I know that all if us here could ride a 550 lb Honda Africa Twin like this!
Piece of Pi$$ just give me a week!
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Piece of Pi$$ just give me a week!
Oh, I better start saving for an Africa Twin first. That’ll take a few years. So a week after that then…….. Ahem.
40 years ago I was pretty good on a 230 lb dirt bike, but not that good.
Seeing that guy stand that Honda on its nose twice was impressive enough, but watching him go straight up that rock face like he was on some featherweight trials bike is what blew my mind. 
In the video soundtrack I heard some pretty impressive "grunt" right there...Seeing that guy stand that Honda on its nose twice was impressive enough, but watching him go straight up that rock face like he was on some featherweight trials bike is what blew my mind.
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What no alleys ?
To a man the whole world is a urinal
To a man the whole world is a urinal
That’s gonna leave a mark!
there's a great back story on that photo, it's real...
Dan Dare aims at the pickle barrel, whilst leaving his plane to hover around uncertainly.
It was at this point that Ted began to question his dream of becoming a fighter pilot.
I had the misfortune of owning (used) the Concord at the top of this list. What a P.O.S. ! Pig on gas (304 v8), and on a quiet day, you could actually hear it rusting. I used to carry a floor jack in the trunk because there wasn't any part of the body that was strong enough to use.
Found on Google image search...
Jim Meads was a photographer living in Hatfield, Hertfordshire near the Hatfield aerodrome in 1962. A pilot friend notified him on September 13th of that year that he would be test flying an English Electric Lightning F1 XG332 if he would like to come take some photos. Happy to get shots of the only British built fighter capable of Mach 2 speeds, he set out toward the airfield hoping to get photos of his children with the F1 landing in the background. The photo he ended up getting would become famous.
As he and his family walked up, a grounds keeper for the airfield approached them in a tractor to tell them to leave the area. That’s when the plane went out of control at a very low altitude with the pilot ejecting at the last possible moment, setting up an incredible, one of kind shot (especially for the time). As it turns out, the pilot was not Mead’s friend, but another test pilot named George Aird. He landed on a tomato greenhouse nearby, crashing through the roof and breaking both legs on the way down. The story is well documented by Aird, Meads, and Mike Sutterby, the tractor bound groundskeeper who was only 23 at the time.
Jim Meads was a photographer living in Hatfield, Hertfordshire near the Hatfield aerodrome in 1962. A pilot friend notified him on September 13th of that year that he would be test flying an English Electric Lightning F1 XG332 if he would like to come take some photos. Happy to get shots of the only British built fighter capable of Mach 2 speeds, he set out toward the airfield hoping to get photos of his children with the F1 landing in the background. The photo he ended up getting would become famous.
As he and his family walked up, a grounds keeper for the airfield approached them in a tractor to tell them to leave the area. That’s when the plane went out of control at a very low altitude with the pilot ejecting at the last possible moment, setting up an incredible, one of kind shot (especially for the time). As it turns out, the pilot was not Mead’s friend, but another test pilot named George Aird. He landed on a tomato greenhouse nearby, crashing through the roof and breaking both legs on the way down. The story is well documented by Aird, Meads, and Mike Sutterby, the tractor bound groundskeeper who was only 23 at the time.
Is that the prototype for the CanAm Spyder that my wife bought last year?
