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Clubroom => Foto Forum => Topic started by: RW490 on January 16, 2013, 01:56:57 am
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Me on Dads 1971 two valve Jawa and him in the background on his 1969 two valve Jawa at the last Bendigo Historical meeting. Me and Glen Bowles went out together in practice and rode the fence for three laps rubbing shoulders. Mighty good fun. The only other time Dad & rode on the same day was when I was a junior rider and we were allowed to ride at Romsey one Harley Club meeting.
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October 1946 my Grandfather, Jack O`Halloran rode at the Wangaratta Speedway meeting held at the Wangaratta Showgrounds.
This was 17 years before I was born and My Grandfather travelled from Melbourne. My Mum and Dad moved to Wangaratta in 1958 to open a motorcycle shop 12 years later and I still live here.
Is this Karma or what.
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Top pix of ya Dad Rick, great stuff !
I hope you don't mind me posting this pic here,but it's sorta , kinda along the same lines, plus it's me favourite shot
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Surfair Speedway, late nineties and me young bloke , Brian, going by me on the front straight on his chookie TT, when asked how did he beat The Fossil, the cheeky bugger said " I just follow him around untill he gets tired, then zap him" !!!
Foss
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Harley Knucklehead
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My dad called it a "club" but it may have been a gang. ;D
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My old man never raced, he was a top local aussie rules player in his day, but he did ride bikes for a while like most of that generation.
This is him in the early 50's on his 1949 Matchless G80.
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This is my '49 G80.
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It was built from many tea chests of bit back in the mid 1980's. Although he hadn't ride a bike for years, the old man did take it for a short ride when I got it up and running. Sadly it has spent way to many years sitting unused in the shed. I keep promising to re-commission it and put it on historic rego and ride it, but there just doesn't seem to be enough day in any given year to do everything I want to.
CJ
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Couple of pics of my Dad
Regards ,
Steve
circa 1960
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around 1990
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Brian Mitcheson with his original Alron
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Hey guys, keep up the good work. Don`t forget, these are the people that got us started. Even if your Dad didn`t race put up his photo`s on or near his bike because thats all that matters.
Hey Foss,Thanks for the input, hope to have a picture up of my Grandfather on speedway soon from Traceys Speedway. Jack O`halloran.
Rick
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Great old pics MY DAD HATED BIKES So I never rode with him >:(
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My dad was a cop and diskiled motorcycles because of the impact of attending fatal bike prangs had on him as a young rookie. I eventually won him over to my dirt bikes as long as I promised not to ride on the road. I did of course but he didn't know it, right up to the day he sprung me on my Lobito riding through Penrith while he was out, miles from his home station arresting some villain. A week or so later I was coming home on that awful little bike, saw dad watering the front lawn and having a beer with Frank from next door but one (coincidentally, also a cop, a homicide detective). I popped a wheelie going up the driveway to show him how much in control of my vehicle I was and promptly ran him and Frank over when the evil power of the little Bully got away from me. I never quite lived that one down :-[ :-[
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Thanks to my brother Jim, "jimg1au ", I have a copy of this photo of our Dad, who celebrated his 90th birthday last Sunday.
Dad brought me and later my sister up in the Midlands of England , riding pillion on a Red Hunter Ariel and later on a Square Four and sidecar, out of neccessity in postwar Pommyland.
Here's the photo of our Dad, the 1977 Veteran Champion of St.George club riding my Elstar JAP
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In Oz, Dad owned and rode a number of bikes, riding them to work at Lucas Heights, an MZ and a 450 Ducati come to mind.
As I've said, I'm a Pom but Jim's an Aussie, but I won't hold that against him, I'm joking Jim !!!
Foss
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My father rode just about anything with a motor and 2 wheels.
This a photo of probably the last bike he rode, an ex police Bonnie he restored for a guy and passed away not long after.
I've got a heap more but have to scan them, daughter required.
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Without my old man, I probably wouldn't be into bikes at all. Seeing his old racing pics from the 70's with my mum pregnant in the pits, puts a smile on my face from ear to ear. I think men were men in those days, not like today with all this new age political correctness and happy holidays BS !!!
What's even cooler is the old bastard still kicks my ass on the track today. I hope I'm still having fun at his age!!
Go you old guys!!!!!!!.......the true pioneers!
Pics to come!
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My dad was mates with Ronnie Kessing....he won Bathurst in 1946.....here's a shot from around 1942, with my dad Tom in the middle and Ronnie's elder brother Jack on dad's right.....note the headlight covers, compulsory during the war......great stuff !! Sadly, they're all gone now.
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Great photo of your dad and his mates Alvin. Now I know where you get your flambuoyant
dress sense from ;) Your dad is one slick lookin' dude. Love his jacket. Do you know
where the pic was taken,what bridge?
regards Mark
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Good question Mark, I was thinking the same thing.
Kessing as in John & Kevin I gather?
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Yeah, top photo Alvin, 2 Beezers and your Dad on an Ajay or Matchy, I think. I was wondering where the bridge is, too. It's a type known as an Allen Truss bridge, the same as the one near my house.
Great stuff and your Dad is one cool lookin' dude !! Brando style L J an' all.
Foss
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In answer to your questions boys, firstly Mark, I think it was somewhere in Kangaroo Valley, south of Sydney and Steve, yes Ronnie was Kevin and John's father and Jack, their uncle and finally Foss, you're good mate........yeah, Dad's bike was a 350 AJS......and as for the BRANDO jacket, here I am wearing it in 1968 aboard my Beeza Bantam !! ;D
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and later that year on.........would you believe it........my 350 AJS..a '46 motor in a '59 frame.......21"front wheel with ribbed tyre and 18" grasshopper on the rear......and of course......SPEEDWAY tank.......shot taken at our practice track........Belfield Speedway !! ::)
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That ultra cooool pic of you on the # 9 Bantam just goes to show sartorial elegance runs in your family , Alvin. Great stuff with the L J.
Goodyear Grasshoppers, bloody hell , that's goin' back a bit, ain't it ??
Foss
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Hey Purple, was kessing a balmain boy
My dad rode a G80 49 500 single, and a matcho before that around Gladesville, he knew kenny roberts mechanic. of late a evo/shovel frame Fl, and a ttr230.
Brett
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Hi Brett
They all grew up around Enfield, however, I think Jack ( in the photo ) and his wife Marie lived in Rozelle at some time, maybe the mid '50s ? ???
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After veiwing all of your pics Alvin I've gotta ask!
Do you have a scalf fettish ??? ;D
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It's a little funny the history of my father & motorcycles :-) Dad use to roadrace in England, he had a few beezers was also an RAC officer (would attend automobile breakdowns) with motorcycle & sidecar.
He gave up bikes & moved to Australia to raise a family in the early 60's; I knew nothing about his motorcycling background. One day, when I was 12, I had been hanging-out at the local boat launching ramps and a kid was riding around on a Tas minibike, he offerred me a ride; I was hooked!
I rushed home and said to Mum & Dad "I just rode this motorbike, it was fantastic, can I get one?!!". Mum looked at Dad and said "oh no!" She wasn't saying "no I can't have one", she was saying " oh no he has your (Dads) disease"
Dad said you are not having some stupid lawn-mower powered thing and bought me a new Italjet 50 (from George Bailey Honda in Frankston) that was a correctly scaled-down motocrosser.
Dad had a fibreglass canoe factory next to Alan Lambert Motorcycles (that became Lambert Leathers), Alan's son Roger was racing a Suz TM125 in '73 an Alan took me to my first scramble at Bairnsdale to watch Roger race. From there onwards I always wanted a TM125.
In '74 Dad tipped-in a dollar for every one I saved and we bought a new '74 TM125 and he bought a '74 TS125 for himself; he never rode it, it got stolen & recovered and I fitted TM bits to it to take out the club trailbike class, it's the bike in my avatar pic that Dad took.
Dad's had a few health issues (as I guess most old blokes have) of late and he only has a 50cc TGB scooter but he's thinking of getting a 250 roadbike.
I'll ask him for some of his old bike pics.
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Here are some of my dad bikes, from the top, Karme, Kynock, 20 speed Rudge multi.
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I followed the foots steps of my 2 brothers, Dennis, Roger, my brother Roger race Matchless, and a Dot white strength 250 in New Zealand and later Montesa cappra 250, my brother Dennis raced cotton,Montesa Diablo 250, Triumph 650 twin, Kawasaki F21m, Montesa cappra gp 360. (RIP)
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Here are some of my dad bikes, from the top, Karme, Kynock, 20 speed Rudge multi.
There was a couple of these old rigs that were V-twins, complete and in oroginal condition at the Goulborn swap last w end, very cool machines and very large!
I think they had 24" wheels and were at least 7 foot long.
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Just reading this post jolted my memory of something my dad told me years ago.
At 19yrs of age the old man joined the Royal Navy and getting posted to an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea somewhere. He had a brouph or a rudge from memory, wanted to get rid of them before he went into the navy, no takers so he pushed them into the bloody pond and left them there, unbelievable :D :D
Ken Baker
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In answer to your question Sorelegs, YES..........and that's just one of my minor fetishes !! :'(
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COOL! I will raid the wardrobe and see what I can find for you.
I'll keep an eye ou ;t for the purple leathers on saturday. ;D
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Hey,Dave #6
In the photo of the lad with his head cropped off, WTF is that bike ?? It looks like a Honda Dream pressed steel frame with a Villiers in it !!
Foss
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never really got to know my dad as he died when i was 7.
but i know he was a bike fan as he took me to the speedway every chance he got and i do have an old pic somewhere of him on an old brit bike on the dirt. i will post it up to see if anyone can id the bike or track possibly era would be late 40 - 50's i guess.
when we went to the speedway i think it was at the Ipswich showground as we lived in Mt Crosby, Qld in late 1969-72
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Thats right Jap, My brother built the bike, honda / vill, a dream frame with a 198 villiers engine, and it was great to ride, went very well. I rode it a lot. it was better bike than my norman scrambler also had a villiers 145cc. There are more photo`s of my dad`s bike which are illustrate in the Flood Book, if you have heard of it. quite a large book. My father was a large collector of the water cooled Scott, we still own a 2 speed scott and a 350 Air cooled scott, we have owned them for over 45 years.
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Some photos of my Dad from when he raced in the late 60's early 70's.
Triton 650 Bathurst Easter 1969
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When he was the swinger racing sidecars. Amaroo Park 1971
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Swinger again. Bathurst 1973
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Since then he's owned more bikes then I can remember, mostly Kawasaki, but currently rides a Suzuki 1200 Bandit and a 650 V-Strom.
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Some photos of my Dad from when he raced in the late 60's early 70's.
When he was the swinger racing sidecars. Amaroo Park 1971
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Swinger again. Bathurst 1973
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Awesome .. but seriously .. no gloves ... at Bathurst!!!!
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this thread is awesome!
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Some photos of my Dad from when he raced in the late 60's early 70's.
Swinger again. Bathurst 1973
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Imagine the reaction from a race scrutineer if you fronted with exhaust pipes like that nowdays. The poor bugger would have a stroke!
CJ
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This is a great thread!
The only bikes I ever saw my ol' man riding were an occasional Harley outfit though I can recall him mentioning in conversation with a friend when I was about 8 or 9 that he had owned up to that time, 120 motor cars and 80 odd motorcycles.
He never raced bikes but did race cars.
I remember sitting in the 'chair' hurtling around Fairfield at a high rate of notts with the sidecar wheel only on the ground in the straight bits!
His family often mentioned his exploits and him being pursued by cops (they never caught him) and the 'provos' during his service days!
He was a born petrol head. He was once excused from school at 13 yrs old to start a local farmers tractor.
I think my brother may have some photos I will see.
cheers pancho.
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Mum liked to nip down to the shops on her Zundapp...
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Dad was always busy working on his...
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Dad rode bikes growing up in Germany DKW's Zundapp's, but he never raced. When I bought my brand new RM80B he did the usual father bike thing and said "let me have ago at that son I can ride bikes". Well he jumped on sitting over the back wheel and went round the back yard once, no problems. That was when too much confidence set in and he grabed more throttle a little 2 stroke thing called powerband came in. The front wheel went up in the air and dad had the bars crossed up pointing towards the fence, my new bike was about to have its first endo. Somehow dad put the bike down straight and rode up next to me and said here you go son, and he never rode a bike again.
However my Grandfather was always on a bike and he and my granmother would travel around europe on his 1918 NSU He was an engineer and replaced the belt system with a chain. He sold the design to NSU and rode NSU bikes until he passed away.
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Just a shot of my dad and his mate Tom Kingston after a Rovers 1956 reliability trial. Cheers Terry.
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Mike52 That really is a classic photo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :o
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Now that is COOL AS 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
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Hey Mike52 can you do a better scan of your photo. I raced speedway all over Australia and that would have to be one of the best photo's I have ever seen. I want to copy it to my photo's.
Keep up the good work guys, Rick
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Hey Mike52 can you do a better scan of your photo. I raced speedway all over Australia and that would have to be one of the best photo's I have ever seen. I want to copy it to my photo's.
Keep up the good work guys, Rick
Home made out of aircraft tube and bits n bobs in 1951.
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And his road bike he made in 1952 and raced at Lowood and Bathurst.
This bike is still out there somewhere.
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Dad, Terry Rooney and Graeme Juniper, from an article announcing the opening of the new altona track back in the fifties, i believe that both bikes are Corgies.
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and the boys with their fathers George Rooney & Frank Juniper
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Mike52
Thanks for that. I have copied the photo. Absolutely love it. Talk about a real action shot.
Regards Rick.