When we were kids/teens

[paul]

THIS IS A REALLY INTERESTING THREAD FELLAS 

[Hoony]

yeah i agree Paul, heres my old pics.

taken down the local Drains adjacent to a vacant block of dead flat land. very boring track so we pulled mono's down the Drains, ok i was only 17 then.

Yes Hilly, i am on a Yamaha's first model 1980 TT250G i have confessed my sins  years later 

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[090]

Yes wombat,my dad is in the pool game. He was the president of the club for a while as well.
nice wheelies Hoony. Can you still do the one handers?

[Tony T]

Yes Hilly, i am on a Yamaha's first model 1980 TT250G i have confessed my sins  years later 

Don't feel bad Hoony. I remember Mr. Kenny Roberts riding one at the start of a particular movie that looked pretty cool. 

[Hoony]

like most of us Brad, those skills went with my dark hair.

the "don't use, it lose it" saying applies. i can still pull a good mono but nowhere as good as then as i spent all day doing them.

[Maico31]

Brad if your old man tinted his hair he'd look exactly the same as he does in that old shot. Wombat i reckon the first Archerfield supercross was late '79 with Mike bell and Rex Staten there riding YZ250f's. The first set of quads were there and the aussies were having all sorts of grief trying to jump them 2 and 2 until Gally finally mastered them. I need someone to scan some old pics and programs for me, i've got lots of them from that era. The first 3 hour race at windaroo may well have been '79 or early '80.

[090]

Ha! Dads had that beard for nearly 40 years! Now that i have gotten into vmx, he's all excited again and wants to follow me around all over again. I love my dad!!

[paul]

are you bringing him to cd5

[090]

Dont know if he will fit with all the bikes im taking

[Maico31]

Get him to take his truck and he can take some bikes for me too... Ha ha

[Graeme M]

Mike, great photo of the DOT. I never knew there was a track at Eimeo. My uncle came from Mackay and used to ride with a few of the lads up that way. He also knew some of the old stalwarts of the Maryborough club, apparently they used to have a grasstrack or something around Copenhagen Bend there. He often mentioned guys that I knew like old Uncle Ernie Rook.

[brent j]

This has to be the best thread yet!

My Dad was a plumber and has the patience of a saint. Every Sunday I’d unload his Hi-ace van and load my bike in, he’d drop me and sometimes a mate at one of the local riding areas and return about 4-5 hours later. Many were the times he was called on to drop someone off at hospital and/or take a damaged bike home for someone. Never complained and looking back gave up so much so I could have fun.

Here’s my beloved TS90MX with me in the green T shirt and my mate Jeff in blue. The third one is me and it was so cool back then to wear your T shirt on the outside. Gave that “factory” look! Sadly I've never been one for photos, these are the only photos I've got of back then.

Brent

[YSS]

Good one Brent , I wish I hade a Dad like yours . I hade to chain up my  Lambrette +Puch 125 in the forrest .

[brent j]

Dad had a hotted up army Indian in the '50's and nearly killed himself on it so he didn't want me to ride on the road. A traily was ok tho.

Something else the cunning bugger did. I was always buying motorbike books and looking at the pictures, my reading wasn't too good in those days. Dad would read my mags when I went to bed and start discussing various bikes with me the next day. I had to go back and read the bloody things! He wasn't that interested in bikes but the crafty bugger found a way to get me reading.

I've got a lot to thank him for

Brent

[Doc]

To lose these memories through trauma or dementia would certainly be one of the biggest losses one could ever experience. It's okay to say worse is losing loved ones but to not remember who you are yourself let alone loved ones and family would be incredibly difficult and hard to fathom. Anyway hopefully no-one here gets into a situation but I was just sitting here thinking. My grandmother on dads side died with dementia and it makes me wonder if I shouldn't write some things down now..just in case 

Brent, I never had the MX version TS but I was kinda close even though I never knew they existed (at the time)..here's another pic of the TS100 powerthruster. It also had the dinner plate TM rear sprocket for max acceleration If it rained within 100 miles it would stop but would go again after you kicked it about 50 times so that was ok. The helmet is soooo daggy now I look again..it was all I had and better than a bucket. The rider getting the huge air on it is Ray. We've been mates since grade 1. We'd always share my bikes as he was not allowed a bike of his own..his mother was/is not the sort of person you'd want to argue with 



this is my elder brother. This was Nudgee 1974 roughly where the finish line is on the current track.