Re: Crappy old pic of me

HardWorkingDog wrote:
In article <IOyKg.5624$bM.2221@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Chris Buckley <cnbuckley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://home.earthlink.net/~cnbuckley/oldpic1.JPG

The year: 1970
The bike: 1964 Bultaco 250 Matador(stripped down)
The place: Fort Funston, behind the S.F. Zoo

Sorry it's not better, hard to believe that photo has lasted 36 years.

Nice. Was that a legal place to ride back in 1970?
It wasn't legal but the police hardly ever came back there and if they did, you would just take off into the areas where their cars couldn't go and they would leave.



I like the black/yellow stripe riding pants. Always wanted a pair of those (leather, right?) but never could afford it as a kid. Half the riders in On Any Sunday wore them...
Those pants (which are still around somewhere) are a heavy weight Cordura Nylon, sorta like the predecessor of modern moto-clothes. Back then I paid about 30 bucks for those pants while leathers were generally around 100 bucks then.



My biggest fashion statement in those days was the football mouthguard I bolted to my white open face Bell helmet. I thought that was bitchen...

I knew several riders who did that, I used to use the standard snap on Joffa mouth/chin guard.

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