1969

[scumdog]

I was standing in line with 400 million of my comrades.

And the best one was YOU???

[Drew]

And the best one was YOU???

You ride a Harley man. You are well aware that "fastest", doesn't mean "best"!

[Big Dave]

'69? -listening to the moon landing on a smuggled-in transistor radio at high-school.

Primary school. Watched it on TV in the Auditorium.

[mashman]

And the best one was YOU???

pot kettle... but every dog has his day.

[Bald Eagle]

'69? -listening to the moon landing on a smuggled-in transistor radio at high-school.

Same, must be getting old now.

[Motu]

Lots of things from then I like a lot better.

If you were 16 when you saw Easyrider it made a pretty strong impression....so did Woodstock, On Any Sunday and The Wild Bunch. You've got to be at an impressionable age to be impressed by unimpressive things.

[AllanB]

But did they really land on the moon?

[Berries]

Seriously! How can anyone, especially so called Kiwibikers, reflect on 1969 and not come up with Easy Rider first?

Because it was shit?



Mind you, I was only one so less impressionable. Bring on the fucking Wombles I say.

[ellipsis]

...an American guy in the US Navy Deep Freeze force was courtin' the girl just over the road from our place...one night he turned up on a brand spankin' new CB750 and it was candy apple red and I've been besotted by the homo things ever since...God Blessa Merica...

[koba]

...On Any Sunday... ...unimpressive things.

Take that back!

[Grubber]

Shoot! This takes me back, way way back. I must be gettin old!
I was 11 at time of landing and was already wrecking myself on bikes.

[MisterD]

I watched it once. Thought it was crap.

You were right, I'm a '71 baby so didn't get issued with the rose-tinted specs that Scummy obviously wears to watch it ('cos cops don't get stoned, right?).

You've got to be at an impressionable age to be impressed by unimpressive things.

Well that's the most profound thing I've read in a while.

I first saw Easy Rider in a double bill with Taxi Driver at the Tyneside Cinema when I was 19. I remember thinking ER was pretty good until TD put its quality in proper perspective...

Anyhoo, back to the subject:

Last band of the 60's, first band of the 70's isn't it? Hmmm?






Meanwhile in Workington, a band called Black Sabbath were playing their first gig...

[Swoop]

But did they really land on the moon?

Yes. I watched it live on the black & white telly!
No photoshop back then!

[Banditbandit]

'69 Firebirds had external springs, I don't think they are Cerianis, so probably off some Jap Crap - the bike would've been burned in 1969 for that.

In 1969 BSA were using the 'group' forks. External springs, steel sliders (black) and black headlight ears, rubber gaitors. Essentially they are the same as on our '70 TR6C except by 70 they had better damping (cough)


Nice bikes all the same

Yeah - you're right - just goers to show ... my memory that far back is shot to hell ... The forks look a lot like the 1971 American market Firebrd forks .. but they are not quite BSA forks ...

'69? -listening to the moon landing on a smuggled-in transistor radio at high-school.

I remember doing just that - I had a small white plastic transistor in a leather case - which was about the size of my hand and could be smuggled into school - and I had an earpiece ...

I used to hang the tranny off the handlebars of my bicycle while I delivered the Dominion in Masterton in the mornings ...

[ellipsis]

...I pulled a sickie from school the day they landed on the moon...listened to it on my crystal radio...