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Title: Old Blue
Post by: twowings on June 29, 2017, 09:12:23 AM

One of my favorite bikes of all time, from a golden era in motorcycle racing...those were happy times for a 24-year-old in love with Italian bikes!

(https://www.motorcycleclassics.com/-/media/Images/MCC/Editorial/Articles/Magazine-Articles/2017/07-01/Old-Blue-The-Daytona-Winning-Ducati/Blue-1-jpg.jpg?h=385&la=en&w=550&hash=0818A21B589849355D6368C9B925087F13754412)

https://www.motorcycleclassics.com/classic-italian-motorcycles/classic-ducati-motorcycles/old-blue-zm0z17jazhur

Title: Re: Old Blue
Post by: GuzziDog54 on June 29, 2017, 10:32:30 AM

That is a beautiful bike!

Title: Re: Old Blue
Post by: Lannis on June 29, 2017, 10:41:41 AM

Golden era is right.   Back when "CYCLE" had some real writers and real racers, I followed Cook/Phil's exploits on the track every month in great detail, still have those old magazines in a file out in the shop.

I'll get 'em back out and recreate my youth ....

Lannis

Title: Re: Old Blue
Post by: Chuck in Indiana on June 29, 2017, 10:45:12 AM

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recreate my youth

I could use some of that. Tell me how it works out.  :smiley:

Title: Re: Old Blue
Post by: Lannis on June 29, 2017, 08:50:49 PM

Quote from: Chuck in Indiana on June 29, 2017, 10:45:12 AM

I could use some of that. Tell me how it works out.  :smiley:

I do it all the time.

1) Take a ride on the roads that I grew up on, and smell the honeysuckle on a summer evening, and feel the hot humid summer air get cool as I ride down into a draw and back up.

2) Get on a bike of the kind I owned when I was 17; smell the Yamalube and feel the engine ring-a-ding.

3) Take my girl on the back of my bike to get an ice cream to the same Dairy Queen we went to in 1970.

They don't have "Share the Land" or "Gimme Dat Ding" on the jukebox any more, but I can get a whole lot of my youth back anyhow!!

Lannis