Monday, September 14, 2015

REPAIRS: Resurrection Threads on BARF and ADVRider

If you haven't read through this entire thread, you owe it to yourself to do so. It starts with an abandoned ATK on a dock in the bay, and ends up with a beast that a 5 foot 5 inch woman can ride comfortably. Engine work, frame mods, foot peg relocation, seat height adjustment... this has it all. I wish I had this amount of awesome to post on this blog, but I'll just have to settle for linking to it.


This is another good one by GCRAD1 over on ADVRider about his adventures in working on his 605. Pretty cool pictures of petcock refurbishing, carb maint, bearing repacking, and also him meeting Ron Woods, and visiting De Wayne Johnson's suspension lab, and American Dirtbike.

HALL OF FAME: ATK Founder Horst Leitner inducted to motocross hall of fame

Motocross Action Magazine has the story.

Dude saw a problem and made the custom happen! Coincidentally I had come across this in my google searching and I wondered what the hell it was:

Turns out it is just a static representation of the actual ATK namesake. As found on AMP Research (Horst's company).

Saturday, September 5, 2015

FOR SALE: ATK... No really, ATK is For Sale

Don't exactly know what this means for us as a whole, but should be an interesting new chapter.

Screengrab from ATK Facebook Group.

SOCIAL MEDIA: ATK on the Book of Faces

Looks like ATK has jumped on the bandwagon. Follow the link to make friends with our fellow side framers.

ATK FACEBOOK

Friday, August 28, 2015

BLOG PLUG: Rob Lance's Vegas to Reno on an ATK!!!

I just happened onto this, but I am in full support of a dude and a dream. Especially when that dream is to potentially cause yourself bodily harm on a sweet four stroke single! Check out his prep and give him any guidance you might have for desert racing.
Rab Lance Vegas to Reno Racing Dreams and Dual Sport Adventures

MAINTENANCE VIDEO: NEW CAM BELT CHANGE VIDEO

The link to the old video went dead, so here's a new one based on the MT500

VIDEO: BIKES: CCM Framed 604

Alas the fate of many of our bike's fine power plants end up in these. Would have liked to see him put that kind of money into the original bike and se what he could have come up with