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Offline STroppy

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Re: When you went for your MC licence....
« Reply #75 on: January 08, 2015, 09:58:04 PM »
As a young teenager, I would ride other peeps bikes whenever I could . . Mainly around their backyards with an ocasional sojourn onto the footpaths and around the quiet streets around home . . Vespa Motor scooters, small naked bikes whatever I could nick for a few mintues or an hour . .

I moved to the NT at the end of 1965 for work, soon bought a 1947/48 sprung rear hub Triumph Tiger Twin . . Rather it was a trailer load of bike bits 3 in total. I sorted the bits and made up one bike from the lot with a lot more spare parts and by March 1966 I was riding this bike all around Darwin.

I lived in the Parap Hostel (demolished back in the early1970's).

The guy in the next room worked at the Motorvehicle Registration and licencing Office (RTA now) and after some months he happened to ask me if I had a licence to ride the motorbike. No . . Well drop in to my office and I'll give you one . . I did, he did . . It was that easy . . Mind you he had observed me riding around for some months . . And he still gave me a licence!
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Current bikes 2013 Triumph Trophy SE, 2008 ST1300
Previous bikes1948 Triumph Tiger 500 Twin - sprung rear hub, 1963 BSA Bantam 175, Yamaha 75cc & DT250, Honda ST1100, 400N & CX500 sports, BMW K100RS & K100 LT, Harley Electra-glid
 

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Re: When you went for your MC licence....
« Reply #76 on: January 21, 2015, 11:16:17 AM »
Imwas a bit like Terry. I had to ride around the block and as I returned it proved I could stay upright for at least 500metres.  Different now
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2005 Red ST1300
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Bikes I've had
Yamaha 500
Honda450
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