It was 20 years ago today... [Archive]

Big Dave

5th November 2012, 11:05

Let's revisit 1992 V 1982.

1992 alternative comedy was...interesting.

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Though a quick review indicates popular US music was mainly shite:

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In the early eighties we were still getting over the 70's weirdness, but some of these are still on my playlists:

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And there was always Alexi:
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Motu

5th November 2012, 11:41

In 1992 I was riding - 1971 Yamaha XS1 650, '74 Suzuki TS400, '81 Honda XR200, '81 Honda C50....and possibly various others.

In 1982 I was riding - 1961 Norton 600, 1971 BMW R60/5, 1954 BSA M20, a Puch scooter of some sort, BSA A65 powered racing sidecar on the road....and possibly various others.

ellipsis

5th November 2012, 14:02

...in 1982 I was working on a semi sub in the North Sea, had money falling out my pockets...had been to most European circuits following the F1 or 500 GP bikes around the place...spent the rest of my time following motorcycle racing in all its forms around the UK...met Joey Dunlop on the Island but saw Dennis Ireland beat them all and I thought I might just stay over that way for the rest of my life...

...by 1992 a few wrong turns and a woman/wife that changed, or was it me, took most of what I had...she did not contest the ownership of my Triumph, which I suppose is one small mercy...

...I preferred the 1982 period, myself...

Oscar

5th November 2012, 15:49

In 1982 i bought my first brand new bike, a Suzuki PE175Z.
At the time I was driving a 1966 Austin 1100, so I had my priorities right..

In 1992 I traded my RMX250 on a YZ250WR - I loved both those bikes.
My car was better as well - I had a 1991 Peugeot 405SRI.

Ocean1

5th November 2012, 16:18

The 80's are a bit hazy for me.

But by the 90's it'd all got a bit blurry.

Geeen

5th November 2012, 17:29

In 1992 I was 13

In 1982 I was 3:baby:

Motu

5th November 2012, 18:27

At the time I was driving a 1966 Austin 1100,

Oh, cars too - in '82 it was maybe an Austin 1800...if the Series II Oxford had died by then. Might also have been the CA Bedford with Vanguard 6 engine for bike transport, for the Bultaco 350....forgot to mention that.

In '92 I was back in an Austin 1800.

Music - in '82 we had a stereogram, you could stack records to get continuous play. Some LP's had 1 and 3 on one side, 2 and 4 on the other so it would go 1,2, then flip them for 3 and 4.

In '92 we were picking up old vinyl for 20 cents an LP, great times to expand the collection. We had a fancy machine with twin tape decks, so was a sort of recording studio - we could lay down tracks on one side of the tape, then do the other.

Nova.

5th November 2012, 19:14

wasn't even fuckn born.

Ocean1

5th November 2012, 19:23

in '82 we had a stereogram, you could stack records to get continuous play.

Had forgotten them. Thanks.

007XX

5th November 2012, 19:29

Was 6 years old in '82, riding my chrome all over banana seated bike with cool as ape hangers.

In 92, well at 16, I rode a 49.9cc Peugeot moped, and whatever else I could throw my leg over.

_Shrek_

5th November 2012, 19:48

82 married 4 kids :eek: no bikes :weep:

92 remarried just sold xv750 & 1100 brick & had 68 Bonny to look after along with another xv750 then onto the beammers :clap:

on to my third

Motu

5th November 2012, 20:05

Had forgotten them. Thanks.

They were pretty ancient in '82. Notice I don't list anything new, I don't do that. We have to go all the way back to 1972 when I had a brand new Yamaha CT2 to find me with something up to date.

onearmedbandit

5th November 2012, 20:12

In '82 I turned 7. I remember being dragged along to horse shows, some of which were hours away. Bored on the trips my mother suggested I count horses I saw, I instead counted motorbikes.

In '92 I turned 17. School books were covered in drawings of bikes, had a black and white 14" TV in my bedroom to watch the GP500's battle, bike mags scattered around my room. In the garage I had an RM125 and was saving up for a GS850 one of my brothers friends had for sale (I eventually got it). We lived about 25km out of ChCh where I attended school, so blagged early morning rides to school on the back of my other brothers friends GSXR750. It meant I got to school at 7:45am, and winters were cold but it was worth every second of it.

SPman

5th November 2012, 20:21

well cars...1982 - Morris Minor 1000 convertible had just sold the Ducati 750 and with 2 kids, we needed some wheels....1992 an old Alfa Berlina 2000 and desolation row was the bike scene....

comedy - yes Dave has it nailed.....

everything else........blech!

scumdog

5th November 2012, 20:31

'82? - first decent trip to America.
Had '56 Customline, 289 & Mk4 Zody 'box
Had Honda XL 350 mitt der Supertrapp:niceone:
Was with 1st wife
Had the F100

'92? - at 2nd freezing works
Had mint Mk2 Zephyr
Still had 1st wife + two rug-rats
Facing 40th birthday
Still had F100.

Pretty boring when you think of it...:yawn:

FlangMasterJ

5th November 2012, 22:41

Kriss Kross were dope!

nudemetalz

6th November 2012, 07:25

1982 - I was 12 and got my first motorcycle - a 1980 CR80RA Elsinore. Perfect learner's bike........:eek:

1992 - I had a break from riding (briefly) until the following year when I bought a 1984 Yamaha FJ1100. At the time, I had a gas-guzzling 1974 BMW 3.0SA. It could honk along though !!

Banditbandit

6th November 2012, 08:02

In 1982 I was 27 ... and living in Wellington

I think that was the year I owned a Morrie Thou - split windscreen job .. sold it shortly after to a guy who drove it from Wgtn to Orcland ..

I also had a Triumph 650 (Meridan Triumph) and a couple of BSA Bantams ...

1992 - 37 years old ... living in Hawke's Bay ... with a Holden Ute - classic hoon car and ...

The same Triumph, one BSA Bantam, a BSA B33, a BSA C15 and a BSA A7, a 1937 Triumph 500cc single (5H), a Honda FT400 (commuter scooter) and a Honda CB250R (project to build a racing bike - never happened), as well as two Triumph Tiger Cubs in my garage ...

10 years later I was down to the FT400, one BSA Bantam and a BMW R100GS Paris Dakar ... (and the Nissan Terrano).

Now I have a pair of Bandits (and the Terrano) - I'm not sure if that is progress ...

Genestho

6th November 2012, 12:24

Interesting BD!!

82': 8ish lol, with a suitcase record player with only two 45's. "Come on baby lay your love on me" and "Do ya think I'm sexy", scratching around. Roaming the neighbourhood with the local boys on my three speed something or rather, digging out the backyard making huts, sniffing round the dump and cleaning things up or fixing things to add to the dugouts! Bullrush and playing in bare feet until the street lights came on.

92: 18ish, flatting for two years already, rockin the Datsun 180B or perhaps had moved onto the XY Ute.. first festival Duddings Lake and AC/DC concerts possibly Pantera and RHCP? under my belt.
Sitting on all sorts of bikes, might have had my first xr250 after near killing myself on my then partners TT600? Hmmmm..

Big Dave

6th November 2012, 13:32

82 - Living in Hobart and riding an XS1100.

The popular music coming out of Aus and NZ at the time was some of the best ever. Glory days.

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92 - Living in Newcastle NSW. No bike - Gig and kids meant a Falcon XR6.

It took me a while to find anything from '92 that has stood musically since - but there are some gems:

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Banditbandit

6th November 2012, 13:37

82 - Living in Hobart and riding an XS1100.

The popular music coming out of Aus and NZ at the time was some of the best ever. Glory days.

Cold Chisel

"You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Big Dave again"

I loved Cold Chisel - saw them live a few times ... Brilliant ... I still play tracks like Khe San and Flame Trees while driving ..

But yeah .. 1992 was the year Billy Ray did Acky Breaky Heart .. not a great year . but it was the year Eric Clapton released his Unplugged album

Maha

6th November 2012, 14:44

So is it 20 years and 1 day now?....:confused:

Big Dave

6th November 2012, 14:53

So is it 20 years and 1 day now?....:confused:

It started when I noted the MCMXCII at the end of Bottom - which I had recorded on Foxtel - and thought

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as you do.

Usarka

6th November 2012, 14:59

82 - sniffing glue

92 - in the pooh

(edit: that's not true)

HenryDorsetCase

6th November 2012, 15:45

Was 6 years old in '82, riding my chrome all over banana seated bike with cool as ape hangers.

In 92, well at 16, I rode a 49.9cc Peugeot moped, and whatever else I could throw my leg over.

Who's throwing who's leg over where?

In 82 I had just started my first job at the end of that year I had my GSX400 (bought from Wellington Motorcycles).

in 92 I was bikeless. Last year of university and poor as a poor thing. the dark years.

HenryDorsetCase

6th November 2012, 15:51

Ministry Psalm 69 was 1992, plus Sugar "File Under easy listening".

and of course White Zombie's first record.

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I LOVE this guitar riff, and the way the bass lopes along.

ellipsis

6th November 2012, 16:13

The popular music coming out of Aus and NZ at the time was some of the best ever. Glory days.

...i missed all of the good shit to come out of NZ/OZ over that whole period...heard the odd strains of our music in eurolands but 5/8ths of fa...got to see all the seventies monsters though...sabbath, hawkwind, whitesnake, thin lizzy, suzy q, stranglers, joe lloyd, genesis, yes, and many more that my tortured braincells cant pull out of the mist...I do feel like I missed something musically that was happening here, back then...

Big Dave

6th November 2012, 17:22

OT but I still have scars (literally) from a Thin Lizzy concert.

This one:

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Over here in 82 we had INXS, AC/DC, Chisels, Angels, Radiators and the likes blowing the doors off the pub rock circuit. We used to go out riding our bikes to gigs or the pubs every night of the week in those halcyon Sydney summers.

The airwaves were full of Split Enz, Mi-Sex - they were much bigger is Aus than home - Dragon and Dave Dobbyn (maybe a bit later).

6th November 2012, 18:16

Great idea for a thread BD.

In 82 I was 21 y.o. living in London and riding a Yamaha XS650 Custom. Best beers in the world so I can't remember all that much.
Fav music of that year was Altered Images (actually just the hot chicky babe Clare Grogin) , Jam, Clash, XTC, Tom Robinson Band, Pretenders, NOT UB40, NOT the Police, NOT WHAM etc
92- Living in Wellytown. Dull music so who cares. Bike was somewhere between the Harley 1200 Sporter or the GS500? Odd companions I know.

unstuck

7th November 2012, 06:43

82 I was 16, had a foot high green mowhawk, rode like a fuckwit, drove like a fuckwit,and consumed as much alcohol and drugs as possible. 92 had a shorter uncoloured mohawk, rode like a fuckwit,drove like a fuckwit, was about to have a second kid, had given up the piss for more drugs.

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geoffm

8th November 2012, 19:59

1982- 14 years old and had a 3 speed Releigh treadly, and listened to The Human League
1992 - having spent my Bursery money (thank you taxpaers) on a B120 4 years before, I had finished Uni the year before, tried another degree when I couldn't get a job, hated it and dropped out when I got a job.I now had a GT250X7, and in that year, got a RZ350, which I fitted with a set of Ledar spannies from the UK. I later traded this for a GSXR750L, and have missed it a lot since. Around 92 or sometime after as I recall, I also started racing once I started getting a paypacket, with my mighty Impulse. Still got it for sentimental reasons.
Music was now Gary Moore, Led Zep and U2.

MisterD

9th November 2012, 09:16

1982 Summed up, Madness on The Young Ones (I was 11 and riding a 5-speed Raleigh Arena):

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1992 was a great year for music. Nirvana's "Nevermind", Pantera's "Vulgar Display of Power" and Faith No More's "Angel Dust".

Twenty years later, an apropriate title :lol:

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Genestho

9th November 2012, 10:15

1992 was a great year for music. Nirvana's "Nevermind", Pantera's "Vulgar Display of Power" and Faith No More's "Angel Dust".

Twenty years later, an apropriate title :lol:

Ooo both great albums, add to 1992 Psalm 69 -- Ministry!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXCh9OhDiCI

and Sound Garden's Bad Motor Finger....can't pick my favourite and still have all of these albums :2thumbsup

MisterD

9th November 2012, 10:41

and Sound Garden's Bad Motor Finger....can't pick my favourite and still have all of these albums :2thumbsup

Released late 1991...I went to a record signing at Volume Records in Newcastle just after I went back for the start of my last year at University.

vifferman

9th November 2012, 11:37

At this time in 1982, I was living in the 'Tron, in a very crappy old rental house in Firth Street, had been married for 2 months, and was driving a 1974 Fiat 132 (I was between bikes).
In 1992, I was living in our first house in Pukete, had 3 kids, was getting the XBR500RS Mutant running, and was driving a Subaru Leone wagon.

BigAl

9th November 2012, 13:21

'82 young & single had been working for a couple of years, riding a brand new Gs550e every free moment I had.

'92 did an OE, Contiki trip, got married in London, watched Hissie win the Senior TT on trumph rotary..... Great times.......:yes:

Maha

9th November 2012, 15:21

Big Dave

9th November 2012, 16:58

>>listened to The Human League<<

And just look what it did to you. :-)

Drew

9th November 2012, 17:41

..Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play.

Not one of you gay cunts got it!... Cunts.

Big Dave

9th November 2012, 17:50

Spot the thread skipper.

Drew

9th November 2012, 18:37

Spot the thread skipper.Hey, I only just saw the thread!

scumdog

9th November 2012, 18:40

Hey, I only just saw the thread!

If you didn't skip so many you might have spotted it sooner!:lol:

jrandom

9th November 2012, 18:42

In 1982 I was still in nappies.

And I think 1992 might've been the year that I independently invented wanking.

... not a lot else has happened since.

scumdog

9th November 2012, 18:55

In 1982 I was still in nappies.

And I think 1992 might've been the year that I independently invented wanking.

... not a lot else has happened since.

Hmmm, a few more KBers could do with the same honesty...

caspernz

9th November 2012, 19:08

Hmmm, a few more KBers could do with the same honesty...

So who's gonna start the poll on that topic? :lol:

Ocean1

9th November 2012, 20:56

By '82 I'd already sold the last XL350. Had a moderately hot Mini.

I was listening to this, some:

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In '92 I was throwing a KT250 down banks and into creeks. Driving a '70 Buick Skylark coupe.

I had this on the new sterio:

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Buick and stereo gone. Long gone.

MaxB

10th November 2012, 00:36

In 82 I was at Uni and riding one of these. Young, free and single.

http://youtu.be/aw8eOXMtQCQ

and listening to this

http://youtu.be/L4yHyHdJK5g

By 92 I was married and had a 6month old daughter, sold my FJ for a house deposit but managed to keep hold of my old R90S and kept riding when the kids were young. Back then listened to stuff like Alice in Chains, Tool, Rush and Queensryche.

Drew

10th November 2012, 05:33

Hmmm, a few more KBers could do with the same honesty...
In '82 I was a couple years out of nappies...In '92 I was well on my way to set a record for masturbating...Now I just wank on here like everyone else.

Rhubarb

10th November 2012, 08:47

1982: I bought my first bike that I could legally ride on the road. An SL100.

When I went for my licence the Traffic Officer looked at my bike, laughed and asked if I vomitted every morning when I saw it !!!!

272970

1992: I had progressed to an XR200R but some B@st@rd stole it. For 2 years I continued to pay off the HP but without the bike!

I bought a cheap old IT175 to ride. It was a piece of crap so no one stole it.

unstuck

10th November 2012, 08:55

Those old sl 100s were a cool wee bike. Had a lot of fun on one.:2thumbsup

Rhubarb

10th November 2012, 09:06

Those old sl 100s were a cool wee bike. Had a lot of fun on one.:2thumbsup

I know. It served me well.

I still have an SL125 tucked away in the corner of the garage. But that was made 40 years ago not 20.
272971

10th November 2012, 14:53

Thanks for those pics of the XL100 and SL125. My first bike was the XL100 then I went up to SL125, lots of em. Bit embarrassing to learn on your post they only had 12hp. How did I manage to have so much fun with that?Lets keep that quiet.

BMWST?

10th November 2012, 15:16

Road kill

10th November 2012, 18:11

meteor

11th November 2012, 08:35

Was 6 years old in '82, riding my chrome all over banana seated bike with cool as ape hangers.

Me too, my first bike was a canary yellow Raleigh Mustang with banana seat, sissy bar and ape hangers. Even had white walls. I was too cool! :)

007XX

11th November 2012, 09:29

Me too, my first bike was a canary yellow Raleigh Mustang with banana seat, sissy bar and ape hangers. Even had white walls. I was too cool! :)

But yellow?

Mine was all chrome... Oh yeah, you know it!! :cool:

ellipsis

11th November 2012, 09:36

But yellow?

Mine was all chrome... Oh yeah, you know it!! :cool:

...everyone knows yellow is only a bit slower than red...but chrome sometimes dont even get yer home...

Rhubarb

12th November 2012, 12:00

82 ?,,,A pity you couldn't see the future huh.
You would of been able to tell him your bike was going to last longer than his job.
Now that would of been funny.:lol:

Yes, that would have been very funny.

This thread inspired me to get the old girl out of the corner so on Saturday afternoon she went up on the bike platform and I started to strip it down.

New plug, clean the carby. I've got spark and a fuel flow. The tanks a bit rusty inside and clutch is very stiff so I'll sort them before firing it up.

Edbear

12th November 2012, 13:45

Yes, that would have been very funny.

This thread inspired me to get the old girl out of the corner so on Saturday afternoon she went up on the bike platform and I started to strip it down.

New plug, clean the carby. I've got spark and a fuel flow. The tanks a bit rusty inside and clutch is very stiff so I'll sort them before firing it up.

Pics and vid when you do! :yes:

Rhubarb

13th November 2012, 16:57

Pics and vid when you do! :yes:

It will be a couple of weeks away yet. Riding the other bikes will take priority over working on this bike.

The SL won't be a restoration, it will just be a 'getting it going again' project.

My Wife likes it and found it easy to ride.

Laava

13th November 2012, 20:25

I know. It served me well.

I still have an SL125 tucked away in the corner of the garage. But that was made 40 years ago not 20.
272971

Same. I have one destined for a bit of love when i get round tuit. It is the only bike I own with a name. Peanut. It will clutch it up bro! Mine is a 74 so is nearly 40!
20 yrs ago I bought my Laverda 750SF on the advice of a friend. I very quickly go to know it inside out!