Here’s Bobcat

Posted: Fri May 17, 2019 2:10 am

Bobcat at the races a few years ago Very Happy

Posted: Fri May 17, 2019 2:38 am

And no that's not Napoleon Dynamite !!! Very Happy

Posted: Fri May 17, 2019 4:27 am

Ronnie, please clarify that pic. ! that's "big bird" in the foreground. Laughing

btw, that was quite a few years ago but my hair is still the same color ! Wink

Posted: Fri May 17, 2019 9:37 am

I love seeing these "vintage" pictures! Coor's Banquet...good choice in beer back then!

Cheers!
Chris

Posted: Fri May 17, 2019 10:22 am

And the vintage Honda shirt.

Cheers Smile

Posted: Fri May 17, 2019 1:43 pm

That's Bob and my buddy Matt in the pic, Matt said he was spending all his money racing, he couldn't afford to eat, I'm like weren't we all !!!! Very Happy

Posted: Fri May 17, 2019 10:12 pm

oh ! I didn't scroll all the way over ! yes, that's me with the Coors. Matt was my rider, or I should say,
I was his builder/tuner. he owned the bike. "couldn't afford to eat"? I damn sure wasn't making any $ !

Posted: Sat May 18, 2019 12:11 am

As Chevy Chase says in Christmas Vacation " It's all part of the experience !!!"

Just think about all the good times and stories you would not have had otherwise !!!! Very Happy

I'm sure Matt would say he went broke keeping you in beer ha Very Happy

Posted: Sat May 18, 2019 12:21 am

napoleon dynamite roflmao

Posted: Sat May 18, 2019 1:02 am

From around the same time period, here’s me on my then new 900F trying to hang with Hogman, who was unbeatable at the time on a GS1100

Posted: Sat May 18, 2019 7:57 am

genesound wrote:

napoleon dynamite roflmao

that would be Matt.

Ronnie, find that pic of you and Matt at the 82 Halloween race that was on the cover of Cycle News
(B/750 superbike). Cool

Posted: Sun May 19, 2019 2:33 pm

Here's the pic your looking for Bob Very Happy

Posted: Sun May 19, 2019 11:23 pm

Is that you 275 HondaRon ?

Posted: Sun May 19, 2019 11:24 pm

Is that you 275 HondaRon ?

Posted: Mon May 20, 2019 12:26 am

No that’s me on 377 getting passed on the outside😮

Posted: Mon May 20, 2019 7:17 pm

275 is Matt

Posted: Mon May 20, 2019 11:45 pm

Nice picture. Wish it were in color.

Posted: Tue May 21, 2019 1:25 pm

It's from Cycle News, it was the 80's , print was still black and white then Very Happy

Posted: Tue May 21, 2019 1:42 pm

https://harvardmagazine.com/2010/07/rise-of-color

Posted: Tue May 21, 2019 1:44 pm

Color gravure printing came many decades before that.

Posted: Tue May 21, 2019 2:58 pm

hondaron wrote:

Here's the pic your looking for Bob Very Happy

What all was done to this bike Ronnie?

Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 2:30 am

genesound, I was referring to how the weekly publication Cycle News, was printed in the 80's, actually throughout the 90's, they may have added color to covers by 2000 or so but full color for Cycle News, probably didn't come into play until their online publication the last 10 years or so Very Happy

Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 2:32 am

Yeah, 4 color Gravure costs more money.

Posted: Wed May 22, 2019 2:48 am

JJam, what was done to that bike ?

It was a full blown superbike by the end of 1982, which of course was the worst time to be building a superbike, with the end of the air cooled inline 4 Honda F bikes, and the AMA superbike displacement going to 750cc's for the 1983 season

Dave Rash at D&D Exhaust and Ron Scrima at RES, had built a F bike previously patterned after the 80/81 Honda factory bikes,that you saw Doug Polen on the video at Texas World Speedway, so it had shock mount mods, relocated steering head, braced frame, welded in removable subframe, Gold Wing forks, etc
Dave and Ron did all the frame mods

I spent most of that year building the bike, racing my production 900F, which I still have.

I built a 750 Superbike motor, as I had intentions of going AMA racing in 83.......

As most aspiring racer stories go, reality, life, budget,marriage, kids etc changed those plans

The 750 Interceptor came out in 1983, and of course made these bikes pretty much obsolete, so I ended up with one of those, and basically gave this bike away a year or two later
Wish I knew where the remains were today 😀

Good times good memories Very Happy

Posted: Fri May 24, 2019 3:35 am

Here's another for you Bobcat from 1984 I believe, Oak Hill starting grid center bike, between Matt and I is TZ750, I'm on VF750F, Matt on 1100 Katana Very Happy

Posted: Fri May 24, 2019 3:38 am

And from that same race Bob, Matt ahead of me on that Katana Mad

Posted: Fri May 24, 2019 3:54 am

That must be a headrush.

Posted: Fri May 24, 2019 4:25 am

It was addictive, for almost 30 years Embarassed

Posted: Fri May 24, 2019 11:46 am

Hey Ronnie, you raced in Australia?

Steve

Posted: Fri May 24, 2019 11:54 am

Ronnie, you should have come to the 82 GNF at Road Atlanta instead of Daytona. Matt needed some competition. Very Happy