One of my buddies sent me a Google photo site with a bunch of 1940's bike pictures and it included some early "Trials" in the U.S.

Jon

Fantastic pics, love the guy in the first picture, bottom lip absolute determination ( does this sound a bit gay?)

Jon,

Great photos! Can you show us the link to the website you mentioned?

Thanks!

Dave

In the first photo - he actually has Trials Tires on his bike!

Jon,

Great photos! Can you show us the link to the website you mentioned?

Thanks!

Dave

Wish I had time to learn to shorten the link addresses (my wife is a blogger, I'll con her in to it) here is the link:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&...t=0&ndsp=20

Jon

Incidently,

This is the bike (it's called a "Whizzer", made in the late 40's and uses a Schwinn "springer" bike frame) that turned me to a "Life Of Grime". I must have been 7 or 8 years old and used my paper route money to buy one of these, a real "basket case" as it was in three laundry baskets, all apart and in various stages of dis-repair. I had to keep the parts at a friend's Dad's garage as I knew my Mom would "not approve". It took me two months, but I got it together and running and my buddies and I took it out for a ride. That was the "Wright Brothers" moment for me, it was powered flight that captured my passion and I've been hooked on motorcycles ever since. You never know when something is going to be a life changing event, but that first ride on that old Whizzer was one. Seemed like I was going 100 miles an hour, but in reality is was probably only 15.

Jon

How bad were the brakes on his bike ?

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?img...t%3D54%26um%3D1

How bad were the brakes on his bike ?

Yipes!

I think most of us that have been on bikes for any length of time

can relate to the possible cause of that guy's "need for bleach"....

Jon, been there, done that, got the t-shirt......