Friday, 4 March 2011

Minibikes

Beautiful photo story from Life magazine. Anybody know which year? Anybody got a complete scan of the text? Anybody know the photographer? BP

UP DATE: THANKS RUI FOR DIGGING UP THE VERITABLE GOLDMINE!classic Ralph Crane. Love the paper dinner plate number board

6 comments:

Rui said...

i've google it in Life arquive: Ralph Crane

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&biw=1024&bih=632&tbs=isch:1&sa=1&q=Minibikes+source:life&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

nice photos, tks for the discovery :)

Rui said...

also Michael Rougier, tagged as 1970

Rui said...

we're in luck (the free arquive at Google Books ends in '72): January 1971 issue

http://books.google.com/books?id=m1MEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false

page 58-61

Diplomate said...

Ben - you racing this year ? You gotta get yo'self a pit-girl like our 315 friend in the lower shot.

Chris said...

Rui beat me to it - if you search the Life archive (via google images) there are some lovely shots like this one

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=minibikes+source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dminibikes%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1109%26bih%3D741%26tbs%3Disch:1&imgurl=e38e9666c73a9146

excellent web-dectective skills Rui!

Rui said...

tks, i've repost this on ADVrider and there is some interesting local perspective, check it out:

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=665256