Old photos

Found this old photo when I was back in the UK last, a lucky find as i lost all my old photos in a house flood a few years ago..........
Me with my old 76 yamaha RD350B proddy bike in 77/78,

Feel free to take the piss




Now lets see yours

Great photo TLRuss. Takes me back to where it all began for me.
Here's my RD250E about 1981

And my GS1000 a few years later

Nice Dunstall GS1000, I remember them

I was born in 79' you old tarts lol

Now, now children

I reckon riding a Superduke has more to do with your mental age than the physical

i reckon riding a superduke lowers your mental .

hi all
gs 1000 ,yam rd's....
having flash backs of scary moments when i was young .. 1960 born .. so ya all youngsters and i is a old git riding a crazy ktm ... ha ,can remember my first eddie lawson 1000.then onto a gsx 1100 .. then on the 1100 gsxr d redg.... those were the days . its now a wonder how i survived all the mad moments and got to 52 without being wiped out . although had a neck fracture at 25 on a honda 500 cr. one broke toe, foot came off the peg doing a stand up wheelie on a bultaco pursang. two broke ribs ,handlebars on a yamaha dt 400. torn scrotum on a aprilia rsv 6 years back , bloody double bubble as i went flying over front.. no skin on forearm and elbow , sleeve up up . calmed down a bit now .
sadly now still a child but just older .

My first bike in 95 ( honda crm 50r )
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The second one in 2000 ( yamaha xj600 N after sometime without two wheels)


But I agree, superduke is about emotions and mental "in"sanity

Bunch of old farts, the lot of ya (except nampus)

Some can probably guess the year more-or-less ...



Without the hair sometime later. MotoGp (Catalunya) so it must be a year ago.

Started riding at 10 yrs. old...
All dirt biking then...
I'm not fecking old.!!!!
Born in '56...
My oldest was born in 1980...
My youngest kid is 23..(I have 4 kids).
You're as old as ya feel...
I feel the oldest when I get outa bed in the morning...
Warm up the creeks n cracks...
I get more tail than most of ya...
I'm single and I'm just an old whore...
I get told my mechanical girlfriend means more to me than they do...
They are RIGHT..!!!!

OOPS! Apple rubbish strikes again........ double post

........some spotty youth sitting on my old RD350A

Talking about music, besides Megadeth it was Napalm Death one of my favorites at that time

Love to join in but all my photos on bikes were in a digital era

hi all.
phew thats a relief, i am not the oldest on here , bunch of old farts .
anyway nuff of this , going out on the bike :

Ha Old farts indeed! I'd like to reclassify that as The True Believers. None of this boy wonder stuff - Here today,
gone tomorrow (or over the next 20 years). Gone like ghosts mumbling about family responsibilities, wife,
mortgage, kids, size of virtual (digital) penis Etc.

The True Believers managed to do all that stuff and still retained the desire/ability to rip it up.

Personally, I'd be proud to be the oldest member of this forum because being the oldest hooligan would be a badge
of honour.

Born in the summer of 59, been living on the edge ever since

"Dont stop me now i,m having a good time..........."

Poor Freddie never made it this far

Just found a few more in the bottom of a box.
RD 250 on "L" plates.

Riding on favourite roads - Trough of Bowland

I loved this KH400 S3! Best triple I owned

My first move away from 2 strokes. Z400J

Ha ha We used to heat up the 'ace bars' and bend them into that position - we thought they looked really cool! Steering lock was a bit limited.

My old RD 250 just before i rode it back to my barracks in West Berlin from Lincoln (UK) 1978 one hell of a journey back then,dressed in full combat gear the Russians gave me a strange look as i went through the corridor soaked to the skin

Sabre, what's with the gay reflector still on? Looks like a bit of rust on that there bike so there's no excuse it was new!

Never knew they had Ugg boots in those days Ginge

GINGE as well as being 34 years ago it was also 34 stone
only kidding mate no wonder you ended up on a tv screen in berlin xxx

'58 vintage - most of you may have been riding RDs, KHs,etc (or FS1Es and the like perhaps......) I was on '61 BSA C15S, '65 (Dunstall) Triumph 500, '68 Bonnie, etc - I'll try and find the magic lantern images.

Being a semi youngish whippersnapper these are the oldest pics i've got.

1st motocross bike back in 2002. It was a 1998 YZ125

I don't have any old pics. My long dead uncle likely had some old Polaroids (the really old ones that you had to smear with the stick of goo to help develop them) of me on a Honda 50 and later a Honda 70 at the ripe old age of 8 in 1972. That's when I started crashing bikes. I didn't like riding much back then because the only way I found I could stop was to crash. My stubby legs couldn't touch the ground back then either.

Nice fooking hair - LOL. Mine was no better.

Not a single pic survives of my RD350B, RD400, or the RZ350 ... ex-girlfriends, always seemed to end with the media be it pictures, vinyl, artwork, etc.

..just proves you were with the wrong woman...for who you are........

If you had a bright purple triple in the early 80's you got to take out pretty 15 year old redheads pillion.

hi all
huh i could not get a girlfriend to go on my bikes , they used to ask if i had a car and when i said now , that was it .gone ..
some of them i did not say i had a car as well as i did not want to be seen with them anyway. some of the girls back then were so big that ya would think that you were ridin a chopper with them on the back .. haaaaaaaaaaaa.
they knew that they had a fat ass because when they pulled there knickers down ,their ass was still in them yuk

Speed Hill Climbing in the '80's. Supermoto bikes before supermoto was invented!! 1981 KX250 with 18" Akront rims, wet tyre in the front & wet compound inter on rear. Bike put me in hospital for 3 months with a smashed knee joint, bike sufferred a scratched clutch lever!

Later replaced with a CR500 set up with 18" wheels, Dunlop KR124s and 300mm disc - made the SD look sane.

1981, after 4 bans a couple of motorcross bikes and a broken back I was back on the RDs.....

Drag racing now, my first road legal drag bike, started life as a 79 RD250E completely rebuilt with a big bore to 270cc using 125LC pistons and wild porting, shortened Allspeed pipes, XS400 swing arm 45mm longer than the RD arm with 50mm longer GS750 Marzochi shocks,

Later fitted with a Denco (USA) ported big reed RD350B top end, that was then bored to 370cc using YPVS350 +2mm pistons



Finally fitted with the engine from this one......



79 RD400E, first big bore RD400, the actual capacity was 427cc using IT175 pistons, hybrid crank TZ750 mains, RM125 big ends, Kawasaki small ends (forgot the model) Straight cut primary gears, YZ490 clutch with TZ750 springs, YPVS modified reed blocks / rubbers bored to take a pair of TZ750 34mm Mikunis, modified Allspeed pipes,XS400 swing arm again and 50mm longer S&W shocks......
A monster of a bike, mid 12 second 1/4 miles, fierce power wheelies in 3rd gear, topped out at almost 130mph on road gearing,
But them IT pistons didnt like to be revved too high, pushing 9500rpm the skirts would crack and the top ring would break up

Oh and I had this mint 80 RD400F stock looking sleeper with a Proddy spec tune for fooking around on and blowing off the LC boys

One of the very first Black LC350.....run it in and then had a full Stan Stevens Formula 2 spec (Carbs were bigger than the barrels ) running PZ2 tyres

No this was one of the very first Formula 2 Tunes 32mm power jets.........

I loved those red and white RD400Fs Wanted one so bad. But then I got the Kawa triple and was happy I guess. But seeing your picture made me remember the total infatuation I had with the RD. I never fell for the LC really. I thought it was a bit lightweight and gay!! It was a bit pretty. The RD was the business.

The old RD air cooled vs LC rivalry 30 years later.........
both had their faults which is why the cult of modifying them developed and is still going, even the RD tuners were rivals, Terry Shepperd / Stan Stephens and a few lesser known ones, same thing in the USA

Terry Shepperd went onto tuning V Twins and did a lot with the Suzuki TLs, he also did a frame conversion....

my TLs is my RD400/Rd350LC/H1/H2, it has some of the character of all of them, my SD must be the YPVS/RG then

Amazing the number of RDs (2 strokes in general) in this thread. Funny how we all migrated to the SD.

I started my hooliganism career on a 1979 RD400 Daytona Special! That bike got me in a shit load of trouble!

Bummed I don't have a pic to throw up...

I can only say what I remember thinking of them then! Anyway, it was more of a comment on their looks. I was so used to the very straight lines and rectangular, solid styling of the old RD bikes and then along came this new lightweight bike with it's curves and delicate parts. Everything on it was a smaller, lighter, curvy, sculpted. Parked next to the old RD's it looked very feminine and not as macho. It was only it's performance that saved it from being tatally gay But of course styling fashions and tastes change and within a year or so the old RD's looked like things out of the ark.

What I really, really envied was the monoshock though.

Here's some pictures of the next seminal bike that entered the scene about the same time as the LC. My mate Robert's Katana seemed like something out of a science fiction movie. But then again it was just a GSX1000 underneath and didn't do anything better than the older bikes really.

Abused from new

Coming back from a Sunday run to the lakes. 20 seconds later the guy on pillion, Tony, had reached out, switched my ignition off and pinched the keys out my bike. A common prank in those days.

1980 I rode this in to the Loudon national,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Spencer smoked em all that day
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78,,5 quart sump,,Rita ignition,,un-linked brakes,,uni-filters to replace the open velocity stacks,,new cost was $3,600,,,

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Good year 78,,,

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I love Morini 3 and a halfs. I have a few friends here with them.

Red Le Mans MK11 I had one of them on my bedroom wall

What's with the red exhaust baffle on the left hand side and black on the other? Is this a fashion thing or what?

I suspect we have now been labeled as old wankers due to this thread. well here is another old wanker

(2009) 58 years old as i remember sideways on shingle at 120mph riding a 130bhp 750cc 2 stroke with only a rear brake........

The King

Don't know. But I do know that quite a few years later, maybe when she was in her early twenties she passed her HGV license and drove trucks for a while.

Two-strokes
http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/ ... revisited/

so many great pics guys, pity i can't add any old pics of my own because i was born in '90!

Wow, what a trip down memory lane.

I loved my RD400, you can't beat the smell, sound and buzz of a 2 stroke. Went on to own 3 Katana 1000s, another classic bike with strangely similar lines to the SD.

90's Vs now

One on the right was about a year after I left the Army.

Luke, have you got any classic Judo pictures?
I'd love to see them mate.

Girlfriends in the 90's

This was in a hotel at Daytona Beach.

Holy shit Pete! You look nothing like i expected.

Some superb pics. Loving the Ducati one with the ponytail. Looks like an ol fast Biks cover shot

This is about as early as i can go back with photos - early 90s exup, saw my 1st few trackdays at Cadwell on the big barge and 1st knee down round Mansfield



Move on a few years to a Ducati 955 that started life as a 916 BiP and ended up a track bike -

Donington



Cadwel again



And after being thrown down the track a few times this is how she ended up -



And today -



Oooopps sorry, thats actually my 1984 Redline Prostyler restoration project

You and Pete could form the ex 90's gash leather subsection.

Ash, you had the same Mag wheels on your Ducati.

Marvic Penta in the gold colour - lovely.

Pete,

Your RS250 was exactly the same as my first bike, waaaayyy too temperamental for me who only just passed their test. Mine was a 96N bought in 2000.

Beautiful bike and lovely to ride (when it worked ) Brought back some memories for me, don't think that a 17st rider and an rs250 mixed too well.

Obviously I prefered the Marvic as well!

Me and my GSX-R750L at Assen

Seem to be a lot of smokers on here, so may as well post my first bike. Miss it in a kind of foggy reminiscent way, though sure it was not as good as I remember it.

Think the only problem I had with the KR was the rear plug falling out once, was considerably younger then and not to bright when it came to bike maintenance. A mate used to score avgas from under the wheel well of a Caribou aircraft in my old RAAF days, running on that managed to eke 195 kmh (probably optimistic) but sure felt faster. Smoke used to pour out the cans for a while after I stopped. Would love to have another one, cant recall the last time I saw one or it newer KR-1S. But an RG500 is high on my list.

Check out my first bike:



Its a classic 2001 Honda Hornet

The last RD400 I built to compete the Supebike magazine Ultimate streetbike competitions, 1980 RD400F 424cc, spent more building this thing than it would have cost to buy a brand new RD500LC............

78-81bhp @9600 rpm would and rev out to 10,500 still making around 70bhp, low 11 second 1/4 miles and road legal

Seen here at my last track day in 2005 at Rockingham with my old Sprinter parked behind and no it was far from being the slowest bike out there that day



The spec`s would fill 3 sides of A4, still in my garage now awaiting an engine rebuild

My first bike

my first Race bike

[quote="Linga"]My first bike

Why does this not surprise me.

My first road bike was a lot more humble. I learned a lot from this bike, from setting valves and contact breakers, maintenance routines, riding through all the year weather etc. I crashed it so many times that I was always fixing it and straightening bits out. I also resprayed it about ten times in two years. As soon as I passed my test I got the RD and never thought about this bike again. But it was a good little bike really. Note the helmet - a Stadium Achilles - my dad bought it for me, it was totally uncool and dorky, everyone else had AGVs. I also had my dad's old Belstaff waxed jacket which was also not cool at the time really. Would be worth a fortune now on ebay.