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Rollie free famous photo...Riding technique
« on: July 19, 2016, 08:17:57 AM »
 I'm sure everyone has seen the photo of Rollie on the Vincent in swim shorts laying prone on the bike at 150 MPH in 1948...He wasn't the only bike rider to lay prone  like that at Bonneville...Was Rollie's run made during a competition event and where there any safety rules at all?  I run a bike and today's rules require the rider to have hands and feet on the bars and foot pegs while on the track..
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Re: Rollie free famous photo...Riding technique
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2016, 09:01:28 AM »
That is a very famous picture in deed. I'd just be guessing, but I'd think that there were more folks looking at your performance than your driving technique.

Nowadays, take a look at what the guys are doing on motocross bikes with the aerial acrobatics. As soon as enough people decide that you could get hurt doing that, it will be brought to a halt too.

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Re: Rollie free famous photo...Riding technique
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2016, 09:30:49 AM »
And who -- I ask you, WHO? - could forget the mega-famous photo of Freud on his bike, on his belly, on his -- on the salt?
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Re: Rollie free famous photo...Riding technique
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2016, 09:52:44 AM »
Gives a new meaning to riding naked....  :roll:

Trucked... I guess you have not seen any of the old Bonneville pictures of cars.... no roll structures, simple lap belt if it had a seat belt at all, any tire... all those things evolved with time and blood.
Ask Tom Smith if he would ride in a swim suit in competition again

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Re: Rollie free famous photo...Riding technique
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2016, 09:54:01 AM »
Really!  :-o There is a picture of Freud riding like that??? Well........ I'd like to see it.......  :evil:





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Re: Rollie free famous photo...Riding technique
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2016, 09:59:49 AM »
too late  :dhorse:
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Re: Rollie free famous photo...Riding technique
« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2016, 10:08:38 AM »
Thanks, Stainless.  I wondered who'd get it up (!) first.
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Re: Rollie free famous photo...Riding technique
« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2016, 10:14:22 AM »
For goodness sake, how in the world can you unsee that?

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Re: Rollie free famous photo...Riding technique
« Reply #8 on: July 19, 2016, 01:31:18 PM »
And now we know shy the salt used to appear so much brighter

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Re: Rollie free famous photo...Riding technique
« Reply #9 on: July 19, 2016, 04:29:20 PM »
  Dam that is not right!   :evil:
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Re: Rollie free famous photo...Riding technique
« Reply #10 on: July 19, 2016, 05:56:12 PM »
As long as we're now talking about the wild and crazy guy, this one is kinda, sorta related.....

As he posted years ago:

Best rental car I've ever had.

FREUD



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« Reply #11 on: July 19, 2016, 06:20:37 PM »
I think Freud has aged better than those buildings did.
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Re: Rollie free famous photo...Riding technique
« Reply #12 on: July 19, 2016, 07:34:38 PM »

Just remembered this post from the Doc years ago about the above Cordoba:

Ignorance is my best defense.

It sure is nice that my memory is slipping.

On the freeway at 70 MPH in cruise I gently slipped it into reverse.

The 18 wheeler that was tailgating me, as the smoke boiled off my back tires,

saw his trailer try to pass him. Now that was exciting.

It did not come out of cruise. It just buried the pedal against the floor.

Now that was a great feature.

I imagine he didn't believe it when the back up lights flashed on.

FREUD

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Re: Rollie free famous photo...Riding technique
« Reply #13 on: July 19, 2016, 07:39:52 PM »
And that is why you should never buy a car from one of the rental car companies...  :evil:
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Re: Rollie free famous photo...Riding technique
« Reply #14 on: July 22, 2016, 02:12:13 AM »
The story behind that Cordoba is one of history's greatest.
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