This off-season we’re running a series showing your motorcycles. Not just your road racing bikes, but your streetbikes, motocross bikes, dirt bikes, pit bikes, mini bikes, trials bikes, land-speed bikes, drag bikes, speedway bikes, whatever you’ve got. If you have more than one bike, send photos of them all–alone or with you! Send in-focus bike photos (as jpeg files) along with the make, model and year of each bike and your name, city and state, plus the name of the photographer, to [email protected]. By sending us the photos, you are certifying that you own the rights to the photos and are giving us permission to feature them on roadracingworld.com. They may be posted on roadracingworld.com during slow news days.
Seen here in our 13th installment are photos sent in by racer David Aldana, age 65, of Fayetteville, Georgia, a former AMA factory team road racer and dirt tracker perhaps best known as AMA #13; a former WERA Overall National Endurance Champion; a star of the original “On Any Sunday” movie; and the first racer we know of to wear “bones” (or “skeleton”) leathers.
Retired from professional racing, Aldana now competes for fun in AHRMA Vintage races in the Midwest and Southeast, riding a fleet of 1974 Honda XL350 racebikes–three dirt trackers and one motocrosser. Aldana builds and maintains his own bikes, and ever the showman, turned a photo taken by his wife Sue into a promotion for his sponsors. (Note: Aldana gets a special, one -person, one-time pass on doing that, because he’s a living legend, a movie star and a member of the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame.)
In his rider profile on roadracingworld.com, Aldana describes himself as being “hall of fame inductee… ‘On Any Sunday’ participant … multiple-factory rider…dirt tracker, road racer, motocross racer, car jumper, stunt man, Vintage racing Champion….implemented ‘Bones ‘ leather design” and says his style is “flamboyant, outspoken, humorous.”
Check out David Aldana’s rider profile on roadracingworld.com here:
https://www.roadracingworld.com/members/davidaldana…
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