A picture a day... biker banter (Vol 6)
Discussion
Biker's Nemesis said:
No problem.
I'm just about to have my Tea, I'll be back after that and I'll answer your question about my RD 500 and Westgate Road.
Yeah, no worries. I've very fond memories of the times I spent on the hill, had a walk around there looking in the shops that are still on the go. Funny how many people I still recognise from there. I live just around the corner from it now, and have a wander up there now and again.I'm just about to have my Tea, I'll be back after that and I'll answer your question about my RD 500 and Westgate Road.
Heaveho said:
Yeah, no worries. I've very fond memories of the times I spent on the hill, had a walk around there looking in the shops that are still on the go. Funny how many people I still recognise from there. I live just around the corner from it now, and have a wander up there now and again.
I know Alan Hunter, Ian Myers from M&S, Mick and Jim that were in Kens. I used to live 3 doors down from Kev at Armstrongs too.I see you're roughly the same age as me too.
Biker's Nemesis said:
I know Alan Hunter, Ian Myers from M&S, Mick and Jim that were in Kens. I used to live 3 doors down from Kev at Armstrongs too.
I see you're roughly the same age as me too.
Yeah, I know Alan, bought the last bike I had from him when he had the warehouse up at the Whitehouse Ind. Est. And I know a few of the lads still working at M&S, they're sometimes in The County on Gossie high street when the bikes are on TV there. I'm still in touch with Colin Handyside, the mad professor that used to run the paint side of Custom Lids, he still lives on the hill. I see you're roughly the same age as me too.
I figured we must be of an age when you mentioned having the 500 LC in 1990. I would have had my GPZ600 by then I think.
Biker's Nemesis said:
I had a look at a couple of your posts and saw that you got a car at a certain age and that you've had it 20 years. That makes us both the same age.
Do you know this guy?
Sorry if I'm being thick, which guy? Do you know this guy?
Edited, yes, being thick! Just seen the post above. Don't immediately recognise him, but it may have been a while since I saw him!
Heaveho said:
Sorry if I'm being thick, which guy?
Edited, yes, being thick! Just seen the post above. Don't immediately recognise him, but it may have been a while since I saw him!
He called Mal, he sprays helmets too, he also had a shop on Westgate Road a few years back, this photo was taken a few weeks back, my Fizzy in the background.Edited, yes, being thick! Just seen the post above. Don't immediately recognise him, but it may have been a while since I saw him!
Biker's Nemesis said:
Ouch. I got a few of those back then for various indiscretions but didn't get as far as crashing for one! Congrats, you've taken it one step beyond! I'm wondering if that lad in the pic took Colin's place on after he jacked it in. I don't know exactly when that would have been, I moved to Southampton in '98 until 2016 and lost track of what was going on in the area for many years, and I was out of bikes more or less by then.
gareth_r said:
That would be mine :PBiker's Nemesis said:
I stepped out of Kitsons (on the Hill...) one day to see the sump plug of that CBX coming towards me...going DOWNHILL. He put it down very neatly near Harry Wood's place then did a U-turn, hoiked it up on the back wheel and did the full length of the Hill past Kens and out of site. Madness!I also well remember Mick and Jim at Kens - good blokes, I spent ages gazing at the Norton Commando Interstates in their showroom window when they were first announced (that probably makes me older than the rest of you!)
Some years earlier, a mate used to race a TD3 and, following an engine rebuild, we needed to set the carburettor jetting. As he lived at Kibblesworth, there was a convenient bit of road being built - but not yet open - which ran from Coal House (Team Valley) uphill to Birtley, past what is now the Angel of the North. We drove over the dolomite slip road at Team valley and unloaded the bike from the van and then spent about an hour going up and down this closed road doing umpteen plug-chops to set the jetting ready for Croft the next day. Our lookout at the Team Valley end came howling up the road on his RD350 to warn us of impending Police presence and we had to clear off quick-sharp!
Anyone else remember Dene Motorcycles (The Dene) in the Toon? Or Walrons on Coatsworth Road?
Gassing Station | Biker Banter | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff