Pic of the week game

[Sandy]

Ok..here is mine....spring of 2016 a friend crashed and totaled my 83 gs1100e (some here I'm sure remember the story)...my wife, son and I were to fly to Vegas for her brother's wedding in early May...I said "I'm riding there, I need to clear my head from the loss of my bike..."
My first night on the road I pulled into Newport OR for the night..went to check in at the lobby of this hotel and when I come out this gentleman in a wheelchair is admiring my K1300R (Not sold in the US) and he asked me some questions.
His wife says to me "this is Paul Ritter" and hands me his business card and on it is a picture of the book "Racing the Gods"....I said "hey, I know that book, I've been thinking about ordering it" She tells me "Paul is the author" Wow! She went up to their room and got me a copy of the book and he signed it for me. I told him I had just bought an 80 GS1000S Wes Cooley over the phone earlier that day...he then whips out his phone and he shows me an old pic of him leading Wes at some race back in the day.
That was a great night!
So I think this fits the theme rather well..

I remember that story. I'm to assume that you've since emailed Paul a photo of yourself, your "S" and Wes. Ya, I know, I'm being an old mother hen. I inherited that from my wife. LOL.

[trevor]

I remember that story. I'm to assume that you've since emailed Paul a photo of yourself, your "S" and Wes. Ya, I know, I'm being an old mother hen. I inherited that from my wife. LOL.

Lol...as a matter of fact we are friends on crackbook...he has seen all my exploits with Wes...and the bike.

[Spyder]

Ok. How about an old gas station, along Rt. 66...

[Redman]

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[Redman]

Not good pics, but great Happy personal association of past

2007 Brown County, circle drive in front of hotel near interstate in Columbus Indiana

dpep 850G (previously mine)
my GK
Plane Crazy 1100G


Domino (in picture)
Steve PlaneCrazy
George KoolaidKid
Painter Dave
Al jones
Adam AOD
Jim Core
Brad Maynard
Greg Nerobro
Steve Skreemer
TimPeoples
Jim RangeZero Brown
Bill Lloyd
Denny Kolb
Jeff 8TrackMind
JonR
Rich CopierGuy
(to name those that havent heard from lately)

2007 was my 2nd year.
2005 was my 1st and that was great too.

[Eli69]

The fountain in Letchworth State Park is fed from a pond up the hill and runs all year. It's been there since at least the 1860's. In the winter it freezes and creates a cone which, depending on the temperature and duration of cold, may grow to 40' or so in height. It's one of my earliest memories of the park.





i'm just sticking this other picture in for fun, please disregard for the game.

I wonder if he'll remember this when he's my age....

[Burque73]

[dorkburger]

A little bittersweet looking back at this. Much has changed since this mid 1990s image was taken and not all for the better. Such good and simple times.
http://GS and Ninja by Glen Brenner, on Flickr

[gustovh]

When I looked through my pictures, I always came back to my Barlow collection. When I look at them I miss the last trip that I took with my brother and all the riding lessons that he taught me through the years. 11 years gone now and sorely missed.







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[Burque73]

I'll try and group these together for our viewing/ voting pleasure. I personally think the photo alone should speak to the theme so I left out the text. Please feel free to go back and read through the posts and get the context.

............Thanks for the votes, guys....I doubt I can top that last theme, but here goes..................

Nostalgia.....(or, Nostalgic, if you wish...)

GS750 SS Moyie by soates50, on Flickr

[Burque73]

And just a couple more from this week's entries.

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[Baatfam]

Thanks Roger...
I am gonna haveta study this one a bit...Nice photos...

[Eli69]

my vote is for mr. steve murdoch. i think because real, working pickup trucks are a thing of the past.

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Sorry, I didn't get anything for the theme this week, enjoyed all the great submissions though. Voting for steve murdoch as well. I've not seen that 6-cylinder beast in this thread before. Love that the road takes your eye past the trucks all the way to the vintage ESSO sign.

[Redman]

Thanks for doing the summary, Roger.
(I was out-n-about this morning before I thought about it being Friday.)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I personally think the photo alone should speak to the theme so I left out the text. Please feel free to go back and read through the posts and get the context.

I agree.

Will need to ponder, which is more nostalgic to me (nostalgic: referring to own experience-recollection), which shows/imply something was nostalgic to the submitter, and which is most interesting photo. ..... if any meet all three, then need a tiebreaker.

Har har Some of us have more to be nostalgic about than others. har har har

And what some are nostalgic about, seems to be more recent to me. har har har