The interesting part is here. To decide which way to go. Both options are on the table and I myself am curious which will it be. 1) Customise the bike further to meet current legal requirements and obtain papers somehow. When a motor bike has no legal papers, it is close to impossible to get …
Restoration – Motorcycle Ariel 1929 250ccm OHV – Exploring Options Read More »
When I said in the last article I want to make the Ariel motorcycle road legal again, I have to decide which way to go. I see two options, but let’s talk about them later. First I need to know what bike I have exactly and in what state it is. The beginning of the …
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The British motorcycle Ariel from year 1929 has been with our family for over 90 years. It was purchased by my grandfather in his forties, when visiting a funfair in a small town near his address in northern part of Bohemia. He saw a salesman trying to fix the motorbike, using it as means of …
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Myslel jsem si o sobě, že mám dobrý orientační smysl. Zatím jsem se neztratil. Až donedávna. Kráčel jsem si svižným krokem po brněnské ulici Hněvkovského s jistotou, že směřuji k centru. Po chvíli jsem však znejistěl a pro jistotu náhlednul do navigace. Je to tak, jdu opačným směrem. Důvod chvilkové ztráty orientace byl jasný. Čtyřproudová …
Paul Cézanne’s Still Life with Apples from J. Paul Getty Museum collection in Los Angeles is a painting from the series of still lifes created during the last thirty years of the artist’s life. It contains his favourite objects – the ginger pot, the rum bottle, the green vase and the apples. With white table …
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Cross cultural encounters The bronze plaques made by craftsmen in Kingdom of Benin, a strong and military and economic power in the fifteenth century, are considered as stunning and unique form of African art by many anthropologists, art historians and museum curators. It is a form of sculpture, called bas relief, which is otherwise unknown …
Art history – Benin Art and the change in the European attitude of art display Read More »