OK, while I was out in the 90+ degree garage tonight sweating my ass off installing my newly revalved by Dan Kyle Ohlins shock for my old Gixxer 1000 (and yes I want to ride her Sunday, much to the chagrine of all you Asian bigots! ) I began to reminisce (something anyone under 40 shouldn't try to do) about all my years of riding and all the cool shit I have gotten to do on two wheels and what I read and dreamed of doing on said two wheels years ago. Ergo, the Old Farts Club came to mind, with me as the natural self-appointed President. What?... you want to claim THAT crown? How freaking sad is that? Leave the old farts something to call their own, dammit! But first the test to join.

OK, here we go (thought of this one in the shower), what did Jim Pomeroy have taped to the top of his helmet during the first Inter-Am motocross races put on by Edison Dye? 10,000 extra points for the first person who knows who Edison Dye is? And no God damn Goggling you little techy shits!! This is the real test, not your high tech "it will give me the answer so I don't have to think" calculator mind set. Shit, do they still make those? And thinking is what sets the old farts apart from the rest. And memory... and no that doesn't mean the memory in that box thing under your desk!! OK, here's part two. This is easy. The now famous pic of Steve McLaughlin's R90S Superbike flying upside down during a crash in the first AMA Superbike series, what track did that occur at and who actually won that first AMA SBK Championship? Jeez, this is fun. Kinda feel like that Jeopardy dude! Where's the damn buzzer??? Remember, I have skunks that will find out if any of you kids Goggled this shit and I will have Cher come over and kick your ass, banning you permanently from any Old Fart Club events!! Let the drinking... excuse me, the contest begin!! I'd love to see who hits the first one, they really need to belong to the club... the second may be too damn easy. But what the hell... it's just good beer fun.

Sad, no answers. Gonna be a lonely club.

Yea, I failed.... 

Don't worry, *** will certainly be able to answer these, not that he should be a member of the club, by any means. 

However, I'd still like to join the "put-the-comb-and-hairbrush-makers-out-of-business" chapter of the Old Fart Club. 

Brian, you lost me with all those crazy questions, but thank god you ended on a good note. "good beer fun.  "

I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention...

Did someone say beer?      

Yes, that in reality is the whole point of this thread. Beer is good. Everyone should have some today. That's the first and most important bylaw of the club. Otherwise, why have a club? Any arguments with that? I thought not. Club meeting adjourned. Bar is now open. There... that was easy.

The first rule of the Old Fart Club is, you don't talk about Old Fart Club.
The second rule of the Old Fart Club is, you don't talk about Old Fart Club.

Quote from: fastwin on June 20, 2008, 08:16:18 AM
Yes, that in realty is the whole point of this thread. Beer is good. Everyone should have some today. That's the first and most important bylaw of the club. Otherwise, why have a club? Any arguments with that? I thought not. Club meeting adjourned. Bar is now open. There... that was easy.

Great, my kind of club--with this mandate, I will work harder on these questions tonight. 

Sh*t, I thought you just had to be old and able to fart to join this club cause I can do that easy. 

Edison Dye + motocross + Husqvarna+ died last year.  Jim Pomeroy motocross champ for Bultaco?  Died two years ago.  Steve Mclaughlin soccer player?  Opps. I mean superbike hero.  Daytona against Reg Pridmore.  Ask me how I know. (IC)

***

OK, you can join! Everyone thinks that pic was from Daytona because he won the very first Daytona SBK race in 1976 but that great pic of his crashed, upside down R90S was later that year at Laguna Seca. Reggie Pridmore (Jason's dad) won the overall Championship that first year. They rode Butler & Smith sponsored Beemers, then the importer of BMW bikes.

Pomeroy had a white plastic dove taped to the top of his helmet and at that time he raced a CZ.

OK... now the bar is open!

It wasn't daytona, Steve won at Daytona with Pridmore right behind him.  No clue about motocross, never was a fan, but I should get points for owning no few than THREE R90S's ( and 1 R90/6 ).

let's see:

1971 Suzuki T500 two stroke
1975 R90S ( awesome bike, and still one of my favorite motorcycle times of my life )
1976 R90/6
1975 R90S ( bought it in bad shape, sold it in worse shape.  by the time I sold it, the cyclinder heads were 90% JB Weld )
197x Benelli Sei ( never ran  )
1973 Moto Guzzi T3, Police Edition ( sort of like a volkswagen with handlebars, but it was fun )
1971 Triumph Trident ( rarely ran, but was very very fun )
195x Harley Panhead ( I think.  bought it in a box, sold it in the same box )
1976 R90S ( tricked out with dual ported heads, was still very slow )
1994 R1100RS
2001 K1200RS
2006 Ducati 999

I remember you saying that at the Dub... damn, I would love to have one in the old Daytona Orange fade paint job like my friend had in Austin. I think his was a '75 too. Some bikes will remain timeless beauties forever like the R90S, original Bonnevilles, Vincent Black Shadows, Norton Manx, 750/900SS Ducatis. Feel free to add you own. A hundred years from now some alien will be staring at those bikes in some intergalatic museum saying "Holy shit, those are f#@king beautiful"! That's because they are, some were even great bikes.

Quote from: fastwin on June 20, 2008, 02:34:09 PM
I remember you saying that at the Dub... damn, I would love to have one in the old Daytona Orange fade paint job like my friend had in Austin. I think his was a '75 too. Some bikes will remain timeless beauties forever like the R90S, original Bonnevilles, Vincent Black Shadows, Norton Manx, 750/900SS Ducatis. Feel free to add you own. A hundred years from now some alien will be staring at those bikes in some intergalatic museum saying "Holy shit, those are f#@king beautiful"! That's because they are, some were even great bikes.

Have a crapload of photos of the Nortons from the HC MC museum...  gorgeous....

EDIT:  You left out the '93 Ducati Supermono!!!!

And the last rule of the Old Fart Club, if this is your first time at Old Fart Club, you have to fart.

yeah but do you remember when zac broke up with kelly