Vintage (Old Photographs Only) Pics of the Day

[FNG1]

Great pics duffeycycles, thanks for sharing them.

[duffeycycles]

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.

1961 Reiman 4.jpg

1961 Reiman 1.jpg 1961 Reiman 2.jpg 1961 Reiman 3.jpg

[ammorest]

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!
Dave