4 Decades of Dave [Archive] - Kiwi Biker forums

Big Dave

27th November 2006, 13:44

Blackbird

27th November 2006, 13:52

Well congratulations Big Dave - the start of a great career.:Punk:

A genuine CB450 "Black Bomber"? Crikey, that takes me back. I was a student at the time and rode a Triumph Tiger 100. One of those CB 450's made complete mincemeat of me and also saw off my mate's Triumph Trophy with connsumate ease. A lovely bike and soooo quiet. That was pretty much the final nail in the coffin for the British bike industry, well before the CB 750 came along and made the outcome beyond dispute.

Cheers

Geoff

Devil

27th November 2006, 13:53

While behind the safety of my internet connection, that top left pic looks like SkidMark. Hah!

Nice work gramps :dodge:

vifferman

27th November 2006, 13:57

Well congratulations Big Dave - the start of a great career.:Punk:
Yeah. You must be like... toldlessly old now. :shit:

A genuine CB450 "Black Bomber"?
It might have been the post-Black Bomber model (the 70's CB450 K6)?

Lias

27th November 2006, 13:58

Such a handsome young man.. wtf happened? :dodge:

I suspects congratulations on officialy being an old fart are in order :first:

Swoop

27th November 2006, 13:59

Imagine what you would have said back then, if you could see into the future and saw the Buell...
"Alien technology??"

terbang

27th November 2006, 14:03

Imagine what the next 40 is going to bring ya..

Blackbird

27th November 2006, 14:08

It might have been the post-Black Bomber model (the 70's CB450 K6)?

Aha, the period when I was away from bikes, getting married, moving to NZ and raising kids - kinda lost touch in that decade:bye:

Big Dave

27th November 2006, 14:26

A genuine CB450 "Black Bomber"? C

I was 17. A red one with blue smoke.

NodMan

27th November 2006, 14:34

I purchased my first Road Legal motorcycle (and 4th in total) 30 years ago - today. Day after me mum's birthday.
A dirty old CB450 Honda for $300 that I kept for a month before trading it in on a SR500.
Been some ride! The NZ component particularly outstanding.

Congratulations on becoming an OLD bugger!!!
I remember (well wish I still could)back in 70 when Bill Russell still sold trumpys
THEN came the Jappas...and still we ride em...OLD farts unite against tin tops!!

Big Dave

27th November 2006, 14:47

While behind the safety of my internet connection, that top left pic looks like SkidMark. Hah!

Bad photo.

Maha

27th November 2006, 14:58

While behind the safety of my internet connection, that top left pic looks like SkidMark. Hah!

Nice work gramps :dodge:

And in pic 81' ??...there's a bit of a young HOFF happening there......:gob:
Similarities are, they are both Big and they are both David's.....:rockon:

Big Dave

27th November 2006, 15:01

I got virtually the same pic with a mullet. :sick:

Motu

27th November 2006, 16:29

I remember (well wish I still could)back in 70 when Bill Russell still sold trumpys
THEN came the Jappas...and still we ride em...

Bill Russell was BSA and Norton,but I guess a fair few Triumphs went through there.

40 is the best time of your life - still young enough to stick it to the young fellas,and old enough to be smart about it.

Big Dave

27th November 2006, 16:35

Bill Russell was BSA and Norton,but I guess a fair few Triumphs went through there.

40 is the best time of your life - still young enough to stick it to the young fellas,and old enough to be smart about it.

yebbut - I'm closer to 50.....:zzzz:

Edbear

27th November 2006, 17:56

40 is the best time of your life - still young enough to stick it to the young fellas,and old enough to be smart about it.

Ah, 40! I remember it well! :yes:

Guess we like to think we're still young enough... Try playing your sons-in-law at Squash!:bye:

Hitcher

27th November 2006, 19:16

Wasn't it 30 years ago today Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play?

Or is that when I'm 64?

Maybe if I partied like it's 1999...

Congratulations Dave. The "brotherhood" of motorcyclist is the richer for your impulsive decision all those years ago, when my moustache was just 2...

Big Dave

28th November 2006, 00:59

Wasn't it 30 years ago today Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play?

It was twenty years ago today,
Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play
They've been going in and out of style
But they're guaranteed to raise a smile.
So may I introduce to you
The act you've known for all these years,
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
We're Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,
We hope you will enjoy the show,
We're Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,
Sit back and let the evening go.
Sgt. Pepper's lonely, Sgt. Pepper's lonely,
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
It's wonderful to be here,
It's certainly a thrill.
You're such a lovely audience,
We'd like to take you home with us,
We'd love to take you home.
I don't really want to stop the show,
But I thought that you might like to know,
That the singer's going to sing a song,
And he wants you all to sing along.
So let me introduce to you
The one and only Billy Shears
And Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

28th November 2006, 06:45

We must spring from the same vintage Dave going by that 1978 pic. It's just that where you must have been mixing super glue and black shoe polish into your shampoo to retain your youth, I was too busy rolling herbal cigs for medicinal purposes only.
Closing in of the big FIVE - O is scary but not as scary as not making it!

Pwalo

28th November 2006, 07:11

My mate rode a CB450. We tore it's head apart in my Dad's basement, put it back together, and had a couple of washers left over. Bugger.

The torsion bar valve springy thingy had us most confused. Still we were stupid teenagers and didn't know any better. The closer I get the younger 50 seems.

Big Dave

28th November 2006, 08:53

The closer I get the younger 50 seems.

Co-pilot says 'It's the new 30'.

I still don't know what i want to do when I grow up.

Pwalo

28th November 2006, 09:57

Co-pilot says 'It's the new 30'.

I still don't know what i want to do when I grow up.

Aint that the truth!

SwanTiger

28th November 2006, 10:38

While behind the safety of my internet connection, that top left pic looks like SkidMark. Hah!

Nice work gramps :dodge:

No way!

Far out Dave, you look exactly like Affman!

SwanTiger

28th November 2006, 10:40

P.S. Ulysess is calling ...

Big Dave

28th November 2006, 10:58

P.S. Ulysess is calling ...

Yeah - I might go and ride it now.

Hitcher

28th November 2006, 11:48

P.S. Ulysess is calling ...

Ulysses. The club or the bike?

Edbear

28th November 2006, 17:42

Ulysses. The club or the bike?

Take my advice! Ride the bike!!!!

Notice my sig?

oldrider

28th November 2006, 21:00

I got my bike licence in October 1954, it doesn't seem to be that long ago really.

Three score years and ten, (70) That's the average lifespan for men!

After that they are all "bonus" years, if you make it!

Well I have got 3 more regular years to go, then I'm into the bonus years.

When that day comes I think I will celebrate it by buying one of those fancy "Ulysses" bikes, like you have got Dave.( I quite fancy the cut of their jib)

They look like a bike for the long hall and it would take me through till I get that letter from the Queen, then I will trade it in for the new model.

Can you get them with a slightly taller screen? :ride: Positively yours, John.

Coyote

28th November 2006, 21:16

You were a lanky bugger weren't ya :p

There's hope for me yet then

Big Dave

28th November 2006, 21:43

Can you get them with a slightly taller screen? :ride: Positively yours, John.

Nice work john.
A variety of larger screens are available.
My favourite bike ever - but they do have some quirks - they are very tall.

Big Dave

28th November 2006, 21:44

My thoughts exactly on seeing that pic, looks like Aff Dude

That would be he looks like I did thanks. And I was a foot taller.:dodge:

Big Dave

28th November 2006, 21:46

You were a lanky bugger weren't ya :p

There's hope for me yet then

Funny how a mans body changes - I got to 160kg in '04. - but I hid behind the camera then. Lost 50kg now I knock kiddies out of the way to get in front.

shafty

28th November 2006, 23:24

Good on ya Dave, nice bikes - and cool to see ya early pics = awesome!
Some of the younger riders would do well do acknowledge the survival skils of Blokes you (and I) who have been riding for so long without facial reconstruction! Good on ya Dude

Mr. Peanut

29th November 2006, 00:17

I'm picture 1, what would picture 4 tell me to do?

Big Dave

29th November 2006, 00:19

survive.:yes:

oldrider

29th November 2006, 08:12

Nice work john.
A variety of larger screens are available.
My favourite bike ever - but they do have some quirks - they are very tall.

It's funny that, all the bikes I fancy are too bloody tall for me.

Do you tall guys have the reverse kind of trouble with low bikes? John.

Ixion

29th November 2006, 11:05

Just treat it like a horse. Y'can't put y' feet on the ground when y' sitting on a horse, right? So, bike smae way. Works for me.

Mr. Peanut

29th November 2006, 11:10

Ho'rse's don't fal'l o'ver.

Ixion

29th November 2006, 11:16

Nor do motorbikes.

Hitcher

29th November 2006, 12:29

Ho'rse's don't fal'l o'ver.

The BDOTGNZA asks "Have you lost your freaking mind?"

Ixion

29th November 2006, 12:56

Well, true, s'times they do. But 'tis not a'that common. Us'ly they'll manage t'stay upright.

Oscar

29th November 2006, 14:52

Motu

29th November 2006, 15:53

Lucky bastard's been able to put both feet down all his life,talk about easy! Wait untill he gets really old - he'll shrink to a mere 6ft!

Big Dave

30th November 2006, 11:13

So you think yer ever gonna learn how to ride 'em?

Maybe I should watch you more - but the rear-view mirrors are SO small.

Oscar

30th November 2006, 11:19

Maybe I should watch you more - but the rear-view mirrors are SO small.

And yours are obviously pointed the wrong way...

oldrider

30th November 2006, 11:58

I got my bike licence in October 1954, it doesn't seem to be that long ago really.

Dave, I was so busy writing about me, I forgot to congratulate you on your four decades of motorcycling!

The bit I meant to draw attention to is how quickly that the forty years will now seem to have passed by.

The real worry is, just how much time speeds up as you get older, the next forty will be "over before it began" (in the words of Kevin bloody Wilson.)

I came onto Kiwi Biker by accident while searching for all my old motorcycling mates, wondering where they had all gone to.

The realisation of where they had gone was a bit of a shock and brought home to me that I was now almost at the other end of the road myself.

That was an was an even bigger shock I can tell you!

I am not getting morbid here, just emphasizing that if you guys want to do something (like get a new bike etc) just get on and do it while you still can or you might wake up one day and find it's too late!

Riding your bike is so much fun, get out and do it, while you can still get it done! :ride: Cheers John.