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Great pics duffeycycles, thanks for sharing them.
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Here 's some more, # 55 Roger Reiman with his Dad Hank & his Mom 1961 Daytona winner. I remember Bob Hoh telling me about the evolution of KR brakes & this was one of them in Roger's special KR room where Bob & I were talking. In the show room at Reiman's HD there was an area with many pics & Hank & Roger's biggest trophys. I went there with a friend who bought parts from Roger while I was gawking. A few years ago a guy brought his Dad's '72 sporty that hadn't run for many years, Roger had built the motor & bike for his dad & was the last to work on it. One of the smoothest running Ironhead motors that I worked on.
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Roger,
About 20 years ago I was at a car swap meet in Daytona. There was an elderly couple there selling scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. Every year during Bike Week they would cut out motorcycle related articles and paste them in scrapbooks. I looked through them and there were articles about the races from the early 50s to the 70s. I bought them.
When I would go to Bike Week I would take them to the Indian Breakfast and the Speedway during the vintage races. I would find some of the riders in the clippings and ask them to sign the page that mentioned their name, Got a lot of famous autographs.
One of those riders was Roger Reiman. It was March 3, 1997.Sadly, he was killed the next day practiciing for the BMW Battle of the Legends. What a shock!
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Good stuff Dave. Maybe 30 years ago ! I've become friends with many of the racers over the years just by having a few momentos to talk to them about. The only one that I got an autograph from was Dick Klamfoth. I bought this at Wauseon 1/2 hour before Dick was signing autographs. We talked & his son in law spent time reading about his wife who was 7 years old in the magazine pics. Dick & I were friends from then until he passed.
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Got Dick's autograph, too. There's a lot about him in these clippings; headlines of him winning, photos of him and his wife, etc. Maybe I'll bring some of this stuff to Davenport for you to look at.
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Posting these for ammorest
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When talking to Tuman, Hill, Klamfoth, I mentioned that Dick looked like a beatnik with his goatee. Bobby spoke first "He was a beatnik, he lived on the beach when he was at Daytona ! Dick laughed & said he was a beatnik ! I asked him if he played bongos & he laughed & said he didn't but he had considered learning how to !
Fun times with great guys ! Daytona 1952 program, Dick & his wife top right.
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