So what has changed in 50 years?

[YellowDog]

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[slofox]

I once had a role in a play against that very track. (and the answer is nothing)

[Headbanger]

Awesome televisions.

[Voltaire]

The Eastern World was not his greatest worry.


OT - Barry McGuire To Old for New Zealand
17 posts by 8 authors
Bob Feigel
10/31/05
(Just goes to prove that bureaucrats can be worthless braindead
parasites wherever you go.)

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3461291a1860,00.html

Singing star quits NZ in immigration protest

SUNDAY , 30 OCTOBER 2005

By TONY WALL
A fourth generation Kiwi has renounced her citizenship after a
year-long battle with the Immigration Service over getting residency
for her husband of 32 years.

Mari McGuire says she is ashamed to be a Kiwi.

McGuire's husband, American folk singing star Barry McGuire, has been
refused permanent residency because the service says his age - 70 -
and heart condition would make him a burden on the health system.
McGuire, who had a US No 1 hit in 1965 with the anti-war song Eve of
Destruction, has a pacemaker.

The couple's $1 million-plus home - built on the Whangaparaoa
Peninsula north of Auckland 18 months ago - goes up for auction today.
They will return to California.

The issue of health screening for immigrants was highlighted last week
by a Sunday Star-Times article which revealed a deaf South African
girl, allegedly killed by her father, had also been classified a
possible burden on the state.

The Immigration Service is introducing tougher health screening for
migrants aimed at weeding out those with TB and HIV, but also anyone
who could be a burden on the state, including children with
developmental delays and people with dementia.

McGuire, whose two adult children have New Zealand citizenship, said
he felt for the South African family.

"What they (immigration) are doing is playing games with people's
lives. Why didn't they tell the family before they got here they might
not be able to stay? They don't give a fig about people, it's all
politics and money."

McGuire has been a permanent resident in New Zealand before - he and
Mari lived here for six years in the 1980s. He says his pacemaker
corrects a faulty nerve and his heart is otherwise in good shape.

"They (the government) are quite happy to tax my worldwide income,
including royalties from 40 years ago, but they don't want me to have
access to the health system.

"I'm certainly not going to be a financial burden on this country.
I've poured a ton of finances into this country and I've contributed a
lot."

McGuire said although he did not have a full-time job, he continued to
play music and had entertained about 20,000 New Zealand school
children.

Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters, a fan of McGuire's music, had
promised to help McGuire obtain re-entry visas so he could continue to
visit. Peters said it was too late now, but he believed McGuire could
have mounted a strong case for residency based on his continuing
royalty payments.

Immigration spokeswoman Mary Anne Thompson said health screening of
immigrants was a fine balance between what a person contributed to
society and what they cost. She said research showed visitors spent
around $6.5 billion a year in New Zealand, but also sucked about $24
million a year out of the health system.

She said a guideline had been established under which somebody who was
likely to cost the health system $25,000 or more over four years would
probably be rejected. Doctors, not the department, assessed a person's
health requirements, and cumulative health problems were the most
likely impediments.

"You could be obese and be fine, but you could also be obese and have
high blood pressure and palpitations which altogether means you
probably do have a problem. That would be a higher level of
unacceptable risk."

Where disabled children's parents were working and paying taxes, the
cost of the dependants was weighed against the family's "positive
contribution". Waivers could be applied for. The very sick, including
those in end-stage renal failure or needing a heart transplant, would
be excluded.

In last week's text poll, "should disabled people be barred from
immigrating to NZ", 59.5 per cent said yes, 40.5 per cent no.

[oldrider]

So what has changed in 50 years?

Hmmm - Communism has flunked the test - Terrorism is the new world enemy - World debt still is the weapon of choice! - NWO right on track! - Nothing really! :oi-grr:

[awa355]

Riders no longer whinge about being made to wear helmets?? :weird: (well not much).

[Woodman]

The Eastern World was not his greatest worry.

So Winston Peters supports immigration??

Oh yeah Maguire doesn't look Asian.

[Laava]

Beards. 50 years ago I didnt have one. Especially with greys in it.
Oh, and I guess by extension, pubes. But let's not go there.

[trustme]

Communication & technology. Faxes came & went , mobile phones were for James Bond. Home computers were just a dream .
Could we have communicated like this 50 years ago. Nope we would have been out doing something productive.

[awa355]

50 years ago various bod's were pushing to have motorcycling banned because of the death rates. :(:( Oops, that hasn't changed. :shutup:

[Maha]

50 years ago you could only buy two types of milk. And toast bread had to be cut from a single loaf.

[mashman]

Confidence...

[Voltaire]

50 years ago the Triumph Bonneville was the bike to have powerful and fast, now you can ride it on a learners licence, and the Beatles were just about to release their best imho album.

[ellipsis]

...50 years ago I was an angry ginga...nothing has changed...

[puddytat]

There is the equivalent of 60 million people shitting all over the countryside ......

[oldrider]

Communication & technology. Faxes came & went , mobile phones were for James Bond. Home computers were just a dream .
Could we have communicated like this 50 years ago. Nope we would have been out doing something productive.

Hmmm - sure you don't you mean sort of re-productive? - - :wari: - - :blip:

[pritch]

Radio has certainly changed. Back then in NZ there was only government owned radio and most of the sets we used had valves instead of transistors.

Originally "Eve of Destruction" was banned in NZ by those who considered they knew better than us. "The Universal Soldier" by Donovan and "Good News week" by Hedgehoppers Anonymous were banned at about the same time. The latter group were presumably deemed too radical by the people that ran our nanny state radio but were members of an RAF V bomber squadron. Not a place you'd normally associate with radicals.

[Oakie]

50 years ago you could only buy two types of milk.

Warm and cold?

And back then ... we had the milkman to bring milk to your gate and charge 4 cents a pint (well, after decimalisation in 1967 anyway).

[ellipsis]

Warm and cold?

And back then ... we had the milkman to bring milk to your gate and charge 4 cents a pint (well, after decimalisation in 1967 anyway).

...and you could leave your 70 cents weekly bill in the bottle at the gate for the milkman to pick up...

[awa355]

Empty 1 pint milk bottles were worth 2/- at the local dairy.
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We had coloured milk tokens that were supposed to stop thefts of milk monies left out with the bottles.
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Now we don't even have milkmen.

[FJRider]

Radio has certainly changed. Back then in NZ there was only government owned radio and most of the sets we used had valves instead of transistors.



My parents had an old valve radio ... I went to the local library to find out how to rig a decent aerial for the radio. Sitting next to the radio late at night ... slowly turning the tuning dial ... picking up the different stations ... and trying to figure out WHERE they were braordcasting from .... :sunny:


There was ONE pirate radio station that was NOT Government approved ... and if conditions (at the bottom of the south island) were ok .. :niceone:

[Maha]

Warm and cold?

And back then ... we had the milkman to bring milk to your gate and charge 4 cents a pint (well, after decimalisation in 1967 anyway).

Actually it's three, I left out Mothers milk, expressed naturally :eek:

[FJRider]

Actually it's three, I left out Mothers milk, expressed naturally :eek:

It was not available at (delivered to) the gate ... unless you were the postman ... <_<

[FJRider]

50 years ago ... God save the Queen was played BEFORE EVERY MOVIE you paid to see ... and you stood up for it ... :shifty:

[Maha]

Empty 1 pint milk bottles were worth 2/- at the local dairy.

Now we don't even have milkmen.

As a kid I helped out a work mate of Dad's that had a milk run, he had two jobs back then, the milk run before dawn and a carpet salesman during the day.

[Maha]

50 years ago ... God save the Queen was played BEFORE EVERY MOVIE you paid to see ... and you stood up for it ... :shifty:

....and that got dropped for God Defend New Zealand.:msn-wink:

[FJRider]

....and that got dropped for God Defend New Zealand.:msn-wink:

After they grounded the Skyhsawks ... he was our only hope ... :oi-grr:

[Oakie]

50 years ago ... God save the Queen was played BEFORE EVERY MOVIE you paid to see ... and you stood up for it ... :shifty:

Yes, I remember going to the Majestic Theatre in Oamaru for the Saturday afternoon movies and my 20 cents getting me admission AND an ice cream. I can still picture the film of the band playing 'God Save the Queen' pre movie.

[FJRider]

Yes, I remember going to the Majestic Theatre in Oamaru for the Saturday afternoon movies and my 20 cents getting me admission AND an ice cream. I can still picture the film of the band playing 'God Save the Queen' pre movie.

Did you stand up ... or were you a "Rebel" ... ???

[J.A.W.]

Did you stand up ... or were you a "Rebel" ... ???

I'd only stand - if it was the bloody Sex Pistols playin' 'God save the Queen' - live..

'10 Years After' - did an apropos song back then too, 'I'd Love to Change the World - But I Don't Know What to Do"..

[Oakie]

Did you stand up ... or were you a "Rebel" ... ???

We didn't have rebels in Oamaru.
The worst (funniest) thing I ever did at the movies was fart loudly in a silent moment in the movie 'An Officer and a Gentleman'. Was holding it for about 20 seconds just waiting for silence so the audience could appreciate it's magnificence.

[FJRider]

We didn't have rebels in Oamaru.
The worst (funniest) thing I ever did at the movies was fart loudly in a silent moment in the movie 'An Officer and a Gentleman'. Was holding it for about 20 seconds just waiting for silence so the audience could appreciate it's magnificence.

Some things never change ... ;)

[Oakie]

Some things never change ... ;)

Can't believe I'm still giggling about a fart I did 33 years ago!

Actually ... on reflection ...yes I can.

[awa355]

Can't believe I'm still giggling about a fart I did 33 years ago!

Actually ... on reflection ...yes I can.

I suppose you were one of the cool dudes, swaggering down the stairs from the back rows just before the lights came on at half time, lighting up a cigarette while still inside. ;) The 'tough guys wore jackets with the collars turned up, the rest of us wore cardigans. :eek5:

The Saturday 5 oclock movies were for the teens, the 8 oclock showing for the rest.

At Putaruru, Arthur Fountain would have all the ice creams already rolled by half time, little groups standing in the foyer looking at each other, the 'Oakies' outside leaning on the Cortinas and Holdens smoking up large, some guy in a Mk11 Zepher would do a burn up in Kensington st. After the film, around to the Geneva bar for a coffee and to watch the fights untill the cops turned up. Home by midnight.

People would get dressed up to go to the picture theatre back then.

Some things have changed.

[Maha]

Can't believe I'm still giggling about a fart I did 33 years ago!

Actually ... on reflection ...yes I can.

I did that years ago at Auckland airport, just got off a plane and we were walking down this long wide passage way with glass on both sides, as you, I had held on long enough but it was time, I just didn't realise how loud it was going to be (with all that glass) There was a group of older people about 10 meters behind us, when it let it go, we heard a lady say Roger!! Roger laughed and said ''it was me'' :shifty:

[Oscar]

Yes, I remember going to the Majestic Theatre in Oamaru for the Saturday afternoon movies and my 20 cents getting me admission AND an ice cream. I can still picture the film of the band playing 'God Save the Queen' pre movie.

The Band of the Coldstream Guards

[Oakie]

I suppose you were one of the cool dudes, swaggering down the stairs from the back rows just before the lights came on at half time, lighting up a cigarette while still inside. ;) The 'tough guys wore jackets with the collars turned up, the rest of us wore cardigans. :eek5: .

Feck no. I was never one of the cool kids. The cool dudes scared me. Farting in the dark was about as bold as I could ever be. The words under my avatar are actually pretty accurate . 'Born to be mild'.

[Oakie]

The Band of the Coldstream Guards

Probably. They were quite Guardy.

[Oakie]

I did that years ago at Auckland airport, just got off a plane and we were walking down this long wide passage way with glass on both sides, as you, I had held on long enough but it was time, I just didn't realise how loud it was going to be (with all that glass) There was a group of older people about 10 meters behind us, when it let it go, we heard a lady say Roger!! Roger laughed and said ''it was me'' :shifty:

Farts are fun! God, there's probably a thread in there.

[awa355]

Apparently vegetarians farts smell worse, but meat eaters farts stink more. Got no scientific evidence to support that tho.

[J.A.W.]

Bowel cancer farts - are a bit on the rank side - fart nasty-wise..

[ellipsis]

...you have started talking shit...

[FJRider]

Apparently vegetarians farts smell worse, but meat eaters farts stink more. Got no scientific evidence to support that tho.

Mine don't smell .. :sunny:

[Oakie]

Mine smell of roses...

[puddytat]

Warm and cold?

And back then ... we had the milkman to bring milk to your gate and charge 4 cents a pint (well, after decimalisation in 1967 anyway).

I was one of those kids who got up everyday before day break to deliver your 4 cents a pint of milk & cream & the choice of either orange or grapefruit juice (that was either 7 or maybe 11 cents). I had to push this fuckin trolley thing. Which was hard if the tyres were a tad flat. I can remember being able to carry 5 pints of milk in each hand. I was 9. I was actually on the job when the tokens first came in :yes: I was clever enough to "break" a bottle of juice every now & then .....but really I just skulled it. I also sussed that the local diary got an early delivery of pies, donuts & sally lunds....seemingly they never noticed that the bakers dozens were often 1 out.:oi-grr:



Im obviously old enough now to be classified as old....ish.

[FJRider]

I was one of those kids who got up everyday before day break to deliver your 4 cents a pint of milk & cream

We had a cow ... ;)

[J.A.W.]

Yeah, my mum used to wait for those thievin' little bastards & eyeball 'em to make sure they didn't play dirty - too..

[Maha]

When Coke was Coca Cola and it tasted so much better than what they produce today.

[T.W.R]

Bread delivered to the gate in the mornings :yes: sometimes if you were lucky enough it'd still be warm.

Did the obligatory milk run job for a few years :pinch: fit as a buck rat pushing a 6 crate trolley for a few hrs a night 3 nights a week; boss must have been reasonably OK, we were allocated 1 bottle of our choice of juice per section of the whole run (3 bottles a night).

[MD]

Well that song is still a good one after 50 years. Nothings changed there.

I did a milk round before High School. Had to meet the driver at 4.20am. Couldn't do that now with my...not so young body. I remember cursing those bloody frozen coins and tokens you couldn't get out of the bottles.

I am so, so, so grateful I was born to be a teenager through the 70s! Best decade EVER!!

[Voltaire]

Well that song is still a good one after 50 years. Nothings changed there.

I did a milk round before High School. Had to meet the driver at 4.20am. Couldn't do that now with my...not so young body. I remember cursing those bloody frozen coins and tokens you couldn't get out of the bottles.

I am so, so, so grateful I was born to be a teenager through the 70s! Best decade EVER!!

I told my teenagers a while back about " back in the day", you get your info from a Library, play board games, have only 2 tv channels, a phone connected to the wall that you can only talk on...they did not seem to think they had missed much.
On the other hand my 19 year old pretty much knows all the good music from the 60's and 70's.

[Maha]

The word Murder use to be rarely used, now its almost used in every News item.

[DamianW]

Happy childhood memories in the '70's of sitting down and enjoying family Sunday roasts. That hasn't changed because I still like to cook up a roast every week and invite the MIL over to see the grandkids. What has changed though is the veges are always spot on thanks to the microwave.

[swarfie]

Happy childhood memories in the '70's of sitting down and enjoying family Sunday roasts. That hasn't changed because I still like to cook up a roast every week and invite the MIL over to see the grandkids. What has changed though is the veges are always spot on thanks to the microwave.

Hahaha.... My old lady used to boil the crap out of the veges. My wife showed the old girl how to cook them and we've been having them crispy and tasty ever since.
My Dad says the only thing good about the "good old days" is that they're frigging gone (he had a hard childhood in the 30's and 40's) but I reckon the 70's were beaut. Best time as a teenager ever:headbang:

[ellipsis]

...the seventies were not quite 50 years back...the air quality in many places was somewhat different...in the sixties my little town had so much smoke hanging around from the steam trains and the steam engined ships and coal burning fireplaces that you could not see the sky at times, anything you touched got you covered in creosote or soot and sticking your head out the window of the train in the tunnel was a silly thing to do, so we did it a lot...

[J.A.W.]

`70s were indeed a 'Golden Age'..

Standard of living was 1st world, but rich pricks, sheilas & natives alike, knew to be a bit bloody discreet..

Top international motorsport in the summer, & much less BS law/political correctness about..

SexdrugsR&R,+1/2 decent bikes.. yeah..

[Voltaire]

`70s were indeed a 'Golden Age'..

Standard of living was 1st world, but rich pricks, sheilas & natives alike, knew to be a bit bloody discreet..

Top international motorsport in the summer, & much less BS law/political correctness about..

SexdrugsR&R,+1/2 decent bikes.. yeah..

Golden Age for the Rich Pricks who held the licences for importing anything, car dealers who could sell useless Pommy heaps of shit at high prices due to restrictive tarrifs with " the motherland", oveseas funds, Unions, overstaffed inefficient govt departments, smokers, lack of selection for food and takeaways, DB and Lion Red pisswater,rubbish made in New Zealand stuff, unsafe working practices, expensive overseas travel, subsidised Farmers ....and so on. I do however like the Motorcycles and music ( excluding the disco and Yes shit) :msn-wink:

[oldrider]

Golden Age for the Rich Pricks who held the licences for importing anything, car dealers who could sell useless Pommy heaps of shit at high prices due to restrictive tarrifs with " the motherland", oveseas funds, Unions, overstaffed inefficient govt departments, smokers, lack of selection for food and takeaways, DB and Lion Red pisswater,rubbish made in New Zealand stuff, unsafe working practices, expensive overseas travel, subsidised Farmers ....and so on. I do however like the Motorcycles and music ( excluding the disco and Yes shit) :msn-wink:

Ah so - Confucius say - open the windows and you are bound to let in a few flies! :doh: . (Question is: - Are todays flies any more tolerable than yesterdays flies?)

[Big Dog]

The word Murder use to be rarely used, now its almost used in every News item.
That's because every second story they murder the English language just a little more.

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[Big Dog]

It didn't change 50 years ago and I wasn't born yet but certainly what I lament from my youth is the introduction of weekend trading. Now no fucker has time for their kids and most families have at least half the adults working at least one weekend day. That's progress.

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[Headbanger]

The best days of our lives is right now.

Loved the 70's,80's.90's, 00's...and onwards.

Cant think of a better time in history for me to be alive.

And fuck me, It looks like my kids are enjoying the fuck out of their time as well.




Sure, it will crash and burn, and the fixing will take much longer then the fucking, But in the meantime I get to live like a king.

[Banditbandit]

So what has changed in 50 years?

Hmmm - Communism has flunked the test - Terrorism is the new world enemy - World debt still is the weapon of choice! - NWO right on track! - Nothing really! :oi-grr:

Communism flunked the test in the 1930s, when the rise of facsism in the world's most industrialized country proved Marx's Historic Materialism wrong .. there has never been a communist country since ... despite the claim of the dictators Stalin, Mao and others ...

[IkieBikie]

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO
SURVIVED THE
1930's 40's, 50's, 60's & 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
then after that trauma, our cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our pushbikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a Ute on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle!
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE
actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drink with sugar in it, but
we weren't overweight because
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back
when the streetlights came on..
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down
the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the
bushes a few times,
we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no
99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chatrooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given slingshots for our 10th birthdays,
made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang
the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Under 12 footy had tryouts and not everyone
made the team Those who didn't
had to learn to deal with disappointment.
Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law!

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL!

[Headbanger]

Meh.

I don't get that fluff bullshit about yester year.

Mothers smoking and drinking is nothing to be proud of, The reduced infant mortality rate however is.

Kids still love being kids, Playing rugby,bmx, climbing trees, Just ignore the fuckers (adults I might add) that try and whine about doing rough shit.

Our current level of video game awesomeness and easy access to high quality media is just icing on the cake.

Go check the hospitals, full of kids getting hurt just by being kids. The rock rolls forever on.

For all intents and purposes the kids are enjoying being kids just like the current bunch of miserable adults did when they were kids.

[DamianW]

...no lashings with the cane or gym sneaker at school these days. Ah back then there was an English teacher of mine who used to jump off his chair whilst bringing the cane down on your hand. Here's a few pics of the since-bulldozed stalag 19 school of mine near Liverpool.http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/08/27/d137659c97e1d78b530c61ce5c3ac12b.jpghttp://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/08/27/7b61066bab4f44f57498a279c5cbcca8.jpghttp://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/08/27/eaa9ff20630d3864904d62b77d11064a.jpghttp://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/08/27/b0f72f1856958b92023ca8bcffb4766a.jpg

[oldrider]

Communism flunked the test in the 1930s, when the rise of facsism in the world's most industrialized country proved Marx's Historic Materialism wrong .. there has never been a communist country since ... despite the claim of the dictators Stalin, Mao and others ...

That's why communism (and every other idealistic "ism") will fail every time - it can not get past the dominant human factors - GREED and DUPLICITY! :facepalm:

Unfortunately all human systems require humans for their existence - kinda catch 22 if you get my drift. :shifty:

[J.A.W.]

I enjoyed going to my school reunion & letting those surviving teachers know what I thought of them..

I gave one real vicious dyke what-for, & told her she should feel real lucky that I am not as nasty, now - as she was to me..
..she tried her bullshit " i was only doing it for your own good" - but I put her straight on that.. quick bloody smart..

They'd surely be had up, in this day & age - for their sadistic shit..

Funny - I really only remembered the good & the bad, & didn't bother with the mediocre, then or now..

[awa355]

Cycling was definitely easier 50 years ago. Just got back from 1 1/2 hr on the pushbike. Knackered. Riding a single speed way back then was easier than a multi speed is today.

Can't imagine why :confused:

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[Voltaire]

I enjoyed going to my school reunion & letting those surviving teachers know what I thought of them..

I gave one real vicious dyke what-for, & told her she should feel real lucky that I am not as nasty, now - as she was to me..
..she tried her bullshit " i was only doing it for your own good" - but I put her straight on that.. quick bloody smart..

They'd surely be had up, in this day & age - for their sadistic shit..

Funny - I really only remembered the good & the bad, & didn't bother with the mediocre, then or now..

Luxury...at least you didn't go to a Catholic school and waste valuable learning time getting brainwashed on invisible fwends.

On the flip side, I don't spend any time wondering if there is a 'next life' and get on with enjoying the current one.

I feel sorry for all those people in the Middle East who buy into the whole thing, must be like living in medieval times but with electronics.

Mr Flannigan sure liked giving out the cane as Rosmini College, last time I was there was in 1977, they can stick reunions.

[awa355]

Who remembers 50 years ago (well, 45 yrs ago), riding up the main street on a Friday late shopping night with the baffles removed, showing off their teenage riding skills on the latest Japanese chrome and paint?, getting sneered at by the 'real' bikers. ;);)

[J.A.W.]

Yeah, I belonged to a 'Triumph' family..

& owned/operated one, 'til I had to commute to work on it.. that was a bit nerve-wracking..
..both the fettling needed, & the concern that it would disappear..

So I bought a Kawasaki 500/3, & that taught riding skill, & feared no Triumph, performance-wise..

Sold the Triumph.. never looked back..

& if you wanna laugh..
Check this period bikie doco out..

www.nzonscreen.com/title/if-youre-in-it-youre-in-it-to-the-limit-bikies-1972