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Back on a bike after many years off and on – mainly off.
Did the Silverstone circuit cruise on Saturday. Triumph Trophy 1200, a green one. Met some great folks. See you all around and about.Welcome Andy. I wasn’t one of the Silverstone guys but glad to see you on here. Have a good look round, here’s a nice starting point:
https://bikemeet.net/forums/topic/great-posts-pics-across-the-site-part-2/
The parade laps around the GP circuit were quite something. Waved to the crowd, too! A great experience.
Welcome to the forum Andy, nice to meet you at Silverstone on Saturday, the parade laps were amazing!
Welcome to the forum, good to meet you on Saturday
You might enjoy reading this
Hope to see you out and about again
Reading about the Honda 50 made me remember some of the old stuff me and my mates played with as we got onto motorised wheels. I had a lot of goes round the back garden on on a Lambretta LD150, also my push bike with a bolt on engine that drove against the tyre, amd an NSU Quickly moped. Once on the road my race tuned Ariel Leader 250 2 stroke twin with Wal Phillips fuel injector managed to stay intact long enough to pass my test. It did about 105! Friends bikes borrowed were Sunbeam S7, Panther 700 outfit, Norton ES2 outfit, Noddy bike (LE Velocette), Douglas horizontal twin. I forget some of them. I then graduated to a 500 twin AJS for a few years, it taught me gravel rash, plaster cast and how to repair a write-off. Rebuilt a 700 twin Royal Enfield, but it caught fire and burnt out shortly after. Tiger cub 200cc kept me mobile. We all went through a bubble car/three wheeler phase and ended up in cars eventually, but I did get a Bonneville for a year or so, shared with a workmate.
Other than a few hired bikes on holidays, including a Harley on Majorca, I’ve had a long lay-off until I decided to get the Trophy.
I looked up the Trophy’s 1/4 mile time – about the same as my Jag!Wow, some real rare stuff in there Andy, bet you wish you had kept all of them (including the Noddy bike).
Unfortunately I don’t have any pictures of the old bikes. I don’t even have pictues of me in that decade. I had elbow length hair just before it was cut off at the end of college years.
Unfortunately I don’t have any pictures of the old bikes. I don’t even have pictues of me in that decade. I had elbow length hair just before it was cut off at the end of college years.
Pity I love 1970’s mug shots!!
A friend of mine restored a 700cc Enfield, there are pictures in the Classic section I think. I will try and dig out the link
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