Ahead, Behind or Practice Lap?

[rmak]

A while back I scanned this old photo of me on the track with my Husky 400 from the early 70's. To my knowledge it's the only record of those days.
When I showed my wife, her comment was, "Are you ahead or behind?" Of course, I said I was so far ahead of everyone else you couldn't see them. To which she replied, "Yeah, right". Fortunately, no one will ever know for sure.
I played football in school and served in the military, but I never felt as beat up and exhausted as after a motocross race. And, God, was I skinny!

[gumpt1oo]

I've got a few shots like that, and I too are always 'way out in front' ;D
This is me in my first ever race, I'm the one in the orange novice jacket. It was taken in 1977 at the hairpin at Cadwell Park. The bike is a Suzuki 250cc single cylinder 2 stroke.

The next couple of shots are of me on a Honda RS250 4 stroke.
I built this myself out of various 'donor Hondas', had a bit of head work done and raced it in the 250 single cyl class and the 500 4 stroke class.

The exhuast was made up of Yamaha RD200 downpipes, collector box was made from the end on a Honda C90 exhuast, and the straight through mega was off an old BSA!

This is me changing tyres between races, happy days!

I just noticed I had hair back then!

[gumpt1oo]

Whoops! just noticed this was the Dirt Bike section.

[rmak]

No problem here. Great shots of the glory of yesteryear! I'm just going to have to exalt your karma for those.

[gumpt1oo]

Nov 9, 2008 12:47:15 GMT -5 rmak said:

No problem here. Great shots of the glory of yesteryear! I'm just going to have to exalt your karma for those.

Thanks for the exalt!

[BluesRider]

Yeah,very cool pix,Steve,and you too Rich. I wish I had some pix like that. Nobody with us ever brought a camera. I guess we thought we'd be young forever,and wouldn't need pix to look back on.

Actually,I think there are some pix of me doing bong hits in the back of a van,at a Grateful Dead show.Does that count?

[oldscratcher]

Got no racing pics. But if you wanna see skinny, check this shot out, from my Hippy daze in the 70's.

& if that ain't emberassing enough. This is the the crew of misfits I travelled around NZ with, in those days.

I'm the skinny wasted dude leaning against the bus.
I haven't seen any of those folk for years. Tho I do stay in touch with the long haired guy, lying underneath the U in Trucking. But he now lives in Thailand, so we haven't met for 20+ years.
PS Sorry about the threadjack.

[gumpt1oo]

Far out Scratch, far out!

[oldscratcher]

We certainly were. Thankfully, most of us made our way back again.

[rmak]

We need to start a hippy burnout photo thread. I think I used most of my pictures back then for rolling papers, but I may be able to locate one or two.

[oldscratcher]

They're the only two I've got. & they were sent to me by my mate in Thailand

[Ghetto Fabulous MIKE Dogg]

yea those old hippie days man where they fun.Life was easy back then.

[Midnight]

Rich and steve were boy Racers and scratch hasent changed much .

[mrt202]

Scratch, you were obviously really groovy, in a far out way. That group pic looks like something out of a 70's B movie. LOL!

[oldscratcher]

I went all over the Sth Island of NZ with that crew, in that bus. We had "secret gardens" all over the place & would travel between them with plants hanging in the aisleway drying. & we never got pulled over once!
Good times!