Dragon Bike, Tank Art of the Week & Celebrity Bikers

Here's a 5fer. The Dragon, Tank Art, and 3 Celebs, well sort of.

These tanks belong to a friend of a friend who claims to have 80-90% of the original Wild Angels Dragon bike. I told him, "you got to put it back together"! The dude has a lot of projects on his plate but, I think the Dragon merits top of the list.

It's thought that the Dragon was painted by Von Dutch. Sure looks like one of his creatures to me. Hope these tanks don't get repainted just because they have some chips.

Movie still poster. It's not the best shot but, you can see it's the same dragon art.

Smoking Dragon. Although it's harder to see, this shot's cooler.

Fondue and the Dernster. Ripped from unknown Blog

Cool Movieland Replica Dragon but, why the dark gray/green dragon tanks and shorter unsprung seat? Photo ripped from Born Loser M/C

The Born Loser M/C blog has this bike for sale right now. There's a ton of Captain Americas and some Billy Bikes but, why no Dragons? I'd choose a Dragon.

Here's what appears to be a post card from the Movieland Wax Museum (Buena Park, CA). That's the same bike for sale now. Check my previous post dated Nov. 12. for a similar photo.

She's wax! That explains the deer in the headlights look.

Mini Bike Mania

For kids, this time of year used to mean dreaming of a Mini Bike for Christmas.

In 1969, I wanted and got a Taco for Xmas but, I had to pay for most of it. It was a 44 like the one in the upper right.

The traditional Mini Bikes of the sixties and early seventies were the original outlaw machines that got a lot of us started on bikes and as gearheads.

Vava-voom! What adolescent male wouldn't get revved up? Former playmate of the year June Cochran (1963), on a Rupp. Later, June joined Linda Vaughn as one of the Hurstettes. June died May 21, 2004. Getting old sucks!

I only like lawnmower engine powered small wheeled minis, not mini motorcycles. I also don't care for most of today's mini choppers. Most are too big, ugly and stupid.

Damn. I use to have this and a few other Mini Bike Guides


Choppers, Trikes, and Minis were big then. What kid in the 60-70's wouldn't go ape for this rig? I did.

I still love'm. Recently, I've collected several Tacos and a couple others that need to be restored.

I'll post more mini bike stuff later.

Space Bikers

I hear there's a strict helmet law on the moon.

Nasa experimented with the idea of using this mini bike on the moon instead of the Lunar Rover. This photo was taken aboard the "Vomit Comet". That's the nickname for the KC-135 aircraft that simulates zero gravity by flying in a roller coaster like manner. Somehow they were also able to simulate the 1/6 earth gravity of the moon. It appears he's jumping a small ramp.

Too bad this never progressed beyond the experimental stage. Imagine how cool it would have been to be the first bikers jamming on the moon.