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Title: My first bike
Post by: von on December 30, 2010, 04:16:53 pm

(http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/ab12/wayneve/myfirstbike001-1.jpg)
G'day,My christmas present 50 odd years ago,had to wait a couple more years for an engine??

Title: Re: My first bike
Post by: von on December 30, 2010, 04:40:35 pm

(http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/ab12/wayneve/myfirstbike004.jpg)
My cousins bike

Title: Re: My first bike
Post by: mick25 on December 30, 2010, 07:50:46 pm

my first bike was a GT 80 paid $60 bucks for it 28 years ago,welded gear stick on and kick starter on  ???
real bummer when you fell of in top gear and the gear stick fell off :'( riding the clutch home in top gear  :P
sorry have no pics to add von

Title: Re: My first bike
Post by: Mike52 on December 31, 2010, 09:24:29 pm

They look like a kids dream VON bet you were wrapped.

Title: Re: My first bike
Post by: von on December 31, 2010, 09:44:54 pm

Quote from: Mike52 on December 31, 2010, 09:24:29 pm

They look like a kids dream VON bet you were wrapped.

Yes... they were fun,we were 2yr olds,
best christmas,50 odd years ago.
I restored them  ten years ago.

Title: Re: My first bike
Post by: lukeb1961 on January 01, 2011, 04:47:23 am

some do-gooder would ban them, today!

more photos - they are awesome.

Title: Re: My first bike
Post by: von on January 01, 2011, 10:10:58 am

Quote from: lukeb1961 on January 01, 2011, 04:47:23 am

some do-gooder would ban them, today!

more photos - they are awesome.

Yes luke, do not know how we survived,we road them down the hills in town on the main roads
with no brakes.
thinking about it........should have been banned

Title: Re: My first bike
Post by: Captain Bilko on January 01, 2011, 11:45:18 am

(http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee74/All_things_414/TS185.jpg)

I'd like to say I wish I still had it.....


But I don't :-[

Title: Re: My first bike
Post by: FAT-TOY on January 01, 2011, 10:45:26 pm

  From the time I was about 13 or 14 my mates and myself had heaps of old bikes striped down for the bush. Bikes like Matchless, AJS, Royal Enfield, BSA and others which were ridden until they just wouldn't go any further and then they ended up in one of the dams or mine subsidence holes near to where we rode.  Then we would look for a replacement and these were all funded by our paper runs and usually cost less than a couple of quid each,  thats about $4 to you who were not born in the first half of last century.  My first actual race bike was a 1966 Dot Demon and I still have it.