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Offline Jonny Hotnuts

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Bonneville insanity......crazy pic!!!
« on: July 28, 2007, 04:59:20 PM »
http://www.harriswc.com/content/cnt_motorcycle.asp




Boy have times changed.
I would of told someone they were full of it if I heard the story without the pic.
Some may know all about this but it was new to me.
Maybe my hotnuts are not so hot after all!
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(when Im not working on the car, I am ususally playing classical guitar)

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Re: Bonneville insanity......crazy pic!!!
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2007, 05:03:26 PM »
Yeah but Freud did it naked, the picture is on his bus card.
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Re: Bonneville insanity......crazy pic!!!
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2007, 05:34:32 PM »
There is an Elder around here that stopped without his bike in a similar outfit many years ago.
Ferd did it in 78 and as such is a "NEWBIE". :wink:
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Offline Dean Los Angeles

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Re: Bonneville insanity......crazy pic!!!
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2007, 12:50:30 AM »
Rollie Free claims that Ed Kretz was the first to . . . slim down. Tom Smith is pictured below.
Well, it used to be Los Angeles . . . 50 miles north of Fresno now.
Just remember . . . It isn't life or death.
It's bigger than life or death! It's RACING.

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Re: Bonneville insanity......crazy pic!!!
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2007, 12:56:44 AM »
Da ting ya gotta bimember is the early MC pioneers didn't eat too well. :wink:
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Re: Bonneville insanity......crazy pic!!!
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2007, 08:10:50 AM »
Man, with a set of megaphones like that, it must have been one loud trumpet!

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Re: Bonneville insanity......crazy pic!!!
« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2007, 12:14:30 PM »
Our very own.... Good thing he's wearing sunglasses...


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Re: Bonneville insanity......crazy pic!!!
« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2007, 01:00:35 PM »
Yeah, but he was wearing shoes, does that count. :evil:
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Re: Bonneville insanity......crazy pic!!!
« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2007, 02:23:32 PM »
I can't top Freud.  I did go without my bathing suit, but only after they cut it off me in the ambulance.  They actually asked me if it was OK, and I didn't really care at that point.  I think I was far from first, but may have been the last one to be allowed to run that way at Bonneville (1952).  I'd wear leathers now if I could find some big enough to cover my belly.
139mph with no bike, but with speedo and helmet.

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Re: Bonneville insanity......crazy pic!!!
« Reply #9 on: July 30, 2007, 02:44:58 AM »
The chest drop (Dunlap) might just be the reasoning behind the "All Cow" ruling. :wink:
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