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Post by oldchopperguy on Mar 8, 2019 13:00:06 GMT -5
Don Rickles... Total obnoxious jerk, and proud of it... The very essence of "macho"... Ok, my opinion only... LOL!
I did enjoy those truly AWFUL Frankie and Annette Beach Party flix… So lame and stupid you could just laugh and laugh, and that's good for you!
Best part of them was "Eric Von Zipper" escaping in a sixties go-kart... Those short scenes showed just a hint of what a couple of Mac kart motors could do!
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Post by oldchopperguy on Mar 3, 2019 11:14:22 GMT -5
For a while now, there's been no banner when I open the forum site... Just a gray box. I miss it, since I created it for Doug way back before the site first began.
If it's gone, time for someone to create a new one... The empty banner space looks mighty "empty" for an active site.
Ride safe,
Leo in Texas
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Post by oldchopperguy on Mar 1, 2019 5:21:32 GMT -5
you cant even get that far over on a scooter without removing the center stand I have had extra tall tires and cut off the center stand bracket and I don't break for corners unless traffic is in the way I still can't scrub off the top row of rubber hairs without grinding steel
Don't even try... Take it from a guy who took a freeway cloverleaf a tad too frisky on his new 1970 Electra-Glide and put her up on the floorboard, both tires off the pavement... That's what I learned in transitioning from a lean chopper to a bloated "garbage-wagon" bagger! OUCH! Live and learn! |
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Post by oldchopperguy on Mar 1, 2019 5:15:32 GMT -5
“Ride like a demon on your death machine”. I just don’t see that as a marketing campaign for the new Honda Metropolitan. 
Me either, and I'm a 50-year advertising exec... LOL! Have a bone!Maybe something like "Ride like You're Born to be MILD on your safe and sensible Honda..."Naahhh… Just doesn't go with a Death-Head tattoo... LOL! Ride like a demon... Ah, er, well... Ride safe! Leo in Texas |
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Post by oldchopperguy on Feb 23, 2019 2:16:26 GMT -5
 And here I am with perfectly intact chicken strips. >'Kat Well, Kat... I'm afraid I've joined your club at 73... Those new whitewalls on Minnie Mouse have clean chicken-strips and probably always will... If I ever get her running again! |
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Post by oldchopperguy on Feb 23, 2019 2:13:44 GMT -5
They could easily pass under a semi trailer in that posture. Those sport bike guys in Houston ride like there is no tomorrow. Yeah, the crotch-rocket jockeys around here are the same... Sadly for many each year, there IS no tomorrow. |
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Post by oldchopperguy on Feb 19, 2019 0:53:32 GMT -5
I came across these pix on the Net, and immediately remembered the term "chicken strips"...I've seen some wild cornering, especially in pro racing, but THESE are EXTREME!  Even in my misspent youth on "Old Blue" which was narrower and leaner than a crotch-rocket would I have EVER considered hauling her over so far as to scrape a shoulder on the pavement... EWW! My chrome rims... my chrome engine... my polished primary case... my knees and shoulders!    This level of skill combined with a fearless determination to push the envelope deserves recognition, even if I wouldn't recommend it on your local freeway cloverleaf... LOL!
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Post by oldchopperguy on Feb 17, 2019 2:42:04 GMT -5
Wheelbender6,
Good question...
Probably not too much. The big-bux posters are usually movie posters for American flicks. These bike posters appear to be European, and pertaining to the café racer culture of the fifties/sixties. Not of much interest to American biker-culture collectors.
They ARE really cool though!
Sorta in the same league as the old cigarette ads like "More doctors prefer to smoke Camels..."
I'd prefer to smoke a rear tire... LOL!
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Post by oldchopperguy on Feb 12, 2019 1:38:10 GMT -5
Both are macho jobs, but while truck driving involves skilled handling in some awful weather, a merchant seaman has to deal with even worse!
Gotta go with the sailor!
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Post by oldchopperguy on Feb 11, 2019 2:46:19 GMT -5
Hey boyz n' gurlz…I was perusing some old motorcycle graphics on the Internet and found a few posters from around 1950... Not exactly promoting "safe riding"... LOL!
Does it make ya' wanna pull on that leather brain-bucket, grab a handful of throttle and see how cable-pull drum brakes perform at 100+... ?   Nah... Probably not...  These graphics are likely from Europe in the early fifties, but they do showcase the "live fast, die young" mentality of those pioneer bikers... By the time I was 16 and riding, that mindset had definitely crossed the pond to America! They surely do make today's cyclist look pretty tame! Can you picture either of these graphics being used today in an ad for a new Honda or Harley, etc. ?Ride that "Death Machine" safe now, ya'll here?
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Post by oldchopperguy on Feb 8, 2019 0:06:32 GMT -5
Gotta go with KING KONG...
Old school monkeyshines... Reminds me of "Tiny" from my 1960's riding days...
I painted this pic of Tiny for an article in a local Chicago paper... Because I didn't have a CAMERA back then... LOL!
 6' 11" 650 pounds... Good thing he was FRIENDLY... LOL!
Moms and dads CRINGED when little kids got near him, but he LOVED kids, and they loved him too... Yeah, kiddies know the good guys!Our club was employed once as security, at the Chicago Auto Show where the Corvette display featured a Stingray lifted sideways on the two passenger side wheels. Display broke down and Tiny filled in, grabbing the driver side rocker panel and lifting the "Vette up in place of the hydraulic system on the carousel... He ad-libbed "You'll love the lightweight new Corvette..." Yeah...
Tiny could loosen and tighten lug nuts with his FINGERS... Until they SQUEAKED!THAT is MACHO. Paul's other nickname besides "Tiny" was "King Kong".
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Post by oldchopperguy on Jan 31, 2019 0:36:06 GMT -5
"My scoot has been down now for months."If I lived closer, I'd come help you out with Minnie Mouse, Leo. My wife's scoot was down for about 3 weeks in December but I was able to get it sorted out. Hey, many thanks! I'll know more as soon as I can install another new starter solenoid, battery and see what happens. Worst case, I may have fried the starter and/or stator, alternator or other electrics. If so, my dealer will help me out (especially since it was the solenoid he sold me that did the dirty deed... LOL!)
It IS irritating that a $10 defective new part may have destroyed $500 worth of good working original parts... LO not so L... This is the first problem I've had with Minnie in seven years! It's been too cold, wet, etc. to work outside, and both me and the missus have had a lot of health issues to boot... I'll post whatever I find, as soon as I can get the new solenoid and battery in... If the old scoot is still DOA... Well, it's off to the shop. Ride safe! Leo |
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Post by oldchopperguy on Jan 28, 2019 21:02:27 GMT -5
The guys that built the railroad by hand were the most macho. Carrying steel rails. Hammering the spikes. Felling trees to make cross ties. Shoveling cuts through the hills. Building trestles. I would not have lasted a day doing that stuff.  And, consider how many were Black, Chinese and Irish... All discriminated against in ways not seen since the Civil War... Not guys you'd want to try out after a pail of beer and a jug of hooch in the tent saloon at end-of-track in the middle of nowhere, where the macho guys carried the law on their hips, and the hard-case wayward women could whip most modern Redneck bar-brawlers! |
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Post by oldchopperguy on Jan 28, 2019 20:57:14 GMT -5
Diesel/Electrics... Efficient, super-powerful, low-maintenance and perfectly suited to the job at hand. But macho? Not more than Mom's mini-van... Great locomotives, yes... Macho? Not so much... Steam engines... Pathetically inefficient, horrific never-ending maintenance, expensive, cost a king's ransom to refurbish... But... Macho? Oh YEAH! Thundering, ear-splitting exhaust, rail-bending torque four times per wheel revolution... Tons of steel drive rods churning, sky-blackening clouds of coal smoke... and that incredible steam whistle... Just the sound makes a red-blooded hobo want to ride the rods to places unknown...
My Grand Dad was a steam engineer. Worked his way from 8-year-old yard rat to Gandy dancer, to switchman, to caboose/brake-man to fireman... Finally to engineer. The only thing more macho than Leo Petersen (yes, I was named after him) were the locomotives whose throttles and Johnson-bars he manhandled... Yeah... I vote STEAM LOCO! 
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Post by oldchopperguy on Jan 28, 2019 11:13:21 GMT -5
Say, I actually thought of your Flying Squirrel last night watching Pawn Stars. Some guy brought in his collection of VERY early motorcycle racing--when the tracks were wood and the bikes were, well, bikes. The guys were saying how it took courage, skill, and a whole lotta crazy to do that. And how they'd strip down to their skivvies to be as light as possible. Which reminded me of tiny little Jan's racing. I sure wish I could've seen her fly!
That kind of insanity was REALLY common from the 1920's to 1950's and still not "uncommon clear into the early 1960's. Can you imagine kissing the ragged board track at 100mph nearly "nekkid"? Even after a half-century, I still cringe a tad thinking about the little squirrel potentially doing the same on asphalt at 139mph. The only memories left of her are that time-slip, and an old, cracked fifties helmet that I painted her name on. She didn't even have a helmet at the time of the race... Again, common foolishness of the period. Evel Knievel would fully understand... Great memories though... THAT race is one I REALLY wish I had a picture of! She looked better than "Old Blue" and that bike was a show-stopper! Guess I'll have to post a couple more old memories one day... Like "Iron Mike" and the cesspool... Old age is getting hold of me, and I remember things from 60 years ago, better than yesterday... LOL! I'm still hoping I can get the old mouse running for this riding season... Not many left for her or me. Ride safe... And save the "nekkid rides" for the boyfriends! LOL...  |
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