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another group. Karl
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OT: 1930's hill climb
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Some of those guys knew how to handle a bad bounce pretty well.
Dave
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Take a look at
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see how it was done back "in the day".
The hill climb at Laconia, N.H. was up a sky jump landing.
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Nice cinematography!
--Winston
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I wish that I could have heard the real sound of what it was like to be there. Nice clip!
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I wish that I could have heard the real sound of what it was like to be there. Nice clip!
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That old racing nostalgia is great, isn't it?
Looked like just a bunch of old knuckleheads. I did see one Triumph. Must have been like riding a log compared to today's technology. I noticed that the hill was not as challenging as most of today's. You still gotta give it to them. It takes big balls to strap a motor to a log of a bike and hillclimb with it.
Steve
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Yup. I was imagining what their faces would have looked like if a kid on a modern bike just zipped up the hill. I still do like the old stuff and I liked john B's link to the piece about Red Bryan and modifying his old Indian -- casting his own cylinder head and converting it to overhead valve. In addition to being a good machinist, he seems to have been a pretty good racer.