Lol! had a Can Am bike with 4 1/2 inches of rear shock travel....................all of it bad! (the forks were even worse) Watch any of the old late 60's-early 70's dirt bikes from the rear on rough ground. The guys are standing, using their knees as shock absorbers, and the back end of the bike is jumping around like a turpentined jack rabbit! And just to make things REALLY interesting, every now and then the frame would break at the steering head (the early kwackers were noted for that) Kinda added a little spice to your racing adventures when you were half expecting the front end to fall off coming down from a jump. If it didn't fall off, going from 26 degrees of rake to eighty degrees in a few feet tended to affect the handling qualities somewhat (primarily from bad to uncontrollable).....................Those were the days!
Malcolm Smith, Joel Roberts, Roger DeCoster....................Maico, Zundapp, Bultaco, Ossa, Husky, Penton, Rupp, Hodaka............................Dragging (and slipping)clutches, underpowered motors, points blocks made out of goat cheese, leaky seals on new engines, carbs that were about as sophisticated as a brick with a hole drilled in it,(Amal carbs come to mind here) fenders made out of old Model A tires because the OEM steel originals got ripped off the first week, seats held on with baler twine, it was a rarity to see a bike that DIDN'T have bent bars, 5 speed tranny's with 3 working gears, (or less) wheel bearings so bad the tires were rubbing the frames, ....................... But, by gosh, we had fun! I sure miss those days.
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Today's Featured Article - Gatherin of the Orange - by Rick Nikolich. In July of 1998 I was talking to fellow Allis Chalmers collector Mike Schilling about the annual "Gathering of The Orange" AC show coming up in August of 1999. He got this wild idea that we should get a convoy of AC tractors and drive them from Charlotte, Michigan 105 miles to LaGrange, Indiana.
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