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Taken in 1977 at Walton-on-the-Naze, Me and my GT750, cant believe the hair cut..... Those were the days :laugh1 :laugh1 :laugh1
Uncle Estevan
05-03-2006, 12:36 AM
1977..... i just started primary skool
silver jubilie n all that (and i still have my spoon)
reckon half the members of this forum were not even an itch in the scrotum back then lol
nice hair by the way, I remember my dad having a similar style
Juvenilerider
05-03-2006, 01:00 PM
Only 11 years before my time, that ain't too long :)
bayonet
05-03-2006, 02:03 PM
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Taken in 1977 at Walton-on-the-Naze, Me and my GT750, cant believe the hair cut..... Those were the days :laugh1 :laugh1 :laugh1It's a 'Kettle'. You don't see them about anymore. Bloke across the road to me in 83 had one. Last one I saw in the flesh.
bayonet
05-03-2006, 04:27 PM
Just found this whilst tidying up the garage. I salute your 77 pic and raise you a 1990 pic. Mutley Plain, Plymouth, Kawasaki GPz750.
This was just before I discovered the girl on the back liked to lean the opposite way to the bike resulting in me filling my trousers on Dartmoor.
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b165/yen_powell/GPz750-Mutley.jpg
my dad has one of them!!!
doesent work though!
he bought the upgrade to Superstackers bike (ZZR600??)
bayonet
05-03-2006, 06:34 PM
my dad has one of them!!!
doesent work though!
he bought the upgrade to Superstackers bike (ZZR600??)What your dad's got a GPz? You don't see them anymore either, must have been more fragile than I remember.
sittin outside in the rain, GPZ750 like the one in the pic, ask superstacker next time hes on... i believe its a 750...
bayonet
05-03-2006, 07:16 PM
sittin outside in the rain, GPZ750 like the one in the pic, ask superstacker next time hes on... i believe its a 750...I part exchanged it for an FJ1200 in a bike dealers in Grays. Wouldn't it be a coincidence if it was the same one.
well i only recognised it by that picture...ill check for you and shove you a pm...hey hey maybe you could get your first bike back (if my dad would part with it) lol
what a machine!! What a picture!! What a decade!!
Here's another golden oldie..............
http://img320.imageshack.us/img320/8063/gt75029go.jpg (http://img320.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gt75029go.jpg)
Taken in 1977, passed my test at 17 on a GT185, then got a GT750, none of this doing CBT, 2 years at 33bhp, just pass a test and ride anything, THATS THE WAY TO DO IT...
And this was my GPZ900R..........
http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/8854/gpz900r5eh.jpg (http://img226.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gpz900r5eh.jpg)
Taken in late 1986
My dads GPZ is purple i believe or dark red...
bayonet
05-03-2006, 08:02 PM
well i only recognised it by that picture...ill check for you and shove you a pm...hey hey maybe you could get your first bike back (if my dad would part with it) lolHaha, I'd come to visit it definitely. It was my 6th bike, I've been riding since 83 when men were men and 250s had L plates on them. You know you can check if your old bikes are still registered on the RAC website. Praps that GT750 is still around.
bayonet
05-03-2006, 08:05 PM
And this was my GPZ900R..........
http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/8854/gpz900r5eh.jpg (http://img226.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gpz900r5eh.jpg)
Taken in late 1986Strange, you look younger than in 77. That was the top bike when I was starting out. I finally got to ride one a few years ago and the thing was wicked in a straight line. Corners were horrible though, it wasn't a well looked after machine and it was suffering from chronic shock disease.
bayonet
05-03-2006, 08:07 PM
My dads GPZ is purple i believe or dark red...Yeah, it was red (firecracker red according to Kawasaki).
Strange, you look younger than in 77. That was the top bike when I was starting out. I finally got to ride one a few years ago and the thing was wicked in a straight line. Corners were horrible though, it wasn't a well looked after machine and it was suffering from chronic shock disease.
Nope that was one of the little fella's, he parked his car behind the bike and jumped on, the little F****r :rockon :rockon :rockon
bayonet
06-03-2006, 09:17 AM
Nope that was one of the little fella's, he parked his car behind the bike and jumped on, the little F****r :rockon :rockon :rockonI see you used a tyre pen on the 900. I packed that in when I did all the writing in white, got to the 'direction of rotation' arrow and realised the local shop had put the tyre on back to front. The really embarrasing thing was, I'd done about 2,000 miles on it without noticing myself.
......got to the 'direction of rotation' arrow and realised the local shop had put the tyre on back to front. The really embarrasing thing was, I'd done about 2,000 miles on it without noticing myself.
LMFBO
I'd still use a pen today, but you just can't get a good one these days, well I aint found one yet..................:eyewobble :eyewobble :eyewobble :eyewobble
bayonet
06-03-2006, 10:38 AM
LMFBO
I'd still use a pen today, but you just can't get a good one these days, well I aint found one yet..................:eyewobble :eyewobble :eyewobble :eyewobbleAhh, let us sit here and say old fogey things like.....they don't make tyre pens like they used to, aren't policemen looking young these days and is it April yet, want to switch to my spring thermals!!!
FasterThanU
06-03-2006, 11:24 AM
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Taken in 1977 at Walton-on-the-Naze, Me and my GT750, cant believe the hair cut..... Those were the days :laugh1 :laugh1 :laugh1
no wonder you crashed into that wall what did you expect riding side saddle.
bayonet
06-03-2006, 12:06 PM
no wonder you crashed into that wall what did you expect riding side saddle.
He had no choice, if you look closely you will see that both his feet have welded to the hot exhaust.
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Uncle Estevan
06-03-2006, 12:18 PM
I just noticed in those pics he looks a bit like James May off Top Gear
Ahh, let us sit here and say old fogey things like.....they don't make tyre pens like they used to, aren't policemen looking young these days and is it April yet, want to switch to my spring thermals!!!
Ohhhh you aint wrong fella, you could write a list.....:laugh1 :laugh1
I just noticed in those pics he looks a bit like James May off Top Gear
Cor if only...... look at all those cars I could thrash/crash and everthing else...:clap :clap :clap
Biker Dude
06-03-2006, 06:07 PM
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Taken in 1977 at Walton-on-the-Naze, Me and my GT750, cant believe the hair cut..... Those were the days :laugh1 :laugh1 :laugh1
isnt that the cafe we went to on the rideout last year...when my clutch cable snapped?
isnt that the cafe we went to on the rideout last year...when my clutch cable snapped?
I think that was taken in a cafe car park, right on the sea front, but it was a long time ago........
bayonet
07-03-2006, 10:49 AM
I think that was taken in a cafe car park, right on the sea front, but it was a long time ago........Just before you fought the mods single handed with a chairleg eh!!!
Just before you fought the mods single handed with a chairleg eh!!!
LMFBO.. no but I can remember a group of 'em' coming towards us on their scooters on the old A12 at colchester, on our side of the road... and a mate pulled a F*** off wheelie and went straight through the middle of 'em' they seemed to just scatter everywhere.......... oh the fun of them Bank Holiday weekends lol :motorbike :motorbike :motorbike
RaceMeNSee
07-03-2006, 08:15 PM
WOW the thought of mods and rockers seems so weird!
bayonet
07-03-2006, 09:32 PM
WOW the thought of mods and rockers seems so weird!When I first got into bikes in the early 80s there were mods everywhere, bit of a revival, probably due to Quadrophenia coming out a few years before. I started off on the back of my mate's bike and he had an alarming habit of riding up behind a group of scooters, carving his bike into the middle of them, grinning like a loon and shouting out that The Who were a load of w*nkers. Alright for him, he had a death wish, not so good for my nerves though.
When I got my first bike, my neighbour had a Lambretta (and the parka with the target on the back) and we used to see each other riding through Barking on our way home from work. We had a laugh pretending to have rows in the traffic, kicking at each others bikes and stuff.
I've had a good look around to find more pictures but to no avail.... at the age of 16, the first bike I ever had was a Puch Maxi, but that was to slow at only 28mph, had that for about 3 months, then went up in the world a got a Fantic TI, 6 speed, what a moped that was.
Coming back from Brands Hatch after watching the Trans Alantic Trophy, they used to make all the bike stop in the holding area at the Dartford Tunnel (only 1 Tunnel in them days) and when it was full they'd close the Essex side and let all the bikes go through together (that was something else) 1 of my mates who was on a GT250 clocked me doing 95mph through the tunnel, with all them bikes traveling through at the same time that was great.
Some my mates had the world famous FS1E, a few Suzuki AP50's. Not like the scooter's you get today........
bayonet
16-03-2006, 10:44 AM
I've had a good look around to find more pictures but to no avail.... at the age of 16, the first bike I ever had was a Puch Maxi, but that was to slow at only 28mph, had that for about 3 months, then went up in the world a got a Fantic TI, 6 speed, what a moped that was.
Coming back from Brands Hatch after watching the Trans Alantic Trophy, they used to make all the bike stop in the holding area at the Dartford Tunnel (only 1 Tunnel in them days) and when it was full they'd close the Essex side and let all the bikes go through together (that was something else) 1 of my mates who was on a GT250 clocked me doing 95mph through the tunnel, with all them bikes traveling through at the same time that was great.
Some my mates had the world famous FS1E, a few Suzuki AP50's. Not like the scooter's you get today........I still remember the first time I went through Dartford tunnel with lots of bikes, on my way to the Kent Custom Show. You can't beat the feeling of bikes outnumbering the cars, loads of open pipes. Made all the hairs stand up on the back of my neck it did. Same thing at the anti leg protector demo in Hyde park in the late 80s, which caused the traffic to gridlock but didn't make it onto the news at all.
RaceMeNSee
17-03-2006, 06:54 AM
WOW< that must have been crazy! did all the bikes just used to race through it?
the sound must have been immence!
WOW< that must have been crazy! did all the bikes just used to race through it?
the sound must have been immence!
Yep it was great, all the Larger bikes would race through and the drag they caused pulled us little bikes through with them, but when you got out of the tunnel the wind held you back and slowed you down... where has all the fun gone Bayonet?.............
bayonet
17-03-2006, 09:14 AM
Yep it was great, all the Larger bikes would race through and the drag they caused pulled us little bikes through with them, but when you got out of the tunnel the wind held you back and slowed you down... where has all the fun gone Bayonet?.............It's still about, but in smaller pockets. One of the reasons I like this site is cos I see some of the fun and naivete in others that was part of my starting out on bikes and it takes me back. If I see a bunch of big bikes now it don't do as much for me as I've seen it, done it etc, but years ago it was like a visitation from the gods. Now I have to get my fun in other (usually slower) ways.
Spider
17-03-2006, 09:17 AM
the fun hasnt gone has just moved to track days and eb sunday morning meetups with 20 plus riders riding thro essex and suffolk etc! tearing up the roads and ****ing off towns mention no names "fitchlingfied *sp" and ****ing off local ladies! guys the fun and biker power is still here has just moved in its prescense!
.... Same thing at the anti leg protector demo in Hyde park in the late 80s, which caused the traffic to gridlock but didn't make it onto the news at all.
Anti Leg Protector Demo......? dont remember that one, what was that all about then (not long been married then , lots more important things to do like Babies....aha)
bayonet
21-03-2006, 12:27 PM
Anti Leg Protector Demo......? dont remember that one, what was that all about then (not long been married then , lots more important things to do like Babies....aha)The Minister of Transport decided that all new bikes would have leg protectors fitted because most bike injuries were to the legs. They were huge ugly things sticking out each side and would transfer the injury to your lower spine and possibly paralyse you. All the tests were done at 90 degrees to a car pulling out, no other crash was tested. The regs were written about size, position and shape with no regard to style of bike. It actually meant that on a Virago 535 they'd be behind the riders legs.
Such a huge petition went to Downing Street that the minister was said to be worried that Margaret Thatcher would keep him in the job forever because she didn't like the public telling her what to do.
I can remember the leg protection bit but I cant say that I remember the demo........ hum must be an age thing...........
nikon70
29-03-2006, 08:50 PM
i was not even born when those pics were taken...
im still a puppy here i guess...
WebTone
29-03-2006, 09:43 PM
Had me a kettle. About same time. GT380 too. Ram-Air then was a whole diff thing to now.
Bought a cb900f2 at same time as kettle. kettle turned heads with full race expansion chambers. What a sound!
WebTone
29-03-2006, 09:45 PM
And I reckon my hair was longer than yours too. Nah Nah!:rockon
And I reckon my hair was longer than yours too. Nah Nah!:rockon
Well come on then where's the photo to prove it.............. put up or shut up lol..............:laugh1 :laugh1
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