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Title: Grandpa tootling around on his CB400F
Post by: Mikep328 on November 12, 2024, 09:33:24 AM
OK, not MY grandpa...but somebody's...
Title: Re: Grandpa tootling around on his CB400F
Post by: SteveD CB500K0 on November 12, 2024, 10:36:56 AM
Phil Read on the IoM


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Title: Re: Grandpa tootling around on his CB400F
Post by: Mikep328 on November 12, 2024, 11:19:57 AM
Thanks - a friend sent me the pic yesterday.  I'd love to find a good quality poster of that!
Title: Re: Grandpa tootling around on his CB400F
Post by: Sesman on November 12, 2024, 12:02:02 PM
Ha, that could have been me at the Manx GP in 1977.
Title: Re: Grandpa tootling around on his CB400F
Post by: SteveD CB500K0 on November 12, 2024, 12:56:25 PM
It’s from a magazine article called “Relearning the course” from 1977.

I don’t have the mag, only the image of him leaping the 400 at Ballaugh Bridge


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Title: Re: Grandpa tootling around on his CB400F
Post by: Nurse Julie on November 12, 2024, 02:41:34 PM
That's just what it's like riding a 400/4 around our part of Lincolnshire on the sinking ex sea bed roads 😂😂😂😂
Title: Re: Grandpa tootling around on his CB400F
Post by: Laverda Dave on November 14, 2024, 10:57:15 AM
Being a 400/4 I think No 3 carb is showing signs of flooding 🙂.
I know the photo is B&W and the bike looks either red or blue and it is certainly flying. If it had been a yellow one it would have been going too quick to get a photo😉😴........
Title: Re: Grandpa tootling around on his CB400F
Post by: K2-K6 on November 14, 2024, 11:36:02 AM
It's a red one Dave  :) judging from the film response as red records darker than blue for an unfiltered B&W film. There's reference in the red sections of the painted curb stones too that give a tonal reference.

I know, I've spent too many hours in a dark room  ;D
Title: Re: Grandpa tootling around on his CB400F
Post by: Rozabikes Tim on November 14, 2024, 12:24:33 PM
Quote from: K2-K6 on November 14, 2024, 11:36:02 AM
It's a red one Dave  :) judging from the film response as red records darker than blue for an unfiltered B&W film. There's reference in the red sections of the painted curb stones too that give a tonal reference.

I know, I've spent too many hours in a dark room  ;D

😁😁😁
Title: Re: Grandpa tootling around on his CB400F
Post by: Sesman on November 14, 2024, 12:27:34 PM
And another.
Title: Re: Grandpa tootling around on his CB400F
Post by: Mikep328 on November 14, 2024, 01:18:39 PM
At first I thought it was just some guy out on his CB400F trying to avoid the potholes!  But that can't be right since they used all the potholes to fill the Albert Hall. 
Title: Re: Grandpa tootling around on his CB400F
Post by: Laverda Dave on November 14, 2024, 01:21:48 PM
Quote from: Mikep328 on November 14, 2024, 01:18:39 PM
At first I thought it was just some guy out on his CB400F trying to avoid the potholes!  But that can't be right since they used all the potholes to fill the Albert Hall.

A Beetles fan👍🙂
Title: Re: Grandpa tootling around on his CB400F
Post by: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on November 14, 2024, 02:41:46 PM
Beat the Bus in Seconds Flat.