House Of The Rising Sun Played By Old Computers

This post about the old computer equipment has been featured on numerous sites and we had forgotten all about it, until we saw it again this morning. How many times have you heard the drum of a your scanner or printer and those monotonous sounds and were waiting for them to be done, so you could move forward with the next project? Did you ever consider making music out of it? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and this is a gem for sure. 

Check out the video below from vimeo or go back to the original post on Colossal 

"Although this has been making the rounds here and there it’s taken me a few weeks to actually sit down and appreciate this cover of The Animals House of the Rising Sun covered entirely using audio samples recorded from legacy computer equipment and diagnostic machines. The piece uses four primary “instruments” including an HP Scanjet 3P, an Atari 800XL with an EiCO Oscilloscope as the organ, a Texas instrument Ti-99/4A with a Tektronix Oscilloscope as the guitar and a hard-drive powered by a PiC16F84A microcontroller as the bass drum and cymbal. Video and music by PURETUNE. (via dudecraft)"

Update: Here’s a similar video done three years ago by James Houston, covering Radiohead. (thnx, stephen!)

1915 Indian 8 Valve Boardtrack Racer And 1928 Harley

Youtube can be quite amazing especially when finding gems such as this. Here is a 1915 Indian 8 Valve Boardtrack Racer with ported cylinder heads that was found dismantled in an Australian vintage bike collection by the fine folks over at Yesterdays in the Netherlands.

These guys seem to have quite an interesting collection of bikes being restored and sold in the form of an auction house. Great to see them keeping all the old iron alive in Europe. Hell, dig through their site just for the great photos on tap.

Yesterdays, Motorcycle Restoration Company in the Netherlands

One of their recent sales: Harley Davidson 1928 28JDH 1200cc 2 cyl ioe

Harley Davidson 1928 28JDH 1200cc 2 cyl ioe

Harley Davidson 1928 28JDH 1200cc 2 cyl ioe

Harley Davidson 1928 28JDH 1200cc 2 cyl ioe

Harley Davidson 1928 28JDH 1200cc 2 cyl ioe

1974 Harley-Davidson RR350 RARE-350,1 Of 25 Built

Ebay never fails to yield more treasures than the Smithsonian National Museums. Here is an amazing find by Josh over at Wrench Works. Its an über rare 1974 Harley Davidson RR350 which is one of twenty five ever built. Below are all the details on it directly from the posting.

Link directly to Ebay post for the bike or to bid on it

HARLEY DAVIDSON BADGED, AERMACCHI FACTORY GRAN PRIX ROAD RACER

 

FIRST YEAR, BUILT FOR THREE YEARS ONLY, AND APPROX. 25 WERE BUILT IN THOSE THREE YEARS.

FACTORY BUILT, WATER COOLED, TWIN CYLINDER, 2-STROKE, GRAN PRIX RACER, WHICH IS THE ONLY TIME HARLEY HAD EVER HAD THEIR NAME ON THE WINNING PODIUM IN GP EVENTS WAS WITH THIS MACHINE. MANY MORE OF THE RR250'S WERE BUILT, APPROX. 250 UNITS, WHICH WAS ALSO A RACE WINNER FOR HARLEY.

THIS MACHINE WAS RESTORED A NUMBER OF YEARS BACK OVER IN EUROPE, MACHINE IS MATCHING #'S-MOTOR# 350/2C/2T 10027, AND SAME ON THE FRAME. CASE #'S MATCHING #2, AND #20.CERIANI FRONT END, DELORTO CARBS,MENANI CLIP ON'S,SCARAB FRONT DISK BRAKES,BORRANI 18" REAR, AKRONT 18" FRONT.

 MAGNETO IGNITION IS HOT, FRONT BRAKES NEED TO BE BLED, OTHERWISE READY TO ROCK AND ROLL! MILEAGE UNKNOWN, AND NO TITLE, AS NOT STREET LEGAL.

SELLING WITH A BILL OF SALE. MUST BE PICKED UP HERE, NO TRANSPORTATION AVAILABLE OR CRATING. RECOMMEND EITHER BERKLAY FOR OVER SEA'S AND OR ALLIED FOR DOMESTIC.

PLEASE REFER TO MY OTHER SIMILIAR AUCTIONS--THANKS, BPK!! QUESTIONS-EMAIL bpkkwc@comcast.net, or call 603-298-5799 8am-8pm-est

1974 Harley Davidson RR350

Neck and tank lashed down

1974 Harley Davidson RR350

Killer center stand on the RR350

1974 Harley Davidson RR350

Perfect quick clips to detach fairing

those pipes are gonna sound nasty as all hell

not much of a turning radius on those bars, all in the lean through the turns

Chris Hunter Of Bike EXIF Interview

Picking out the best bikes to feature on any website, publication or within a show, is a tough decision. The masses are ready to go at the throats of anything they do not deem cool enough, or see as half assed, which sucks. This notion proves that quality over quantity is truly the correct formula to promote all that we enjoy about motorcycles, in our media embedded mindsets. The way in which Chris Hunter conducts BikeExif.com is full of poise and integrity and promotes motorcycles in the highest form. Thank you Chris for doing such a great job with the site and keep up the great work. Awesome to see ya wearing a Dime City Cycles shirt as well.

Chris Hunter of Bike EXIF from Jellyfish Media on Vimeo.

Rusty Knuckles Cut & Sew DIY Patches

We are going to be expanding our merchandise in a major way this fall and really start getting more into unique items that will be on sale for a limited time only. Keep an eye out for our new style of Cut & Sew patches to be used on work shirts, hats and a few other upcoming pieces we are working on.