Found this old pic of me taken 40 years ago on my old Italjet today - Kinda spooky as I'm 50 this year (number on front)
40 years later at the same spot
'4 wheels move the body - 2 wheels move the soul'
Apart from the bike you look exactly the same
Wow, that was 1975 - Not a lot's changed really.
This is me and my bike 43 years ago in June 1972
Still got the bike but it's now (debatedly) in better nick and not a lot's really changed ..............................
............................. BUT I'm not.
Martyn
You're never too old to learn something stupid.
TTR250 but now a mobility scooterBudleigh Salterton
Makings of a good thread
Have to include pics of bike and self at both periods though Cubs old boy
I love that bike Martyn, not jealous If you need someone to look after it for you................................
Nice hair and flares dude
totallyttrs.com
He needs to bin that fairing and put the '72' pipes back on
Fairings cool, but you are right about the pipe
This is a shot of it a couple of days after I got it on the road in September 1966
Colour photography was too expensive in those days!
And here's a shot at Lands End a few years later
Liking this thread
I can go back 30+ years.
Took the Queens Shilling and disappeared for 23 Years !!
Put this pic up before but seems to fit with this thread...
Me, Dad (76 and still riding regular) and my lad - Bikes very much in the family....
jt wrote:You look so happy in them pics.......
You look so happy in them pics.......
Race face most of em
This one is me at Hartlepool on the T100 in 1977
The sprint along Hartlepool prom has been gone long ago but on that day we did a quarter mile in 15.98 seconds.
I didn't get into trail riding before migrating to Devon nigh on 6 years ago.
I did bring my Cub with me - before getting the TTR