The original adventure riders (and bikes!) - Page 13

eap · 12-08-2003, 06:56 PM

way kewel - wait'n for the book!

pathfinder · 12-08-2003, 08:31 PM

Warren - What great photographs you took. Photography was also an avocation of yours. But how did you get this picture without being run over by a flying motorcycle?

My dad used to shoot 828 Kodachrome with a Bantam in the late 40s - some of the best pictures he ever took were on 828. I wish there were modern cameras for that film size.
Thanks you again Wes for sharing and I am also interested in your book also when it is available.

Pathfinder - a much tamer rider than the Webers ....

Wayne Weber · 12-08-2003, 08:46 PM

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Said pathfinder:

Pathfinder - a much tamer rider than the Webers ....

Hagerman! our back yard. We grew up in Leadville. Hagerman on a GS with full luggage? there are some tricky spots on the west side, TAME indeed, I don't think so...

That's Dad in the old photo, I don't know that the cameraman lived or not...

pathfinder · 12-09-2003, 06:08 AM

Wes
My riding partner and I left Basalt about 9:30 am due to concerns about ice on the roads along the river road leading up to Hagerman. You are right - there were places we got off the bikes and walked up about 200-300 yards just to make sure we would make it. Just above one of the snow gates the grade is steep enough and rough enough that I knew I did not want to stop mid stream, but had to clear it in one bite or regret it. Fortunately we made it and went on over the pass. We passed a group of 4 -wheelers as we were descending from the top who looked at us kind of funny.

We ate lunch in Leadville at a little local hamburger shop across the street from this sign - you probably know the name of the restaurant -

We then rode down the valley and out of Colorado and spent the night in Syracuse Kansas listening to cows moo..... What a great day it was for Dan and I.
It is so neat to learn that people have been riding these mountains for years - thanks again for the pictures you and your father have posted.

Pathfinder - still a much tamer rider than the Webers

Wayne Weber · 12-09-2003, 05:23 PM

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Said pathfinder:
We then rode down the valley and out of Colorado and spent the night in Syracuse Kansas listening to cows moo.....

...And my wife was born in Syracuse, just to show how small this world really is...

pathfinder · 12-09-2003, 05:31 PM

Pathfinder

Tenpaq · 12-09-2003, 11:35 PM

awsome pics, Mr. Weber! Thats when men were men,(to coin) you can see the determination in their eyes in every picture that they were`nt scared or worried about scratchin their bikes or bodies! most have no gloves, none helmets and narie a nobby in SNow!i don`t even see SHOCKS! i say put um on the front page of this site! like someone said before, do that stuff nowadays and the rideing spot would look like a partsunlimited delivery truck was hit by a S.C.U.D!, shit all over the place, gps`s,cameras,cellphones,tankbags,panniers, racks,engine gaurds, windshields, modular helmets flippin open, dealers backed up for months makein repairs!! ah, what fun that would be! you`d need the guard just to stop the looters...

imagine doin that snow on a horizontal twin "how bought you man, my footpegs are HOT!" he he

Broo C em · 12-10-2003, 12:44 AM

ayurp, damn right that man, I think it mighta been me said that stuff before, but whatafuck .. .. . those pics remind me of much, not the least being how when I bought my first bike in about '68 (a poxy lil 120cc Kwaka 'RoadRunner', 4 speeds rotary box with the chance to select first at 60mph) & spent the next few weeks with the tinsnips & pop-rivet gun making a 'Panier' thing (aka 'The Hot Dog Stand) to contain some kit, then zoomed off into some pretty damn wild sandstone country NW of Sydney all by meself alone, dragged the lil fucker thru a few streams, & 'survived' for mebbe 3 or 4 daize (well, thats how it seemed) & had FAR more fun on a bike than probably I have had in all the years since .. . .

ayurp, fun IS where ya find it!

BrooC ;-))

OldPhart · 12-10-2003, 07:08 AM

Great report! Your dad and his friends are awsome! Looks like they need to add the 1950 Harley 74 to the adventure bike list. I definately want a copy of the book when it comes out.

Lance

Drif10 · 12-10-2003, 07:24 AM

Are you going to go to the Advrider get together at Ouray this summer? There's a lot of us that would love to meet you. You're our kind of people. Folks like yourself laid the foundation of what biking is today, and you still have much to teach, I'm sure.

Please come.

TonyA · 12-10-2003, 09:35 AM

(in the 1940's)

Milwaukee's best rolling iron: 28 weeks of paychecks

Camera to record your adventures: 1/2 week's pay

(eternally true)

The best damn riding buddies in the world, in the prime of their enviably mis-spent youth: PRICELESS

Barry · 12-10-2003, 11:17 AM

Let's you know where the little used term "Man's man' came from.

Those are men. They're nuts, but they are real men.

Barry

BigDave · 12-10-2003, 03:16 PM

Once again, the Webers pull out even a better ride report than the last spectacular one! You guys must be proud. I sure would be. Hats off.

HarveyMushman · 12-10-2003, 03:53 PM

A big "thank you" to the Weber boys, all three of you. Simply fantastic pictures.

Makes me want to ride up to Pennsylvania, visit with my grandfather for an afternoon, and page through his old bike pictures.

K-Style Kid · 12-11-2003, 12:25 PM

These pics are making their way around the Internet like wildfire.

Totally awesome.

I joined just to say that, I was so blown away.

Thanks so much.

Old-Skool freestyle

12-08-2003, 06:56 PM	#181
eap El Adventurero Solitario Joined: Nov 2001 Location: Maryland, Least Coast USA Oddometer: 3,047	way kewel - wait'n for the book! __________________ eap '01 R1150GS, Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Surf Your Watershed Save the Bewbies "Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," -From 'Eldorado', Edgar Allen Poe (1849) http://www.eapoe.org/works/poems/eldrdoa.htm

12-09-2003, 06:08 AM	#184
pathfinder Gnarly Adventurer Joined: Apr 2002 Location: Indiana Oddometer: 122	re; Hagerman Wes My riding partner and I left Basalt about 9:30 am due to concerns about ice on the roads along the river road leading up to Hagerman. You are right - there were places we got off the bikes and walked up about 200-300 yards just to make sure we would make it. Just above one of the snow gates the grade is steep enough and rough enough that I knew I did not want to stop mid stream, but had to clear it in one bite or regret it. Fortunately we made it and went on over the pass. We passed a group of 4 -wheelers as we were descending from the top who looked at us kind of funny. We ate lunch in Leadville at a little local hamburger shop across the street from this sign - you probably know the name of the restaurant - We then rode down the valley and out of Colorado and spent the night in Syracuse Kansas listening to cows moo..... What a great day it was for Dan and I. It is so neat to learn that people have been riding these mountains for years - thanks again for the pictures you and your father have posted. Pathfinder - still a much tamer rider than the Webers

12-09-2003, 11:35 PM	#187
Tenpaq lost ADV Joined: Nov 2003 Location: orlando, florida Oddometer: 227	awsome pics, Mr. Weber! Thats when men were men,(to coin) you can see the determination in their eyes in every picture that they were`nt scared or worried about scratchin their bikes or bodies! most have no gloves, none helmets and narie a nobby in SNow!i don`t even see SHOCKS! i say put um on the front page of this site! like someone said before, do that stuff nowadays and the rideing spot would look like a partsunlimited delivery truck was hit by a S.C.U.D!, shit all over the place, gps`s,cameras,cellphones,tankbags,panniers, racks,engine gaurds, windshields, modular helmets flippin open, dealers backed up for months makein repairs!! ah, what fun that would be! you`d need the guard just to stop the looters... imagine doin that snow on a horizontal twin "how bought you man, my footpegs are HOT!" he he __________________ "Shun for to much Fun" Ignore if you must

12-10-2003, 12:44 AM	#188
Broo C em Gnarly Adventurer Joined: Jan 2002 Location: NP, Taranaki, NZ Oddometer: 177	ayurp, damn right that man, I think it mighta been me said that stuff before, but whatafuck .. .. . those pics remind me of much, not the least being how when I bought my first bike in about '68 (a poxy lil 120cc Kwaka 'RoadRunner', 4 speeds rotary box with the chance to select first at 60mph) & spent the next few weeks with the tinsnips & pop-rivet gun making a 'Panier' thing (aka 'The Hot Dog Stand) to contain some kit, then zoomed off into some pretty damn wild sandstone country NW of Sydney all by meself alone, dragged the lil fucker thru a few streams, & 'survived' for mebbe 3 or 4 daize (well, thats how it seemed) & had FAR more fun on a bike than probably I have had in all the years since .. . . ayurp, fun IS where ya find it! BrooC ;-)) __________________ "Angle parked in a Parallel Universe"

12-10-2003, 07:24 AM	#190
Drif10 Accredited Jackass Joined: Jun 2003 Location: Gates of Moscow Oddometer: 42,784	Warren, Are you going to go to the Advrider get together at Ouray this summer? There's a lot of us that would love to meet you. You're our kind of people. Folks like yourself laid the foundation of what biking is today, and you still have much to teach, I'm sure. Please come. __________________ Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by those moments that take our breath away. George Carlin

12-08-2003, 08:31 PM	#182
pathfinder Gnarly Adventurer Joined: Apr 2002 Location: Indiana Oddometer: 122	Warren - What great photographs you took. Photography was also an avocation of yours. But how did you get this picture without being run over by a flying motorcycle? My dad used to shoot 828 Kodachrome with a Bantam in the late 40s - some of the best pictures he ever took were on 828. I wish there were modern cameras for that film size. Thanks you again Wes for sharing and I am also interested in your book also when it is available. Pathfinder - a much tamer rider than the Webers ....

12-09-2003, 05:31 PM	#186
pathfinder Gnarly Adventurer Joined: Apr 2002 Location: Indiana Oddometer: 122	Pathfinder

12-10-2003, 07:08 AM	#189
OldPhart Lurking Adventurer Joined: Nov 2003 Location: Nashville, TN Oddometer: 363	Great report! Your dad and his friends are awsome! Looks like they need to add the 1950 Harley 74 to the adventure bike list. I definately want a copy of the book when it comes out. Lance

12-10-2003, 09:35 AM	#191
TonyA beta tester Joined: Apr 2003 Location: East of Bonneville, North of Moab Oddometer: 1,159	(in the 1940's) Milwaukee's best rolling iron: 28 weeks of paychecks Camera to record your adventures: 1/2 week's pay (eternally true) The best damn riding buddies in the world, in the prime of their enviably mis-spent youth: PRICELESS Attached Images __________________ "A voyage whose two ends were out of sight - a voyage sufficient in itself." "Master and Commander", Patrick O'Brian IBA 31991

12-10-2003, 11:17 AM	#192
Barry Just Beastly Joined: Oct 2002 Location: Fredericksburg, Va. Oddometer: 6,478	Let's you know where the little used term "Man's man' came from. Those are men. They're nuts, but they are real men. Barry __________________ Tail of the Dragon at Deal's Gap... Avoid it now, do a trackday. Do not do business with Myrtle West Cycle... Not a reputable vendor by a long shot.

12-10-2003, 03:16 PM	#193
BigDave Adventure Drummer Joined: Jul 2003 Location: Castle Rock, CO Oddometer: 3,968	Once again, the Webers pull out even a better ride report than the last spectacular one! You guys must be proud. I sure would be. Hats off. __________________

12-10-2003, 03:53 PM	#194
HarveyMushman commutingmysentence Joined: Jun 2002 Location: Virginia, USA Oddometer: 15,896	A big "thank you" to the Weber boys, all three of you. Simply fantastic pictures. Makes me want to ride up to Pennsylvania, visit with my grandfather for an afternoon, and page through his old bike pictures. __________________ Tim photo blog

12-11-2003, 12:25 PM	#195
K-Style Kid n00b Joined: Dec 2003 Oddometer: 1	These pics are making their way around the Internet like wildfire. Totally awesome. I joined just to say that, I was so blown away. Thanks so much. Old-Skool freestyle Attached Images __________________ Sean Goulart Managing Editor http://www.BMX-Style.com Voted #2 BMX/MX site on the Internet http://www.HogartDesigns.com The coolest cartoons you ever saw !!

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