When did the biking bug bite you? Post a photo if you can find one.

Originally Posted by DJFridge

Photoshop some decent shorts on yourself, quick!!

What? Some pink ones?

I was brought up with bikes, my Dad used to race TZs in the 80s before I was born. Yea I missed the 80s He always had a road bike and I was always riding pillion whenever I could. I remember my Mum having a go at him for going 50mph with me on the back!! I, however was loving it. Playing cards in the wheel of my push bike and riding around on it with my bike helmet on thinking I was the coolest kid on the street coz my Dad had a motorbike. I stayed with my push bikes (dropping the helmet and playing cards) and then when I was 18, I finally got handed a nice savings fund my parents set up when I was born, so I went and bought a CBR125, did my CBT, Full test 5 months after, then got the SV and here I am loving every minute on a bike, looking at following my old man onto the racetrack to show him how it's done. Restriction comes off in August, just counting down the days

Originally Posted by timwilky

FFS Lozzo, I thought I would be the only one on this site who even knew about Terry Beckett, never mind had one. I had one go proddy racing at 3 sisters on my lc250 and seized the damm thing first lap

Terry Beckett was the top choice of tuner when I was a lad. Stan Stephens could make them a touch faster but his engines blew up, where Terry's didn't.

£80 that proddy tune cost me and it turned my previously joyful, smooth and fairly rapid RD400E into a firebreathing nutterbike with psychotic tendencies and ability to do a mere 9mpg when held pinned against the stop up the M1 between Junctions 1 and 12 on the way back from Chelsea Bridge on a Friday night.

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

What? Some pink ones?

Originally Posted by DJFridge

Actually, not sure that's the right smiley. It's supposed to be me rolling round laughing at the thought of the pink shorts!

I've only been riding just over a year so there aren't any embarrassing photos of me yet (I hope).

[Geodude]

Originally Posted by Lozzo

Images like this you mean?



The SDC (Socially Depressed C**ts) August bank holiday 1982 - Wicksteed Park, Kettering. That's me aged 20 kneeling far right with my ex who now lives slap bang opposite me, I'd only just been released from hospital after an extended stay following a major bike crash that nearly killed me. I remember riding up on my Beckett proddy tuned Yamaha RD400 and crashing on the way home - my g/f Jeanette borrowed my KE175 trailie to get there and crashed that too about 5 minutes after we'd kicked the RD straight and got me back on the road.

I'm still in regular contact with most of that bunch of reprobates, three of whom are now fully fledged Hells Angels.

Yeah thats what im talking about Lozzo. I used to stare in awe of groups like that as a kid, and i still do

You covered in bandages in that pic or you just airing your boxers?

[Geodude]

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

You lot need to adjust your colour settings, I don't know WTF you're all talking about.

Didnt mind the pink tbh but did notice the great use of two right hand mirrors

Originally Posted by Lozzo

Terry Beckett was the top choice of tuner when I was a lad. Stan Stephens could make them a touch faster but his engines blew up, where Terry's didn't.

£80 that proddy tune cost me and it turned my previously joyful, smooth and fairly rapid RD400E into a firebreathing nutterbike with psychotic tendencies and ability to do a mere 9mpg when held pinned against the stop up the M1 between Junctions 1 and 12 on the way back from Chelsea Bridge on a Friday night.

This is where I really got the bug serious when I was a novice rider at Brands. Not sure how they do it now but in those days the paddock was on the outfield of the track and you prepped there then went in a tunnel under the track to get trackside. The noise and smell of those two strokes in the tunnel with the adrenalin going was fantastic. Still get goose bumps now thinking about it.

This was a Terry Beckett RD350LC, 1982. They used to throw novices and experienced guys in the same race then, 250cc and 350c, some of my programmes show 30+ riders. I can't remember too much about this race in the first picture only that Damon Hill was in it, I think he won easily on a 250 and I think I came a distant 4th.

No knee down action but the lean angle was quite steep, it was the stylish way we used to do it back then.

Awesome pics dude mucho respecto

[DavieSV]

My Father bought a Honda Z50j in 1976 when we lived out in Abu Dhabi, I was 6.
It was too big for me then, but when we got back to the UK when I was about 8 I loved riding it in the feilds near our house.
I got the box of bits of my Dad a couple of years ago and set about restoring it.
I just need to finish off the wiring then it's about done.

Here is the only picture I can find of it at the moment, in my rather over crowded garage.