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Good Labor Day Morning Jack and club members...
Jack, I can see your point and will return to my creative design studio to re-pen my Ode to Burt for FSSNOC,
Flying Fran 1440 .......................... Thank You, Sir Flying Fran! Keep On Thumpin' - #000
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WHEN IS THE LAST TIME I VIEWED A MOTORCYCLE GOING INTO A CURVE ON DIRT GOING AT LEAST 90 MILES PER HOUR, MAYBE 100?
... I must confess, my most recent Dirt Track Race exposure, not counting YouTube, of course, was many a moon ago! THE ABOVE RACE AT SPRINGFIELD, THE FAMOUS SPRINGFIELD MILE in Springfield, IL ... I USED TO BE A REGULAR IN THE STANDS AND WALKING AROUND THE PITS, but, alas ... it's been decades! SEE PHOTO ABOVE ... from a member many of us know as "Smiley", FSSNOC #4031, think of our FSSNOC Thumper Calendar for 2026, maybe hanging on your wall, see page 8, February ... there he is with his pristine Honda XR250R.
Thank You, Smiley!! (And, by the way, that's his Yamaha SR400 ... also pristine, posing in front of the Gate #2 "Welcome" sign in the photo above. Posted 09-09-26.) It's a mile long track, very fast, always with spectacular racing ... I did see a reference to it posted on YouTube just last evening but I didn't get to view it yet ... but I plan to! - #000
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HELP! FSSNOC NEEDS SOME THUMPER PHOTOS FOR THE "NEW" CALENDAR FOR ... 2027!
WOW! THAT WAS ONE FAST YEAR,
BUT IT HAS THE BEST SEASON OF ALL YET TO COME ... THAT BE AUTUMN!
COLORFUL LEAVES, PERFECT TEMPS, KEEP ON THUMPIN'!:
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WHERE YA' WANTIN' TO GO?
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Below are posts from earlier days ... like a slightly worn knob, just too good to toss!
KICKSTANDS -UP, WE ARE HEADED FOR THE HISTORY PAGE (But Wait ... I gotta go make me a coffee ... be right back! - #000
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BACK FROM BONNEVILLE . . .
Hi Jack (000) and illustrious club members and other guest viewers,
(AERO ALAN here, and I've returned home from the Bonneville Salt Flats.)
After returning home to Northern California from Bonneville Salt Flats, I was interested in looking at those Triumph Speed 400s. Trying to find a Triumph Motorcycle Dealer was slightly problematic. I used Google to search for a nearby Triumph Dealer. The web site kept asking for a lot of personal information and wanted "Cookies" to be installed on my computer. I don't like that. Eventually I located a Triumph Motorcycle dealer in San Jose without the headaches.
Calling the Triumph dealer, I had to get through an AI operator to make an appointment. Then wait for someone to call me back. Instead, I got a text message from AI saying I had an appointment. Another thing I don't like.
I guess AI forgot to let anyone know I was arriving at my appointment time. After some scrabbling around to find a salesman, I got a very junior salesman. The salesman was very good at telling which colors the Speed 400s came in. Asking questions about the cruise control had to be looked up. Things really started to fall apart when we talked about test rides at freeway speeds. The salesman said those Speed 400s were a good city bike but might not be able to go much above 60 MPH. I know 39 horsepower is plenty of power for freeway use. I've even ridden Ninja 250s with 25 horsepower travel cross country. Looks like I need to do more research for the third-party cruise control upgrade. I think I might need to find another Triumph dealer.
I'm guessing I'm old school when I go to a motorcycle dealer. Having to deal with AI and junior salesmen doesn't impress me.
( REPLY TO AERO ALAN... #000 ) I'D SAY, "HA! HA! about your Triumph dealership experience as you recall above ... BUT, it really ISN'T humorous, is it? I mean, all you want to do is buy a motorcycle ... "but first I'd like some questions answered ... " Uhhhhhh ... ???????????
It appears that we have perhaps outlived our time, eh?
And as for Triumph dealers around this area as per my personal observations, they've been fading rapidly from the local scene now for a year or more ... not the dealership business itself, but just the Triumph franchise ... "WE'RE SENDING THEM ALL BACK TO TRIUMPH..." seems to be a common phrase in this area when those same dealers were asked about the absence of Triumph from their showroom floor, but no one has shared with me about what is bringing this seemingly extreme reaction to fruition.
Maybe "Click Here to Buy" is in our not-so-distant future? - #000.
Okay, back to Bonneville Salt Flat photos. See attached photos. One of them is a 350 Aermacchi (originally scribed as "Aer Macchi", then linked with H.D, then later became Cagiva, or so I've read. - #000) that was stroked down to 250cc. Another is one that actually looks like an 250 Aermacchi motorcycle (photo above? - #000). And last, kids that raced custom Honda 125s.
For some reason I didn't see any KLR650s racing. There were a lot more 2-stroke or multi-cylinder racing this year.
Alan Smith (5286) Northern California
THANK YOU, AERO ALAN!! VERY INTERESTING MATERIAL, WE SO APPRECIATE YOU SHARING YOUR MOTO-EXPERIENCES WITH US ... *the only thing I see trying to set records hereabouts are green and yellow combines cuttin' field after field of corn! - #000.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Okay, Vic - You're up! ------------------------
Hello JR,
I can't think of anything I can add to this (link below), except I wish I had done an Iron Butt 20 years ago!! - VICTOR M. FORCE
Eight Iron Butt Rides On A Janus Halcyon 250 - Adventure Rider
I dunno, Vic ... Iron Butt? You've done many a long ride, right? Alaska, right? How many times up and down the Blue Ridge, right? How many misty mornings there in the Carolinas, right?
How many times have you fixed your eye on a quarter mile and dropped the hammer? Remember your own "Steel Buns" 10 miles a day average for a year quest ... isn't that of value? How many miles have you spent riding in the woods? We all "compete" against extinction in our own way ... some ride a few hundred miles a year but do it on motorcycles that are more than 100 years old, some wax and shine, some ride and dine, some joke and whine, all that is just fine. You've heard this a few times before, we put it like this:
Keep On Thumpin' --- See Ya Up the Road, Vic! - #000.
-----------------------------------------------------------Hey! Flying Fran! What interesting stuff you shared! -------
Wow! Burt Monroe ... What a Rock Star!! And you were in Invercargill in person, that's amazing! I'm wondering if all that printed info that you so kindly sent is under copyright somewhere ... and Wow, it's just too much to put into one's own words, or is it? Care to try? We could use that ... but it'd be a task! I read it but I'd rather hear it from you ... can you pen us a recall of your visit to the museum? The photos I can use but they are contained within the email ... any chance to get them just by themselves, emailed to [email protected] ?
Good Evening Jack
Here’s the Burt Munro article about his other M/C, a 1936 Velocette. Hope it’s not been too warm or wet on the ‘plains’ of Central USA. It’s been warm here and I’ve got spark to the project DR650 plugs, things are beginning to look up.
Keep On Thumping
Flying Fran 1440
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BUT FIRST ... Have you sent us your Thumper Photo for possible use in our 2027 FSSNOC THUMPER CALENDAR yet? Better get hot ... we need them now? Calendar photos are generally shot in the horizontal format, in other words, hold your camera/phone sideways like a dollar bill, not up and down, which is common for a close-up people shot, etc... Email us your photo and a few words of discovery: [email protected] THANK YOU! JR #000/CR #000.5