We Remembered the Secret Phrase To Open It! Archive Images from the Soup Vault II
by Randy Pathfinder
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Dean F. Adams(1/43)
Jet-lagged with a sore back and sore feet, I caught VR46 early one morning at Austin MotoGP.
Honda (2/43)
When he wrote his book, the dirt track section was about two pages long. Here Rainey is on the Honda RS750.
Dean Adams(3/43)
In Germany, the day VR46 inspected the Castrol Honda WSBK RC51, envisioning it as a contender for the Suzuka 8 Hours race. He took a seat on the bike, exchanged glances with his friends, and they erupted in laughter, akin to a group experiencing their first marijuana high.
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Honda (4/43)
All your friends are dead.
Jim Vreeke(5/43)
An iconic decal from American Honda when they spoke roadracing.
SoupStaff(6/43)
Freddie Spencer did a retirement lap at the 1988 Laguna USGP.
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Tito Adams(7/43)
Sculpture.
IMS(8/43)
He won the race after spending nearly the entire night before in a VIP room of a local strip club.
Gilly(9/43)
People came ....
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Dean Adams(10/43)
Remind us to tell the Sykes lights off story one day.
Tim Beamont(11/43)
Our Kev is ecstatic because he had finally won the Daytona 200. This photo hangs in his office.
SCALERA(12/43)
Plug chop traffic jam.
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Henny Ray Blank(13/43)
He doesn't like to discuss it but the Honda VFR700/750 was his favorite Superbike.
Dean F. Adams(14/43)
Get to the track, get a coffee .... Monza.
Dean Adams(15/43)
Even Valentino had to laugh when Lin joked.
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SoupStaff(16/43)
Chambers on mouth harp, Halvie on lead guitar, Del Gudice did the Axl Rose slither long before Axl.
Ducati(17/43)
When Ducati was still 100% a Superbike racing effort.
Tim Wowington(18/43)
Benny Ha-ha on the gas on the Yamaha.
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Willy's SRX Service(19/43)
If you have the right genes, take care of yourself, have a nice smile and can put your faith in the structural integrity of one zipper then it's possible you will never have to wash your own car until you hit 40, if ever.
Dean Adams(20/43)
Nepo-baby #1.
Dean Adams(21/43)
Burges takes a reading at Austin.
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Keith Code who is actually in the photo(22/43)
A class of California Superbike school students and instructors.
Team Roberts(23/43)
Chuckie when he race Team Roberts ...
Dean Adams(24/43)
Here is the fellow who should be HRC's test rider but you can bet your last dollar that asking him hasn't even occurred to them.
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Dean Adams(25/43)
250 winner Jimmy Filice with his son Justin back in 1962. Seems like it anyway ...
Dean Adams(26/43)
The guy who can do anything. Frenchman Guy Coulon.
Dean F. Adams(27/43)
When 200 mph was a big deal in Grand Prix racing. Of course it was Itoh's NSR500 that did it.
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Red Skampser(28/43)
Kevin Cameron with his rider at Daytona when they did the man with a plan in a van tour. She was an added value because she could drive, could cook, could think and could plan.
Dean F. Adams(29/43)
Ben Bostrom with that one "Italian guy".
Dean F. Adams(30/43)
Racing at Laguna Seca in the early 1990s: RHS clip-on brushed the straw bales.
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Monster(31/43)
"The next Barry Sheene."
Superbikeplanet Staff(32/43)
Not our kitchen.
Jamie Hacking(33/43)
Rachel is Evel.
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Dean Adams(34/43)
They left it in my Daytona "office" with a request for my signature. As I gazed upon it, I pondered deeply, searching for the one undeniable sentiment to inscribe. It became clear to me that the only authentic tribute was to honor Henny's wishes, so I refrained from signing it.
Dean Adams(35/43)
Tony Romo rushes to put a cover over Gobert's crashed Kawasaki at Monza. Gobert said that Crafer "tried to kill me" which resulted in the crash.
Dean Adams(36/43)
It was cool when you were late for a flight because Rick would just turn on the lights and do the "my road now".
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Dean Adams(37/43)
The final encounter with Sic: A moment etched in my memory, marked by his intense anger, frustration, and seething discontent.
Dean Adams(38/43)
The late Don Jacks talks to Thomas Stevens during practice. Jacks would be dead from a street crash weeks after this photo was taken.
Dean Adams(39/43)
If only he'd left the EXUP in the dumpster, Jamie James would be a two-time Superbke champion.
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Michele Morisetti(40/43)
Carl's arms are crossed and he's being standoff-ish because he never was a Sheene fan; he was a Kenny Roberts fan.
Dennis Noise(41/43)
The ONLY American to beat Marc Marquez: Brad Baker.
Bram Starr(42/43)
Bonds or annuities? Rainey told VR46 to buy Monterey real estate. Also, riders wear these giant watches and they are STILL late for everything.
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Rod Allen(43/43)
The first rule of shooting a group photo is never shoot low.
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