The embarrassing throwback pictures of your/our/my bikes & me

Not really embarrasing... Alex is now 5'8" and 220# at only age 12. Big Boy. (I'm still the same size)
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(Commando content at the upper right, '75 MkIII Interstate)
 
The only embarrassing thing in this picture is the helmet. It's a picture from about 25 years ago. I don't think I have an earlier picture of the bike that also has me in the picture... My commando was a roadster at the time with stock spoke wheels. It looks completely different now. I still had some black left in my beard back then. It's completely white now...

The embarrassing throwback pictures of your/our/my bikes & me
 
This from back when I had a bunch of bikes. Somewhere in there is a Trackmaster framed Trident. It was light and peppy. Had a pregnant wife and a broken back in 1991, and many bikes left me. The Hurricane was super fun to ride. Only British bike I ever had that didn't leak. The guy I bought it from really rebuilt it well. He sold me the Hurricane and a T-160 for cheap to help fund his son's motocross career. I rode the T-160 from Maine to CA in the mid 80s. It got to where I had to work on it every day. The valves got divots on the top. The rockers were wearing into them, and they needed adjustment by feel every day. I did ride the heck out of the Hurricane. The Atlas was not fast in these photos. It had been earlier. Cafe Racer I started on in the 70s. Don't know what tank that was. George at HPI gave it to me. The seat was a Giuliari seat for a RD-350. Vinyl paint over where it said 350 Six Port or something like that. Here it had a single Mikuni and standard cam. I would hang out at this kind of tight part of the Ortega Highway and wait for a clot of sport bikes to go by, then try to run them down. I have always loved a 441 Victor. Now I just have the hot rod MK III I bought in 1975, and the MK II my brother bought in the 70s, a hot rod RD400 with Scott Clough engine, and a handful of GS1000Gs and a 78 GS1000E. The Suzukis are just cheap unbreakable touring bikes I used for taking my brothers on tours, including coast to coast. Bikes I bought for as little as $600 in rideable condition.
 

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EstuaryBoy said:
One guy had a '57 Bel Air, but for most it was Consuls or Crestas.... :-)
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My Dad bought a couple Vauxhall Victors when I was a kid. They were sold in the USA briefly. He worked as Cadillac dealer in the body shop. They had to take them in trade at the dealership, so they tried to sell them to the employees cheaply. I remember brakes failing on them. Probably using DOT from 3 brake fluid. I've got a couple Clrtina GTs, both MK II, a 4 door and a 2 door. 1968 and 1967.
 
baz said:
The vein is "embarrassing pictures of people and bikes " nothing about no strokers ?
So here's a photo of my embarrassing T500 ;) ;)
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T-500 was the first big bike I rode, at about 12 or 13. I had ridden a Yamaha Big Bear scrambler, but it was only a 305 I think.
 
Super Seven said:
My Dad bought a couple Vauxhall Victors when I was a kid. They were sold in the USA briefly. He worked as Cadillac dealer in the body shop. They had to take them in trade at the dealership, so they tried to sell them to the employees cheaply. I remember brakes failing on them. Probably using DOT from 3 brake fluid. I've got a couple Clrtina GTs, both MK II, a 4 door and a 2 door. 1968 and 1967.
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Not necessarily a slow car.

 
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