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Title: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: moonpup on October 16, 2015, 07:33:34 PM
Over the years as I've surfed the net, I've collected a few vintage photos of Bridgestone's that I thought I'd now share with everyone.

If anyone has vintage photo's they've collected or maybe have of their own bikes... please feel free to add them to the thread. I'll post more as I find them.
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: moonpup on October 16, 2015, 07:38:36 PM
here's some more. I'm not sure the last one is vintage, but I just liked it, so I tossed it in.
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: paul on October 16, 2015, 08:24:35 PM
You are correct, the bottom photo is from a magazine article that appeared in the past ten years

Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: rwgibbon on October 16, 2015, 09:45:20 PM
Thank you for sharing.

Randy
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: slawsonb on October 16, 2015, 10:27:57 PM
I personally love the bike camping pic. Some of my best memories. Only what will fit (gotta have a tent and a place for your wife to ride...;-) Not much more room. ;D ::) ;D
...bert

Hey Members. Any idea who the guy on the gold GTR is?
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: moonpup on October 17, 2015, 12:33:28 PM
You are correct, the bottom photo is from a magazine article that appeared in the past ten years

Thanks Paul. It still has a "vintage" look which is what drew it to me. Must have been a British bike what with the mirror on the right....  ;D
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: paul on October 17, 2015, 09:47:26 PM
Saw the bottom photo,red  GTR, in Motorcycle Classics magazine, article by Roland Brown.Some month in 2007.
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: kleindorf on October 17, 2015, 10:19:21 PM
Somewhere on the net is a period photo of Wilt Chamberlain posing on a GTR.His height is readily apparent not unlike the shot of TV star Chuck Connors shilling for Benelli in the late 60's.Its out there.somewhere.
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: moonpup on October 17, 2015, 10:46:52 PM
I posted a thread about Wilt on the GTR back in 2011. Here's the link and the pic....

http://bridgestonemotorcycleparts.com/index.php?topic=2206.0 (http://bridgestonemotorcycleparts.com/index.php?topic=2206.0)
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: Mopar392 on October 18, 2015, 09:49:27 AM
Leave it to Super Sleuth, he will find it. Nice Work DM!
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: paul on October 18, 2015, 02:12:36 PM
Wonder what happened to Mr Gale and Mr Geras?
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: CL-100 on October 18, 2015, 04:16:41 PM
That bottom picture is from the March/April '07 issue of Motorcycle Classics.  The rider has that old style 3/4 helmet shape, which was what I wore in the early '70's on my BS100 GP.
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: moonpup on November 24, 2015, 10:46:02 PM
Here's a couple more to check out.....
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: Mopar392 on November 25, 2015, 10:49:42 AM
DM, Very Nice, Thanks Again for sharing the investigative sleuth reporting!
DL... ;)
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: moonpup on July 12, 2018, 11:26:42 PM
Getting air..... barefoot no less!  :o
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: RayK on July 13, 2018, 04:48:37 AM
I think the first pic could be Coxy😀😀😀
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: coxy on July 14, 2018, 04:16:26 AM
very funny mate I'm a old whippersnapper  ;D
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: paul on July 14, 2018, 05:40:33 PM
Gary Wells,  a cycle jumper in the early 1970s, raced a BS , before he challenged Evel Knievel as a cycle jumper. I 'll look for the photos.
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: moonpup on May 11, 2019, 12:08:02 AM
A couple happy lads on a GTR......
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: Jeff Bar on May 11, 2019, 08:05:06 AM
Neat photo, is that a small moonpup on the 350?  Jeff Bar
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: James14p on May 11, 2019, 08:47:13 AM
 My dad after getting the first 100 TMX out of the crate. The other is a local gravel pit people used to ride.        (http://i66.tinypic.com/14cv29u.jpg)      (http://i65.tinypic.com/kcbhh0.jpg)
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: moonpup on May 11, 2019, 09:10:16 AM
Neat photo, is that a small moonpup on the 350?  Jeff Bar

Not me Jeff, although based on the cars in the pic, I wish it were cuz I'd be about 10 years younger!  banana
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: moonpup on May 11, 2019, 09:12:02 AM
My dad after getting the first 100 TMX out of the crate. The other is a local gravel pit people used to ride.        [

Nice vintage pics James, thanks for sharing them with us.  8)
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: James14p on May 11, 2019, 09:51:13 AM
My dad after getting the first 100 TMX out of the crate. The other is a local gravel pit people used to ride.        [

Nice vintage pics James, thanks for sharing them with us.  8)
    P.S.  That's me on the Indian Boy Racer and the Captain America helmet   ;D
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: James14p on May 20, 2019, 03:45:43 PM
My brother on the SR175      (http://i66.tinypic.com/8whaw9.jpg)
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: moonpup on July 15, 2019, 10:12:27 PM
Vintage 350 racer......
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: coxy on August 10, 2019, 04:51:01 AM
Just a few mods on that
Very nice
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: Kenneth Pagel on August 19, 2019, 05:01:29 PM
Just for fun I ran the GTR photo through my Photoshop program to enhance the colors, reduce yellowing, remove artifacts, and enhanced the detail a bit. Hope James 14P won't mind!
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: James14p on August 21, 2019, 04:29:16 PM
Just for fun I ran the GTR photo through my Photoshop program to enhance the colors, reduce yellowing, remove artifacts, and enhanced the detail a bit. Hope James 14P won't mind!
   Not at all!
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: James14p on August 23, 2019, 04:36:59 PM
Sycamore Speedway
Title: Re: Vintage Bridgestone Photos
Post by: James14p on August 23, 2019, 04:40:11 PM
OOPS............... If someone can get rid of one of the photos, that would be fine. I'm not sure how   ???

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