Malcolm Smith at Vintage motorcycle show

I went to the "Riding into History" motorcycle show yesterday at the" World golf Village" in St Augustine. Malcolm smith was the grand marshal. What a cool guy, Signed autographs and talked about racing and life in general. Man I idolized him when I was growing up and reading all the mags. Never saw him ride in person being on the east coast. What a thrill to meet him, got so excited I forgot to take a picture with him. Someone there said he had been voted Motorcyclist of the century I could not think of a more deserving person seemed to be a genuine nice guy that loved to ride motorcycles. I got some pictures of some cool bikes, only VFR there was a Very nice VF 500. there were some RD 400's there that brought back memories. I had a blue one like in the picture when I was about 20 wish I still had it now what a great bike! Also a TZ750 there that the owner used to go over 200 mph on the Bonneville salt flats. There were 3 CB400Fs one of each color man did I want one of those when I was a kid. Still look good after all these years. Picture of the 1st scooter?? Called a Ner-a-car. Harley single cylinder flat tracker And I don't even know what the pink thing is but it had 2 seats and engine in the rear.

 

Awesome pics!

 

Awesome, that there Bultaco was the shit back in the late 60's early 70's. Buddy had a Sherpa and Pursang.
Thanks for the memories

 

Very cool, took the CRF450X oot today wearing my MSR jacket.

 

Malcolm Smith is Malcolm Smith he's been like that from day one..Nice guy unless you are competing against him.. Not to worry though you may see him at the starting line then bye-bye.

The "Harley" is either a 250 or 350 cc Aermacchi. HD owned the factory for awhile.. A shitload of the bikes became flattackers when an AMA rule change went into effect when too many novice riders were getting killed riding the 500 cc OHV and the 750 cc F head bikes. Also added to the rule change were brakes on the smaller displacement racebikes. c. early 1960's

The pink thing is a Messerschmidt.. Not quite as fast as the planes or some of the dudes here but really fast..

 

I had a 350 Pursang back when I was 14.
It's the bike I had the most amount of stacks on. I think I came off it nearly every time I rode it.
It went from no power, to rip your arms off in a fraction of a second.
I sure miss the fun on it.

 

Thanks for posting the pics. Malcolm is the man of the dessert.. I ride my Husqvarna most Saturdays.

 

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This is how I remember Husky's
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There were Huskys there 250 with the round air box and one like Kent Howerton rode before he switched to Suzuki. Should have taken pictures of those as well.

 

Yup 1970 .... same kind he rode in On Any Sunday....

 

They seem to be OK...

 

Nice. His shop in Riverside has a small museum upstairs. It has his history in timeline format and quite a few of his and other privately owned bikes. I believe I posted my trip to his shop here last year sometime. The guy is definitely a legend.

 

Those 70's off road bikes are fun to look at but try to ride one today, they are a torture chamber. I last about 10 minutes on them (I'm 55 years old). I go to a Husky vintage event in September here in upstate NY. Tons of old huskies but the track is set up for the older suspension. Don't know how they rode them back then. I guess you just rode what the technology was back then. You can never go back.

Again thanks for posting the pics.

 

Smith and McQueen in On Any Sunday was so much fun to watch.

 

Try bein in a theater as a kid packed with ...what 12-13 year olds screaming and freekin out....think most of us rode either out tacos or mini trails to the theater.
Remember it like it was yesterday. ...

 

Husqvarna made some mightyfine thumper street bikes too. The still have a small line of streetbikes via BMW dealers.

 

Husqvarna and Husaberg were bought by KTM in 2012. As Ktm will be competing in MotoGP next year (They have a 1290 and 1190 V twin Sportbike and several Dual Sports) look for the 1290- 1190 to have the Husky badge shortly.

 

Several of the moto mags have new articles on both Husky's and KTM's. Read one just last month I think in Motorcyclist.

http://www.dirtrider.com/2016-husqvarna-fe-and-te-offroad-models-first-look