Bikes and pics you'd forgotten all about ?

[Bigyin]

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

Stuart Adamson was a huge bike nut and was seen in the paddock a lot at Knockhill. Duffus was a local rider to him and if I remember correctly was at the top of the Scottish Championship at the time on the big bikes along with a guy called Gus Christie

I think I also took some pics of Gordon Ritchie who is a bike journo when he was a youngster on TZR250’s

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Oi, I had one of those £30 YPVS ones - I loved it, I thought I was fab, my riding gear was blue, white and red YPVS paddock jacket, jeans and baseball boots, possibly HiTec, and an AGV crash helmet - I was very 80s.

[Horse]

Me, stood next to the flying urinal. Probably about 2007 / 2008.

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[Tricky]

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

Ah, this is my era
Yup, they started appearing in 87/88, and as Yin says, you could get the big slabby "pro slide" ones as either straps-ons or velcro backed, and if fact I've still got a used pair in one of my old race spares boxes
Both were horrid as they were so grippy

The main other add-on choice at that time was T-Pro, equally shit but in a different way, not half as grippy, which was good, but they either broke really easily, or didn't stay on that well
Here's me sporting a pair of T-Pro in my brand new spangly made-to-measure MW leathers in 1988, queueing up for Scrutineering

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Looks like Snetterton

[Tricky]

Looks like Snetterton

Yup , well spotted -very different circuit then of course.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

It's how I remember Snetterton, when I went there a couple of years ago after not having been for 15 years I was amazed how nice it is, Cadwell hasn't changed much though, and I bet Lydden is still the same.
Mallory is still shit.

[Skub]

In my defence,I was 19 and it was the 70s.....a salutory lesson in how to spend a fortune and still fuck up a perfectly good Z1.

[Bigyin]

In my defence,I was 19 and it was the 70s.....a salutory lesson in how to spend a fortune and still fuck up a perfectly good Z1.

WTF is with that seat, too many views of Easy Rider ?

[Skub]

WTF is with that seat, too many views of Easy Rider ?

You had to be there,brother Yin,you had to be there.

[Bigjawa]

In my defence,I was 19 and it was the 70s.....a salutory lesson in how to spend a fortune and still fuck up a perfectly good Z1.

Is that in the wee garden thing beside the Queen's Bridge?

[Skub]

Is that in the wee garden thing beside the Queen's Bridge?

Yeah,it's about there somewhere. I was ducking out of Shorts at lunch time.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

What are those wheels?
Has it got toast racks?

[Tricky]

In my defence,I was 19 and it was the 70s.....a salutory lesson in how to spend a fortune and still fuck up a perfectly good Z1.

That is an absolutely cracking pic, everything about it is so 70s

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

What's the car behind the Cortina Estate, could be an Allegro.

[Skub]

What are those wheels?
Has it got toast racks?

I think they were CMA wheels.

Toast racks?

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

What are those wheels?
Has it got toast racks?

I think they were CMA wheels.

Toast racks?

Dunno if you can see this http://z1ownersclub.co.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=46638

[Potter]

In my defence,I was 19 and it was the 70s.....a salutory lesson in how to spend a fortune and still fuck up a perfectly good Z1.

Are they flares or waterproofs?

[Yorick]

What are those wheels?
Has it got toast racks?

I think they were CMA wheels.

Toast racks?

Dunno if you can see this http://z1ownersclub.co.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=46638

Nope

[Skub]

Are they flares or waterproofs?

Work overalls. I'm just out from fucking up aircraft.