More early 70s classic pics of my Dad.

**nudemetalz** · 26th March 2007, 20:46

Heya,

I'm promised Rhino (after the "How many bikes you owned" thread) that I would scan and put up some old pics in an album I recently found.

From what I believe, these were taken at the infamous "Kaikoura Trial" (yes Trial) back in 1971 or 2.
This was his Yamaha R-5 350 (these were the forerunner to the RD-350's).
He bought this after his Mach111 500. Maybe he got too scared after a while !!

The teenage lady on the back of the bike is my Mum !!!!

Check the pipe hanging out of his mouth (chic back then).

Cheers
NDMz.

PS Wanna see who'll do this on a Gixxer.

**nudemetalz** · 26th March 2007, 20:48

3 more pics.

Ride in peace up there, Dad.

**toymachine** · 26th March 2007, 20:51

Pipe in mouth. Legend.

Awesome pics

**MacD** · 26th March 2007, 21:06

Brilliant photos, what a great set of memories.

Puts the whole issue of a bit of gravel on the road into perspective! (Where's Motu!?)

**Ixion** · 26th March 2007, 21:15

Council being a bit tardy with the grader again, eh. That's what roads were like back then. Y' didnt bitch about it, just plugged on. Not as bad as the dreaded pumice .

Ah, the R5. I had one of them, and the R3 before it. They were damn good bikes, better than the Mach III.

Respect.

**kneescraper** · 26th March 2007, 21:18

Thats awesome, thanks for sharing those with us Chris.

**vamr** · 26th March 2007, 21:30

Awesome photos, love em.

Nothing quite like light fall off in old consumer optics (if it wasn't the glorified kodak boxcams like the duoflex). Yum.

**merv** · 26th March 2007, 21:47

Priceless. That's what we did in those days used the same bike for everything - road, trail, competition.

**0arbreaka** · 26th March 2007, 23:35

love the pipe

**Pwalo** · 27th March 2007, 08:30

Ahhh, the thing we used to do when we didn't know any better. You've got to love the 70's when you could do anything on your two stroke road bike.

**Swoop** · 27th March 2007, 09:31

Originally Posted by nudemetalz

From what I believe, these were taken at the infamous "Kaikoura Trial" (yes Trial) back in 1971 or 2.

Begs the question of "how many were found guilty at this trial..." Sorry, couldn't resist that one!

Great piccies. Also good to see the ladies being involved back then!

**vifferman** · 27th March 2007, 09:44

Originally Posted by Pwalo

Ahhh, the thing we used to do when we didn't know any better. You've got to love the 70's when you could do anything on your two stroke road bike.

Or 4-stroke road bike.

Most of my mates had trail bikes - I had a CB175, so I rode that in the dirt. Got very good at donuts, feet-up slides, and was getting the hang of wheelstands till I wrote it off while practising them.
Got most of the way up Mt Tarawera on the CB (back in the days when you could take bikes up there). Got ALL the way up on my MT250 a year later, and there was a makeshift motocross track up there the locals played on.

**Macktheknife** · 27th March 2007, 09:44

Awesome pics NDMz, brings back memories of early days of riding. Everyone I knew would do crazy shit on their bikes like this, beach, road, forest, river crossing, didn't matter where you were the bike would handle it....... usually! lol
Great to have so many photo's of your dad doing this stuff mate, I don't have any of my dad riding.

Thanks for sharing.