Time have changed

I want to rub Ms Peel's and my old fart antique quaint vintage appearance in deeper with my stockings showing off on boot tops for lasting impression after a contest. I saved the Rugby socks shop, thanx. Sure wish I could mount a dozen mirrors on Peel too for fun puttering around rallys and towns picking up Mod dressed gals.

Listen darling, I don't care how short your skirt is, your not getting my Lansdown fork upgrade kit!

Listen darling, I don't care how short your skirt is, your not getting my Lansdown fork upgrade kit!

during the Rocker era The cops mainly left us alone,just the occasional problem if a bit of law breaking went on,the main things were speeding and road tax licence.
The local keen ones were noted,and avoided if possible,we all knew where they were and they all had their patches and areas.

Back in the day olChris had a full head of hair.



He couldn't get a helmet his size, so he hollowed out a bowling ball!

auldblue said:

Back in the day olChris had a full head of hair.

He couldn't get a helmet his size, so he hollowed out a bowling ball!

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FaF!

haha yep, still got it and the pull on "sleeve tatts" with a quite a bit of stuffing .........

Here ya go ol'farts

http://www.maskworld.com/english/produc ... eeves--650

peter james owen said:

during the Rocker era The cops mainly left us alone,just the occasional problem if a bit of law breaking went on,the main things were speeding and road tax licence.
The local keen ones were noted,and avoided if possible,we all knew where they were and they all had their patches and areas.

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In Victoria in about 1958, the police made a concerted effort to get motorcycles off the road. Every time you saw a cop, he would stop you and do the roadworthy check. A favourite was a stick up the muffler. These days that never happens. If my memory serves me correctly, there was even talk of banning bikes altogether, and the surgeons supported that approach. It didn't happen however I believe that was only because of the efforts of Damien Cognodotto and Motorcycle Riders Association. The hot rod guys were also under attack, and one young guy was very public. He crashed his car at about 110 MPH into a median strip in a SE Melbourne suburban road. After that all the hotrods needed engineers' certificates to get registered. Our state Premier back then , Henry Bolte banned all speed events on Victorian public roads, before that we had a few road races and sprints on closed off public roads. Another thing most of the kids don't know these days, is that back them there was no speed limit on our country roads, however you could still be charged with dangerous driving. On the way to Bathurst one year we had an unofficial 100 mile road race bikes against sports cars and hotrod - great fun !
Interesting that helmets became compulsory around 1960, however seat belts in cars became compulsory much later. Our government wasn't politically particular when dealing with minority groups. It took them many years to bring in laws to get the drunken bum car drivers off our roads. It wasn't so easy to do drink and drive on a bike.

The assertion that the new helmet laws were intended to stop you risking your like is a bit strange. No mention of reducing or minimising the risk of serious head injuries, just hyperbole.

You just gotta luv it , lachie Stewart, Jackie Stewart , Ken Buchanan , A10 for £15 , Cooper bros ( wouldn't sell me a 650 thunderbird at£1815 mind you a few guys told me he wouldn't sell it to them either) a full liecence cost £2. You're bike test took 20mins tops. Bollocks to the 21st Century.

But we've still got the memories.

When I got my licence, all I had to do was ride my Indian and sidecar around a city block near the Motor Registration Branch in Melbourne. I had to laugh - there is a friend of mine whom I raced against for about 12 years - he always had the 650 Triton and I had the 500 Triton - I could never convincingly beat him. Fairly recently he bought himself a road bike and because he'd never had a road licence went for the test - which he immediately failed.

When I sat my test in jan 1981 it had been very wet weather and I used my we dirt bike on the fields and it sat overnight in an open shed. The frost came the night before and I hadn't washed it, cables all frozen back wheel wouldn't turn for the frozen muck, boiling water and chisels , new L plates and I was good to go.

8 miles to test center frozen stiff, I had no indicators hand signals with my big winter glover I looked like biffo the bear. I think the guy felt sorry for me 10 mins round the block roads icy as buggery. Back to the test center and my Highway Code question ,what do you do at a green traffic light. Passed



Cowboy boots and Levi's happy days

How the other half live , Vintage Boys

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RjGIaOsFRPQ

auldblue said:

How the other half live , Vintage Boys

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RjGIaOsFRPQ

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That's a very nice video and it struck a chord with me. The hardest work I ever did was heading wheat, and transporting grass hay. The old headers we used years ago had the bag hanging off the back. When it was full it had to be manually lifted. I think those country kids must be bred with much bigger muscles. However, what a beautiful way to send time ? Trouble is that here in Australia you get sunburned.