wot were ewe riding in 1971 ?

Yeah. I understand it has it's ups and downs.

 

Not of legal riding age at that stage, but I'd tear up the farm roads on
a 79cc Suzuki single two-stroke of late 60s vintage, which I think was
designated as a KP something or other.

(If I ever track one down, I'd be mightily tempted to acquire for the
nostalgia value.)

Otherwise, I'd be peddling around on a 1928 Massey single-speed pushbike
that was originally imported into Australia (from Canada?) by the Post
Master General.

 

I have a photo of the motorbike I was riding in 1971 but I can't
identify it. It was mainly red with some silver around the tank, the
forks and the sides of the seat cushion.

Nev..

 

Post it
someone always knows

 

Lucky bastard!

JohnO

 

JohnO

 

Honda 175 twin scrambler thingy

Ron

 

I wouldn't recommend that line for a lady these days, unless you're a
reporter hungry for information on stabbings, shootings and/or rapes.

 

That'll get back!

 

Hear, hear!

I didn't even get to the tricycle stage 'til '73 :-/

 

In early 1971 I was riding my just-restored 1941 ex-New Zealand Army
Indian 741B Junior Scout, a throbbing 500cc side-valve V-twin with crap
brakes. After a Morris 1100 cleaned me up on the university ring road I
spent the latter part of the year on a 1951 Matchless G80S thanking the
deities that I broke my left leg, not my right. The Indian cost me $80 in
rough but running condition. You couldn't get one for less than $10,000 in
similar condition today. Yes, I'd like to still have it (and some of the
others that followed, like a Rickman Metisse Triumph scrambler) but when
it came to actually going for a ride, my modern Honda presses way more
buttons.

Peter in Brisbane

 

I was riding a Vespa until some bimbo in an Audi forgot the principle
behind a stop sign and plowed into me.

Luckily, I was young and only bounced, at a very high rate of speed,
off my left buttock introducing me to my first massive hematoma. I got
back on the Vespa, after kicking out the dents, and rode it home.

Sadly, the Vespa's frame was bent and she was totalled. I used the
insurance money to upgrade to a 305 Scrambler.

Still feel pretty sad about the little Vespa's undignified end.

 

"captain anchovy" wrote

Just back from the US, moved into a new house and riding a Yamaha
YCS200E two-stroke twin.

Theo

 

Was that the one with the soft self lubricating rubber band ?

 

"atec77" wrote

Probably. It was all I could afford as a young bloke (just turned 28)
with a wife and three kids who had just moved into our first house and
bought our first new car.

I had it for three years and traded it for a TX500 twin. Another two
years and I bought my first Guzzi.

Theo

 

Well for a 2poke they were reasonably cheap to run , however they didn't
win a lot of races and in your circumstances it wan not important , I
also had about that time a 125cc Haha twin which we raced (the rider was
tiny) and not me
It was not economical

 

I was still a couple of years away from riding in my dads ballsack.

Fraser

 

Hmmm if it was before February, everything was dark and fuzzy ... for
awhile after February I was having enough trouble trying to walk, to
worry about bikes...



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The Happy Drunk

 

I was in Baghdad in uniform when you were in Dads bag
in liquid form

 

I was riding a Kawasaki 500 Mach 3. It could wind up pretty tight. I
wish I still had it. :{

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