DAYTONA '99 PART 3

last installment of bike week pics...check out the guys racing number in the first pic!

In the wind....

Me and Louise havin' fun in the sun in 2000

Mert Lawwill

Here is a nice little 'promo' mini mag given away free with the March '99 issue of Classic Racer.

This was exclusive to the USA edition and features a bunch of pictures from the Dan Mahoney archive.

I picked this up during Bike Week and got Mert to Autograph it when we met him at a 'Hall of Fame' Breakfast fundraiser, where he was guest of honour.

The event was kinda like a Sportsmans Dinner with maybe 150 guests in attendance. It started at 7.45am with a fantastic breakfast followed by an 'after-breakfast' lecture/talk from Mert. He talked at length about his racing career, his contributions to the bicycle industry, his patented amputee gadget for motorcycle riders and his friendship with Steve McQueen and the making of 'On any Sunday'. It was a very special morning and something I will remember forever.

In all my life I think I only ever asked for 3 autographs: Mert Lawwill and Evel Knievel, both at Daytona '99 and Tony Alva in '78 at Southport Skatepark.

Daytona '99 part two

Part Two: Daytona Bike Week 2010 in less than two weeks. Here are a few more shots from our trip in 1999 when we rented a Fat-Boy (motocycle not an obese, teenage gigalo) and met E.K.(will do a more in depth post about meeting him when I got more time)