San Francisco Motorcycle Club - Est. 1904

............... "now sports the coveted Red Cap of a member of the 200mph Club " ...... :hail :hail :hail :hail

Indeed an accomplishment!! :applause :thumbup

Wow that is awesome. Hope to make it out there some day.

Congrats to SlimJimsix66 Hoogerhyde!
Another salt record!
Cool stuff!

Thanks SFMCjohn for sharing.

thanks for reading and posting guys! :thumbup

unfortunately, here today to share sad news about Friend-of-the-SFMC, Mr Ralph Hudson:

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from today’s SCTA press release:

Motorcycle Racer Ralph Hudson dies from Injuries Sustained in Bonneville Crash
Hudson, 69, had raced bikes almost his entire life.

Motorcycle racer Ralph Hudson, current FIM World Record holder for the all-time fastest non-streamliner motorcycle at 297 mph, died from injuries suffered three weeks ago at Bonneville, according to a statement released by the family.

Hudson was competing for an SCTA (Southern California Timing Association) record at Bonneville Speed Week on August 14, 2020 when he suffered a crash after exiting the timed mile at a reported 252 mph.

A gust of wind sent him into a speed wobble – also known as a tank-slapper - from which he did not recover. Hudson was flown to Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City, where he was initially stabilized in the ICU, but finally succumbed to his injuries on Sunday, September 6. He was 69 years old.

RIP, Ralph ... :rose
 

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budman

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:rip Ralph

Condolences to his friends and family :rose

Balls up at 69.. much respect for living life rather than watching it slip away.
 
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Our club historian, Brian, has been working with the folks who put on the cool displays at the SFO airport for a pre-1920 motorcycle exhibit, and he has been poking around in our old scrapbooks and talking with citizens, and he presented the club with this pic at our weekly Covid Zoom business meeting last night.

Brain says the pic is the San Francisco Motorcycle Club's very first ride, taken in October, 1904 ... and I believe him. :toothless
 

budman

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Nice... love looking at the old school pictures.

Dressed for the ride meant something different back then.
 
Nice... love looking at the old school pictures.

Dressed for the ride meant something different back then.

:thumbup

we're very proud of our "Best Dressed Club" trophy in our trophy case from the exact Hollister AMA rally made famous
by the Life Magazine biker-riot article and Mr Brando's "The Wild One" ... :laughing

Wow that is awesome. :thumbup

think we're getting prints made up, looking forward to see how they turn out and finding a spot on the garage wall for my copy ... :toothless

we have some cool bikes in the club, and here's an example of the latest cool bike that showed up on our club ride on Sunday:

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it's a Honda NS400R:
This Honda 3-cylinder two-stroke is a street racer replica of the machine Freddie Spencer took to the 500cc Grand Prix World Championship in 1983.

As one would expect from Honda in the 1980s, the NS400R was packed with high-tech features, had a build quality second to none and, most importantly, was the first Japanese production motorcycle with peerless handling, the little two-stroke laying the foundations for a new era in Japanese motorcycling, when specialist chassis builders were no longer needed to get the best out of Honda’s powerful engines.

Honda managed to translate the excellent handling of its Grand Prix machines into a road bike, while also smoothing out the twitchiness and sharpness from its racing manners.

The NS400R was a proper race replica built between 1985 and 1987 that used the interesting 90-degree engine configuration of Spencer’s championship machine, but with a “reversed” layout: two cylinders forward-facing and the middle cylinder vertical, a change no doubt made to accommodate road equipment like a starter motor, electrical system and airbox.

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our friend and SFMC member, Eric, who owns SF Moto found it in VT and said "I've wanted one ever since I was in high school ..." :ride

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Eric rode the bike on our Sunday SFMC group ride, where our club historian, Brian, lead us on an interesting tour of historic grave markers in the cemeteries of Colma ... we had a pretty good turn out:

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see you around the corner ... :gsxrgrl:party
 
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budman

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Sweet little ring ding ding! :thumbup

That picture will be easy to date as far as the year.

Good stuff John.

Colma... the City of Souls. Did you hit the one with the historical Cowboys and explorers in it?
Can't remember who it was... but I checked it a couple decades ago.
 
Sweet little ring ding ding! :thumbup

That picture will be easy to date as far as the year.

Good stuff John.

Colma... the City of Souls. Did you hit the one with the historical Cowboys and explorers in it?
Can't remember who it was... but I checked it a couple decades ago.

:thumbup

our club Historian, Brian, puts on a pretty wonderful Colma tour:

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think one of the NS400R pics was snapped near the Emperor Norton headstone ...
 

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Moving house: 139-year-old building moved six blocks in San Francisco, 02/21/2021

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so, the house was 22 years old when the SFMC had its first club meeting, 24 years old during the 1906 earthquake, and 66 years old when the Chief in the pic was made ... :ride

you can catch a brief glimpse of the Kalle and the Indian in the vid at 1:47 ... :gsxrgrl
 
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bobl

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I love the fact the he rides these old beasts, and doesn't turn them in to beautiful but not used garage queens. :thumbup
 
yes, he’s a rider, for sure. :thumbup

fun to see it start right up ... I’ll have to ask him if he knows how long it’s been since it last ran/how long it had been sitting ... he does ride them, he’s talking about a Baja run for one of his vintage Indians someday soon, maybe. :ride
 
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