Your first and last bike photos
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First one, must have been around late summer 2006. Getting on for 17 and finally decided to do a CBT and get a bike. Had this 2000 Aprilia RS50 for about 6 months or so (before I upgraded to an RS125). Never caused me any issue apart from carb icing. Guy I sold it two got T Boned shortly after and it was written off.
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Latest picture of me on a bike. Must have been about 18 months or so ago on my CBF500 heading towards Whiteways I think. Still have it and will probably never get rid.
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Latest picture of me on a bike. Must have been about 18 months or so ago on my CBF500 heading towards Whiteways I think. Still have it and will probably never get rid.
Well then, this is me on my first bike, and not just the first photo, but I think the only photo of me on it. In the pre-digital age not too many photos were taken. So it’s in 1973 and my Honda SS50 (derestricted, of course
).
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I’ve loads of more recent photos, but they’re mostly bike and not me. So this is the actual latest photo taken of me and the bike, from a couple of weeks back near the Col D’Aspin in the Pyrenees.
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So 51 years between photos! Bloody hell, where’s it all gone.
I did actually do a round trip tour of Scotland on the SS50 in ‘73 so from small acorns, mighty oaks and all that. Jaunt I’m just back from on the Chief (39 x the capacity of the SS50!) was 4000+ miles in 19 days.
I doubt I’d even countenance being a bloody OAP as a young lad, let alone still be riding 51 years on.
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I’ve loads of more recent photos, but they’re mostly bike and not me. So this is the actual latest photo taken of me and the bike, from a couple of weeks back near the Col D’Aspin in the Pyrenees.
So 51 years between photos! Bloody hell, where’s it all gone.
I did actually do a round trip tour of Scotland on the SS50 in ‘73 so from small acorns, mighty oaks and all that. Jaunt I’m just back from on the Chief (39 x the capacity of the SS50!) was 4000+ miles in 19 days.
I doubt I’d even countenance being a bloody OAP as a young lad, let alone still be riding 51 years on.
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