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to all the inside boot crew staff and the outside family of friends who made this journey some of the best years of my life!

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Mike and His Bikes

"My Harley friends didn’t care much for the beemers – and visa versa for the BMW guys who were snobbish towards the Harleys.  Always big fun then and now."

—Mike McNamee

Over the years -- my motorcycles, my boots, my leather.  It appears my ultimate destination was to be owning my own boot store!  You youngsters can't appreciate what it was like to nab my first black t-shirt and my first motorcycle in 1962.  Man, how many shades of black are there now? LOL.

[Note: Several of the picts go back some 50+ years.  Recovered negatives in dust covered boxes have taken the toll -- thus you will see some scratches and dust marks on them.]

Over the years -- my motorcycles, my boots, my leather.  It appears my ultimate destination was to be owning my own boot store!  You youngsters can't appreciate what it was like to nab my first black t-shirt and my first motorcycle in 1962.  Man, how many shades of black are there now? LOL.

[Note: Several of the picts go back some 50+ years.  Recovered negatives in dust covered boxes have taken the toll -- thus you will see some scratches and dust marks on them.]

  • Norcal backroads outside of Sacramento. Loving lack of traffic
  • With my HD Sportster under Bay Bridge - early 60s
  • Easter Washington state - wheat fields
  • Big Harley -- hardly an off road machine.
  • Coming across an old rural graveyard. Leather masked
  • Gotta be kidding?
  • Big gap in picture taking coming up
  • Bent frame on the BMW -- my frame was a bit bent too
  • Magik! The old slash/2 BMW - linked to slash/5 engine. Back home in the warehouse loft
  • Motorcycle live-shot. Maybe.
  • Sutro Broadcast tower - Twin Peaks SF
  • Steve Jobs
  • Marin Headlands north of SF - HD Lowrider
  • Presidio San Francisco
  • All time favorite leather jacket from TAUBERS biker leather in SF
  • Embarcadero waterfront Bay Bridge - early 80s
  • SOMA motorcycle gang drag
  • Presidio San Francisco
  • Mount Tamalpais, Marin County - Ape Hanger fetish
  • Badger Flats in Sierra - Satyrs MC annual weekend run
  • Nick in center with studded pads is a romance novel writer. His pseudonym JUDITH GOULD. Best seller SINS!
  • Something about being the landlord of a motorcycle newspaper - cover story!
  • A vulgar, tasteless xmas card from '04.
  • hooked on the feeling - crotch high Wesco Jobmaster boots
  • TAUBER favorite leather jacket - Loading Dock bar - Mission Street 1998
  • Wesco Harness boots
  • Mike and friend Clyde before Desert Brotherhood ride in Las Vegas
  • Wow -- that was some stretch! Sacramento beginning my motorcycle riding to this shot in Las Vegas 2009. Starting out for the annual Smoke Out with Desert Brotherhood MC ride into the Nevada desert. Getting to the 70 year mark and still riding! Yay!

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