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 Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:48 am Post subject: Back In The Day |
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Anyone got any interesting photos of themselves with their old bikes ? Going to school on your TS50 or proudly picking up your new LC for example ?
Post 'em up here - extra cool points awarded for period accessories, shocking 80's clothing and hooligan behaviour.  |
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Here's me with my KH250 back in 1988. I was at the Blyton round of the SuperBike magazine 'Ultimate Streetbike' championship, basically a 'run-what-yer-brung' drag race.
I'd signed up with my GSX-R750G but wrote it off before the event, hence the unsuitable choice of machinery. I came dead last out of 117 riders, with a best time of a respectable (for the bike) 15.47 secs for the 1/4-mile. Rode it there and back too of course.
Note the 80's uniform of KR-rep AGV, red leather jacket, drainpipe Wranglers and gaffa-taped white paddock boots. Steady girls... 
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| StrokerBoy wrote: |
Here's me with my KH250 back in 1988. I was at the Blyton round of the SuperBike magazine 'Ultimate Streetbike' championship, basically a 'run-what-yer-brung' drag race.
I'd signed up with my GSX-R750G but wrote it off before the event, hence the unsuitable choice of machinery. I came dead last out of 117 riders, with a best time of a respectable (for the bike) 15.47 secs for the 1/4-mile. Rode it there and back too of course.
Note the 80's uniform of KR-rep AGV, red leather jacket, drainpipe Wranglers and gaffa-taped white paddock boots. Steady girls...
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I'm really not sure I can beat that, but I'll see what I can find!!!
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Tidying the attic at the weekend. Found some old photos.
Here's me on my AR80 in 1983-ish. Oil-soaked L-plates, blue leather jacket, Boeri Driver lid, no gloves. And home-made graphics inspired by WW2 fighter nose-art.
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| I came dead last out of 117 riders |
See !
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FANTASTIC PICTURE TIM... And it's one of my favourite little bikes too 
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Well I'm F**ked , that me in 106th position on my old RG500 , not really a time to be too proud of , as I appear to have been wooped by an X7 who was 1 place above me .
Happy days , me and my mate Matt ( who is listed in 108th place ) rode 2 up on a 400 mile round trip on my gamma with a tent in his ruck sack and the beer in the tank bag. We both shared my bike for the runs.
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| hollo wrote: |
| Well I'm F**ked , that me in 106th position on my old RG500 |
Glad I posted it Mike.
Ken Taylor, 10th place on his Turbo GSX1260, one of the leading racers of that time. On one of his runs he was up against me on the KH. And I beat him. Think his bike went sick...  |
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I'm loving the pics, showing the styles we all went through
I've not got a single photo of me and my earlier bikes together, or my fashionable biking attire. Maybe that's a good thing....... 
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| bobbyboy wrote: |
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I've not got a single photo of me and my earlier bikes together, or my fashionable biking attire. Maybe that's a good thing....... |
I was thinking exactly the same
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| bobbyboy wrote: |
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I've not got a single photo of me and my earlier bikes together, or my fashionable biking attire. Maybe that's a good thing....... |
I was thinking exactly the same |
What? Glad that I haven't got any to show, or that you can't or won't show yours either?
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These are the earliest photos of me and bikes together.....
1991, first ever race entry, novice class, Pembrey circuit, dodgy white/pink leathers, bricking it.....
Same first race, entering Dibeni Bends, trying to make sense of the double left, and failing 
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Great stuff ! More of this kind of thing please.  |
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