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Re: Hard Starting
« Reply #50 on: July 26, 2015, 09:01:49 PM »
We'll just get you one of each bro. :lol:

Gonna ride on out to Fontucky(Fontana  :lol:)in about an hour,supposed to have some bike thing at the track today sponsored by Tombo Racing(don't know what the hell a shop in Oklahoma is sponsoring a race out here for but guess I'd best go see  :lol:).I get there at 8:00AM and only hang out for a couple hours,gets hotter'n a motherfucker up there(was 96 here yesterday)and there's not a stick of shade within 5 miles of that place.Best thing is it's only 28 miles from the house and if traffic's decent I can make it in about 22 minutes. :lol:Saw a flyer about it posted on a local website,sounds like a club thing so I'll be ready to duck if any lead starts flyin'. :lol:

http://westcoastsportbikes.org/index.php?topic=603.msg6431#new
Tombo looks to be the normal go fast bike shop, paint, arms custom work, some of the bikes in there gallery look decent, but I guess there claim to fame is they make billet cranks for Vance&Hines, at least thats what there websight says,   like you no idea what they are doing at Fontana???
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Re: Hard Starting
« Reply #51 on: July 26, 2015, 09:12:35 PM »
Yeah,his bikes stand out in the crowd. :lol:I guess he grew up out here and hung around the Vance & Hines shop as a kid,then eventually had a small shop of his own before moving to Oklahoma.Everybody(older guys)seemed to know him,guess they all used to street(and track)race back in the day around the LA area.Place was packed today,can't beat it for $10. :lol:
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Re: Hard Starting
« Reply #52 on: July 27, 2015, 07:05:19 PM »
Yeah,his bikes stand out in the crowd. :lol:I guess he grew up out here and hung around the Vance & Hines shop as a kid,then eventually had a small shop of his own before moving to Oklahoma.Everybody(older guys)seemed to know him,guess they all used to street(and track)race back in the day around the LA area.Place was packed today,can't beat it for $10. :lol:
Dam, it seems like everyday anymore I keep getting reminded what a old fart I really am, I remember being at the drags when Terry Vance and Byron Hines were pit monkeys for Russ Collins, jesus that sucks :(
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Re: Hard Starting
« Reply #53 on: July 27, 2015, 07:27:13 PM »
I hear ya bro,I remember the old Elmer Trett,Truett & Osborn,Marion Owens,etc. bikes,I must've been about 16 or 17. :lol:
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Re: Hard Starting
« Reply #54 on: July 28, 2015, 11:29:09 AM »
Don't leave out Danny Johnson with his twin engine Goliath and Joe Smith.  I was in my 20's.

"Double your engines, double your fun."  Bike was started with rollers from his pick-up truck.

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« Reply #55 on: July 28, 2015, 01:55:09 PM »
Yep,I loved all those old dual engined bikes.My best bro in AZ(Bill H.,goes by B1,long time  member and engine builder of the Dozen/now HA)had a dual engined Shovel street bike.From the front or rear you'd never notice until you took in that almost 4' long Sportster tank and tiller bars.Thing was cool as shit and had a lot of torque. :lol:
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Re: Hard Starting
« Reply #56 on: July 28, 2015, 08:11:29 PM »
Notice on Goliath............no ball protection in case of an explosion.
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