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prmurat said:
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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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philippe,ah the usual BS myth,thats what i thought when i read your post but did,nt like saying it ,as you asked me a question i feel obliged to answer it ,and the answer is NO THANKS i never rode the h2 750 but i did ride the h1 500 ,quick in a straight line but a camel everywhere else,the h2 was only marginally quicker,just a bigger camel,ive rode lots of nortons from one of the first 88ss thru 650ss to 750,850 commandos,so i know who the BS is
 
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I think this is the oldest picture I have of me on a bike. I should also have some much earlier shots of me and bikes, but haven't found any yet. This is me in my first set of leathers on my first race bike, a real PR, at a Willow Springs club race in 1982. The leathers were a set of zip together flat track style that I bought when I started racing the PR in 1972. Real state-of-the-art, with quilted horsehair padding.



And this is the oldest picture I have of me with a bike that shows my face. This in the pits at Daytona for an AHRMA race somewhere in the mid-1980s.



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Hey, Dave, how about a year on that black beauty? No beard? Too young?

Dave
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OK, so this isn't a bike picture, but at least it's a British vehicle. This is me with my wife and new daughter in our 1952 MG TD in 1960. Stylish, huh?



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DogT said:
Hey, Dave, how about a year on that black beauty? No beard? Too young?

Dave
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Year of picture? Probably around 1991-2. So I would have been early 20s? Had a respectable job so no long hair or fuzzy face.

Bike is a 1973 Interstate. My dad has it now. If everything works out I might even ride it to the INOA/NOC rally next year from NC to NY.

Maybe one day I'll get it back and do a ground up restoration.
 
So our Ken Canaga was a Beat Nick! Cool Daddy-O.
Rest look like dudes that get into fights real easy : )
I ain't got much cycle history to show.
 
Ken that is a great photo!! I hope your daughter has a blown up framed print of it hanging in some promenant place.
 
Well I have tried but it seems my old photo album is in hiding.
Here is the earliest shot I can find from the late 70's
It's my oldest daughter standing behind my H1

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And here's one from my first trip to Lake of the Pines in 89

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And one of my favorites from the first INOA rally in Torrey

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I must be getting old or all the death and dying of friends and family wearing through my armor but yoose guys are bringing tears at the life and times shown.
India ain't got nothing on a good ole American family outing!
 


Yours truly (in green) on a Maico 490 twin shocker at a grasstrack in County Wicklow, Ireland, in 1982. Sorry about the poor quality scan. We interpreted grasstrack loosely in Ireland — any dirt bike was eligible and we just tore round a circuit marked out in a big flat field — great fun! I jumped the start and got the rope tangled in my front wheel. The bloke crouching down is the ever-patient start official disentangling the mess :oops:
 
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from 1978.wish i still had the hair and my bike.
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i hope no one gets pissed at the last pic but this is what happens when you drink too much.
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i have more pics,i just have to find them.
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Me in 1965 as a High School Senior with my 1950 500CC Indian Warrier with TT pipes.
Indian in 48 decided to get into the lightweight bike market.
Acquired a company called Torque Engineering that was developing a single and twin.
Had reliability problems associated with weak main bearings (Combat!) plus British pound devalued allowing British bikes to have price advantage.
Indian folded in 53 partly because of the money lost on the lightweight attempt.
My older brother bought bike as a pile of parts and we put it together. I acquire bike when he returned to Canada where we came from. No money so on a shoestring but easy to work on.
Had it at college but needed a reliable commuter with carrying capacity so sold.
Very light bike and didn't have any problem keeping up with newer ones.
Would love to still have it fully restored.

The second picture is my 72 Combat restoration that I just finished the paint work on. I'll eventually put on the before and after thread more complete picture history. A pleasure to ride.

Bob



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I laughed at the Indian pic :D
That varsity letter sweater puts you on a Honda dream not a bad to the bone Indian
Wheres the happy days leather jacket?
Just pokin fun :P
Both pics are really cool.
Marshal
 
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