1/2 Century Ago

[grog]

Actually 49 years ago, loved my bikes then also. Honda 750 and TX650 Yamaha, had multiple options, forks, seats exhausts, bars, could cafe racer or chopper both in a couple of hours. Camshafts on both were other options.They were incredible times, still feel like yesterday.

[Notty]

Bloody hell - did we all have the same hair do's and beards back in the day? 

[Hooli]

Bloody hell - did we all have  hair back in the day? 

      

[KiwiCol]

Bloody hell - did we all have the same hair do's and beards back in the day? 

Yup!     Looks out of place nowadays, but at the time everyone was the same. 

[Andre]

Nice wet shave of my head yesterday. Smoothness rivals a baby's skin. Now the darn hair is growing back already. That shite should just stop growing and tell it's brethren who live in my face to take a hike.

[VladTepes]

1/2 Century Ago... I was 4 years old.

"Actually 49 years ago" I was 5 years old.

I was a few years off getting my first chopper (3 speed - T-bar)

Kinda like this...

[KiwiCol]

HD have the wheels on their choppers the other way round, large at the front & smaller at the back.   

[GSXKING]

50 years ago I didn't have a beard. I was 14 and annoying the neighbourhood racing around the local bush in Mount Gravatt on my TS90 Suzuki trail bike.
My Dad was a genius at tuning two strokes, setting timing, gapping plugs and fuel/oil ratios for optimum performance.
He had BSA Bantams and the like as a Lad. His brother, my uncle Jed raced them at Isle of Man 🇮🇲

[Hooli]

49 years ago I didn't exist ya bunch of auld farts.

[Mick_J]

50 years ago I joined the Royal Air Force, so no beard and short hair and I didn't have a bike.

[Phill P]

50 years ago I had a raleigh bicycle and still went to primary school 

[Blubber]

49 years ago I didn't exist ya bunch of auld farts.

Same for me 

On the other hand.... retirement would be nearer if i was born earlier.
 

[Hooli]

1001 weeks, 4 days & a bit till I reach state retirement age...

[Daytona]

Come January it's 50 years ago my parents took me to buy my fs1e,(fizzie)

[KiwiCol]

50 years ago I was about to buy my first bike, a used Suzuki T250.  I can recall the thrill and freedom to go places - places I'd never been or seen.  Just loved it, and I still have that wandering lust to 'just go' today.