Bikes and pics you'd forgotten all about ?

[weeksy]

Was flicking through looking for a wheelie pic for Couchies thread, stumbled over some others.

What have you found in your bikes pics you'd forgotten all about ?

DSC_5912 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

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wife by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

DSC00250 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

[KungFooBob]

I quite often forget I owned a GPZ600R.

Thank God.

[Potter]

This got me thinking, I know I've got pictures of bikes I'd almost forgotten about, like a VFR800 and a Ducati 900SS that I owned years ago.
I'll have to dig them out.

[Rockburner]

I don't think I've owned enough bikes to have forgotten any!

[weeksy]

I don't think I've owned enough bikes to have forgotten any!

You're doing it wrong

I don't exactly 'forget' as such, but yesterday i was looking through a folder and found pics i'd not seen in a fair few years... the 848 ones for example... i then saw the black 990SD pic and that restored a few memories as that thing had 51,000 miles on and was sweet as heck.

[Mr. Dazzle]

My old 996 on the day I picked it up, complete with Mrs Ds Micra. Probably the first time that bike had been ridden on wet tarmac

[Claude]

Being a rolling road block in 2014;

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

The only one I tend to forget is my Kawasaki KE125 that I owned in the mid 90s, I bought it to commute on, but then the flywheel decided it wanted to spin independently of the crank, which caused randomly variable ignition timing, a mechanical innovation that failed to catch on.

[v8-powered]

ZZR 1100 I purchased to commute on. Came to me as panel damaged in a multitude of colours, had it repaired in silver.
Commuted it for a while but found it the most uncomfortable bike I'd ever ridden, so flogged it.

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[derek badger]

[bevvo]

I had one of they in that colour - fond memories

[Potter]

TZR250 in 1991.

[Potter]

This was 1989 (I think) at Darley Moor.
In the days when I couldn't afford knee sliders so I put loads of duct tape on and went home with bloody knees - I made sure I scrounged some used ones for the next meeting.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I'm not even sure you could buy knee sliders in 1989, my memory of that time is most people had duct tape on their knees, the rich people had leathers with rounded studs on the knees, my £40 second hand TT Barry Sheene replica leathers just had a bit of foam padding on the knees, obviously I then put duct tape over the knees, but the only time it met tarmac was when I was working on the bike, I didn't even go fast enough to fall off.

[cheb]

They weren't an option when I bought my Interstate MTM leathers in '87. A bit of hard plastic foam is all you got.

[Potter]

They were available because I managed to blag some from a bike shop that wouldn't sponsor me but gave me a pair of Dainese sliders.

I had to glue velcro on my leathers.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

They were available because I managed to blag some from a bike shop that wouldn't sponsor me but gave me a pair of Dainese sliders.

I had to glue velcro on my leathers.

I didn't know anyone flash enough to have Dainese leathers, it was all skanky 2nd hand leathers and LCs

[Bigyin]

I'm not even sure you could buy knee sliders in 1989, my memory of that time is most people had duct tape on their knees, the rich people had leathers with rounded studs on the knees, my £40 second hand TT Barry Sheene replica leathers just had a bit of foam padding on the knees, obviously I then put duct tape over the knees, but the only time it met tarmac was when I was working on the bike, I didn't even go fast enough to fall off.

They were available because I managed to blag some from a bike shop that wouldn't sponsor me but gave me a pair of Dainese sliders.

I had to glue velcro on my leathers.

I took these pictures in either 1986 or 87 at Knockhill. First one is Iain Duffus and you can see the scuffed sliders on his leathers.



Cant remember who the next bloke was but he had some "strap on" sliders which wrapped around the leg rather than being velcroed onto the leathers



I have quite a few pics from that meeting and some from a meeting at East Fortune the same period and looking through them quickly the vast majority of riders have sliders on the leathers although there a a couple who dont like this fella

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

My only excuse is that it was a long time ago, but I honestly can't remember people having knee sliders in the late 80s
I'm more impressed with Big Country sponsoring Iain Duffus

[Potter]

I didn't know anyone flash enough to have Dainese leathers, it was all skanky 2nd hand leathers and LCs

They were the only things I had that were Dainese.
The shop was a Dainese stockist and I'd been there before looking for a paddock jacket, the Dainese one that looked proper shell suit (well it was the late 80'S). He got one out and I thought it was the smartest thing in the world, until he told me it was £160 - this was when I was earning £60 a week.

I ended up with an equally smart Suzuki one for £60, it was a white puffa style jacket with a blue line on the sleeves, my mates with £30 YPVS Yamaha ones were well jealous