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Valkrie9
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JUL 15, 04:46 PM
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1976 studio album, Leftoverture
May 2-4 weekend, Victoria Day, Bala, Ontario, hundreds of bikes in front of the Kee, wish I still had my Kawasaki 750 H2, wicked fast, a Widowmaker.
I vaguely recall that was the weekend a kid I knew from our high school wrecked his '69 Mini into the railway bridge abutment, tee-boned it real good.
Pushed the engine block into the footwell, doing at least 30 mph, just forgot to turn left, smashed his head into the windshield, he was a tough guy, wrestling team 198 lbs.
I nearly croaked that weekend, diving off the dock by the Kee, into Lake Muskoka, crystal clear, flipping ice cold, I did it because a pal did it seconds before,
almost got stuck on all the trash on the bottom, bed springs, steel re-bars, broken bottles, we about levitated above the surface, so cold.
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A two-four weekend in the boonies, Labatt's Blue, a sweetheart and a willingness to party hard, drunken buffoons, public intoxication, good rock tunes.
Great White North
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williegoat
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JUL 15, 05:46 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Valkrie9:
wish I still had my Kawasaki 750 H2, wicked fast, a Widowmaker.
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THE Widowmaker!
There was a time you could pick those up for nothin'!
Now, a good one is worth $25k easy.
Got any pics?
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Valkrie9
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JUL 16, 11:22 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by williegoat:
THE Widowmaker!
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I wish, strange thing that others do, but I didn't take one, it had a custom airbrushed mural paint job, a sunset landscape scene with eagles above fir trees, on a red/orange tank color.
Threw a rod on the center cylinder, gave it away to a nephew who had it repaired, who then sold it to a kid up north in Sudbury, who then wrecked it on a highway rock cut, it's final fate.
Pipes from Bill Wirges
David and Yvon DuHamel
I have all kinds of data, just can't post zip , rar , or html files here.
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williegoat
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JUL 16, 11:40 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by Valkrie9:
Yvon DuHamel
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Now there's a name I haven't heard in a very long time.
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Valkrie9
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JUL 16, 12:04 PM
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williegoat
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JUL 16, 12:24 PM
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None of those are H2 parts.
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williegoat
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JUL 16, 01:18 PM
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I took this pic when I was 14 years old.
See those green bikes? That was the first time the racing world saw that particular color.
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Valkrie9
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JUL 16, 05:36 PM
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Daytona - Paul Smart
That's who that is on the Green Meenies
Where the music is made
Cayuga Dragway Park, in Cayuga, Ont.
Knew Frank Elliot in '64, Drag Supply was the place in those '60s days. '64 Plymouth Fury Hemi 10.6 @ 126mph.
Have a story about another Beatty+Woods Boss Maverick 351C, a '71, and how it came to my garage.
Sure, it's a different kind of music, but it's music of machinery.
Man, I sure wish I hadn't destroyed my '72 Satellite Sebring, or my '76 Dart Sport, '66 Mustang...
Regrets, I should write a Country-Western song about it all, the tears and the beer, wanton women and the resulting broken hearts
Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
Caught his act at Maple Leaf Gardens, George Jones didn't make the curtain call, so he did a double set, my ex didn't like it, turns out it wasn't the tunes she didn't like.
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... Had a heavy thunderstorm come through Toronto this morning, knocked out the power for, like, 4 hrs, a flooded transformer vault, happens every time, they stage a new one on site for a quick fix.
Flooded my basement with an inch of water above the floor, a improperly graded back yard, and a foundation that leaks, a gigantic mess, used the electric bilge pump until the power went out.
Bailed it out by 5 gallon bucket for the last 40 gallons, I figure about 200 in all. This is the second time this has happened, the other was in a March rainstorm over the still icy yard, 2 feet of water in the below grade window well, only 1/4 of today's flood.
Spinning me in to a dimension of pissed off..
This is my way of cooling my jets, a thick post of stuff that comes to mind, rambling along, moseying along.
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williegoat
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JUL 16, 06:07 PM
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My pic is from 1969. Paul Smart did not start riding for Kaw until a couple of years later.
But your buddy, Yvon DuHamel was there riding a Yamaha.
Cal Rayborn won on a KR750.[This message has been edited by williegoat (edited 07-16-2024).]
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williegoat
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JUL 16, 06:31 PM
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And to pull this back on topic, a tune that you may not have heard, from my misspent youth:
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