but has been competing in a lot of Muay Thai fights lately. Clearly he gets his physique from his big brother

He is fighting Nov 25th at the river rock casino in a Team Canada versus Team China in a K1 rules competition, come out and support him

just a reminder

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New Man Wolfs

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Tranny Dicks

I think Tranny Devito is behind things escalating down here in Tranny Town.
New dick on the block!

New Chopper

did a little horse trading and ended up with this new addition to the stable im trannytown
clever name to follow
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Winter is coming...

The Thunderbird is just a few small steps from being together, Ive been slacking on it all summer. But the rain is here, so its time to get busy. Next build HAS TO BE a pre-unit in a swingarm frame.

Pics stolen from the (always amazing) nostalgiaonwheels + caferacerculture

Cant get enough...

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The Nightfighters are having their Season Ender. Come support a good cause.

more good stuff from Brett

Myk Rock supporting the team


Our buddy Brett Beadle takes such rad photos, he sent me a couple more over
BRETT.
or check his new blog Man alive motorcycles

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