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Carlo

Kickstart Enthusiast
Cycle Magazine, Oct. 1956

Back cover advertisement for NSU featuring Bonneville Speed Trials record holders.
These bikes all had supercharged engines. Can anyone guess what type of superchargers they used?
Hint: it's technology that eventually led to the demise of the company.
 

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Carlo

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While going through my photobucket account looking for pictures of my old bikes, I found this great picture of my cousin from about 1953 in Lynnwood, CA.
He told me that he and a friend who lived next door bought identical BSA Golden Flash 650's.
They'd take turns blasting up and down the street on one of them, and when the neighbors called the cops on them, they'd hide the one they were riding in the garage, and show the cop who arrived the one that hadn't been ridden, still sitting in the driveway with its engine and pipes cold.
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The BSA dealer decided later that my cousin was a pretty good rider, and helped him modify this bike for desert racing. He told me that he raced it at Catalina Island one year.
 

65_ dreamer

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I was hoping to find an old ad for my bike - a 1965 Honda Dream - and found a super cheap one eBay. The page is in great condition. Unfortunately, it doesn't show the name of the magazine.

I had to scan the ad and convert the PDF into an image, so it's not the best quality. Sorry, I couldn't figure out how to make it larger without clicking on it.



The best line of the ad which may be hard to read: "The Honda Dream purrs - doesn't roar - yet comes on with all the aplomb of a charging tiger when your throttle hand gives the command."

I ride my Dream a lot, but would never compare it to a charging tiger!
 
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Carlo

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Those ads appeared in Cycle World and Cycle Magazine back in the day.
I have an old poster from a Honda dealer that has the "you meet the nicest people" slogan, with a panoramic photo of every model they were selling at the time, parked on (probably) Santa Monica Pier with a bunch of young 60s folks with cardigan sweaters and button down plaid shirts.

I was hoping to find an old ad for my bike - a 1965 Honda Dream - and found a super cheap one eBay. The page is in great condition. Unfortunately, it doesn't show the name of the magazine.

I had to scan the ad and convert the PDF into an image, so it's not the best quality. Sorry, I couldn't figure out how to make it larger without clicking on it.



The best line of the ad which may be hard to read: "The Honda Dream purrs - doesn't roar - yet comes on with all the aplomb of a charging tiger when your throttle hand gives the command."

I ride my Dream a lot, but would never compare it to a charging tiger!
 

Carlo

Kickstart Enthusiast
I was going through my filing cabinet looking for a degree wheel that I bought years ago but never needed until now.
Didn't find the degree wheel, but I did come across some old correspondence that I'd saved from my years as the newsletter editor for Oregon Vintage Motorcyclists.
There was an 8x11 envelope with the Langlitz Leather's logo on it.
Filled with promotional glossy photos of Ross Langlitz when he was just starting his leather business in the early 50's.
Here are a couple of pictures with Ross posing on his 1947 Velocette KSS, (which was an overhead cam 500 single), and An old Harley.
He's wearing his Flying 15 MC Club Jersey in the Harley photo.
The Flying 15 was a club in Portland that many Portland racers and enthusiasts belonged to.
 

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Carlo

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Tell us about those!
When/where were they taken?
Is the Norton yours?
Great photos.
 

Carlo

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Guess who this is? She's riding a BSA. Looks like the equivalent of our MSF training.
 

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I would have to pull out some old hard drives for some of my older stuff.
Meanwhile...
Don't believe the following link will match the scanned/photo'ed stuff you guys have put up (which I am enjoying).

But here's a link to the pictures I took of some very old motorcycles at the First ever Legend of the Motorcycle held in Half Moon Bay Ritz Carlton in 2006. Note: The shows marquee bikes were the Brough Superior's and Crockers!
This was posted up on Pashnit after the event. It's only a small portion of the photo's I took that day.

Once you see the number of pictures/bikes I hope you understand why I wouldn't want to repost it in it's entirety here on barf.

Here's a link to my photos ---> Legend Of The Motorcycle.
 
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But here's a link to the pictures I took of some very old motorcycles at the First ever Legend of the Motorcycle held in Half Moon Bay Ritz Carlton in 2006. Note: The shows marquee bikes were the Brough Superior's and Crockers!
This was posted up on Pashnit after the event. It's only a small portion of the photo's I took that day.

Once you see the number of pictures/bikes I hope you understand why I wouldn't want to repost it in it's entirety here on barf.

Here's a link to my photos ---> Legend Of The Motorcycle.

Hey m0t0_ryder,

Great pics, thanks for the link ... :thumbup
 
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Carlo

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Clyde Blakely of Lowell Oregon, photographed late 30's goophing off with his Indian Four.
A few years before he passed away, he told me that his brothers helped him stand the bike up, then jumped out of the scene just long enough to get the photo before it fell over.
Clyde was a member of the Westside Motorcycle Club, sponsored by the Indian dealer in Eugene, Oregon, Westside Motorcycles.
The other club in town was the Eastside M/C, sponsored by.....
Eastside Motorcycles, the local Harley dealer.
 

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