Some Cool Old Pictures

[grasshopper]

Check out Kenny Roberts at Santa Fe!

[grasshopper]

Some photos of Sante Fe before they tore it down, and an old race flyer, very cool!

Such a shame, I wish I was old enough to go to the races before they tore that place down. It was so close to where I live, and all the big guns were racing 30 minutes away from my house. DAMN! :(

[StumpysWife]

I have this pic on my desk at work...

[grasshopper]

Is that old board track?

[StumpysWife]

I don't know.  The file name is old Daytona. I've had it on my computer for some time now and can't remember where it came from.

Heather

[Super Dave]

Yeah, some day I'd like to have an old board track racer like that.

[grasshopper]

Have you ever raced board track Dave?  ;D

[Super Dave]

Is that old board track?

Yeah, not Daytona.  Daytona wasn't built until 1960 or so.  Raced on it in 1961?  Those bikes are from the 20's or so.

Board track racing was big business.  Fast, smoky, boards coming off the track and through riders arms as they raced, betting, etc.  

Lots of racers got hurt.  

[Super Dave]

It just amazes the he*ll out of me how far we have come with Technology in the past 20 years. Vintage motorcycle racing is very interesting.

No, no, no...

This is vintage motorcycle racing...

http://worldmotorcycles.com/Pages/daytona02p.html

A bike that is old now racing.  You know what you need to fix after years of it breaking, the tires are better, etc.

And this still was racing just like it is now....

http://worldmotorcycles.com/Pages/vintage.html

It's top of the line stuff for the era.  Looking for an edge.  

Having raced bikes as old as me, they still have similar principles that apply.  But you're dealing with metalurgy that is different.  Availability of NOS parts, but still.

You can go have an old bike GMD Computracked at 4&6 and apply basic geomety optimization to it and get a result.

Tires are much better.

[Super Dave]

Have you ever raced board track Dave?  ;D

LOL, one time in....


 ;D ;D

[Super Dave]

http://www.statnekov.com/motorcycles/lives23.html

[Johnny B]

Gene Romero with unusual sponsorship, Loudon 1980.