What did your Dad ride

[Hoony]

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

[albrid-3]

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.

[Rodpack]

Some photos of my Dad from when he raced in the late 60's early 70's.

Triton 650 Bathurst Easter 1969



When he was the swinger racing sidecars. Amaroo Park 1971



Swinger again. Bathurst 1973



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.

[Simo63]

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



Swinger again. Bathurst 1973

Awesome .. but seriously .. no gloves ... at Bathurst!!!!

[steveo247]

this thread is awesome!

[Colin Jay]

Some photos of my Dad from when he raced in the late 60's early 70's.

Swinger again. Bathurst 1973

Imagine the reaction from a race scrutineer if you fronted with exhaust pipes like that nowdays. The poor bugger would have a stroke!

CJ

[pancho]

 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.

[GMC]

Mum liked to nip down to the shops on her Zundapp...




Dad was always busy working on his...

[Barronvmx]

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.

[Rider]

Just a shot of my dad and his mate Tom Kingston after a Rovers 1956 reliability trial. Cheers Terry.

[Mike52]

[Tim754]

Mike52  That really is a classic photo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[VMX60]

Now that is COOL AS                

[RW490]

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

[Mike52]

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.


And his road bike he made in 1952 and raced at Lowood and Bathurst.
This bike is still out there somewhere.