Just Vintage Roadracer Photos

The cafe racer thread has sorta peaked but there's still many old "full race" bikes I never tire of ogling so.....

Still one of my favourites.

A couple of my favourite twins:

Bob McKeever and the '48 Manx he rode at Daytona in '48 along with the Joe Clemonts, his mechanic;

Bob's Champagne Norton Racing Team;

L to R, My wife, Nobby, Bob, Alex sitting on Bob's '37 Manx. Rigid frame, girder forks, not much suspension tuning happening

I started a similar thread over here take a second and peruse the goodness.

How about some...action?

Beautiful Peel Fairing at the TT





Early "Bird Beak" Goose





Jarno (I think..could be Lansivouri or...?) thru the Fir Trees in Finland
(Nice of them to lash a few grain sacks to the trunks. Safety first, eh lads?)





Royalty





The perfect street racer? Bultaco at Montjuic Park, Barcelona

A few more...

870cc Roundcase Duck, Streets of Barcelona Montjuic Park





Smarty - Duck





Ago & Spaggiari, MV & Ducati 500 GP's (I think)





Spaggiari - 750 Imola '72





Calvin in Yurp




Damn...will you look at all those hay bales? Half the livestock in Europe must have had their ribs sticking out during racing season

A couple shots of the 15 time world champion.

Good place for a sidebar...not a hijack:

Ago's '74 win at Daytona has to be considered one of the most impressive of all time! It was his first major race on the bike, after having spent nearly all of his career on the four-stroke MV. It was his first trip to Daytona...and it was the first major outing for the Yamaha TZ 700.

Roberts, Nixon, Sheene, Duhamel, Baumann, Smart, Castro, Romero, etc. were all there. Wish a film, video of the event was available.

And...none cooler than Ago! A journalist from that era told me that he traveled with his own entourage from Italy...including a massuese! (sp?)

Best ever...is arguable. Coolest of all time? Hands down!

All respect to Ago

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But Gary Nixon had him whipped and handed the '74 200 to him on a platter

The Full Read

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Hard to believe it's been thirty years since these beasts raged!

here's a link to some snaps of us racing vintage here in the North Eastern US. I have some stuff from 09 (Oz & US) but have yet to upload them...

HERE

Always loved the old GP bikes from the days of my youth. No way I could ever afford one, so instead I built me a replica of one





Donor bike was a 1976 Honda CB400F.

My inspiration to build the replica:

I love bikes from this era, there was some serious innovation going on and real blood and guts riding.

A few I've taken over the past year.

I don't know the bike's pedigree, but a small indie shop down in Melbourne has among other things a TZ 700, or did last time I stopped by about a year ago. It was up on a lift with all the plastics stripped off. Lots of other exotic race bikes collected there, too. Wish I had taken my camera - I was drooling over some of the stuff in there.