The first Phantom I had. Wish I still had it! 197lbs, tons of power, great bottom end power also. Handled really well, very good suspension for the day. Brakes about average (crappy). Wheelie machine. Just picked it up in these pics. http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm256/lotus54/motorcycle/651847...

I think the Euro bikes handled way better that the Japanese bikes. Stuff where you would *almost* crash on the euro bike- you would crash on the Japanese bike. But the ones I had to do with with real off road bikes, not street bikes that would go off road. I remember readong how the magazines raved ...

Yes, I did a bit of ice racing with the OSSA.
More MX though. I did pretty well with it- took the holeshot most every time.
It weighed 200 lbs. and lots of power.

I have some of my first Phantom when I brought it home I'll post up.

Mark

I think the green car behind the hippie kid on the bike is a Studabaker Lark or a Rambler American. It was traded in on the the poop brown Datsun 210 in the Benelli picture. HA! It was very fast, even if it looked horrible. I got the Benelli from the same dealer as the OSSA GPII. (Before I was a de...

ClineDesign wrote:Is that green car a Cortina?

Lotus Cortina.

Last one I saw for sale was over $35k now...
I think they made about 350 of them for 1966

Anyone ready to go?

(Well, maybe a bit late. This was about 1977)

I really want one of these (not quite sure why)



I guess I could just bring pics of my old bikes...

Like this one

A shorter ride could be going back over Piedmont road instead of out to 113.
Most of the route the same.

I don't have any street vintage bikes though...

I can't find any info on it.