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
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6 comments:

  1. Rui4 March 2011 at 00:18

    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 :)

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  2. Rui4 March 2011 at 00:25

    also Michael Rougier, tagged as 1970

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  3. Rui4 March 2011 at 00:38

    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

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  4. Diplomate4 March 2011 at 07:15

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

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  5. Chris4 March 2011 at 07:59

    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!

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  6. Rui5 March 2011 at 13:48

    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

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