hey Eric B! Kalle sent me the pics ...
Love the old bike pics.
Got some very dapper gentlemen/mad scientist? at the end.
we have a “Best Dressed Club” trophy from the
1948 AMA Hollister Gypsy Tour ... the mad scientist guys
are our newest members being initiated ... we usually do
some silly thing involving costumes ... had them doing
“valet parking” ... not many takers I hear ... :laughing
Very cool. :thumbup
I always had a soft spot for choppers thanks to Easy Rider and my time on the freeway in the back of my parents car.
... my family car was a Rambler Station wagon ...
my dad was an American Motors guy ... he still
has one of the hounds-tooth pillows that came
with his first “nice” car, an Ambassador ...
my childhood chopper memory is two guys
in white t-shirts on Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia
with throttle-locks, their hands behind their bare heads
and feet up on the bars ... sure my eyes were big as saucers ... :laughing
Very cool! Thanks for the pics!
Aermacchi forever!
This is really cool! :thumbup
:gsxrgrl
its odd that most of these I see in the city are sportster-based. mad props to these guys, my tail bone hurts just looking at them......:laughing:laughing
... always liked that first gen four-speed,
chain drive Evo sportster engine ... those
are the Born Free hipster-looking guys I see in SF ...
Back in that day, XLCH was kind of a "super bike". Drop the 4th "P" cam in, as stock in 1969 'CH, harder to start but way quicker than the "74's".
The term "lightweight" started that lean to a "girls" bike, but that kickstarter and high compression pistons, said "not so much"
... have my eye out for a 1970 XLCH ... think that
one came with a starter ...?
interesting to look at
the old biker-lifestyle pics/movies from back in the
day and see how many guys rode Sportsters ...
was it Cycle magazine that used to print and list
1/4 mile times in a big spec sheet for all the different
models? Think the XL was one of the quickest production
bikes you could buy for many years ... :afm199
love a physically small chopper ... be fun to get
enough pics together for a Brit bike/Sportster chopper thread ... :ride
thanks to all for reading and posting!
arty