Wow, I've only read about the Mods -- you've LIVED it!!!!! Cool! You guys are living history, fergawdsakes!

Lol, yes some real cool stories there...I grew up amongst all that, my old man had long hair and had an old Honda 750 which back in the day was the nuts (late 70's)

Guess that's where the love of bikes came into it...or maybe when my old man used my bedroom to strip down and clean his bike one year!, yea it was probably that lol

ah scooters, i do love my scooters!

Here are a couple of mine,

1st my old bunkey suzi GS 400, i bought it as a wheelbarrow of parts and a frame, it was an ol military police bike with screen an crash bars ect but that was never going to cut it :) i rebuilt the thing, powdercoated the frame and gave her a coat of wild violet purple paint and drop bars. it was never in any way quick, but a good little town bike.
http://i1110.photobucket.com/albums/...mit/000007.jpg

2nd, my old Kwaka Kermit, its based on a 75 KH500, but just a little bit bombed out (well a lot really) she lives on a staple diet of belray and avgas, regular pump fuel just ends in tears with a brace of melted wiseco's. she was ment to be for the drags but it is just so much fun as a road bike, she is at present waiting for another full rebuild, there is nothing like the sound of a worked kwaka triple!
http://i1110.photobucket.com/albums/...mit/000011.jpg

last but not least, my 2000 Daytona. this has been a fantastic allrounder, great for a thrash with the mates, but equally at home on the long trips. did a 15000km trip around australia on this one including a 3 day track day at Bathurst with the Triumph owners group. it was a great trip, i have a motorcycle touring atlas of Australia which has listed the 50 best bike roads in Oz, 1 by 1 i worked my way through them, she never missed a beat the whole trip, just 2 services and 3 sets of tyres.
http://i1110.photobucket.com/albums/...athurst002.jpg
http://i1110.photobucket.com/albums/...athurst043.jpg
http://i1110.photobucket.com/albums/...hreadbo046.jpg

happy days happy days ;)
Cheers
Craig

I hope to be getting onto two wheels soon. Something always got in the way when I was younger, needing a car for work purposes, a family etc so now I have less of those worries I've recently done my CBT and plan to get my full license hopefully in the next 6 months. My missus has put it down to a mid life crisis but says its ok as she'd prefer me getting a bike to me running off and porking some 20 yr old barmaid! I spose its only fair :)

Get the bike, pick up the barmaid on the back and then pork her..that seems fair tbh :cool:

If they are actually into bikes it like putty in yer hands :))

sounds like a fair tradeoff, it's the only way to travel mate!

Craig

Just be bloody careful out there. Try to avoid posing while you are rolling - looking at your reflection in shop windows is a definite no-no - and I hope you'll never have to hear the familiar car driver's phrase - "I'm sorry, I never saw you coming".

Eyes like a hawk, and reactions to match, will see you through.

cheers

Sage advice that! Remember that everyone else on the road is a blind muppet who is too busy adjusting the stereo, makeup, or smashing a burger into their piehole to be worried about looking for someone on a bike! Your situational awareness has to be bang on all the time, cause just like the aces used to say " it's the one you don't see that gets you" ;) head on a swivel, and be positive in how you ride!

Craig

Cheers fella's, I'm getting a bit old for posing Brando :) I hope with 20 years experience on the road it will stand me in good stead having seen most of the idiot behaviour and staying well clear but just when you think you've seen it all someone comes along with something to top it :) I read an interview with Jeremy Irons at the weekend who said his brother told him not to learn how to ride until he had 10 years on the road in a car just to see the road from a car users eyes so he knew what to expect as a rider. The CBT was an eye opener, despite the high vis and L plates I had a taxi driver sat right on my rear tyre as I led the group until the intructor got past him and made him back up, had to deal with heavy traffic due to a big football match being on next to the instructor's yard. Looking forward to gettign my full license.

If you are talking about my post, then even that was a sort of Mod vs Rocker revival era that was short lived .. I do remember the so called revived Mods arriving at Aberdeen though, by that time the well established Hells Angels gang in Aberdeen (The Nomads) had built up ... there was an announcement of intent by the Mods, but it never came to anything.

You don't want to hear my story's of life in the Biker gangs :)