Russ Meyer, director of "Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill!" borrowing a Nimbus from a Chicago owner who bought it on Ebay

 

Thank you Kim!

familiar to many of you, (Kim specifically) but this is the first I've heard of it - ‘Odin’s Fury’

https://www.returnofthecaferacers.com/something-different/odins-fury-gonzo-motorcycles-nimbus

No, there aren't a lot of Nimbus riders that aren't subscribing already, but, it doesn't hurt a thing for me to post this, just in case it helps out Kim, the Nimbus Club magazine editor

 You might have to join the Nimbus club first, but, hey, if you have a Nimbus, you really will enjoy that, and the club magazine

Us independent publishers should help out when possible, like this simple spread the word post

Kim shared a photo of what Denmark looks like today

https://www.facebook.com/messenger_media?attachment_id=1047935629956412&message_id=mid.%24cAAAAAHyRd12Rw-yz52LkqdlltN8I&thread_id=1198194473

there was only one Nimbus with a left hand sidecar legally registered in Denmark... the milkman's 1952 motorbike was put together that way so he could make deliveries easier (thank you Kim!)

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10159759755186344&set=p.10159759755186344&type=3

Nimbus Tidende # 222 is at the printers, and the English version is at the proofreaders, people can get a free issue - the one with the French built supercharged Nimbus and the Czech built JAP V8 motorcycle.

 email Kim in Denmark at ccc40821@gmail.com for a free issue in English

or let him know you want a subscription to the definitive Nimbus motorcycle magazine

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10230847155501274&set=gm.6448139535242262&idorvanity=688397311216542

a working V8 Nimbus engine.... I doubt there is another, anywhere. Thanks Kim!

coolest thing I've read all year (Thank you Kim!)

lately some good people in the Nimbus club died, and much too early at that.

Then at the annual meeting everybody held a minute of silence in their honor.

 I've told the board that if I punch out while on Nimbus Tidende (club magazine that Kim makes) duty, then absolutely, positively no silence for me.

 I want a Nimbus doing a burnout on the linoleum floor of wherever the annual meeting is taking place, and a case of beer for the attendees, paid directly from the NT account.

Kim found some cool vehicles at Romo, and shared some photos with me Thanks Kim!

 

I might be wrong but this looks like an airstream that's been undercut, built onto a trailer and then had the back 1/4 hinged... very cool

The silver car with 4 rear tires is 3 years old, styled like pre war Mercedes GP racers, and has a Ford V12 engine with a compressor.

the large LaFrance with the Hispano-Suiza airplane engine is street legal, and often gets taken out for leisure drives. Preferably when there's not too much traffic, the driver told me, because it tends to overheat when going below 50 mph.

Thanks Kim! 

a facebook page dedicated to the Nimbus in the military! Thanks Kim!

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.2387535551309072&type=3

Miss Yellow Shark

read about it in the Sept 2020 Nimbus Tidende 

Nimbus Bobber

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1938505979717374/permalink/2785741498327147/

several years ago I met the editor of the Nimbus club hardcopy printed and online ’Danmarks Nimbus Touring’ club magazine, the Tidende, and here's a reminder, for any other fans of the Nimbus motorcycle, that you ought to consider subscribing (5 issues a year)

an English pdf edition of the Danish Nimbus club's magazine Nimbus Tidende [Nimbus Times] is on its way.

This will be the first of hopefully more such editions, which at some point will be available for members of the Danish club only. Right now we're just going to show that it is one of the best motorcycle club magazines out there.

At 12 MB even the lo-res version (50 MB version available on request) is too large for FB, so if you want it, send an email to ccc40821@gmail.com headlined 'NT English'.

Where else can you learn about world travelers who Klaus Ulvestad, one of the two Norwegians who drove the earth (and honorary member), has now published ”Around The Globe” in Norwegian

And don't say JACG blog cause I wouldn't learn about things like this without a heads up from Kim, the magazines editor.

Or that they've got a cylinder head project in the works ?

and had you heard that a Londoner started a round the world baton pass for women riders? That's the coolest thing I've learned all week!

From February 2019 to February 2020, more than 3500 women from 79 countries did a motorcycle relay passing the above baton, crossing six continents around the world. WRWR - Women Rider’s World Relay - was started by Hayley Bell from London. https://www.facebook.com/WRWR2019/

It would have been cooler to use a vintage bike shock absorber (same shape) but I guess they went for weight savings instead.

cool wedding car!


and how else can you read about how different things are in other countries... like when the govt told Lennart that in case of war, his motorcycle was to be delivered to the govt for the military to use! WITH a full tank of gas!

I think you get where I'm coming from.... this is a high quality content magazine. This is merely a sample from a couple of pages of just the latest issue

By the way, what else makes a Nimbus a great motorcycle? 4 wrenches and a screwdriver are the only tools needed to build it, repair it, or carry along for the ride in case of problems.

FYI, there are 3,962 Nimbus registered in Denmark and 1,119 unreg’d stored ones. There are approx. 1,000 in the rest of the world.

So, I'm letting you know how fascinating and diverse the articles are so you can decide, can you really let this slip by without subscribing? 

I didn't know Steve McQueen owned a Nimbus.

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25100/lot/176/?category=list&length=100&page=2

Thanks Doug!

I wonder if anyone has a list of all the cars, trucks, planes and motorcycles in Steve McQueen's collection. Even better a photo gallery. 

Nimbus headlight wings

and when a collection of things has headlight wings, isn't it appropriate for that collection to also include something by Von Dutch?!

and even more amazing, it's a Nimbus fender sign!

https://mz-across-usa.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-collection.html

Salute of the day! Peter Koenig, his police dog ’Judo', and their 1956 Nimbus! Thanks Kim!

Danish police officer Peter König was police dog handler from 1976 through 1988. He and his wife and had just bought a house in the suburbs, and couldn’t afford two cars. As a police dog handler he had to be available 24/7, so he bought a 1956 Nimbus outfit for transport. It was used for riding into the city year round.

His police dog ’Judo’ sat in the sidecar. During summer the dog would occasionally jump out at a red light, take a quick leak at a lamppost, and get back in the sidecar before the lights changed. In winter it was nice to have the sidecar when on icy roads, but still it was a cold ride in snow and sleet.

One nice summer evening they were on their way home from work, and saw a young guy with bloody hands. Calling in vain for him to stop, Peter König then shouted he’d send the dog for him, if he didn’t stop. The guy looked back, saw no dog, and continued.

Then he shouted another ”stop, or I’ll release the dog!”, and then ”get him!”. Out jumped Judo, the guy made it another eight inches or so, whereupon the dog had him by the arm in a flying tackling, never seen better on a soccer field.

Thus Peter Köning got the be the only police dog handler making an arrest from a motorcycle.

Later he lent the motorcycle to his brother, from whom it was stolen. By then Peter König had transferred to the traffic police section, covering all of Denmark. ”I believe I stopped every single Nimbus I saw”, he says. (to check if they were his stolen bike)

Kim went to Romo and shared these photos with us! (thanks Kim!)

an American LaFrance, and a Nimbus

Kim says that those brass pieces between the spokes are of 2 pounds of brass apiece and it took two days to balance the each tire

Thanks Kim... how astonishing that I just learned of Romo (about 5 miles of beach) and you were just there

A Nimbus in Japan, /or/, meet Kim!

I was wondering about a cool guy that comments now and then, and he can spot an Indian in a 1948 photo like nobody else you'll ever meet... when I learned by clicking on his Google profile that he has blogged about his trip to Japan with his Nimbus

One of the first things on his blog just cracks me up:

"so here I walk along in the darkness, jetlagged out of my mind, speaking French with an 80-year old Master Yoda clone on a bicycle. Good start." ... 

"In some places the town reminds me a bit of New York City, in others even about the movie ‘The Fifth Element’, because it is humid and hot, and there are people and traffic everywhere. It also has all the charm of Hamburg (i.e. none), which was bombed to bits in WW2."

The good news is that I may get the Nimbus through customs tomorrow. A local contact – Crazy Pete a.k.a. Schuichi – has helped me locate an insurance company, and with explaining to the airport people how important it is that this bike be no further delayed.

Third party coverage for two months is a modest 6,000 yen, probably less than it cost the insurance company to have 4-5 of their people taking are of my business. Fine service, though, deep bows all around. Even less expensive is a 1:200,000 road map that I finally track down. It is completely devoid of those ugly Latin characters, which no doubt will make it interesting to use when out there. 

So, if you want a funny read about a road trip through Japan on a Nimbus (you can't make this stuff up folks) to pass the time while you are stuck on the bus, train, or in line waiting at the DMV ...

http://nimbustripinjapan.blogspot.com/

Nimbus, not just a Harry Potter broomstick, it's a Danish motorcycle company from 1919 to 1959

 biggest prop/kick stand I've ever seen.