Odd-Ball Picture of the Day

GOAT:

 

My man Carlos Hathcock FTMFW!

 

Mt StHelens eruption… if that’s not common knowledge… that guys story was pretty neat to read… it’s been decades but I thought it was interesting as his life on the line and the unknown of the volcano fallout.

 

Wish I had a cool IT like that

 

I don't know what's more "FUCK THE DANGER!" about that photographer, taking the time to get a picture of that eruption, or the fact that they are driving a Pinto.

 

Don’t worry. Pinto was proper fukt. Dude got on out Japanese reliability.

 

I remember this picture! Isn't it from a book with stories of folks who were nearby Mt. St. Helen's series of eruptions?

 

I had an '79 IT175 like that, street 'legal.' Rode it, hooligan style, around Garth's beloved ISU, and won D-22 motos with it.

 

I’ve been half@ssed shopping for an IT to run in a vintage class the hare scramble org we race with has. There is a guy that races in that org that has a beautiful IT……….but I don’t know what displacement. I’d like a 175 myself

 

Looks like a Winchester M70?

 

How BillyBob Thorton has not made this a movie yet I cannot understand....

 

He doesn't have the Swagger to pull it off.

 

Whenever you find one, search for same year YZ125 forks and shock. Bolts right up, with the longer YZ brake cable. We ran my IT175 in a 24 hour motocross with this set-up. Worked fantastically! I'm sure someone could make major improvements to the stock suspension components these days, also.

 

Found the article. Fate was kind: the driver overslept on his way to ride his bike around Spirit Lake which was well within the blast zone.

https://www.wweek.com/culture/2020/...est-mysteries-someone-finally-figured-it-out/

Excerpt:

Cooper told Strohl that Lasher left his house that morning in his Pinto with plans to ride his motorcycle around Spirit Lake, an area that received the brunt of the impact from the eruption. He overslept and made it only part of the way by the time the volcano blew.

"Had Lasher made it to Spirit Lake," Strohl later wrote, "he'd almost certainly have died."

Strohl estimates the photo was taken along the forest roads of Gifford Pinchot National Forest, possibly near the town of Randle. In Cooper's account, Lasher stopped so abruptly he bent the forks of his Yamaha IT Enduro bike. The ash cloud overtook him, but he eventually made it out, and even went back the next day, capturing photos of the devastation, and ended up getting airlifted out and spending the night in jail.

 

WTF ?