What were you doing in the '70s? *PICS*

[Blakamin]

I have destroyed all 70's related pictures of me.... and 98% of the 80's ones as well... did you know that "flannel" is the only fashion to survive across generations??

[scroter]

when it was still ok to shit my pants. i think after alot of practice back then i have truly mastered the effective use of swearing. i thinking i can even remember riding round on a plastic train and chewing a toy rabbits ear(it had one of those sqeekers in it). my old man had a moustache and a CB250 and a markIII zephyr which i was crazy about. i cant remember seeing any highway Patrol. but my olds had a friend who was on the MOT. i used to love goin to someones place(cant remember who) cause they had a huge matchbox car set including my favourite the porsche 911.

[Hitcher]

In the 70s I was a high school/university student. I was fitter, leaner, hairier, and the hair I had was a different colour. I was single and poor. How things change... My motorcycle experiences involved farmbikes and mates' road machines. C.A.R. experiences involved my first wheels -- a 1962 Riley Elf MkII, and then a 1972 VW 1302S Automatic (eventually with a Rajay turbo and measured headers).

[vifferman]

In the 70s I was a high school/university student.

Yeah, me too.
Them were the days (apart from the dreadful fashions )
And I had a lot more hair then (well... it was in different places to now...)

Started riding bikes in '74, I think. Interestingly, the family (of my bestest and oldest friend) that sparked my interest in bikes had LOTS of bikes then, including a couple of racers, and now none of them ride. Sad, that is.
I must've ridden 30 or more different bikes the first couple of years - everything from a Suzuki 50 through to a Kawasaki 900. Everyone had bikes then, or at least it seemed like it. My best friend's brother won his class in the Castrol Six Hour, and a classmate was the NZ 250 MX champ. I just rode, everywhere, as much as I could. Badly, I guess, although I was OK at donuts on any surface.

Pictures? I think I was mostly too busy to take photos, but I'll have a look tonight, and see if I can get the scanner to work.

Cars? Anything went (no cerification needed). A friend rolled his Anglia, so he stuck the engine in his Morris Minor. Another friend's brother was a Formula 1 racing mechanic, and was in Europe, so we used to 'hood around' in his customised Mark 1 Consul. It still had a 3-speed box, and a 3/4 race cam, so it couldn't get up steep driveways with all of us in it, unless we could get a run-up.

Fun, exciting, crazy days. And nights. Underage drinking and drink-driving (and both together) were rife, but if we encountered the cops, often as not they'd just tell us to piss off home. :spudwhat:

[merv]

Yeah hair was right - we never shaved then either.

Here I am riding the XL around the garden at my flat in St Albans Christchurch in 1975.

Being a trials rider I liked doing that sort of thing and it was back when you didn't need a helmet for trials competition either.

[merv]

I even had some black and white pics in 1974.

That's me on the TS250.

[merv]

I even trail rode the Suz A100 in 1973.

My mate had a C11.

Jeez we rode anything then and anywhere.

[Jackrat]

The only pic' I have of me from the seventys has me standing in front of my first car,an LIP Vauxhall,I'm wearing bellbottems an a purple shirt(something about Jimmy Hendricks I think).
Anyway you's ain't seeing it.

[vifferman]

I even trail rode the Suz A100 in 1973. Jeez we rode anything then and anywhere.

True.
I trail rode my CB175 (wheelstands, donuts, etc.) Even rode it almost all the way up Mt Tarawera!

[Motu]

The only pic' I have of me from the seventys has me standing in front of my first car,an LIP Vauxhall,I'm wearing bellbottems an a purple shirt(something about Jimmy Hendricks I think).
Anyway you's ain't seeing it.

Ahhh,suicide doors,leather upolstory and knee action suspension - those things would lay over further in a corner than these young bucks can on a bike....but the wrong way!

[Jackrat]

Ahhh,suicide doors,leather upolstory and knee action suspension - those things would lay over further in a corner than these young bucks can on a bike....but the wrong way!

That car ended up being restored by Dave Hesley motors in Otorohanga after I traded it on a 69 Cresta.
And yeah the inside rear wheel archs used to get to hot to lean on after a blat through the Te whetu forest.
Petrol in 73, 42c a gallon,

[Blackbird]

the rest are hidden, especially in the 70's with long hair, huge sideburns and silver flared trousers . My wife looks a million dollars in her micro-miniskirt though :love2:

The pic of me on my drag bike was taken in 1969 in pre-hairy days so that isn't too bad.

The Tiger 100 with hi rise bars was my version of Brando in the Wild One as I thought he was soooo cool (aaarrgh - did I really think that???). It was my everyday (only!) transport to engineering school in the UK even in thick snow. Brakes were next to useless but it didn't matter as everything else had crap brakes too. And yes, the bloody thing leaked oil from just about everywhere!

Ahhh... them's were the days!

Geoff

[MikeL]

Ahhh... them's were the days!

Sure were.

But the 60s were even better.

For those of us who are willing to admit to being that old...

[Motu]

Reversed head T100 with shorrocks (sp???) blower?missing rocker caps? Don't like the front end! What times could it do? A friend has a T100 as in your picture,as he rode it in the 60s,then with us in the 70s - he found they could barrel roll with front and rear crash bars.

[dangerous]

Just scrounged thru Nodmans drawers

LOL... well done KK
As for me well I'm somewere between you old fellas and the young ones, no pic of me on a bike tho here I am with my sis and dad in 73........ a biker in the making and I dident even know it, the black sheep as it might be the only family member that has been involved in bikes.