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Re: Your Very First Bike
« Reply #45 on: July 31, 2014, 08:27:41 pm »
I had to get councilling for the rear mudguard on the CB :o
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Re: Your Very First Bike
« Reply #46 on: July 31, 2014, 09:48:38 pm »
My first bike was a DT 175a. Brand new from Brian Collins in Kingswood for $609. My second was a MT 250 from Motocross in Penrith for $755. (it was a slug) Have a pic of the MT, to hard to download.
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Re: Your Very First Bike
« Reply #47 on: August 01, 2014, 10:29:19 am »
Very early 70's, my brothers & I got a Deltek to share. 1 bike between 3 didnt go so we put a chair on it so at least 2 of us were happy.

Outgrew that overnight & got my own first bike - Honda SL70  ;D

Was a sad & sorry little cousin to the dominat XR75 & then YZ80 so eventually got my own XR75 & passed the SL70 down the line. Photos to come  ;)





And then, finally, my very own first NEW bike!!! The mighty little XR75  ;D

Racing Mate helmet, Carrera goggles, Jofa mouth guard & Rossi boots - the wonder years  ;)


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Re: Your Very First Bike
« Reply #48 on: August 01, 2014, 10:53:53 am »
Jofa and Carreras. Same here. I reckoned life couldn't get much better......... until I discovered girls! J

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Re: Your Very First Bike
« Reply #49 on: August 01, 2014, 11:04:09 am »
Yep I was Joffa, Carrera's, Rossi's and the gloves were yellow with the black rubbers strips down the fingers,  gee that must have been all the shops sold ?!
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Re: Your Very First Bike
« Reply #50 on: August 01, 2014, 11:21:38 am »
Yep & the Rossi's were one size, large or large  :o :o :o

You had to make them fit by increasing or decreasing the number of footy socks that you wore (well thats what your parents would tell you when you could only get hand-me-downs  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Your Very First Bike
« Reply #51 on: August 01, 2014, 11:53:37 am »
We used to race bicycles before anyone had a motorbike.
I'm older here, but this is the bike I raced my mates on -
around the grounds of local Catholic primary school.  The racing
got pretty serious for some of us, but also was immense fun.
And often very, very funny.  Heaps of stacks.


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My first unit was this go kart.  It had no clutch, so was push-clunk-started,
then the user would leap in as it took off.  Engine was a villiers out of a
cement mixer. I still love STP stickers!  Other stickers are some little
flowery-hippie things ... perhaps out of gum wrappers?
There's a little on-off push kill button at very top of right handlebar
(like a lampshade's switch.).
Extra struts under seat after wood broke and one mate's arse fell through
while on the move.  It was a crappy old thing, but I was excited as hell!
   I then did a straight swap for my first bike ... a crappy old thin-barrel 125 Bantam.

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Re: Your Very First Bike
« Reply #52 on: August 01, 2014, 11:55:42 am »
My neighbour VCM luminary Matt Rossi has believe it or not an old pair of Rossi's. John did you realise Metro make replica's of the old gloves? I have a pair. J

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Re: Your Very First Bike
« Reply #53 on: August 01, 2014, 11:57:06 am »
Did the pushy keep you away from the priests Rog? J

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Re: Your Very First Bike
« Reply #54 on: August 01, 2014, 11:59:53 am »
My Catholic mates seemed to be the heaviest drinkers/anarchists.  I didn't even know
there was supposed to be an ongoing line between the two religions across Australia.
We kids all just got on well together.  And got pissed together.

(But let's not thread-shift down that political path)

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Re: Your Very First Bike
« Reply #55 on: August 01, 2014, 01:27:26 pm »
My neighbour VCM luminary Matt Rossi has believe it or not an old pair of Rossi's. John did you realise Metro make replica's of the old gloves? I have a pair. J


I've only seen them in black.
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Re: Your Very First Bike
« Reply #56 on: August 01, 2014, 01:41:56 pm »
Yellow/Gold Tan with black strips up the digits. I think I paid $35 for them. J