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Cycle News 1988 08 10

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That I was looking at life in Phot ographs, and realized how rich they are. It w as last wee k's cove r th at grabb ed m y eye, and hel d it. R j tak ing Un adilla. R ider and Motorcycle frozen in sp ace befo re th ose fence-lining Fans. It didn 't m atter if it was in black-&-white. That pro bably made th e m oment even better! N o-fri lls realit y cap tured in a second fraction ed, etch ed forever in degrees of gray. A nd I began look ing at other pictures, from other decades. Dream ing my way into those yonder years. Bringing back all th e great bik es and riders. Can non ball Baker there on h is old cross-coun try A ce. joe PetraIi grooving th e fast sands of Daytona. Hard fought champion sh ips lin gering in the dusts of lon g-ago Langhorne an d Spr ingfield . " Flyin g Floyd" Em de dirt-track ing h is Harley - in sh irt-sleeves and potlid! A h! Th e m ere sig ht of Clymer Crash H elm ets and strap -on goggl es! Iron m en lik e Fred H am ' and T ex Luce and Ed Kretz cap tured in audacious and m yst er ious p oses. Rollie stretched ou t on that speeding Vin cent. Bugsy win ning wi th h is Brit ish Beezer . A n d L eonard, N ix o n, R om ero, Roberts. A youn g Kenny th row ing on e away! R oger DeCo ster in mid-air. Bud Ekins. Torst en H allm an. Dutch Sterner and Swede Belin and Frenchy Castonguay n am es put as id e with ·ou r u sed calenda rs, bu t never forgotten. The Milne Broth ers. Lammy Lamoreau x. Evel. And Keenan W ynn, bless his ornery and amorous sou l. And ye ah ! - S teve M cQu een! j .N . Robert s f ly in ' low across Ba ja! Malcol m Smith, too! Now Malcol m Forbes, an d E lizab et h ! Fred die! Eddie! Wayne! And Wayn e! Bubbal Mamola's Cagiva w heelie! Th ese irreplaceable ph otograph s go on and on . Dick Mann w inning h is v in tage. And racing his BSA - w hat? Seventeen Y ears Ago! Can it bet! We were m aking a film under th e lig ht s at Mia m i Country Fairgrou nds in m y hom etown Troy . And next morning high-tailing it over to th e half m ile at Co lumbus. Wh ere Dick got penal ized and put back at th e start. And Bart Markel won. All in pictu res as unalterable as carvings in stone. A nd w hat of those th at' ll be sho t to mo rrow , and tomorrow? Sh eets of precious go ld and silver. Marvelous, indis pensable! Eternally . . William Edgar r~-~-----------~-------------------------------------- - - - - - - - -.- , . SUBSCRIPTION ORDER FORM ' · --_ Name_-;;;;-;:-;:~=;-;::-;:-;::;-;;;- IP l EA S E PA IN T CLEA Al VI Address ---' C ity Order Date: S t at e _ ZLip _ -0 Th is is a renewal o Please bill me Enclosed is check or money order C harge my 0 Visa 0 Masterca rd o i.,) ~ '~ ~ II.. _ OK, please start my subscription to Cycle News and send me the newspaper . o every week f o r o n e y ear (50 is sues ) fo r $32.50 o every week f or t w o years (1 Oo-is sues ) f or $60.00 o si x m on ths sec o n d c la ss (2 5 issue s) for $17.00 / One year (5 0 iss ues ). 2nd cla ss Ca na da or Mex ico an d 811 ot he r fore ign countr ie s $63.00 (U.S . fun d s ). First class a nd a irm ail rat es availab le upon request. . S en d t o : CYCLE .NEW S, Inc., _ i VIS4 Sig natu re -'- _ MC /V isa # _ Exp iration Date . _ _ P.O . Bo x ~ 9 8 . ,Lo n g Be ac h . CA 90801 -04 9 8 / (2 13 ) ~2 7 - 74 3 3

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