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Posted: 18:23 - 18 Mar 2016 Post subject: Re: Earliest photo on a motorbike... |
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Even then, hanging off like a boss
As I kid, I loved Street Hawk and Battlestar Galactica (they had jet bikes!)
My parents have a picture from around 1985 ( I was 5 too) on top of my dads mates Triumph 5TA
Can't easily get to the actual photo though.
https://www.triumphadonf.com/v3/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Triumph_5ta_1.jpg
I do remember thinking, it was the coolest thing ever. Like my BMX, but WAAAAY better. Then he started it and I shat my pants. But loved it!......the bike, not shatting my undies. |
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2 years old / 1989 (VF500).
https://i64.tinypic.com/33uxtzo.jpg ____________________ CBF125 (2013) -> CBR600F (2001) -> 'Ninja' 300 (2014) |
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955i Daytona surely? The only thing wrong with that bike is that Blair sat on one, but that's not enough to make it a bad bike even!
I know Binge would be horrified, but that little home made C70 engined monkey bike I had, I'd love to have back now, and put proper forks and bars and wheels on, maybe a front brake too. And then make it road legal. |
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I was very strange... I remember saying in my childhood that I hated motorcycles. I was always going to be a fan of cars.
And then in 2007 my parents moved us to the middle of fucking nowhere.
So it was suggested to me to get a moped. So I begrudgingly obliged, thinking it was only for a year or so and then I could get a car.
But after a while I thought "This ain't too bad..."
And then I bought my second moped, which was unrestricted and all that. Did 50mph according to the clocks!!! PHWOOAARR!
And then on a whim, I thought... "I'll buy a 125. Yeeeeah... one with gears too!"
So I ended up with my CBR125 and from that point forward it was a snow-balling effect of bike related lunacy that now means I cant talk to someone unless they can talk about bikes.
Because of all this, I think the first picture of me on a bike is probably me on my Bandit 400 in ~2011/12
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/t31.0-8/326497_10150665290305288_1181980599_o.jpg ____________________ The mistresses: 2000 Honda CBR600f, 2000 Honda VTR1000 |
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Funny that, I had zero interest in bikes until last year when a friend mentioned he wanted to do his CBT. The bug bit so hard I got malaria ____________________ CBR600 F3 FV
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lol at the oldies moaning about my just-gone-quarter-century-self
27 next month, married and own a house.. I'm not that young
No-one in my family really rode bikes so I was kind of on my own with it. My aunt had an RXS100 stored in a shed for 14 years which she gave me years ago (got it working then sold it), but I never remember her riding it. Certainly never had any photos on it as a child - she was the 'weird aunt' that everyone has in their family. ____________________ Yamaha RXS 100 > Honda CD 250 > Honda Hornet 600 > Honda CBR 600RR > Yamaha RXS 100 > Kawasaki ZX6R J2 > Yamaha FZ1 |
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I like that; looks like a mini Spondon!
For someone who has been hooked on bikes from my early teens, surprising that I have no photos of me with bikes back then. Just pics of the bikes themselves, and those are few ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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the yellow bike in the picture above is a T595 Daytona ____________________ Current bikes: RE Himalayan, Bandit 12, MZ250ES |
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Me on my tw125 back in 07 I think. Thing couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding! ____________________ CBR600F '02
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Threatening to show an 80's hooligan iconic smoker in a period photo, and then pulling it at the last second, I think that's behaviour worthy of the ban hammer IMO! |
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Only had one problem with mine. Gearbox got very notchy until the linkage rod snapped at the thread join. It got a bit tired and 'ringy', but that's when I sold it, so never experienced anything worse. I still remember it as being good fun; handling was ok - leastways, I don't remember it being horrific in the context of what else was available at the time - certainly it handled better than a 350 YPVS! Since I'll never own, nor probably ride another, I'm happy to have experienced it. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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I went to view one for sale in 2000. It had 14K on the clock as was up for £2k. I should have bought 5 of them!
It didn't start on all four pots, and would run on 3until really warm, which put me off a bit, but not as much as the cracked and badly damaged bellypan on an otherwise nice clean bike.
I should have angled for a couple of £££ off and bit the blokes arm off! I have a similar story of a life full of missed opportunity with an NS400R too!
I remember speaking to stan the man about a re-build estimate for an RG, and he said he'd stripped a std bike with 38K on the clocks that had perfect bores, and only needed rings seeing as it was apart. |
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I asked my mum to get an action shot of me after a month of owning the MT5, it didn't come out very well.
From about September 2010. Christ... Five and a half years ago. I remember that so clearly as well.
https://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag134/Fladdem/67488_1308465451998_371968_n_zpsn9nvf12f.jpg
The cub at the front was the first bike, I got that in about April 2009, I think, I went halves with my dad, £25 each.
Needless to say, I used to go out on it whenever he wasn't around, sometimes me and him would take it over the fields and tank around on it, but never too long or too often or else we'd start attracting attention, the speedo cable broke first time we used it, so he never knew when I'd took it out and he always leaves the key in it.
https://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag134/Fladdem/820858_3749316271743_1109466638_o_zpstjpng3mz.jpg ____________________ Current:1991 Honda MT50 (Soon to be a H100/MTX/MT5 hybrid), 1976 Honda Cub C70, 2005 Honda Varadero 125, 1993 Yamaha TTR250 Open Enduro , 2010 Road Legal Stomp YX140, 1994 Honda CRM 250 MK III, 1999 Cagiva Mito 125, 1992 Honda CB400 Super Four, Stomp T4 230, 1984 Honda H100s, 2009 Sym XS125K
Past:2003 Aprilia RS125, 1982 Kawasaki GPZ550(FREE BIKE!)
I'm having more fun than a well-oiled midget. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 8 years, 14 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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