Attention Motorcyclists

[crobertson1]

Check this out. http://tinyurl.com/xe2f

These guys are real bikers!! Must see for all Harley and dirt bikers!! I used to have a '73 FLH and can't imagine taking that thing off-road, let alone over jumps!! And it had a rear suspension(sort of)!!

Craig

 

[AKAMAC]

Thanks for the link! Very cool.

 

[Rams-n-Hogs]

Cool pics.



Jim

 

[ronco]

I had a Harley and was afraid to get more than walking distance from home! Remember, 98% of all Harleys are on the road today! The other 2% made it home!





Ronco

 

[crobertson1]

Thats why these guys are NUTS!! They took, at the time brand new Harley HARDTAILS that weighed around 700 lbs and went seriously off-roading and over jumps, and took em where only snow-mobiles should go!!! CRAZY!!!(with suicide shift/foot clutches)

Craig

 

[TowPro]

Out here on the East Coast they we have an enduro (off road timed event) that has been running since the 30's. they used to race HD's and all the other street bikes like in those pictures. Now the Kicker was it started in the afternoon on Saturday after Thanksgiving, and ran for 24 hours! They have pictures of HD's buryed up to the tanks in wet sand. I think I will stick to my Husky.

 

[fkovalski]

Neat stuff!



I happened to catch "Modern Marvels" on the Discovery/ History channel while visiting relatives over the holidays. They were featuring a history of motorcycles and this link reminded me of that show. Two wheelers back then were a few cards short of a full deck! (but, then again, I remember some stunts I pulled some 20 years ago )

 

[RATTLINRAM]

Originally posted by crobertson1

Check this out. http://tinyurl.com/xe2f

I hope this link works. These guys are real bikers!! Must see for all Harley and dirt bikers!!

Craig

Thanks for finding and sharing that link. It puts some real life pics to some of the same kind of stories my Dad has told me of his younger days. He started out riding Indians when he was 15 and he's 75 now and still has a garage full of bikes that he still rides. I never heard the really good stories about him and his riding buddies until I was in my twenties. They had done stuff with those foot clutch/tank shifted bikes that I figured Dad would have killed me, if he thought I would try it with my XS-175 at 15 yrs old!

I heard stories of how they would take off across the frozen lake and through the pastures, ride down the cobble-stone main street and dip the bike from one side to the other to watch the sparks fly off the footboards (Dad's favorite way of letting his wife-to-be (Mom), know he was headed her way). I'll have to get him to dig some of his old photos out now.

 

[Champane Flight]

Iron Butt

Here are your real riders.



http://www.ironbuttrally.com/IBR/default.cfm

 

[crobertson1]

That doesn't sound like too much fun!

Craig

 

[Doc Tinker]

Near Pontiac, Michigan, where the now defunct Detroit Lions Silver Dome is located. Back in the sixties, the site was just a bunch of vacant land with hills and sand pits. I remember driving by there and watching the hogs trying to climb a fifty foot sandy embankment, near the road. I thought they were crazy then, and I still think they were crazy.



Doc

 

[crobertson1]

TTT. These are such cool pictures I wanted to revive it.

 

[crobertson1]

I had forgotten about this.

 

[lschultz]

I am another one that forgot about this.