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Offline jbrough7

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« on: April 12, 2006, 06:08:04 PM »
Look to the left....that is a famous old photograph.  I will give 2 litres of used 10W-40 motorcycle oil to any person who can figure out why that photo is so cool!   I am the final judge!

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« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2006, 06:29:43 PM »
The Village People is your favorite band?

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« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2006, 07:52:06 PM »
No-No-No!!!  this is serious!!!  Can't you tell by the look on my face?!? :duh:

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« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2006, 08:06:47 PM »
The picture is far to small for these + 40 eyes to derive anything useful.
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« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2006, 08:12:59 PM »
General Billy Martin?

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« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2006, 08:16:38 PM »
A gay Nazi biker trying to pick up a stranded British Naval officer somewhere near Dunkirk circa 1939?
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« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2006, 08:56:40 PM »
Hint:  Lawrence of Arabia had seven of them!!

Airmotive:  You're closer than you think!

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« Reply #7 on: April 13, 2006, 07:44:12 AM »
he died on one too, right?  :roll:
Okay, not the bike's fault. Dammit was it a Norton or indeed a Suzuki? I was thinking a british bike, chauvinism is everywhere.
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« Reply #8 on: April 13, 2006, 10:21:21 AM »
Well, it's T. L. Lawrence (of Arabia) on a Brough Superior (which is the kind of bike he was on when he died), but beyond that, I haven't a clue.
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« Reply #9 on: April 13, 2006, 01:55:54 PM »
I like the furry, pimp gloves he's wearing!  That is a Brough Superior, but who is the guy on the left?

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« Reply #10 on: April 13, 2006, 03:59:50 PM »
Quote from: "tacoman"
I like the furry, pimp gloves he's wearing!  That is a Brough Superior, but who is the guy on the left?


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« Reply #11 on: April 13, 2006, 04:13:26 PM »
:shock: Those aren't gloves. He's wearing half a gorilla suit.

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« Reply #12 on: April 13, 2006, 04:51:12 PM »
That's Lawrence on the right and he's talking to George BROUGH himself, inventor and allround good guy!  lawrence of Arabia died on a BS but nobody is sure if he just had an accident or if a mysterious 'black car' that some witnesses saw and some didn't, forced him off the road.

George Brough had a heart attack and died pretty much when he was riding another one of his prototypes.

  See why I love the shot???????

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« Reply #13 on: April 13, 2006, 06:38:07 PM »
Mel Gibson in his new movie "UL-656" talking to the father of the girl (British Naval hospital nurse)
he just gave a ride home from the front after a good doinking on he back of his bike.
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« Reply #14 on: April 14, 2006, 11:43:59 AM »
Quote from: "jbrough7"
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Sooo... this begs the question, any relation?
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