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Ural 2001 sales flyer

Hartford Toy Run, October 2000

Used to be a yearly fall event here in CT. Bikes would line up around Bushnell Park next to the State Capitol building. The route went through the ghetto, Northwards along the Connecticut River, cross over at Windsor Locks and return to the party at the Elks Club in East Hartford. Always a good time with most intersections blocked of annoying cars.
It died out, and I don't know why.

February 14th

Corbis is the monkey

Lieutenant Leigh Wade (in the sidecar) and adventurer Linton Wells arrive in New York at the end of a trans-continental auto race. Image by Underwood & Underwood


Berlin, Germany: On Oct. 31, 1931, Fraulein Hanni Koehler, the well-known German motorcyclist girl, came back from her half-year Berlin-Ceylon-Berlin tour. Image by Underwood & Underwood


Soldiers use a motorcycle and sidecar during the invasion of the USSR during World War II. Image by © CORBIS


Syria Patrol Shriners wear fezzes and costumes with their motorcycles at the Nation Shriners Convention of 1936 in Seattle.Image by © Seattle Post-Intelligencer


1984,driver Niki Lauda, with his wife children in Ibiza. Image by Albane Navizet


1954, Isle of Man Image by Hulton-Deutsch Collection
sidehacks from corbis

Knuckle head

by JOHN CHAOS

Old Trucks Asleep

friday after happy hour

after happy hour

Thompson & Indian

A side car equipped with a radio and a newly invented police automatic rifle firing 120 shots a minute is the latest for the N.Y. police force. The rifle has been invented by General John T. Thompson.
Image by Bettmann
CORBIS

fresh

1977, Cleveland, Ohio, USA --- Plumber Sam Green drives his customized Harley-Davidson
Image by Bettmann
CORBIS

six until nine

Long Way North

Our German crew getting pumped up for their Summer adventure. Ralf, Martin and Olli will ride from their town near Cologne all the way to the most Northern spot in Europe, Nordkapp.
To do so is a measure of how serious a biker you are. A task similar to riding coast to coast in America.
The end point is this globe on the cliff in North Cape.

I wish I could join them, but it ain't in the cards this year.

Surprise!

This sticker says,"Your brakes are retarded."
Started bleeding the front brakes on the Guzzi today and the bike has a linked brake system. The right front caliper runs off of the handlebar master and the left front caliper runs off of the rear brake pedal.
This may work fine for normal people, but my pegleg riding style prohibits the accurate use of rear brakes. I never use them. Now I have to plumb up a new front system and block off part of the rear.

The Big Lame

Go ride your bike.

Plate

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