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billie's motorcycle photos

PostPosted: Tue Dec 31, 2019 1:50 am
by billie_morini
Waiki,
these 2 photos show the A-N-D forkless front end moto described in a recent private message. The first photo was made at Buttonwillow Raceway in SoCAL. The second photo was made at Sears Point or Laguna Seca in NorCAL (forgot which).

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 31, 2019 1:52 am
by billie_morini
Waiki, these 2 photos show our booth one year at the International Motorcycle Show in San Francisco's Cow Palace.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 31, 2019 1:57 am
by billie_morini
Waiki, these 2 photos are me racing at Thunderhill Raceway in NorCAL during different years. Always HOT there! You may know, in road racing the lower the plate number, the higher you rank. In one photo, I'm embarrassing two large Ducati with my little RZ. In the other photo, you see me on the track for the last time prior to hanging it all up (NOV 2004).

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 31, 2019 1:59 am
by billie_morini
This is Chicken the Rottweiler. He literally was a tire thief! Photo caught him in the act at Buttonwillow Raceway in SoCAL.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 31, 2019 9:28 am
by dtc
I imagine after racing motorcycles, head high waves are a doddle!

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2020 3:57 am
by BoMan
In the 1st photo your knee was draggin so close to the pavement!

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2020 8:13 pm
by billie_morini
BoMan wrote:In the 1st photo your knee was draggin so close to the pavement!


It would be even better if the knee was dragging on the pavement! The knee pucks are slick plastics selected for low friction. The object truly is to drag one's knee. You go faster through turns when you do this.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2020 8:14 pm
by billie_morini
dtc wrote:I imagine after racing motorcycles, head high waves are a doddle!


Too funny!

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2020 10:40 pm
by waikikikichan
billie_morini wrote:
BoMan wrote:In the 1st photo your knee was draggin so close to the pavement!

It would be even better if the knee was dragging on the pavement!

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Here I am at Hawaii Raceway Park ( now closed ), dragging my knee over the candy stripes.

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 03, 2020 4:03 am
by billie_morini
waikikikichan wrote:Here I am at Hawaii Raceway Park ( now closed ), dragging my knee over the candy stripes.


Brilliant! That's the way to do it!

I've been on this extinct Hawaii track, too! It was close to Barber's Point, Oahu. This was a cool little track and the racers & riders nurtured a very cool vibe. I always hoped the race scene would/could return to Oahu. While three other islands have racing (Maui, Kauai, and Hawaii), it looks like racing will never return to Oahu:

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/686 ... ntroversy/

:(

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 03, 2020 10:00 am
by waikikikichan
And like every other beginner wanting a shorter board because they can’t turn a 9’0”, I had to size down for more maneuverability and ease of transport.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 03, 2020 10:13 pm
by dtc
Kei motorcycle!

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 04, 2020 1:20 pm
by jaffa1949
Uncle Jaffa went looking at Schwimmwagens, there were a few WWII BMW Motorbikes this one was kitted out as it was then

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