Vintage Superbike Moments: Monochrome Memories
Black and white film was the reality in the old freelance days. Cheap to buy, cheap to process & print it was just the thing for those who had to sleep in their car at the track.
by the Osceola Brothers
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Dean F. Adams(1/16)
'No, you ain't gittin' a chair, sit down!'. Scott Russell and Anthony Gobert listen while Gary Medley calmly suggests someone doesn't know what the hell they are talking about. December 1996, Daytona.
Dean F. Adams(2/16)
John Britten's novel fork design. Usual John deal: eight million parts that together didn't work as well as simple telescopic forks.
Dean F. Adams(3/16)
Dirt tracker Jay Springsteen raced a very too large GSX-R at Daytona once. He was suspended from racing after the an easy protest once someone counted his bike's cylinder cooling fins (750 vs 1100).
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Dean F. Adams(4/16)
Ducati before Ferracci, even. Rino Leoni at Daytona. Note NCR shirt. 1992.
Dean F. Adams(5/16)
The first computer laptops hit the pit lane. Russell waits for it to write to the 3.5 floppy.
Dean F. Adams(6/16)
Future MotoGP stand in Wataru Yoshikawa tests the YZF at Daytona. His eyes were almost round in fear after his first WFO lap of the banking.
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Dean F. Adams(7/16)
'"We're no strangers to love ...' In the early 1990s Honda Britain brought some Rick Astley flair--and water guns--to Daytona.
Dean F. Adams(8/16)
Shawn Renfrow decides that he'll let Gary Mathers do this push start if it's all the same. Tom Kipp's RC30 Superbike. No one who tried to win on an RC30 gets romantic about the bike.
Dean F. Adams(9/16)
With an 'interesting interpretation of the rulebook' methodology, Muzzy Kawasaki's Gary Medley built a Kawi' 600 engine that held the unofficial 600 Supersport track record at Daytona for five years. Was it legal? It was "very extremely legal"--hence the decal. The bike squeaked on the warm-up lap before the race.
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Dean F. Adams(10/16)
The always photogenic Niall Mackenzie, Daytona 1992.
Dean F. Adams(11/16)
World champion Korkie Ballington, ex GP racer turned Kawasaki team manager at Daytona.
Dean F. Adams(12/16)
You want a bent RC45 wheel to bring back to Minnesota? Comin' right up. Bob Hale, Mike Hale, Bob Weindorf. The hand-pounded aluminum tank awaits its Horseshoe fate.
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Dean F. Adams(13/16)
Mr. Daytona. Mr. Brother in law then ex-brother in law. Mr. Polen Toes.
Dean F. Adams(14/16)
Daytona 200 winner Dave Sadowski tested the VR 1000 Harley at Daytona. Onlookers were shocked, SHOCKED when Ski knew exactly how to make the VR 1000 into a race-winner in a few laps.
Dean F. Adams(15/16)
Things were much looser at Yamaha in the early 1990s. Tom Kipp in Yoshimura leathers tests the Yamaha Superbike while Colin Edwards looks on.
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Dean F. Adams(16/16)
Jamie James and Tom Kipp's Yamaha YZF750 Superbikes flank a Thunderbird's fighter group jet.
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