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Archive through November 24, 2012Jsg4dfan30 11-24-12  09:49 pm
         

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Hdgarage
Posted on Sunday, November 25, 2012 - 11:17 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

1967 Electra Glide
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Terrible1one3
Posted on Sunday, November 25, 2012 - 10:45 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Here are pictures of him and his bike.

'73 Z-1 Bored and blueprinted


Just finished building it, it didn't even run at this point (see his foot down).
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Johnnylunchbox
Posted on Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - 06:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Dad Moto Guzzui Galletto
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Johnnylunchbox
Posted on Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - 06:10 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Grandpa. Have no idea what bike this is.

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Rkutzner
Posted on Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - 08:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Nothing ! It was my uncle and all I remember is some 70s banana seat and that 2 foot tall back support thingy !
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Old_dog
Posted on Sunday, December 02, 2012 - 03:11 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

At age 12, I watched my dad, who usually had a belly full of Schaefer beer, ride my brother's BSA Lightning across our driveway diagonally and into a row of pine trees. Only time he ever "rode" a motorbike. I ended up the owner of that BSA. Funny.
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Natexlh1000
Posted on Monday, December 03, 2012 - 07:47 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

My father never rode but he and I made my first bike: a rupp-framed minibike with two horses of powah.
His brother and even his half-brother had bikes all along but not my dad himself.

My uncle had a 1978 CB750 supersport for much of my life but recently sold it because he was tired of fixing it.
He bought something more practical: a Suzuki.
A cherry red Suzuki hyabusa! He hasn't killed himself or lost his license yet!
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Ducbsa
Posted on Monday, December 03, 2012 - 09:16 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Johnnylunchbox - The forks look like those on a Guzzi Falcone.
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Datsaxman
Posted on Monday, December 03, 2012 - 05:19 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

My Dad never rode...but he got me my first MC, a 1969 CB350. Green and white. The VW bug of motorcycles. He tried to set me up with my first serious project, too. He had an apartment tenant who owed him rent and had a 1939 HD 45" solo in boxes. I wanted that bike, too. But the guy had chopped the frame and I wanted it stock. That was the difference between a project and a disaster as far as I was concerned.
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Gunut75
Posted on Sunday, February 17, 2013 - 11:53 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

My Dad rode an early 80s Suzuki gs1100. Raked out 3°, and a widened rear wheel. I wasn't allowed to ride passenger, as I would fall sound asleep on the back of it. C'mon; I was 8. I vaguely remember his Laverda SFC.
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Ducxl
Posted on Monday, February 18, 2013 - 08:13 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Wow..my Dad's second bike after an early Whizzer.He had this '48 Chief in the mid fifties.

then back on bikes' in the early seventies he got a '73 Commando he kept for 2 years when he wanted a more touring oriented BMW.My Sis and i pictured when he brought home the new Beemer.Unlucky for me he GAVE the Commando to my older brother.That BMW served him till he passed in '92.Too bad,he had posters of the EVO Harleys' and still wanted one.Time didn't allow.


JLB,were those pics taken from Italy?

(Message edited by ducxl on February 18, 2013)
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Firstbuell
Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 08:04 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

JLB,

I'd say Guzzi 500 Falcone
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