Jays100
Veteran Member
When I left my home in South Dakota, I moved a few short miles to Bismarck North Dakota, about 130 miles due North, I didn’t move far.
I found a job at a Yamaha dealer then eventually moving to Sioux Cycles across town. The manager was Norman Tietz, a former AMA pro racer. When the 305 scramblers first came out, he built one up into the gorgeous bike you see here.
photo courtesy of Nancy, Norm and Nyla’s daughter.
Here is Norm in action:
It’s interesting to note that the bike I worked on in 1977 had no brakes but Norm in action does have brakes so was perhaps from a TT course and not a flat track. I don’t know where this was taken. Norm was a successful and fast guy, once besting Dick Mann at the Sturgis half-mile feature. Note that the AMA had a number plate size and color convention so if you had a white plate with black numbers, you were an expert/pro racer.
I will post more as the lovely Nancy finds time to digitize (or I can coerce her to post!).
I found a job at a Yamaha dealer then eventually moving to Sioux Cycles across town. The manager was Norman Tietz, a former AMA pro racer. When the 305 scramblers first came out, he built one up into the gorgeous bike you see here.
photo courtesy of Nancy, Norm and Nyla’s daughter.
Here is Norm in action:
It’s interesting to note that the bike I worked on in 1977 had no brakes but Norm in action does have brakes so was perhaps from a TT course and not a flat track. I don’t know where this was taken. Norm was a successful and fast guy, once besting Dick Mann at the Sturgis half-mile feature. Note that the AMA had a number plate size and color convention so if you had a white plate with black numbers, you were an expert/pro racer.
I will post more as the lovely Nancy finds time to digitize (or I can coerce her to post!).
