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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

CIMG0044 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

DSC00177 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr
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DSC00250 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

I quite often forget I owned a GPZ600R.

Thank God.

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

Rockburner wrote: Mon Nov 30, 2020 8:38 am 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.

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

Being a rolling road block in 2014;

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.

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.

weeksy wrote: Sun Nov 29, 2020 8:39 pm

I had one of they in that colour - fond memories

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

Harry wrote: Wed Dec 02, 2020 3:26 am 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

Julian_Boolean wrote: Tue Dec 01, 2020 7:24 am 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.

Harry wrote: Wed Dec 02, 2020 3:26 am 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

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

Julian_Boolean wrote: Wed Dec 02, 2020 1:23 pm 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

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.

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

Julian_Boolean wrote: Wed Dec 02, 2020 1:23 pm 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

Looks like Snetterton