Hi everyone My name is Tyler, I'm 13 and I own a TY50 with a 80 engine, TY50, DT175 just like kickaha's one from the jump picture, FXR150 and 2 KR150's, Dad said I can have his RD250LC that needs doing up. I had a 1980 JR50 but it got pinched a month ago ;-( I am going to Taupo with Dad for the have a go sidechair day, see you there Tyler
Hi Tyler. Tell your dad to do up the LC for you.
welcome in Tyler....you might need some lead to keep the chair down!!..watch the LC..they bite.......most of us can't even remember being 13.........think of all the things that weren't around when we was 13ish...........like colour tv's......cellphones..........takeaways........HOG S........
Cmoore, I am fairly certain I'm older than you, and I most definitely recall mum and dad buying a colour TV when I was 13 - 14. It had a remote, but it wasn't a wireless jobbie, it had a cable. It got both channels too! And which part of the country were you in, that didn't sell takeaways?
And which part of the country were you in, that didn't sell takeaways? when I first started riding Friday nite we would go to Taupo fos a burger. cus there was only Paxie's otherwise
Welcome Mr Tyler. 6 bikes already! Just think how many you will have accumulated by the time you are as old as some of these doddery old buggers . (Can I use buggers without being accused of corrupting youthful innocence. Must be OK, it was on the telly). I'm looking forward to being 13. We didn't have TV when I was 13 before but I remember Dad making me a crystal set. Does that count?
well you may be from the rich side of the family Max.........but my side was decidedly blue collar.........when we did get our first colour TV it was a rental and it was definitely the 80's..but yes maybe it was the last family in the street to get it.........and if you notice i did say 13ish....as for takeaways...the only time we got takeaways (other then fish and chips) was on the yearly trip to Taupo for fishing in the Austin 10.........took 7 hours to get there..........on the way back we stopped at that exciting place with Kentucky fried chicken....somewhere near Cambridge i think......never any Chinese, Thai, Indian, Pizza, Kebab......you know...real food.......
christ Ixion...they didn't have fucking cars when you was 13......(and that must be allowed as i heard it on the TV too).........
at 13 I was building tanks for the Wermacht.....Airfix ones.....and I had a very used bicycle....oh and I had to walk barefoot 10 miles in the snow to work too... We got a color TV for the 74 Commonwealth games.....not sure what year that was though..
shit...stop it....let me think...i was 13 in....1974..........so yes i think we watched the games in colour too!!
I rest my case. I was 14 in 1974, which as it happens was when we got our colour telly. The rich side of the family? I don't think so . . . my dad was a baker/pastry-cook, and we lived in a rented house at the time. I seem to remember McDonalds & Kentucky Fried Chook arriving in NZ sometime in the late '70s, but before that the only option for takeaways was fish'n'chips. As I recall, the first KFC was in Royal Oak, and the queues were looong, man.
Damn' finger trouble . . . as you were.
I used to go to the Juicy Oyster for fish N chips - 50 years later the Juicy Oyster is still there,and the same guy serves me my chips.Imagine that,working in the same fish and chip shop for over 50 years.Imagine buying your chips from the same chip shop for 50 years.....
Welcome Tyler. Don't mind the old boys going on about a bowl of gravel for breakfast and a damn good thrashing every morning, they are close to being cremated anyway so keep all open flames away ok?
h and I had to walk barefoot 10 miles in the snow to work too. Shit. You had FEET ? Obviously both young and privileged. Back in my day feet hadn't been invented we had to crawl to school through the primeval sludge on our bellies.
