30years ago...

Thought I'd dig out a few more old pic's. Hope I'm not boring anyone. They loose a bit in the scanning process. This is Julie on my Z100J Kwaka about 1-1-1982 on the Hay Plains. 18 year olds Riding about in this big old country.

The bloke with the black scarf is me and the good looking girl is Julie.

Jock and I early morning Yamba pub Nov 1985. First ride after broken wrists mended from accident in ealier post. Note gammy left wrist still the same 29 years later.

Packed up ready to leave Bathurst easter 1982 my Kawasaki with the Z1R screen. Jimmy's QLD bike still running front plates NSW had done away with them by this. Vale ( PECK) 2nd from right.

Vale PECK (Gregory Turnbull) I rode and partied with this man for another 31 and a half years after I took this photo.

bruce aussie said:

Vale PECK (Gregory Turnbull) I rode and partied with this man for another 31 and a half years after I took this photo.

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Old photos biking are never boring as soon as my grand daughter visits and scans some old photos for me I will post them, love the old Bathurst one, just as I remember it smoke and fog in the mornings,

The last one was Bathurst 1982 also. Bathurst photos alway look similar saw some in a motorcycle magazine a while back and thought they were photos of our camp. Looked the same as my photos just different people and bikes in them.

[QUOTE="cusso ken, post: 248743, member: Do you remember the Roaster coaster beef roll van with a recorded message playing over and over all day and till 12.0 at night we stole the speaker to shut it up , looking for some photos to post.[/QUOTE]
What about the 24 hour pancake van. Used to have a big trucky's meal at the Shell truck stop on the northern side of Dubbo after the first days ride. About 900klm buy a carton ride about 15klm out of Duddo toward Wellington to a rest area on the side of the road. Light a fire, drink a carton between every 4 or 5 of us, then sleep in the dirt. 2 hours to Bathurst the next morning. Stay there 4 nights living on pancakes, beer and a bit of smoko. Leave Monday when everyone was capable of getting on their bike. Usually by about 10, ride to 600 Klm to Moree half way home. First meal for 5 days at The Ned Kelly Bar and top up with alcohol. Head north out the road about 10 Klm camp on the river about 100m off the road to the left just before a big bridge over the river. Next day beers in a pub in Warwick and us NSW blokes would leave the pack and head over the border. Great memories 35 to 40 bikes cruising on 140 to 150 all day. Fuel stops used to take about an hour. If they had bike race's at Bathurst again I would be going and I recon I could round up most of the old boys to do it again.

Good stories, great reading fellas and good pics. You are one lucky man Bruce. More pics please.
One of my oldies was the Kawasaki H2 triple 750cc. We called them the widow maker back then. Couldn't understand why though,,,,,,,,,,,,, till I rode the firkin thing at ridiculous speeds, used to get tank slap at around 110 and you had to boot off past that as fast as you could till it stopped,,, or else your in the ditch. I will hunt the picture out from somewhere. Had no fear back then, thought we were all invincible.

I didn't save any pictures but my first real bike was this model: http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/Gallery B/Honda MTX 125R.jpg

It was also my second bike, after I crushed one into twisted bits of metal and plastic and made insurance buy me a new one.

Still remember having a hell of a time pronouncing "Automatic Torque Amplification Chamber" and being proud of it even if I had no clue what the hell it did. Guess Torque was a thing even then?