Author Topic: Posing with your bike.... (Read 12775 times)

Streak · « **on:** September 30, 2013, 10:15:50 AM »

Just found this old photo from 2005 with me "Posing" with my still very brand new 2005 FZ1, forgot how skinny i was....

Marcus · « **Reply #1 on:** September 30, 2013, 10:21:57 AM »

Pocket STocker · « **Reply #2 on:** September 30, 2013, 10:45:05 AM »

Came home from work and found this bike in our shed, and seeing how so far no one else is posing with a ST, neither will I.

Pockey

Streak · « **Reply #3 on:** September 30, 2013, 10:53:55 AM »

Quote from: Pocket STocker on September 30, 2013, 10:45:05 AM

seeing how so far no one else is posing with a ST, neither will I.

just thought people might have old photos with bikes they have owned from when we where much younger and "cooler"

Pocket STocker · « **Reply #4 on:** September 30, 2013, 10:56:51 AM »

Quote from: Streak on September 30, 2013, 10:53:55 AM

Quote from: Pocket STocker on September 30, 2013, 10:45:05 AM
seeing how so far no one else is posing with a ST, neither will I.

just thought people might have old photos with bikes they have owned from when we where much younger and "cooler"

Are you saying I'm old and not cool !!!

Marcus · « **Reply #5 on:** September 30, 2013, 11:04:08 AM »

BOOM...Shots fired

And Streak blindly walks into that one

Streak · « **Reply #6 on:** September 30, 2013, 11:25:40 AM »

Quote from: Marcus on September 30, 2013, 11:04:08 AM

BOOM...Shots fired

And Streak blindly walks into that one

ah why not, i am getting married in 5 days.....

saaz · « **Reply #7 on:** September 30, 2013, 02:58:58 PM »

Late 90s I think. I still have the bike

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saaz · « **Reply #8 on:** September 30, 2013, 03:04:08 PM »

And just to add to the mix - dad with his then new to him Panther 650 Sloper (it would be late 1930s/very early 40s). He later put a outfit on it, as I course when you get married that is what you should do

He had a 350 BSA sloper before that.

Shaun · « **Reply #9 on:** September 30, 2013, 09:25:58 PM »

That's so cool :)

Streak · « **Reply #10 on:** September 30, 2013, 09:54:10 PM »

Quote from: Shaun on September 30, 2013, 09:25:58 PM

That's so cool :)

agreed! that is just a different class isn't it

StinkyPete · « **Reply #11 on:** October 01, 2013, 06:26:08 PM »

Me and my Yamaha XS650 in Tassie. Lots of fun to ride, but the frame was made of spagetthi.

Tipsy · « **Reply #12 on:** October 01, 2013, 06:36:46 PM »

Love the hair cut pete
Tipsy

Dick B "Yewie" · « **Reply #13 on:** October 01, 2013, 06:59:38 PM »

Posing next to Bonnie my first road bike (2000 Triumph Bonneville) on Thunderbolts Way NSW

Not to be outdone by Saaz, here is my Dad about 1940 on his BSA 650 Single. It too expanded to a family outfit as us kids came along. Seems like felt hats were the helmets of the day. I'm not sure how they managed to keep them on.

Pezzz · « **Reply #14 on:** October 01, 2013, 07:07:43 PM »

Well the thread was about "posing" with your bike rather than "standing around or sitting on it" so i thought i would drop this one in from this weekend in Kalbarri...

(eyes up from the girl in the red bikini behind) ...

StinkyPete · « **Reply #15 on:** October 01, 2013, 09:18:00 PM »

Quote from: Tipsy on October 01, 2013, 06:36:46 PM

Love the hair cut pete
Tipsy

Yep! Almost a terminal case of helmet head.

Biggles · « **Reply #16 on:** October 01, 2013, 11:00:34 PM »

Quote from: Dick B "Yewie" on October 01, 2013, 06:59:38 PM

Seems like felt hats were the helmets of the day. I'm not sure how they managed to keep them on.

Felt hats were the uniform of the day. Men were regarded as naked without them!

I guess with the strong flat brim, the rider just tipped his head down a little and the hat was pushed firmly onto the head.
Apart from that, they possibly didn't ride quite as fast as some riders these days.

saaz · « **Reply #17 on:** October 02, 2013, 10:50:31 AM »

Dad did have a riding 'helmet', consisting of a leather cap that covered the ears and strapped under the chin (think of the early aviator gear). The cap had rabbit fur lining, and holes so you could hear, of course. The cap was at home for years, wish I had put it away somewhere.

Quote from: Biggles on October 01, 2013, 11:00:34 PM

Quote from: Dick B "Yewie" on October 01, 2013, 06:59:38 PM
Seems like felt hats were the helmets of the day. I'm not sure how they managed to keep them on.

Felt hats were the uniform of the day. Men were regarded as naked without them!

I guess with the strong flat brim, the rider just tipped his head down a little and the hat was pushed firmly onto the head.
Apart from that, they possibly didn't ride quite as fast as some riders these days.

Wombat · « **Reply #18 on:** October 02, 2013, 02:26:47 PM »

SAAZ
you must start wearing your helmet and ride slower as you had more hair in the 90s

saaz · « **Reply #19 on:** October 02, 2013, 02:44:48 PM »

Wearing a helmet wore my hair out I reckon

and worrying about you lot does not help

Quote from: Wombat on October 02, 2013, 02:26:47 PM

SAAZ
you must start wearing your helmet and ride slower as you had more hair in the 90s

Marcus · « **Reply #20 on:** October 02, 2013, 02:44:50 PM »

Quote from: saaz on September 30, 2013, 03:04:08 PM

I'm just going to leave this here.

saaz · « **Reply #21 on:** October 02, 2013, 03:10:23 PM »

Marcus, what did you use to do that? Sure makes a difference Dad used to develop his own photos for many years, B&W of course.

StinkyPete · « **Reply #22 on:** October 02, 2013, 03:14:40 PM »

If we're showing family bike photos, the first is my father-in-law on his bike, on the bridge at Clarendon in the Adelaide Hills. The second is one of my daughter's wedding photos, requested by her and as a tribute to her grandfather, taken on the same bridge.

Marcus · « **Reply #23 on:** October 02, 2013, 04:02:57 PM »

Quote from: saaz on October 02, 2013, 03:10:23 PM

Marcus, what did you use to do that? Sure makes a difference Dad used to develop his own photos for many years, B&W of course.

Photoshop

Sabie · « **Reply #24 on:** October 05, 2013, 03:07:09 AM »

Here's my contribution

This is around 1980 and my first Bike a 1974 Honda Elsinore MT 250 which was a 2 stroke with 2 spark plugs, one on top of the cylinder and one to the side for hot and cold plugs. The 2 mates I'm with and I are still in contact.

This is around 1989 with my 2 eldest sons Jeffery and Matthew, the youngest son Nathan was only a little new born at the time. He was Married last weekend. The bike is a 1981 Honda XL500s. I wish I had this bike today, I just loved it.

This is a photo of my Dad on his Ariel. As I was growing up we were always told it was an Ariel Four Square, but clearly it isn't, it looks like a Red Hunter from I'd say some time in the 1940's. The photo is pre Mum and Dads wedding so around 1950/51.

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