Author Topic: Favorite Motorcycle Photo (Read 11581 times)

lucian · « **Reply #60 on:** September 06, 2020, 07:04:34 PM »

I know technically not a great picture but. The only thing better than riding a bike yourself is watching someone you love experience the same joy. Love the action portrayed.

Motormike · « **Reply #61 on:** September 06, 2020, 08:49:12 PM »

A grainy pic from my past: 1991...Me posing with my then new Harley FXLR. Riding all the way up the Blue Ridge Parkway. Thought that was a big trip. Whenever I see this photo today, I always have the same thought, "Who stole my testosterone??!"

blu guzz · « **Reply #62 on:** September 07, 2020, 06:53:16 AM »

"I love the expression on my wife’s face in this pic. She is, in my opinion, adorable!"

She looked like she was looking to the far horizon in that picture.

twowheeladdict · « **Reply #63 on:** September 07, 2020, 07:00:19 AM »

Went on an organized dual sport ride yesterday. Here is my favorite photo from that ride.

blackcat · « **Reply #64 on:** September 07, 2020, 09:04:53 AM »

Quote from: PeteS on September 06, 2020, 03:45:05 PM

Looks like our Fastbacks share similar bars. Mine are BMW "S" bars. My Norton dealer also sold BMWs in the pre boutique days and put them on before rolling it out of the shop.

Pete

When I found the bike it had the higher American bars, but I changed it to the lower European bars as I thought it looked right. This one has the Widowmaker frame which I had modified to match the later braces. Twenty-five years ago there wasn't a source like Andover Norton who now sells frame parts so I ended up buying an old Norton frame for like $25 bucks and the parts were cut out and welded up to the above frame.

Testarossa · « **Reply #65 on:** September 07, 2020, 12:02:21 PM »

So many to choose from but this was a great day -- a Father's Day ride with my daughter in foothills near Rocky Mountain National Park, back when the T was my only bike.

PeteS · « **Reply #66 on:** September 07, 2020, 01:14:13 PM »

Quote from: blackcat on September 07, 2020, 09:04:53 AM

When I found the bike it had the higher American bars, but I changed it to the lower European bars as I thought it looked right. This one has the Widowmaker frame which I had modified to match the later braces. Twenty-five years ago there wasn't a source like Andover Norton who now sells frame parts so I ended up buying an old Norton frame for like $25 bucks and the parts were cut out and welded up to the above frame.

My '71 had the slotted pistons. Around '74 they broke. About the same time there was a picture of a Matchless single in a Rickman Metisse frame. Red bodywork in a nickle plated frame. I thought that was cool so when I pulled the motor I had the frame nickel plated. Plating prices were reasonable then. I think it cost around three hundred bucks for the frame, swingarm, stands. The plating was not clear coated and in a few years it turned green and was very hard to polish by hand. In '83 I took it apart again and had it chrome plated, still before EPA had sent plating prices through the roof. I also made numerous mods like the rear MKIII disk, fork brace with tube extensions, alloy sprocket carrier and sprocket ring to replace the cast steel MKIII sprocket plus numerous other alloy bits.
That lasted about twenty years then I noticed the frame was rotting away under the motor. I am guessing plating electrolyte got inside and rusted it away. The bike now has a complete MKIII frame powder coated.

Pete

blackcat · « **Reply #67 on:** September 07, 2020, 01:35:40 PM »

Quote from: PeteS on September 07, 2020, 01:14:13 PM

My '71 had the slotted pistons. Around '74 they broke. About the same time there was a picture of a Matchless single in a Rickman Metisse frame. Red bodywork in a nickle plated frame. I thought that was cool so when I pulled the motor I had the frame nickel plated. Plating prices were reasonable then. I think it cost around three hundred bucks for the frame, swingarm, stands. The plating was not clear coated and in a few years it turned green and was very hard to polish by hand. In '83 I took it apart again and had it chrome plated, still before EPA had sent plating prices through the roof. I also made numerous mods like the rear MKIII disk, fork brace with tube extensions, alloy sprocket carrier and sprocket ring to replace the cast steel MKIII sprocket plus numerous other alloy bits.
That lasted about twenty years then I noticed the frame was rotting away under the motor. I am guessing plating electrolyte got inside and rusted it away. The bike now has a complete MKIII frame powder coated.

Pete

Wow, too bad about the old frame. I was told that powder coating can also have it's rusting problems too. I noticed that happening to my CX swing arm after 15 plus years of being powder coated and it's soon to come apart again to deal with that frame. Hopefully, it's not a major problem.

Guzzistajohn · « **Reply #68 on:** September 07, 2020, 01:43:10 PM »

My heroes have always been riders, Here's Jay Springsteen flat track all time stud, with his HD road racer at Daytona in 2011

And here's a shot of Adam Raga in the World Round at Seaquatchie, Tn.

pebra · « **Reply #69 on:** September 07, 2020, 04:59:55 PM »

I guess it's got to be this one - my grandson Tino on the Griso last summer, when he was two.

Tom H · « **Reply #70 on:** September 07, 2020, 05:36:25 PM »

Too many to chose from. My EVT has to be the prettiest bike I have ever owned. And just before I got that bike I got the F150 behind it. That pic has to be here. Also the Lake Henshaw pic is a must.

As usual, cliky the pic for the full image.

Tom

fotoguzzi · « **Reply #71 on:** September 07, 2020, 06:37:35 PM »

Changed mind again

ohiorider · « **Reply #72 on:** September 07, 2020, 07:10:56 PM »

Changed my mind. too! After shuffling thru several old bike photos, this one seemed to be the right one. This is the only pic I have of my first bike, my BSA 650 Spitfire Scrambler. At the tender age of 23, I decided I needed to take a ride from Charleston WV to Port Isabel TX in August of 1966. There's always a lovely woman involved, right? In this case, my wife to be. I only wish I had taken pics along the way ..... so many interesting people I encountered along the way.

Bob

Pic taken on the riverside of Kanawha Blvd, Charleston WV,
across from the State Capitol. Feb or March, 1966.

leroysch · « **Reply #73 on:** September 07, 2020, 07:12:16 PM »

Me too.....

moto-uno · « **Reply #74 on:** September 07, 2020, 07:35:35 PM »

A trip to Laconia in the middle 80's with some friends to party and go to the races . The black and silver one is my Le Mans 2 in one of
it's many transformations :) . Peter

Huzo · « **Reply #75 on:** September 07, 2020, 09:36:16 PM »

Quote from: pebra on September 07, 2020, 04:59:55 PM

I guess it's got to be this one - my grandson Tino on the Griso last summer, when he was two.

I guess that’s the winner for me, for all the right reasons

fotoguzzi · « **Reply #76 on:** September 07, 2020, 10:12:06 PM »

guzzi771 · « **Reply #77 on:** September 08, 2020, 07:24:47 PM »

Me on my 2015 Yamaha R3 NOLA

Guzzistajohn · « **Reply #78 on:** September 08, 2020, 09:06:10 PM »

I like this one

LowRyter · « **Reply #79 on:** September 08, 2020, 10:20:34 PM »

Blaufeld66 · « **Reply #80 on:** September 09, 2020, 02:56:15 AM »

Seven years ago, with the Stelvio bike on the Stelvio mountain...

chuck peterson · « **Reply #81 on:** September 10, 2020, 07:47:26 AM »

Photo by ccpeterson

Jimmy Adamo cresting the hill at Bryar/Loudon in the early 80’s on a maxed out Ducati. As a corner worker i got to roam about in a few places I shouldn’t have been. Of the 100’s of feet of tri-x film i went thru, This was one of only a few exposures taken at a Really lazy shutter speed Of 1/15th and panning at the same time. He was barely 30 feet away. 3 laps and they shooed me away from that spot.

Easily my best image of a motorcycle and rider at speed...

I’m a lucky guy

Tkelly · « **Reply #82 on:** September 10, 2020, 10:38:42 AM »

Louisiana, Missouri & Madison, Wi

geoff in almonte · « **Reply #83 on:** September 10, 2020, 04:26:47 PM »

Quote from: moto-uno on September 07, 2020, 07:35:35 PM

A trip to Laconia in the middle 80's with some friends to party and go to the races . The black and silver one is my Le Mans 2 in one of
it's many transformations :) . Peter

And that's my T-5 in the centre. I don't think we ever actually made it to the races.....

G

Tiny Tim · « **Reply #84 on:** September 10, 2020, 04:30:00 PM »

geoff in almonte · « **Reply #85 on:** September 10, 2020, 06:26:58 PM »

Mt Mitchell, NC

tazio · « **Reply #86 on:** September 10, 2020, 06:39:05 PM »

Quote from: Tiny Tim on September 10, 2020, 04:30:00 PM

Awesome

Zinfan · « **Reply #87 on:** September 10, 2020, 10:57:04 PM »

Not much of a picture of the bike (V85) but the location is why it means much to me. Taken in Puerto Angel, Mexico after a ride from Oaxaca via rt 175 which is an incredible twisty road that tops out over 8000 ft and ends up here at the beach. I'm a bad traveler most of the time as I stress out for no good reason but on this trip I had planned to go to a meet up a day south of the AZ/MX border and after that see if I could overcome my own self and head a bit farther south with the goal being Copper Canyon and Durango. Sadly for the third time I couldn't get to Copper Canyon due to a heavy rainstorm causing the road to be closed into the canyon (other times it was snow and rain) but I did get to Durango and after that kept heading south. This photo is just about the southernmost point of my ride and I'm about to head home. A picture where "its not about the bike" but actually the V85 gave me confidence to ride that far.

AH Fan · « **Reply #88 on:** September 10, 2020, 11:41:59 PM »

Quote from: Testarossa on September 07, 2020, 12:02:21 PM

So many to choose from but this was a great day -- a Father's Day ride with my daughter in foothills near Rocky Mountain National Park, back when the T was my only bike.

thats a beauty photo.......

Ciao

fotoguzzi · « **Reply #89 on:** September 11, 2020, 07:35:56 AM »

Changed my mind again
All these demo bikes were washed away in the 2007 National flood.

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Author Topic: Favorite Motorcycle Photo (Read 11581 times)