Motorcycles

[Alpo]

[Blackwater 53393]

4 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

Another idiot making motorcyclists look bad!!

 

Just plain eat up with the DUMBASS!!

[Pat Riot]

24 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

Another idiot making motorcyclists look bad!!

 

Just plain eat up with the DUMBASS!!

Yep! I used to encounter chuckleheads in SoCal that seemed to think that they were stuntmen. They would ride through neighborhoods and on boulevards raising hell and doing rear wheel wheelies and generally causing mayhem. 
I would encounter similar idiots doing crazy stuff on the freeways. 
I would occasionally get asked if I ever do that crazy crap on my bike.

These knuckleheads make all bikers and motorcyclists look bad. 

[Subdeacon Joe]

As found on FB

 

In 1929, Vivian Bales rode her 1929 Harley Davidson for 78 days and 5,000 miles across the country. She told the papers her motorcycle was a “key to the whole United States. She was the first motorcycle cover girl and was known for several long distance motorcycle rides around the US, (before most of the roads were paved) in the 1920s and 1930s.

 

[Alpo]

The Enthusiastic Girl.

 

That just sounds like a sponsor, you know like the land of lakes butter girl.

 

So she got some company called Enthusiastic to help pay for her cross country trip. I wonder what the heck enthusiastic is? Was?

[Alpo]

And it's not enthusiastic. It's enthusiast.

 

>She wrote to Hap Jameson, then editor of The Harley-Davidson Enthusiast magazine, telling him about her plans to make a longer solo trip. The Enthusiast motorcycle magazine was first published in 1916, 13 years after the first Harley-Davidson motorcycles built.

 

Despite Bales only being 5 feet 2 inches and 95 pounds and unable to kickstart the bike on her own, Jameson appointed Bales as the official goodwill "Enthusiast Girl" and while Harley-Davidson did not finance her journey, arrangements were made for Harley-Davidson dealers, Rotary Clubs and others on the route to provide accommodation, fuel, and maintenance.<

 

And that little pennant has nothing to do with the capital of New York. It's not Albany.

 

It's Allbenny, Ga. Spelled the same, but I spelled it the way it's pronounced. That's where she lived. And where she died.

[Pat Riot]

1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

As found on FB

 

In 1929, Vivian Bales rode her 1929 Harley Davidson for 78 days and 5,000 miles across the country. She told the papers her motorcycle was a “key to the whole United States. She was the first motorcycle cover girl and was known for several long distance motorcycle rides around the US, (before most of the roads were paved) in the 1920s and 1930s.

 

Hubba-Hubba

Ya gotta love a woman that rides her own motorcycle, but a woman that does cross country touring on a bike and the crappy road conditions that they had back then? She’s a goddess!

 

Well, not a goddess but pretty close. 
 

Thanks Joe

[sassnetguy50]

Imagine fighting 450 pounds of primitive bike for months when you were just 95 pounds. 

[Pat Riot]

"Motorcycle Chariots At New South Wales Police Carnival, 1936"

 

[Pat Riot]

20 hours ago, Alpo said:

Not a motorcycle. It looks more like a sand buggy. 

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[Texas Joker]

3 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

"Motorcycle Chariots At New South Wales Police Carnival, 1936"

 

 

https://youtu.be/jX2mjxEMxm4?si=_7BskS3NkfAKRb8s

 

Edited June 23 by Texas Joker

[sassnetguy50]

3 hours ago, Texas Joker said:

 

https://youtu.be/jX2mjxEMxm4?si=_7BskS3NkfAKRb8s

 

Tap the return key after the link to embed the video. 

 

 

 

[Pat Riot]

[Pat Riot]

This has become my philosophy these days. 

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[Subdeacon Joe]

Two men riding on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle with a sidecar in Liège, Belgium in 1925.

#america #history #historybuff #historylovers #historicalfacts #onthisday #historyrevealed #heritage #legacy #historicalsites #ancienthistory #worldwar2 #europianhistory #americanhistory

 

[Alpo]

15 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

That guy needs a custom t-shirt. With the printing down close to his waist. Normally it's up around the shoulders but he needs one down lower.

 

IF YOU CAN READ THIS THE BITCH FELL OFF

 

[Sedalia Dave]

20 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

As found on FB

 

In 1929, Vivian Bales rode her 1929 Harley Davidson for 78 days and 5,000 miles across the country. She told the papers her motorcycle was a “key to the whole United States. She was the first motorcycle cover girl and was known for several long distance motorcycle rides around the US, (before most of the roads were paved) in the 1920s and 1930s.

 

 

 

The Enthusiast Girl

 

Edited June 24 by Sedalia Dave

[Pat Riot]

10 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

Two men riding on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle with a sidecar in Liège, Belgium in 1925.

#america #history #historybuff #historylovers #historicalfacts #onthisday #historyrevealed #heritage #legacy #historicalsites #ancienthistory #worldwar2 #europianhistory #americanhistory

 

Is that a mud flap attached to the front wheel? I really can’t make it out. 

[Sedalia Dave]

20 hours ago, Alpo said:

Despite Bales only being 5 feet 2 inches and 95 pounds and unable to kickstart the bike on her own,

 

I don't buy this.  No way a person would ride solo unable to kick start their bike

 

 

Edited June 24 by Sedalia Dave

[Sedalia Dave]

6 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

Is that a mud flap attached to the front wheel? I really can’t make it out. 

 

 

That is what it looks like to me.

[Pat Riot]

3 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:

 

I don't buy this.  No way a person would ride solo unable to kick start their bike

 

 

I agree. It’s really not that hard to kick start a well maintained bike, even an old Harley. A bike rider learns real quick how to set the engine up with the kick pedal to get a bike running. After the first “sole slap” you learn real fast. 

[Alpo]

1 minute ago, Sedalia Dave said:

I don't buy this.  No way a person would ride solo unable to kick start their bike

Actually, I agree with you.

 

I had a Norton 850 Commando. It was my brother's bike, and he had left it parked here at Mama's house for over a year. Decided he needed money and started trying to sell it to me. I said we could do this, but he had to make sure it was running. Since it had been parked for over a year I didn't know if it would work.

 

Took him 3 weeks to get that bike to fire. But once he got it running I paid him and away he went.

 

It took me three more months before I could get it to start again.

 

A Yamaha, or any other jap bike for that matter, has a kick stroke about 24 inches long. You can sit on the seat and push it with your leg, and it will start.

 

A Norton has a kick stroke about 5 inches long. I finally learned that you walk it through the stroke until you can feel the cylinder is at the very top. Then you stand on the kick, bend your knee and then push up a little and drop with your entire weight on the starter. If you do this right, and you're heavy enough, the bike starts. But there is no way that somebody that rides a Japanese bike routinely is going to be able to start a Norton.

 

When I would show up somewhere on my bike, other motorcycle riders always wanted to ride it. Like if you showed up somewhere in a Ferrari, everybody would want to drive it. And I would tell them if they could start it they could go for a ride. I never had to let anybody ride my bike. Never.

 

I can see, maybe, her getting somebody to kick it for her in the morning as she starts off. Or the guy at the gas station kicking it for her after she fills up.

 

But if it died on her somewhere down the road (and that could be something as simple as a bubble in the gas line), she'd end up with a long walk pushing the awkward heavy thing.

 

Maybe they meant when she first started she couldn't kick the bike by herself. Like I said, took me 3 months to learn how.

[Eyesa Horg]

21 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

Is that a mud flap attached to the front wheel? I really can’t make it out. 

Yup, ran em on my Harley's to keep road crud out of the voltage regulator and engine fins 

[Alpo]

I figured it was to keep road crud off the guy in the sidecar.

[Texas Joker]

36 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:

 

I don't buy this.  No way a person would ride solo unable to kick start their bike

 

 

Or you get a rolling bump start.

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:

Is that a mud flap attached to the front wheel? I really can’t make it out. 

 

I don't know, but with a side car it would make sense.  

[Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L]

Mudflaps were common back in the early days.

 

[Alpo]

1 hour ago, Texas Joker said:

Or you get a rolling bump start.

Theoretically, you can run down the road holding your bike, while holding the clutch in, and when you feel you're going fast enough jump aboard, and pop the clutch which would cause the motor to catch.

 

And I can see doing that, maybe, with one of them 1914 or thereabout motorcycles which were basically a bicycle with a little bitty engine on it.

 

But her bike weighed 390 pounds. I don't see a 95 pound girl doing a push start on that.

[Texas Joker]

You can roll start any clutched engine

 

 

[sassnetguy50]

4 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:

 

I don't buy this.  No way a person would ride solo unable to kick start their bike

 

 

Agreed.  Her 45ci engine had less than half the compression ratio of a modern twin and a third of a modern performance engine.  She was a dancer who would've had strong legs and coordination. It was her second HD, she'd have known their is a procedure.