Those were the days!!

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Dog T had a great idea, Lets start a thread of pictures from days gone by. Best ones being those with you on board, The older the better. Doesn't have to be a Norton or British bike, Just an old shot of you and your bike. 8)
Those were the days!!

And my 69 Firebird beside me.
 
Stylish "riding shoes". You look like the quintessential SoCal beach kid. An old friend just sent me some prints & the negatives he took of me on my 71 Dunstallized 750 for a college photography class project of things in motion. I think they were from 1980 or 81 and it's sad because the road we did it on was on the top of a local hill with no traffic & nice mountain views. Now it's the center of a tract of ugly tasetless "Mcmansions" with stop signs every 20 feet! Yuck. Is there a easy way to transfer old negatives to digital?
 
Yes you can have them scanned, Most home scanners can now do it. I am in the process of doing all my old negatives before it's too late, You may be able to get it done at places that make photos from cd's.
 
Those were the days!!


My current café racer (see cafe-racer-all-finished-t4710.html?hilit= café) has the very same frame, fork tubes, headlight shell, tachometer and bracket. I still have the complete front wheel and back wheel as well as the home made rear sets. I used to be able to start my bikes with soft shoes like those and I had a lot more hair where it counts then, now I have the same number of hair folicules, but they migrated from my head to my ears, back...

Jean
 
gtsun said:
Is there a easy way to transfer old negatives to digital?
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Just take your negs into a lab and have them print 4" X 6" prints and tell them you want a cd too. My local lab will give you several quality levels of cd, the best being 5 MB file sizes. Todays digital labs actually digitize your neg as it prints it. The cd costs about $5.00 extra. The quality of these scans is good for most needs.
 
Good one Jean. I wish I had a picture of my 500 BSA in '63 when I was in Monterey in the army. I can hardly remember what that bike looked like. I just don't have any more motorcycle pictures unfortunately, I can come up with some 240Z pics though. I'll find them.

Dave
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One of the oldest photos I have of me on a bike, 1983 on a yamaha XT250 monoshocker.

Those were the days!!


Note the period correct bell Star early model helmet. I think I still have those Levis jeans, and they still fit.
 
My first British bike...1987. It was a 66 TR6R that I found chained to a tree with a for sale sign in this old guys front yard. I believe the price ended up being $250.00. Once the sissy bar and other oddities were removed it was a great bike that taught me alot. I remember comming home (Santa Cruz) from San Francisco on Hwy 1 when the bike died. Due to my novice mechanical skills and utter lack of funding, I managed to hole a piston. I was so pissed that I was actually in the process of throwing it over the cliff and into the Pacific when my friends stopped me. I rebuilt the engine and road it for a few more years.

This pic was taken on our way to L.A. My first real road trip on an old british bike. Clearly my bowflex had not yet arrived :lol:

Those were the days!!
 
sometime in 73/74 on my first H2 Kawasaki.... used to smoke Nortons for beakfast!!!!! :roll:
Those were the days!!


Philippe
 
prmurat said:
sometime in 73/74 on my first H2 Kawasaki.... used to smoke Nortons for beakfast!!!!! :roll:
Those were the days!!


Philippe
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yeah, and every one else behind :mrgreen: didnt you ever wonder why when you were hard on the brakes for the next corner the norton boys were still tucked in and flat out as they came past :lol:
 
Hortons Norton said:
Dog T had a great idea, Lets start a thread of pictures from days gone by. Best ones being those with you on board, The older the better. Doesn't have to be a Norton or British bike, Just an old shot of you and your bike. 8)
Those were the days!!

And my 69 Firebird beside me.
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I'll buy that bike offya if ya still have it!!
 
First pic of me on a bike.It was a Yamaha DT80 my second bike(Circa 1990)
Those were the days!!
 
This is a cool thread.
I feel 17 again.
I have an old pic circa 1978 of me w/ all my hair on my 71 Tiger at a park in Lower Moreland in Penna.
I have a couple old pics circa 1982-83 of me and my 73 Bonne.
I gotta get em out and digitzed and try to get them eventually on here.
Great thread.
Marshal
 
Great photos, Sorry tpeever it's long gone. That was my first bike and I had a lot of memories with it, handled well. I would think most of us have photos that need to be scanned and turned into a digital form, come on and join us with your pictures. Philippe, a buddy of mine had a H2 that he let me ride once. That bike could bounce the front tire in the first three gears without touching the clutch, Very fast bike.
 
chris plant said:
prmurat said:
sometime in 73/74 on my first H2 Kawasaki.... used to smoke Nortons for beakfast!!!!! :

yeah, and every one else behind :mrgreen: didnt you ever wonder why when you were hard on the brakes for the next corner the norton boys were still tucked in and flat out as they came past :lol:
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Ah...the usual BS myth... I raced H2 then and own NOW both bikes. Have ever rode any of these??
Philippe
 
prmurat said:
chris plant said:
prmurat said:
sometime in 73/74 on my first H2 Kawasaki.... used to smoke Nortons for beakfast!!!!! :

yeah, and every one else behind :mrgreen: didnt you ever wonder why when you were hard on the brakes for the next corner the norton boys were still tucked in and flat out as they came past :lol:
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Ah...the usual BS myth... I raced H2 then and own NOW both bikes. Have ever rode any of these??
Philippe
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According to the magazines, an H2 with a 100 lb pro drag racer could do a quarter mile in 12 seconds flat, the same mags had a Norton Commando "S" doing 12.69, very close isn't it :?: On the street, it would depend on the rider's guts. When my "S" was new, I never got "smoked" until a few years later when the more powerful fours came on the scene, by that time I had become a bit wiser... er not really, the others were just too fast and I was tired of replacing transmissions.

Jean
 
prmurat said:
chris plant said:
prmurat said:
sometime in 73/74 on my first H2 Kawasaki.... used to smoke Nortons for beakfast!!!!! :

yeah, and every one else behind :mrgreen: didnt you ever wonder why when you were hard on the brakes for the next corner the norton boys were still tucked in and flat out as they came past :lol:
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Ah...the usual BS myth... I raced H2 then and own NOW both bikes. Have ever rode any of these??
Philippe
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I race against a couple of H2's....I normally see them when I lap them :)
 
I thought we were going to post old pictures on this thread, LOL LOL :lol: I won't argue that a Norton can out handle and out brake an H2 but, both being stock .69 in the quarter mile is a big lead, The problem with them was they had a hell of a time stopping and didn't turn too well. Where are your pictures guys???????? I love old pictures. :mrgreen:
 
I know when I raced an H2 on the roadrace course they would outrun me to the first corner and then halfway through the race when the 2 stroke was getting hot I could ride on by. 1/4 mile stuff is different. I owned a Gast H1 that would eat my Norton alive, but don't try to ride it across town or too far from a gas station. Jim
 
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