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Offline JAP 454

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Re: What did your Dad ride
« Reply #15 on: January 16, 2013, 09:00:34 pm »
Yeah, top photo Alvin, 2 Beezers and your Dad on an Ajay or Matchy, I think. I was wondering where the bridge is, too. It's a type known as an Allen Truss bridge, the same as the one near my house.
Great stuff and your Dad is one cool lookin' dude !! Brando style L J an' all.
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« Reply #16 on: January 16, 2013, 09:51:52 pm »
In answer to your questions boys, firstly Mark, I think it was somewhere in Kangaroo Valley, south of Sydney and Steve, yes Ronnie was Kevin and John's father and Jack, their uncle and finally Foss, you're good mate........yeah, Dad's bike was a 350 AJS......and as for the BRANDO jacket, here I am wearing it in 1968 aboard my Beeza Bantam !!  ;D
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« Reply #17 on: January 16, 2013, 09:57:54 pm »
and later that year on.........would you believe it........my 350 AJS..a '46 motor in a '59 frame.......21"front wheel with ribbed tyre and 18" grasshopper on the rear......and of course......SPEEDWAY tank.......shot taken at our practice track........Belfield Speedway !!  ::)
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Re: What did your Dad ride
« Reply #18 on: January 16, 2013, 10:04:23 pm »
That ultra cooool pic of you on the # 9 Bantam just goes to show sartorial elegance runs in your family , Alvin. Great stuff with the L J.
Goodyear Grasshoppers, bloody hell , that's goin' back a bit, ain't it ??
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Re: What did your Dad ride
« Reply #19 on: January 16, 2013, 10:10:47 pm »
Hey Purple, was kessing a balmain boy


My dad rode a G80 49 500 single, and a matcho before that around Gladesville, he knew kenny roberts mechanic. of late a evo/shovel frame Fl, and a ttr230.
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« Reply #20 on: January 16, 2013, 10:17:18 pm »
Hi Brett
They all grew up around Enfield, however, I think Jack ( in the photo ) and his wife Marie lived in Rozelle at some time, maybe the mid '50s ?  ???
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Re: What did your Dad ride
« Reply #21 on: January 17, 2013, 10:17:56 am »
After veiwing all of your pics Alvin I've gotta ask!

Do you have a scalf fettish ???  ;D
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Re: What did your Dad ride
« Reply #22 on: January 17, 2013, 10:52:18 am »
It's a little funny the history of my father & motorcycles  :-)  Dad use to roadrace in England, he had a few beezers was also an RAC officer (would attend automobile breakdowns) with motorcycle & sidecar.

He gave up bikes & moved to Australia to raise a family in the early 60's; I knew nothing about his motorcycling background.  One day, when I was 12, I had been hanging-out at the local boat launching ramps and a kid was riding around on a Tas minibike, he offerred me a ride; I was hooked!

I rushed home and said to Mum & Dad "I just rode this motorbike, it was fantastic, can I get one?!!".  Mum looked at Dad and said "oh no!"  She wasn't saying "no I can't have one", she was saying " oh no he has your (Dads) disease"

Dad said you are not having some stupid lawn-mower powered thing and bought me a new Italjet 50 (from George Bailey Honda in Frankston) that was a correctly scaled-down motocrosser.

Dad had a fibreglass canoe factory next to Alan Lambert Motorcycles (that became Lambert Leathers), Alan's son Roger was racing a Suz TM125 in '73 an Alan took me to my first scramble at Bairnsdale to watch Roger race.  From there onwards I always wanted a TM125.

In '74 Dad tipped-in a dollar for every one I saved and we bought a new '74 TM125 and he bought a '74 TS125 for himself; he never rode it, it got stolen & recovered and I fitted TM bits to it to take out the club trailbike class, it's the bike in my avatar pic that Dad took.

Dad's had a few health issues (as I guess most old blokes have) of late and he only has a 50cc TGB scooter but he's thinking of getting a 250 roadbike.

I'll ask him for some of his old bike pics.
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Re: What did your Dad ride
« Reply #23 on: January 17, 2013, 01:58:31 pm »

Here are some of my dad bikes, from the top, Karme, Kynock, 20 speed Rudge multi.
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« Reply #24 on: January 17, 2013, 02:13:27 pm »

I followed the foots steps of my 2 brothers, Dennis, Roger, my brother Roger race Matchless, and a Dot white strength 250 in New Zealand and later Montesa cappra 250, my brother Dennis raced cotton,Montesa Diablo 250, Triumph 650 twin, Kawasaki F21m, Montesa cappra gp 360. (RIP)
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Re: What did your Dad ride
« Reply #25 on: January 17, 2013, 03:05:47 pm »
Quote from: Dave #6 on January 17, 2013, 01:58:31 pm

Here are some of my dad bikes, from the top, Karme, Kynock, 20 speed Rudge multi.

There was a couple of these old rigs that were V-twins, complete and in oroginal condition at the Goulborn swap last w end, very cool machines and very large!

I think they had 24" wheels and were at least  7 foot long.
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« Reply #26 on: January 17, 2013, 05:23:32 pm »
Just reading this post jolted my memory of something my dad told me years ago.

At 19yrs of age the old man joined the Royal Navy and getting posted to an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea somewhere. He had a brouph or a rudge from memory, wanted to get rid of them before he went into the navy, no takers so he pushed them into the bloody pond and left them there, unbelievable  :D :D

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Re: What did your Dad ride
« Reply #27 on: January 17, 2013, 05:35:12 pm »
In answer to your question Sorelegs, YES..........and that's just one of my minor fetishes !! :'(
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Re: What did your Dad ride
« Reply #28 on: January 17, 2013, 06:18:49 pm »
COOL! I will raid the wardrobe and see what I can find for you.

I'll keep an eye ou ;t for the purple leathers on saturday.  ;D
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Re: What did your Dad ride
« Reply #29 on: January 17, 2013, 06:36:36 pm »
Hey,Dave #6
In the photo of the lad with his head cropped off, WTF is that bike ?? It looks like a Honda Dream pressed steel frame with a Villiers in it !!
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