When we were kids/teens

[Tony T]

Sorry we got off topic fellas............. but thanks Graeme. Cool stories.
My 84 KX 500 was registered too. Only road it through town once.................... 

[Woody]

My first bikes were shared with my little bro;

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[maicopunk]

Here's my old IT175. It was a good wheelie bike with it's mellow power.



Note the regulation safety gear for the period, top of the line army boots (leather ones) and kidney belt.

[090]

  The kidneys would have been safe in an accident. You'd of made a good organ donor!

[mboddy]

In the pits at Narrabundah track ACT.
My brother David on his Honda MR50. Me and my Yamaha YZ80B. Iain on his Yamaha DT125A(E).



David over the jump on the main straight.

[All Things 414]

KX 80 D1 At Monza Park '81 (why could'nt I be that skinny again!)



CR 250 (whatever the '86 model was) practising Monza Park ( Doing the Gary Baily dig ya foot in routine...)

[jimson]

This was me on my YZ80C back about 1981 or 2  I had just painted the tank and was happy with the result  I walked for 2 hours to buy the bike and then had to walk it home    jimson

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[Wombat]

414, the helmet graphics in the Honda photo intrigue me.
I'm being nosey here but what's the big yellow circle - a symbol of individuality or product placement?
I remember Barry Sheene had the 'Donald Duck' on all his lids and I followed his lead with several designs.   

[All Things 414]

Jeez. Some people DO have an eye for detail! Actually it was the symbol for "Agricultural Requirements". I was tarting up a helmet and a mate of mine had these laying about so on it went. Probably would have been more appropriate for what I ride these days. Can you pick the boots that I had on with the KX 80? I'll give you a clue. Six months of crashing 'till I got used to them....

[Wombat]

'Agricultural Requirements' you say? wear it loud and wear it proud...
My guess at the boots is Sidi.

[yzhilly]

My guess would be star wars stormtrooper Scott Boots ,Only the rich kids had them .It was funny watching them walk back through the pits like spaz's

[firko]

I reckon they're Scotts as well.
I had a pair and I was a poor boy in those days (come to think of it, I still am)! I absolutely hated the bloody things and only rode one race meeting with them and chucked them in the garage cupboard. In the early 90s I found them again and wore them at a Nepean dirt track. Unfortunately the same issues I hated for them fifteen years earlier were still there. Call me crazy but I like to feel my gear changes. With the Scotts (Heckels as well) there was next to no feel through the boot so missed gear changes were par for the course. It wasn't so bad with the Maico but I raced a CZ as well and I couldn't get those gear changes right with the Scotts. A switch back to my old Ashman Red Devils and the gear changes were right again.
I sold the Scotts about five years ago for $50 only to find that I could have got a couple of hundred for 'em on eBay.

Scott has just released a new version of the plastic boot, the Scott Genius. You'd think they'd have learned not to bother after the market failure of thirty years ago. The latest ADB reports that gear changing is still awkward. At $799 a pair I don't think too many will make the mistake we made 30 years ago.

[Doc]

414..my monitor is shot and I can't see sweet fa but I reckon they're Heckel's or Vanderamini's..I had the latter plastic jobs..the worst boots I've ever owned and turned me of plastic boots for life..not only absolutely no feel and even less comfort but they only lasted 12 months before they were totally stuffed and headed to the dump

[yzhilly]

I think doc might be on the money coz the scotts had blue on the front and  i think the vendramis were all red !

[yzhilly]

Here is some Gator prepared earlier .

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