A cool bike needs a cool rider

[belfastguzzi]

Poetry in motion?

 

Just opened up the 'No Direction Home' double CD. There's a pic of Dylan on his Triumph, from 1965 or thereabouts.

 

 

another

[Guzzirider]

Poetry in motion?

 

Just opened up the 'No Direction Home' double CD. There's a pic of Dylan on his Triumph, from 1965 or thereabouts.

 

 

another

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Is that before he joined the cast of Magic Roundabout?

 

Guy

[v50man]

Nice bike. Too bad he can't sing.

[Mike Stewart]

Very Cool, Boy Bob looks young there!

 

Mike

[Guzzirider]

BFG

 

If you are a fan of Bob, you may know that the BBC are showing several Dylan related programmes over the next few days:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/music/bobdylan/

[dlaing]

[dlaing]

Here is a shot at the multi-talented Valentino Rossi, auditioning for the role of Dylan in his biography:

[Guest ratchethack]

OK - is that a Daytona or a Bonneville?

 

I b'lieve it's one or t'other...Enquiring minds just gotta know...

 

Where's Martin?

[dlaing]

From a Google search:

July 29th, 1966

Bob Dylan crashes his Triumph 55 motorcycle while riding near Woodstock, New York. He is sent to Middletown Hospital with several broken neck vertebrae, a concussion and cuts on his face and scalp.

Suffered mild amnesia, paralysis & internal injuries.

He goes into 9 months of seclusion, to recover

Rumor mill has him in a coma, a vegetable, never performing again, dodging the draft, passing on or losing his mind due to drug use

 

But what the heck is a 55? I don't think it is the year.

That looks like a mid sixties Bonnie.

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[Steve G.]

OK - is that a Daytona or a Bonneville?

 

I b'lieve it's one or t'other...Enquiring minds just gotta know...

 

Where's Martin?

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That would be a 500 Daytona. It can be said that they were a sweet light little bike, quite good handling as a result, but were so gutless, they couldn't pull the skin off a custard. Most were good for only 75-80 mph topped out.

Ciao, Steve G.

[badmotogoozer]

Those are some great pics BFG! Can't sing... well, OK, but does surprisingly well for a guy who crushed his larynx in said crash...

 

Can't argue his songwriting ability tho'!

 

Rj

[dlaing]

Just to add to the confusion, of what bike it might be:

http://www.edlis.org/twice/threads/motorcycle.html

One discredited guy says Bonneville 650, but is corrected by a guy who says Tiger 500, but Joan Baez says it is a 350cc

[badmotogoozer]

I don't know what he crashed on, but if Steve says that's a Daytona then it's a Daytona. The boy knows his bikes!!!

 

Rj

[Martin Barrett]

I don't know what he crashed on, but if Steve says that's a Daytona then it's a Daytona.  The boy knows his bikes!!!

 

 

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Triumphs of this age are worse than modern Guzzis to tell apart.

 

Looks to have a single carb.

Definatlely no bath tub, nachele, unit construction and single down tube.

Post 64 and its not the TT Special.

With the single carb varients I instictively say Tiger

But when you look at the historic model names and what they are used for now the usages have totaly changed

 

I defer to Steve

[mike wilson]

From a Google search:

July 29th, 1966

Bob Dylan crashes his Triumph 55 motorcycle while riding near Woodstock, New York. He is sent to Middletown Hospital with several broken neck vertebrae, a concussion and cuts on his face and scalp.

 

The Triumph 350 was called a 55 (cubic inches) in America. It's a 3TA that he crashed.

 

mike