Fast Dates Calendar shoot with builder Richard Pollock
ends this Calendar Shoot with 12 Stitches, a Quail Motorcycle Gathering Show Win and a tribute to movie legend James Dean
Saturday May 17th, 2014 - Congratulations to Richard for taking 1st Place Custom at the Quail Motorcycle Gathering this past weekend with "Ivan the Terrible". Richard's winning bike was one of his renown Triumph Street Trackers with a James Dean Porsche 550 Speedster styling theme that was built on consignment for wealthy Russian motorsports enthusiast Konstantin Drozdov.
The day before driving up to the Quail Motorcycle Gathering, Richard stopped by the FastDates.com Calendar studios so I could photograph both Ivan, and its more conservative new stable mate, a sweet little
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Red/Black Triumph Bonneville. Our model for the shoot was sexy new Calendar Kitten Lindsay Hancock who had the attributes to take on any wild beast.
Richard nicknamed this Calendar Bike "Ivan the Terrible" in tribute its Russian owner and the fact it was one of the most potent Triumph Twins he'd ever built, putting out 96 dynoed horsepower in its lightened 340 pound chassis. Stock Triumph Twins put out just 64hp and weight nearly 100 pounds more.
That and when he unloaded it at our studio for its shoot, he fired it up to ride up the driveway, where th potent beast got the best of him. Gassing the Tracker hard up the inclined driveway, it reared up on the back
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wheel at a side angle and then got into a tank slapper as it came back down, throwing Richard off the side of where the cylinder fins put a huge bloody gash in his knee. Luckily they never crashed, but the wound require a quick trip to the Emergency Room where in took 12 stitches to put Richard back together again. "Ivan" was indeed "Terrible".
Driving back home to Southern California from his class win at the Quail Motorcyle Gathering , Richard stopped with the Porsche 550 Spyder themed bike Ivan at the James Dean Memorial Junction of Highways 41 and 46 in the San Joaquin Valley where James Dean was killed in his Porsche 550 Speedster back on September 30, 1955. - Jim Gianatsis |
