What teenagers liked

[Voltaire]

I seem to like the bikes cars and music that were around in my Teenage years, so I have ended up with a few 70's bikes and loads of Led Zeppelin....
I lost interest in modern vehicles in the mid 80's after I stacked my Z1000J.

Wondering what Teenagers of the 80's and 90's liked and if that's formed what you buy these days?

[haydes55]

I'm 22 and I love motorbikes and Les zeppelin. I don't think it's because it was popular when you were a teen, I think it's just cool no matter when

[Rhys]

Currently a 900ss would be a 916 but 4 valve maintenance is a bit beyond me

[Grashopper]

Bikes didn't exist in my life when I was a teenager (or most of my life in general). I was a teenager in the 90s in the dance music and rave era and that is definitely not something I like to listen to anymore. When I was 18 I started listening to the music I still like today: gothic, dark wave, synthie, rock, alternative, celtic, country...

[nerrrd]

When I were a teenager ridin' around on my gp125 in the eighties I think I had a brochure for an rz250/350 on my wall? I thought those mvx Honda 250s were pretty cool too...the gn250 I ended up on was much more my speed of course. Owned a lot of 250s since then - even the bigger-than-250 bikes I've owned are all LAMS legal.

Led Zep are way too cool for me. Think Elvis Costello...LOTS of Elvis Costello. Wasn't all that keen on Flying Nun bands at the time but can't get enough of them now (must be a nostalgia thing) eg Chills, Clean, Verlaines and especially the Bats (I like my melancholy with lots of jingly-jangly guitars...)

[Akzle]

getting fucked up, getting fucked, and not, at all, giving a fuck.

[Geeen]

I was hooning around the farm on my DT175 as a teenager, road bike was an '82 CB250N, I was lusting after a cbr600. Have since owned one and moved on to bigger more idiotic bikes. As far as music anything from Tool/Rammstien to Dean Martin/Glenn Miller, the current crap of modern music aint great but thats a whole other thread...

[unstuck]

When I was a teenager in the 80s, I always lusted after a mk1 escort with a V8. And always wanted a VF 750. Listened to heaps of punk rock and smoked a heap of weed.
Now Im nearing my 50s and the escort has long gone, still got the VF, still listen to heaps of punk rock and smoke a heap of weed.

[slofox]

I was a teenager in the 60's.

Even then, I was dreaming of a bike very like the GSX-R600 I ride today.

One of the benefits of being an old fucker is that the modern bikes are so far ahead of what I could even dream of back then that it is easy to be happy with the modern machine. Even if it isn't the latest model that has all the very latest bullshit aboard.

And not giving a fuck of course, eh Akzle...and shit.

[Akzle]

And not giving a fuck of course, eh Akzle...and shit.

one must always not give a fuck. And shit.

(srsly, if you dont shit you will die)

[scumdog]

one must always not give a fuck.

When I was a teenager in the late 60's - early 70's I was so self-centred that I didn't even know there was shit out there that I could not give a fuck about - let alone not give a fuck about said shit.

A bit like modern kids - only they seem to be more full of self importance without the necessary self confidence to go with it

Sadly they've also got too easy access to piss and easy loans.

And shit.

So get into the shit easier.

Cos today an 18 year old has all manner of freedoms and rights I didn't have at that age - but an 18 year old today has no more common sense than an 18 year old back 'in my day'...

Whew!

[FJRider]

So get into the shit easier.

As I recall ... I found it easy to get in the shit ... just more ways to do it now. A size nine Cop boot up the backside did wonders ...

Cos today an 18 year old has all manner of freedoms and rights I didn't have at that age - but an 18 year old today has no more common sense than an 18 year old back 'in my day'...

At 18 ... I wasn't allowed in a pub without my parents there ... but could sign up to go overseas and kill people. Without my parents permission even ... Go figure ..

[Stylo]

Is this a Baby boomer promotion ?

I miss the smell of the diesel motor in my model aeroplane and the sore fingers when it backfired.

[BuzzardNZ]

Loved the TZR250 and the RZ350. Never owned one but wish I did. MVX250 also looked great!

[Voltaire]

Is this a Baby boomer promotion ?

I miss the smell of the diesel motor in my model aeroplane and the sore fingers when it backfired.

No......er....I wonder if your allowed motorcycles in the retirement village and do they have a workshop? I hope they don't play Phil Collins music either.
I wanted a Escort Van or if the pocket money worked out a Holden Sandman, not the clapped out Kombi van I ended up with.