Bike Nostalgia - Remember When

[rave]

Im only 34 and remember when i filled me bike up with petrol it cost a few bucks,it was only 23 cents a liter back then when i started riding!

[Madmax]

My GT550 Zook triple had 3 sets of points, 3 carbs. 3 spark plugs, get the jist - my first big road bike.



Dig the Bell Star helmet.

You other blokes must be old codgers!

I rode a dyke mates Commando once - bloody wrong sides for everything. Rotten thing tried to kill me!



Max

[GiddyUp]

Nice thread DJ. Really bring back some good memories. I'm sure Rev could post for weeks on this topic. He's forgotten more about bikes than most of know!
I remember when my first road bike had a kick start, points and a metal front number plate... (Honda CB360) It also had murals on the petrol tank...

I remember back in 1984 when I bought my first fuel injected bike. I said then that a faster bike would never be made. Ha! (It was a Kawa GPZ 1100) Had some power, but what a crap frame.......

Now I've owned a bike longer than any other in my life and I still love it? No. Not the Honda C90 the other bike! (02 cheesecake Busa)

Cheers, Phil. "Your Car is Very Boring"

[Bill Gaheer]

Ok - here are some old memories.

I started riding at the age of 9 on a Bajaj Chetak 150cc scooter (old Vespa made in India). Then I moved to a Vespa 150 cc - (Changed 4 of them in 3 yrs). Then to a Yamaha RX100 (100 cc) 2-stroke. then to a 1974 Enfield Bullet, (All this before I turned 18) then to a Yamaha RD350 (350cc) 2-storke - farking loved the bike - one of the best 2 strokes. Then I bought a automatic geared Honda scooter (100cc). and then a 1969 Enfield Bullet.

Later in US I bought a Kawa ZR1100 as I wanted to graduate to a bigger bike before I bought a Busa. Then a 2004 Busa

Back in India I bought a 1990 Enfield Bullet and then the day I landed here (next day) a 2000 Hayabusa.

Cheers,

Bill

[arthur dunga]

[attachment=3857]PK 's 750 Micks 9 & mine . If i'm honest this is always the fav.

[arthur dunga]

[attachment=3861]Margret river 79 .Mine is the unfaired xs

[DjPete]

classics Mr Dung
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[motoplast]

It all started being on the back of my brothers Beeeeza
650 Lightning...
to this day I still feel the thumping torque and sound of that bike...


When I grew up this was THE only bike that mattered...


Then a while later this became my dream bike...


and then it was this...



I had the cb and the Katana but never the Kwaka

Haa Pete, u bring back some fond memories, In the early seventies as a young hoon, u either rode a 4 or a 9, nothing else mattered. Of cause riding a Honda 4 was street cred, even some ' Angels used to ride them as well as many other outlaw clubs. I was fortuneate enough to have owned some 14 odd Honda 4's in various models and cover over a million k's on them. My favourites were the K2, the best handling was the F2 and it was on the F2 that got me into the record books on my 'Round Australia Record in 1978.
The K9 and it's later brothers, the Z1000, Z1R, Z1R11 & Mk11 1000's were also bikes close to my heart, having towed several sidecars all over this country travelling to rallies etc,Going road racing in production class & later, Superbike class. The K9 was the first of the big bore jappa's that could sit on a genuine 100mph for hours at a time and do it easy, whether u were solo or two up!.
Then came the mighty GSX1100's followed by the awsome Kat', a bike that was way ahead of it's time in styling but not a particularly good handler in stock form. I still own one today. Fast forward to '99 & the Benchmark 'Busa, of all the bikes I have owned in my life & believe me that is many, the 'Busa has proved to be the best allrounder suited to the riding I do. I still own my '99 however I reckon my new K8LE is a 70% improvement and if it proves over time to be as reliable as the '99, I'll be a happy man.
Long live the 'Busa.

Cheers,
Tex & Bundy

[rjw3105]

When the english could make motorbikes (but not the yanks--still trapped
in the sixtie's ) When rocket three's & triumph tridents ruled .

And they all came supplied with a 2m^2 driptray with a drainhole so you could re-use the oil

[BUSGO]

"QUOTE" In the early seventies as a young hoon, u either rode a 4 or a 9, nothing else mattered."

I disagree a little with you Tex. I chose a Laverda SF750 twin instead of a Honda 4 back in 72 and none of my mates on the 4s could keep up with me either in a straight line or the twisties until the Z900 came along. (Lets not forget the Kawasaki tripple missiles as well, but they were prone to blowing the middle banger).

It's always good to pull out the old bike piccies.
Here are some of my old rides.

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