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Clubroom => Foto Forum => Topic started by: Nathan S on October 13, 2008, 05:32:33 pm
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Looking for the battery charger today, I unearthed some old riding pics. As always, it took me on a trip down memory lane, and I still haven't found the friggen charger...
As an experiment, I took digi photos of them, and that worked out sort of OK...
These were taken at the now defunct Bike Farm (Samurai Motopark/Blackbutt Gully) at Tomerong on the NSW South Coast.
I was 20 years old, living out of home and earning less than $15k/year... Havng an old bike wasn't a decision, it was the only option... The bike is my old DT250A, complete with dodgy paint job and a monoshock DT125 tank (not sure why that was a good idea, but it seemed like one at the time).
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f128/annaandnathan/028.jpg)
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f128/annaandnathan/PhotosOfPhotos004.jpg)
This is my mate Mikey. This photo is remarkable, because he's actually got both wheels off the ground, and isn't in the middle of crashing:
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f128/annaandnathan/PhotosOfPhotos003.jpg)
Mikey again, this time on his own bike. This is the YZ125C that I've been racing, before it spent five years leaning against another mate's shed (and obviously before I spent plenty of time and money on it...). As you can see, he could easily ride around the outside of Reed or Bubba any time he wants:
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f128/annaandnathan/PhotosOfPhotos007.jpg)
There are better photos from this day, but the prints got destroyed in a bathroom flood a few years ago. The negatives survived, but I can't find them now... >:(
This is the Hodaka Wombat that the "mate with the the shed with the YZ125C leaning against it" and I went halvies in. I got burned in the bushfires at my dad's place, Christmas day 2001.
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f128/annaandnathan/PhotosOfPhotos001.jpg)
Here's a photo of the DT250, back when I first "finished" it. Aerosol cans and hard work all the way - yeah its crap, but with the benefit of hindsight, I'm pretty impressed with the quality of the job, given that I had no money and no tools.
(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f128/annaandnathan/032.jpg)
There will be more, but our upload speed is tragically slow, and its annoying me.
Oh, and my first ever rally car. This was taken at a state-round khanacross at South Nowra. I was quite hung-over that day, and forgot it was a state round (hence the road tyres), but scored my first ever driving trophy, which (predictably) is still pretty important to me:
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f128/annaandnathan/PhotosOfPhotos002.jpg
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COOL 8) pics Nathan is that a fox tail hanging out the back of your helmet mate ;D jimson
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Nah, looks like a possum that leapt out of a tree as he went past.............. :D :D
Just jealous..................... I remember having hair............... :D :D