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Dec04

Scooter Tramp Scotty

by Rob Campbell on December 4, 2011 at 10:06 pm

Somewhere in the process of wasting time today between comic panels, I came across this guy’s stuff.  He has, currently nine videos on YouTube.  It captured my attention and my imagination like nothing else.  There was a time years ago when I fancied this guy’s lifestyle, and part of me still does. I’ll let you [...]

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Aug31

Tighten that chain!

by Rob Campbell on August 31, 2010 at 8:17 pm

Carl Hanlon of Guilty Customs runs a pretty right-on operation.  Smart guy with his brains and his bikes, truly a 21st century biker who hasn’t forgotten about history, either. I’d love to get him to write for Cartoon Thunder on occassion. He wrote not too long ago about some of the finer nuances of chain [...]

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Aug02

Excelsior Motorcycles.

by Rob Campbell on August 2, 2010 at 3:57 pm

Cartoon Thunder’s Department of Gone, But Not Quite Forgotten would like to remind you that the 20th century (.?) had many American motorcycle manufacturers besides Harley-Davidson. The fact that Harley survived tells us something about both the product and the business, not to mention the support shown by Harley customers (“enthusiasts”, bikers, etc). But what [...]

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May09

The Harley Hummer

by Rob Campbell on May 9, 2010 at 2:00 am

While the most popular and famous line of Harleys tends to be the Big Twin rides–flathead, knucklehead, panhead, shovelhead, blockhead, fathead–one of the earlier popular models started out at only 125cc, and was a two-stroke single. Introduced in 1945, the Model S was an introductory level motorcycle with a girder front end, a rigid frame, [...]

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