This is where I would love to be today...!!!!

Looks a great event MF & well organised,bikers don't get fair treatment at times (keeping off the risk takers).My brother had bikes for years at the mo he's got a Suzuki bandit mind he's a bit of a speed merchant but can handle it.But as you say some day!!!!!!

 

Now that WOULD be the place to be MF! Hubby has a Blackbird - we havent been out much on it this summer and its tucked up for winter now :rolleyes: He's such a careful rider but its the others you have to worry about isnt it?
Love the old bikes too Maybe one day eh?

Gogs - hubbys last bike was a bandit

 

I loved the old bikes too. BSA and Triumphs for me and my Dad had an Indian. Stuff your modern Japanese sewing machines!

Remembering harsh winters - I recall riding for hours through freezing fog and when I arrived home, my whiskers were frozen stiff with ice just like an arctic explorer. Wish I had some photos from those crazy days (late 50's early 60's)

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Yes and nowadays they have leathers with in-built electric heating pads! Just soft. I wore a sheepskin flying jacket and in my Dad's day it was a flat cap and goggles - no space helmets then.

 

Well, with the speed these modern bikes get to, Im glad the gear is a bit more sofisticated - and that a modern helmet may save you life instead of just slipping off :eek: No heated pads for me H - Im always warm enough

 

Yes and you are right of course, Marge. We regularly "did the ton" and there was no 70mph limit then. The diagonal black speed sign simply meant that there was no speed restriction. When the first motorway was opened - the thing was to race up it from London to Birmingham in an hour.

What has happened to your avatar?

 

LOL H! Think avatars back now - was sorting out my pic in PB and it somehow got lost :rolleyes:

Oh oh - it seems to come and go :(

 

Well Mr Marge would agree with you MF about the taking apart and putting back together thing - a couple of old wrecks have surfaced bright and shining from our shed in the past :rolleyes:

I, ofcourse, always provided encouragement and the odd expression of wonderment at his ability to do magic

PS I love my leather jacket

 

My grandfather was the only biker in my family. He even named two of his sons Norman and Douglas.

Nowadays I suppose they'd have been called Honda and Suzuki. Well, he couldn't call one Moto Guzzi, that would be ridiculous.

 

Two of my bikes. No photos, but two paintings I did at the time (that's why they are a bit grubby)
No in-bult computers or electronics just good British engineering. Do we have any kind of manufacturing industry left today?

 

Ah Hornbeam,you brought back my youth with those motor bikes,i had a Tiger Cub,and a 110,a James Captain,BSA Bantam,as they say thanks for the memories