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So the opening scene is Lange Hindle, Rueben Mcmurter and Yvonne Duhamel, just doing laps on the very late Saturday afternoon/early evening. I forget who had cameras on their bikes but they were about the size of a shoebox, they didn’t have them on for the actual race. Yvonne Duhamel is riding...

They were huge

The bikes being raced in that video started off as a stock Kawasaki KZ1000 or Suzuki GS1000 putting out maybe 85 horsepower on good day, a very good day for that matter. Lang Hindle’s bike and Art Robbin’s bikes were closer to 130-140 horsepower, I believe Leitner and Busch did all the work on...

Part deux…

I know I’ve posted this before but if you haven’t seen it it’s really worth the time to watch. I was there that weekend at Shannonville on a pit crew for a friend, Doug Morris, that was racing amateur Superbike. I saw this whole thing being filmed. Lange Hindle and Art Robbins both lived in...

How long does a thatch roof typically last? Are you required to replace it with another thatched roof if it has a historical designation? I saw a tv show years ago about a couple that were restoring a home in the UK that was built in the 1500’s. They had to replace an oak beam that had been...

The friend I was with was also looking for a helmet but didn’t get one. We were talking to a salesperson at GP Bikes. They had a pretty good selection but a much better one at their store in Whitby, she recommended going in person there where they are still offering show prices. If you don’t...

I was at the the show yesterday and it was so so. This clip was from the first time I had ever gone to the bike show, I was 9 or 10 years old. Super Joe did that jump twice that weekend at The International Centre, Howard Cosell and Evel Knievel were there the first night only, I didn’t see...

It’s main function is to “screw” customers on service work.

Had a very close lifelong friend pass away in September. He raced Superbike at Shannonville and Mosport throughout the eighties. We’ve met every year since at corner 2 at Mosport for the bike races. We’re thinking of spreading his ashes there this summer. Hope the new owners don’t mind.

My buddy won tickets from CFNY to see Cracker play at a private party in an alley downtown somewhere, I think it was on King St.. We had an absolute blast. It was so loud I can’t believe the cops didn’t show up. That was in 1995 I think.

Great radio station, always on the cutting edge. Listened to them exclusively in the late seventies and early eighties. Bought all my records from Starr Records in Scarborough at that time, they sold mostly imported vinyl from the UK and promoted a lot of local bands. They were way ahead of the...

I grew up near the one on Kingston Rd. and as I said one of the family, Dave Duckworth I believe, went to my high school, RH King. I didn’t know him personally but we had mutual friends.However in high school I did know a few girls that were waitresses there in the late seventies and they made...

Lang Hindle lived about a block away directly behind Duckworth’s , it’s where he started his aftermarket exhaust business out of his garage in the early eighties on Heale Street.Robbie Robertson of The Band also lived a block or two away on Atlee as a child and almost certainly would have eaten...

Some of the Duckworth family that still own and operate their restaurant at Kingston and Danforth went to my high school and I believe still live in the area. I had no idea of the connection to motorcycling and there is no motorcycle memorabilia or photos of him. It’s actually very plain and...

Best fish and chips in the city.

I had a 30 year old Honda 8hp track drive snowblower that would absolutely bury my new 9 1/2hp Honda. My new one is still pretty good but not as good as the old one. Unfortunately it was completely rusted out. Now I power wash the new one at the end of the season and spray it down with a can of...

Two cannibals are sitting on a park bench eating a clown. One turns to the other and asks “Does this taste funny to you?”.

… also a great place to buy tires.

Neither have I. This photo is the last time I was there in 1982, that’s a GPZ1100 I’m sitting on. Note the Scarborough leisure suit I’m wearing. Just kidding, I go to the bike show all the time, I was just looking for an excuse to post this photo.If you look close you’ll see that this bike was...