They Called Them Superbikes...

[dontlr]

Originally Posted by Mr Head

A friend, (Pete Homan) racing the bike form the shop, BMW of Denver, back in the 80's at Second Creek in Colorado

I used to live 30 minutes from that track and have run a whole lot of laps around it

Guess what they call this turn,, yup the House Turn I'm leading the Supertwins race here


I had to add some vintage to stay on topic.


I'll scan some pictures from the 80's up there, oh the great memories of Laconia.....

[klatelm]

thanks for posting videos of willow and yes i saw the terminator. this place rocks

[lobsta]

1 -Dave Emde? 2-Eddie Lawson wet or dry bikes. 3-Harry K.

[DC2wheels]

Originally Posted by Nemosengineer

1978 Gietl/Schuster BMW

Attachment 214452

Link to article:http://www.omnilex.com/public/bmw78/boomers.html

: Mike

I remember seeing these bikes (or ones just like them) on the track. Look closely at the front brakes. The calipers were attached to carriers that pivoted near the wheel axle. Behind the calipers there were struts that went up and attached to the bottom triple clamp.
When the rider grabbed the front brake lever, the caliper carrier was forced upwards by the rotor rotation. This would in turn push upwards on the triple clamp and keep the fork from diving.
Primitive but effective anti-dive.

[lobsta]

Who rode these Beemers?

[DC2wheels]

Can't help you there.

I did 2 seasons with AAMRR in '78 and '79 in modprod and F3 (IIRC). Ran at NH and Bridgehampton.

The old NH track ("Briar Motorsport Park") was a dust bowl- pretty primitive. Nothing like NHMS now.

[lobsta]

29 Sam McDonald 1st Superbike.....84 Fred "flying" Merkel 2nd superbkie.....10 Doug Chandler 6th Formula1

[lobsta]

Spingsteen @ Laconia 6/83.

[vguy]

Tracks on track: Track conditions were not always the best in those early days. This is Graeme Crosby in 1977.

[lobsta]

front tire squashed.
rear tire off the ground.
duct taped boots.
railroad tracks.
spectators a lawyers dream away from........................?
man that was racing............................................ .......

[vguy]

Yes ... crowd control/armco was a piece of twine! But these were New Zealanders.

[lobsta]

Jimmy Adamo, tuner Reno Leoni and crew 8/81 Laconia. the rules state any glass(tail light) must be taped over.

[dirt_bloke]

Originally Posted by nix510

There actually aren't any frame tubes at all below the motor.I know this because I happen to own this particular frame.All of the bracing is in the backbone tubes and around the TZ750 steering neck.I do not race the bike,but under very fast road conditions the frame is very stiff,especially compared to an " in the day" stock or even moderately braced frame as I have owned and ridden both forms of wobbly goblin.

This is a very interesting build story that I will go into later at length when time permits.A friend just sent me the link to the photo in the forum and I just recently joined the community.

In the mean time, could you post up a few picture of the bike in it's current state. Looking forward to reading about the beasty.

Pete

[Tripped1]

Originally Posted by nix510

There actually aren't any frame tubes at all below the motor.I know this because I happen to own this particular frame.All of the bracing is in the backbone tubes and around the TZ750 steering neck.I do not race the bike,but under very fast road conditions the frame is very stiff,especially compared to an " in the day" stock or even moderately braced frame as I have owned and ridden both forms of wobbly goblin.

This is a very interesting build story that I will go into later at length when time permits.A friend just sent me the link to the photo in the forum and I just recently joined the community.

.....tell me more.

[JNRobert]

Originally Posted by lobsta

Jimmy Adamo, tuner Reno Leoni and crew 8/81 Laconia. the rules state any glass(tail light) must be taped over.

doG, that's a handsome bike