show us your bike then!!!!

[wookie]

Didn't that make your hair a bit on the greasy side.

Everybody who rode a motorbike had greasy hair back then

 

[Gwil]

Everybody who rode a motorbike had greasy hair back then

I had hair back then......

 

[norlander]

Everybody who rode a motorbike had greasy hair back then

greasy hands/boots/jeans/jacket, Rockers was one name for us, the other was greasers, there were othe names, but forum rules...............................

 

[mechman]

I had hair back then......

I still have

 

[norlander]

I still have

Ah, well,everyone has, its just that for some of us its not in a place that you would go to the barbers for a short back n sides

 

[blenkie1]

Aye me as well, Once got towed back to Newcastle from the far side of Hartside on a seized Tiger 100. The worst was taking the side car off a knacked speed twin so I could get them both home (Newcastle)on a train from the north of Scotland(Golspie) changing trains a few times and dumped on the middle (then) platform of the central station reconnect sidecar to bike and towed home(again) by a taxi. Oh some kind soul had decided that the bike would be the perfect place to stack a load of full fish boxes on top of. It did make me quite cross. But you just got on with it, Happy days.

Transporting bikes back on trains them where the days! Me and my brother saved enough money to buy a Suzuki RM125 from Lancaster but had no means to pick it up. Dads ethos was if we want it we will have to go and get it ourselves (hoping it would put us off) So we got on the train to Lancaster from Carlisle (we were 15 and 13) got a taxi to the farm and bought the bike. The farmer took us to the station and we pushed the bike onto the mail carriage, the guard never came round for a ticket! Off at Carlisle and onto a train to Haltwhistle. Pushed the bike home to be met by my dad shaking his head!!

Would just not be possible to do nowadays. Trains not built for it and would be a health and safety meltdown but just goes to show if you are willing it is possible. No way I would let my kids do it today.

 

[zx9]

Transporting bikes back on trains them where the days! .....................

Would just not be possible to do nowadays. Trains not built for it and would be a health and safety meltdown but just goes to show if you are willing it is possible. No way I would let my kids do it today.

The cam chain of my Gpz305 attempted to chain saw its way out of the front of the motor down in Devon, me, bike and pillion came back on the train from Exeter to Paddington. I can't for the life of me remember how I got it from Paddington to Tottenham, I suspect the pillion and luggage came back on the tube but don't think they allowed motorbikes on the underground in the mid 80's.

 

[Wedg1e]

No pictures yet but alas I binned mine in Luxembourg last Friday
Chasing two Multistradas into a right-hander I realised I was closer and faster than seemed apposite so a touch of the pedal (linked brakes) and there I was, gone.
There was a slight drop in the tarmac so between us we wonder if the bike went light over the drop, already leaned over, and came back down too close to the edge of the tyres.
I didn't feel the ABS cut in so it must have gone straight into a lowside slide, dropped me gently on the floor and then slid for about thirty feet before the front wheel hit the upright post of an Armco barrier.
Mate following was shaking like a sh!++ing dog, he said in 40 years on a bike he's only ever seen someone crash on telly
We got the bike upright but it wouldn't roll because the rim's so badly dented it got stuck on the nearside caliper - and that fork leg has a slight bend in it.
Proving that Honda knew what they were doing, the bike landed on its offside crash bar (which chewed up the road and probably helped slow it down) so none of the paintwork or exhausts are damaged.
It was half an hour before someone pointed out the 150 foot drop on the other side of the Armco...

While I was waiting at the local hotel for a recovery truck the barmaid asked if I'd come off at the bend at the top of the hill.
Yes, said I.
You are not the first, she said, only many of them did not make it here for a drink afterwards.

The saga of how I got home afterwards would need an entire website to itself

 

[mechman]

Did it get home as well ?

 

[zx9]

No pictures yet but alas I binned mine in Luxembourg last Friday
.......................
It was half an hour before someone pointed out the 150 foot drop on the other side of the Armco...

While I was waiting at the local hotel for a recovery truck the barmaid asked if I'd come off at the bend at the top of the hill.
Yes, said I.
You are not the first, she said, only many of them did not make it here for a drink afterwards.

................................

Like they say the good ones are the ones you can walk away from, we would not have wanted you to disappear over the side Italian Job style.

 

[Robotstar5]

No pictures yet but alas I binned mine in Luxembourg last Friday
Chasing two Multistradas into a right-hander I realised I was closer and faster than seemed apposite so a touch of the pedal (linked brakes) and there I was, gone.
There was a slight drop in the tarmac so between us we wonder if the bike went light over the drop, already leaned over, and came back down too close to the edge of the tyres.
I didn't feel the ABS cut in so it must have gone straight into a lowside slide, dropped me gently on the floor and then slid for about thirty feet before the front wheel hit the upright post of an Armco barrier.
Mate following was shaking like a sh!++ing dog, he said in 40 years on a bike he's only ever seen someone crash on telly
We got the bike upright but it wouldn't roll because the rim's so badly dented it got stuck on the nearside caliper - and that fork leg has a slight bend in it.
Proving that Honda knew what they were doing, the bike landed on its offside crash bar (which chewed up the road and probably helped slow it down) so none of the paintwork or exhausts are damaged.
It was half an hour before someone pointed out the 150 foot drop on the other side of the Armco...

While I was waiting at the local hotel for a recovery truck the barmaid asked if I'd come off at the bend at the top of the hill.
Yes, said I.
You are not the first, she said, only many of them did not make it here for a drink afterwards.

The saga of how I got home afterwards would need an entire website to itself

Glad to hear you're back in one piece metal can be mended.

 

[Wedg1e]

Did it get home as well ?

Not yet, man with a van in a couple of weeks time. I have had recovery insurance for a good few years just in case

 

[Wedg1e]

Glad to hear you're back in one piece metal can be mended.

Cheers

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I have had recovery insurance for a good few years just in case

Does it cover racing? [only kidding]

Sorry to hear of your incident, no injuries is a big bonus - after all as said ^^ the bike'll fix.

 

[mr migwire]

No pictures yet but alas I binned mine in Luxembourg last Friday
Chasing two Multistradas into a right-hander I realised I was closer and faster than seemed apposite so a touch of the pedal (linked brakes) and there I was, gone.
There was a slight drop in the tarmac so between us we wonder if the bike went light over the drop, already leaned over, and came back down too close to the edge of the tyres.
I didn't feel the ABS cut in so it must have gone straight into a lowside slide, dropped me gently on the floor and then slid for about thirty feet before the front wheel hit the upright post of an Armco barrier.
Mate following was shaking like a sh!++ing dog, he said in 40 years on a bike he's only ever seen someone crash on telly
We got the bike upright but it wouldn't roll because the rim's so badly dented it got stuck on the nearside caliper - and that fork leg has a slight bend in it.
Proving that Honda knew what they were doing, the bike landed on its offside crash bar (which chewed up the road and probably helped slow it down) so none of the paintwork or exhausts are damaged.
It was half an hour before someone pointed out the 150 foot drop on the other side of the Armco...

While I was waiting at the local hotel for a recovery truck the barmaid asked if I'd come off at the bend at the top of the hill.
Yes, said I.
You are not the first, she said, only many of them did not make it here for a drink afterwards.

The saga of how I got home afterwards would need an entire website to itself

glad to hear your ok, scary stuff though.

 

[Gwil]

Good you're ok- those Multistradas handle. I chased one here on my XR1200 (which is a kind of go-faster Harley in a Carlos Fandango kind of way...). Despite age and guile on my side I couldn't pass the bastard, stayed with him 'til the road straightened though!

 

[octo0072000]

Cheers

as said you walked away bike can be replaced

 

[arther dailey]

Shaken but not stirred eh Wedg1e, glad it turned out ok for you.better buy a lotto ticket while your lucks in.Arther

 

[roofman]

Ime just loving this little bad boy atm...cost peanuts,goes like a stabbed rat and ime not scared of scratching it or getting it dirty. Wonderfull bikes they are

 

[roofman]

Ive just bought this for something more sedate on a sunday morning...keeping my TL but the missus said she wont go on the back again after she felt the front wheel come up in 3rd so ime sure she,ll be fine on the Yam. Anyway ive never owned a TDM,anyone had one?