Your Dream Bike

[Pterodactyl_imp]

Nice bike Paul. You have done a great job. Speedway still runs in OZ but it's not as big as it was. In [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3294&highlight=Mildura]this thread Cormanus describes a ride he and I did to Mildura to the Wintersun Rally. We did in excess of 3000kms on this ride. The Wintersun is based upon a speedway event the Mildura club runs. You might like these photos.







Cheers mate, and enjoy that dream bike.

[Paulb_imp]

Nice bike Paul. You have done a great job. Speedway still runs in OZ but it's not as big as it was. In [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3294&highlight=Mildura]this thread Cormanus describes a ride he and I did to Mildura to the Wintersun Rally. We did in excess of 3000kms on this ride. The Wintersun is based upon a speedway event the Mildura club runs. You might like these photos.







Cheers mate, and enjoy that dream bike.

Thanks for the great photos and the thread link. I've never seen sidecar speedway so that was a particularly interesting picture, they appear to be going round the other way!

[4 Paws_imp]

Wow! Beautiful bike.

Couple of dirt tracks in my area run bikes about once a month in the summer, a smaller circuit of folks just having fun. Country folks love their racing.

[LongRanger_imp]

I attended an indoor speedway race at the Cow Palace in San Francisco in 1974 or thereabouts. It was absolutely amazing. Those bikes accelerate like a light switch and the riders are phenomenal. Between races, they held a trials exhibition. Guys on Ossa's, Montessa's and Bultaco's riding up and over huge obstacles (water tanks, redwood stumps, barrels, vehicles, etc.) without dabbing. I knew what trials was but I was stunned at what I witnessed. When I watch what they can do today on modern bikes, I'm even more in awe.

[Pterodactyl_imp]

Nice bike Paul. You have done a great job. Speedway still runs in OZ but it's not as big as it was. In [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3294&highlight=Mildura]this thread Cormanus describes a ride he and I did to Mildura to the Wintersun Rally. We did in excess of 3000kms on this ride. The Wintersun is based upon a speedway event the Mildura club runs. You might like these photos.







Cheers mate, and enjoy that dream bike.

Thanks for the great photos and the thread link. I've never seen sidecar speedway so that was a particularly interesting picture, they appear to be going round the other way!

Yes Paul, the sidies are running clockwise. Direction depends on class and competition rules.

I'll be having a look at the dirt bikes that are running at PI over the WSBK weekend in February. With luck I will get a photo to post.


Cheers

[Paulb_imp]

I attended an indoor speedway race at the Cow Palace in San Francisco in 1974 or thereabouts. It was absolutely amazing. Those bikes accelerate like a light switch and the riders are phenomenal. Between races, they held a trials exhibition. Guys on Ossa's, Montessa's and Bultaco's riding up and over huge obstacles (water tanks, redwood stumps, barrels, vehicles, etc.) without dabbing. I knew what trials was but I was stunned at what I witnessed. When I watch what they can do today on modern bikes, I'm even more in awe.

If you like trials riding check out Danny McAskill

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ShbC5yVqOdI

[Papa Weeley_imp]

Wow, that's a beauty! Always interesting to see other riders' tastes in other bikes.
My long-time bucket list/dream bike is a Norton Commando Interstate in black/gold:
[url=http://s157.photobucket.com/user/mustangfeverrr/media/NortonCommando_zpsnyyukqim.jpg.html]

It was mostly the likely intense care and fiddling required that made me get the CB11 instead of a pristine (and never-ridden) Norton from a friend of mine...

[the_undecider_imp]

Wow, that's a beauty! Always interesting to see other riders' tastes in other bikes.
My long-time bucket list/dream bike is a Norton Commando Interstate in black/gold:


It was mostly the likely intense care and fiddling required that made me get the CB11 instead of a pristine (and never-ridden) Norton from a friend of mine...

There was a nice 850 Commando at the big motorcycle show in Dallas and a BMW R90 next to it which reminded me of Peter Egan's recent comparo between the two. If you haven't read the article, you are sure to enjoy it:

[url=http://www.cycleworld.com/2015/12/21/classic-motorcycle-rematch-norton-commando-vs-bmw-r90s-comparison-cycle-world-feature-by-peter-egan/]http://www.cycleworld.com/2015/12/21/classic-motorcycle-rematch-norton-commando-vs-bmw-r90s-comparison-cycle-world-feature-by-peter-egan/

[Chapomis_imp]

Papa.....you didn't

[LongRanger_imp]

Egan's story is poetry to my ears, just like everything else he writes. I'd sure like to meet him someday and thank him in person. For those unfamiliar, his book Leanings (and I think he wrote a sequel or two) is outstanding.