who is this Bad Ass on a Chief ? anybody ?

[Tom Lovejoy]

seen this photo a couple times. I think I read a story about the shot some where, but could not find it again. Anyone here know about it and who he is/ was ? We were throwing names around on facebook - but have no idea really. Hell of a shot, I have it up in my barn

[Chris Haynes]

https://www.google.com/search?tbs=sb...zfQ619Uw&hl=en

[RichO]

Tom, Flathead Judd a friend of Larry Doane's blog was were I first seen it. He also makes the cool period sweaters and flat tracks his flathead at those vintage dirt track races the boy's do in SoCal. Craig Taylor also knows him. He had all the information on that photo. Rich

[hairynob24]

he is coming down hard ,glad its not me, more balls than king kong

[Skirted]

he is coming down hard ,glad its not me, more balls than king kong

Ain’t that the truth! After spending a great many years climbing hills on a dirt bike with incredible suspension travel and damping and now riding a Chief I can’t even imagine having the gonads to attempt what this guy is doing. Guys back then were just tougher I guess. Then again........Look at the acrobats we have today doing back flips on bikes 30 feet in the air.

[JoJo357]

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[nuklhd]

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I would guess same person post op.

[JoJo357]

You definitely need glasses nukihd.

I would guess same person post op.

[elmo]

this photo was first in a old issue of the rodders journal. in a later issue of the magazine some one knew the story of the photo good luck

[Tom Lovejoy]

thanks for the replies, been off my computer a couple days

[Oldchief]

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Attached a photo from the photographer who snapped this 1946? Chief in 1949. He was 18 at the time and estimated the rider was about 20 yrs. old.

[Tom Lovejoy]

thanks, I am still trying to id the guy - a Bad Ass for sure

[Coolbreeze]

Come on, who hasn't taken their Indian off road, climbed a hill or two, and did a few jumps? My Chief survived my thrashing it around a motocross track with definite air time at the jumps. With its tractor-like torque, the Chief willingly grunted up hills. I would have been ~2-3 years old when this photo was taken; so, this definitely is not me. Now, I treat my older bikes (like the '48 Chief) with more kindness than I did in the '60s, and I try to use the heavy road machines like they were designed to be used. Even so, I do go off road on the farm and get the bikes dirty every now and then.

[Jim]

Coolbreeze, you look like you just came off a movie set of those "Biker" films from the 60s & 70s. Great picture!

[shermanpup]

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I would rather climb her "hills"