When we were kids/teens

[gator]

they look like SIDI's

[STW996]

I go with Doc on the Vanderamini's as I had a set as well and they were crap with a capital C, even so I did use them when I had a broke ankle and took the inner boot out and the plaster fitted in fine true story

[All Things 414]

Yeah the Doc's on the money. Vendramini's. And they were the worst barstard of a boot I ever wore! Absolutely no feeling whats-so-ever, uncomfortable and stunk to high heaven.....

[magoo]

Here's my contribution. It was taken in 1974 at my local mini bike club and this photo was taken at the exact spot where turn 1 at Granville Speedway now sits. The bike is a XR75KO.

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[GMC]

Those photo's of your trip look good Graham. That was a brave ride on the IT, I had a DT400 & it was horrible on the road (bloody horrible in the dirt too) It used heaps of fuel, a V8 would have been cheaper to run.

Photo's of me riding are pretty much non existant too.

Here's my2nd bike with my car in the background.


Mallee Rally 1980
KX 250 A4 with long range tank

[Wombat]

GMC, I think the KX A4 never looked quite as pretty with the number plates rear mounted.

[Woody]

Here's a pic of our 2nd bike - YZ80E. This was my intro to the 2 stroke 'powerband'. Not a bad bike but it was the 1st with the monoshock and the frame kept cracking at the swingarm mounts, despite the factory recall fix. Eventually upgraded to a YZ80G, which was a fantastic bike but haven't got any pics of her.
We ran mx and short circuit in N/E VIC, where Myrtleford was my favourite track. Ricky Wason was a good B grader at the time, does anyone know how far he got in mx?

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[Wombat]

I love these old photos; they're little time capsules.
The subject of the photo is just as interesting to me as the cars, the clothing and the haircuts in shot.
I wish I'd had a digital camera back in the day...so many of the old photos are going yellow and are increasingly difficult to identify any real detail.

[GMC]

GMC, I think the KX A4 never looked quite as pretty with the number plates rear mounted.

Yeah, those number plates were crap but 79 was the year you had to have the plates further rearward so to keep riding it this seemed the logical thing.
Funny how the rule book for vintage doesn't say where those numbers need to be

[Doc]

Woody, how did you get the bike around..I notice the big block 180B has no towbar 
my RM80 would slot backwards into the EK Holden wagon but the fumes meant you were dead on arrival
jeez a lot of things make sense these days..always suffered with crook eyes and headaches 

[PERM250]

hey chis i love the boots my older brother just got home from vietnam so i scored  his army boots if could only work out the way  to work this scanner ive got some old trail blazer pics from the state finals at inala in brisbane its a shane all the old track are closing and i hear that tivoli will close a big piece of my youth will be gone  the mini bike days had a big part wheelstander and trail blazers  then albert distric motorcycles club .   

[Wombat]

Yes GMC, '79 was not kind to those of us not able to afford the new model bike.
I used silver tape, tek screws, fuse wire and whatever else to rear mount the plates on the 250 A4. But there'd tear off or drop off at will.
At best the bike look like a 'bitsa' and at worst it just looked wrong.

Asthetics is important... 

[David Lahey]

My mate John Heidemann had a new RL250 Suzuki trials bike and I could see he was having all sorts of problems getting good air jumping up a vertical creek bank at Dayboro. This a photo of me showing him how to do it right!!

I'm a slow learner. Not long after this, we were on a trail ride on Stradbroke Island and every time John on the RL250 hit a patch of soft sand, he did a big tank slapper and fell off. The rest of us on our TYs just thought he was having a brain snap and I (again) decided to show him how to ride the RL. Well of course I got along well till the next bit of soft sand and did the same tank slapper thing as John did. My big problem then was getting John off my TY for the rest of the ride.

From that time on, John and I have steadfastedly avoided riding Suzuki RL250s.

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[David Lahey]

Heres something for Doc

My first Suzuki (TS185) - taken in about 1975

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[David Lahey]

My first proper enduro bike (IT175D) and at my first ACU 1 day enduro. Woodford (near Brisbane) in 1978. Note the riding gear is overalls - the only gear I had that met the PPE requirements for an ACU event.

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