VINTAGE REVIVAL MONTLHERY 2011

"The Right Crowd, and No Crowding".  Never were truer words expressed.  It was a perfect day.

Warriors at ease: the 1929/30 World Speed Record machines, last together in 1930...read the story here.

Fantasy radial-engine bike.

Photographer Dimitri Coste

Triumph ridden by Frank Chatokhine, the fastest bike of the day.

Jerome Coste of Ruby

The sisters du Bucheron return to steal hearts...

Aude Rageys, with her grandfather Roger Loyer's Velocette KTT, which she rides with great verve.

Ah, the breakdown truck...

La Planche a Dixie

French design genius on display...

Jean Marie Guic'arch, pen at the ready

Sketching the Nougier 125cc dohc special

The Nougier in question; note gear-driven cam drive.

Supercharged MG

Roger Loyer's TT Replica trophy, and the bike on which he gained it.

Montlhery sits in a forest.

New Imperials

Steering gear and suspension of the Napier-Railton, which lives in the Brooklands Museum

Primary Morgans

The 'Crocodile', Sunbeam's experimental ohc racer

The Southsiders

Organizer Vincent Chamon; excellent job, mon amis!

Super Kim; would you dare?

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