A Day in the Life of The Picturebooks

Handlebar machine work

This is the old fashioned way to fit reverse levers.

Jawa 350 Polishing job

A friend of mine is working on Jawa 350 from 1968. I helped him with some aluminum polishing.

Polished edges of the smoothly sandblasted carburetor cover.

Almost finished front brake cover.Again for high contrast, sandblasted in the middle.

Almost ready with the gastank

BMW R25/3 gearbox cover

These days I have been working on a gearbox cover for BMW R25/3. The owner wants his engine polished, so the factory casting has to be smoothed first.Most of it by hand.

Tail Light

This piece of history is going to become my bobber tail light.It is a license plate light from old Volga GAZ 21.

Quick Mockup

Here is my customized Simson Sr 2 gas tank.

Unusual Spark plug

I have found this amazing spark plug it will serve well on my future motorcycle.

After some polishing it is ready to spark.

The Very Beginning

Here it is the beginning. Awo Touren built in East Germany in 1957.It looked like this back in the days.

But this was what I found a couple of years ago. Almost a barn find.

This machine is too far from its original state, so I am going to rebuild it as a vintage bobber. Here I am, waiting for the better days of my Awo Touren.

Stay close much more to come!