When we were kids/teens

[David Lahey]

My first Bultaco - a M85 325 Alpina. In this photo from 1976 I had just repainted the whole bike. It was registered, but the lighting gear was taken off for a trial.

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[David Lahey]

This is John Walmsley's Suzuki/Maico shop at Capalaba in 1976. See if you trainspotters can work out what the bikes are out the front.

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[David Lahey]

Ok this was at the start of a trail ride either Christmas Day or Boxing day in 1978. We are at the garage at the junction at Samford and up in the mountains that day there was another group of riders and one of them had the first TT250 I had ever seen. We had a good look at it while catching breath between hillclimbs.
No points for the PE175s and PE250s and the KLX but what is the red bike and which model IT is it??

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[jimson]

Feetup is the red bike a Suzuki ts 1977 maybe.  jimson

[Doc]

I'll have a go at guessing the bikes Feetupfun 

from left to right I'd say....

RV90 pointing backwards, a kawa F9 bighorn, RV125,RM125A,GS400 twin,TS185,RV90,A100

bikes behind these against shop front maybe a GT125/185twin roadie and what appears a CT125 Honda?

the ute being '76 could a HQ or HX 

Jimson, the red bike is an SP370 

[Quicksilver]

Looking at the door trim on old ute id say its likely to be a HQ..

[Maico31]

I'd say the IT is a G model judging by the sidecovers and possibly a 125 because of the steel swingarm. The ute would be a poverty pack Belmont with no arm rest and either a HQ or HJ i'd reckon.

[Maico31]

Feetup are you sure that pic wasn't taken in '80? The klx250 came out in oz in 1980, i bought one of the first ones, and IT's first came out with rear mounted sidecovers in 1980 i'm pretty sure.

[David Lahey]

I knew Doc would get the SP370 at Samford but what a legend picking all those bikes at Capalaba. Doc -were you there that day???

When I think about it a bit more yes the Samford photo was Christmas or Boxing Day 1979 or Australia Day 1980 and that was the first proper trail ride for that KLX.

Picking the IT model really is a bit hard. It's actually a 400C model - pretty rare beast and pretty crap to ride way up in the mountains too. I'm trying to remember the rider's name.

SP370 David Lahey
IT400C Brian
KLX250 John Zordan
PE175C George McKenzie
PE175C Gordon Burley
PE250C Dick Wort

[Doc]

  feetupfun, I can't say I ever set foot in John Walmsley's Suzuki shop. My fav haunt as a kid was Reece Hampson's Northside Suzuki or Mayfairs at Windsor. Both my RM80 and RM400 came from Phil Thew's but I never set foot in that shop as a kid either..the other side of town may as well be the other side of the world when one relied on public transport or a sweat machine pushbike

[David Lahey]

Doc
So you were a Northsider hey. Yes there was a bit of a divide in Brisbane. I was from Bulimba/Balmoral and rode mainly on vacant industrial land around there as a kid. One place on the bank of the river at Hawthorn we called Rheem after the factory next door is now a millionaires row of fancy mansions.
Another riding spot on the river down at Murrarie was called Baynses. It is now covered up by the Southern approach for the Gateway Bridge.

Fond memories.

Was Northside Suzuki the Suzuki shop at Zillmere? I think my buddy George got his PE175C there. John Walmsley Suzuki had become Capalaba Yamaha by then so no chance of getting a PE there in 1978.

[TM BILL]

Colmore South east England Circa 1976 TM Bill converted Yamaha AT 1

[TM BILL]

Tm Bills Daughters Circa 1996

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TM Bills Daughter 2008

[Quicksilver]

The old 350 and 175.