1400 Owners Life Today ( The 'What did you do today?' thread)

[Irish in Oz]

My Hustler was in the green and silver scheme, with a tiny headlight, I always remember the rubber mounted bars with a steering damper, mine also had a different back light, the one above seems to have a GT rear light. A mate at the time had the quite rare 350 twin...ah good ole days 

T250 yours may have been 70 model round tail light smaller outside fin on head. Knob on center of yoke for steering damper. The 350 was actually 315 an over bored Hustler was called a Rebel in the UK.

[Irish in Oz]

Col,that would have to be about a 74 G5.

ARH, the 400 Dream (Super) went quite well compared to the 250.

Yes the memories, is it Alzheimer's creeping in.

[grog]

https://www.motorcyclealliance.com.au/joe-eastmure-best-six-hour-racer-youve-never-heard/

[Irish in Oz]

Grog,
I am informed Joe is living up your neck of the woods these days, he is a VJMC member, but as yet I have not had the pleasure of meeting him in quite a few annual club events.

[Tony Nitrous]

I've worked with a guy for the last 2 years. We had a bit in common, our age, both married, grown up kids, similar attitude to our jobs, but we found a few more common interests, from older shotguns, to our choice and purchase of cars, to an interest in steam trains etc,  and a similar sense of humour often changing subjects to Doomsday Preppers and paranoid conspiracy theories. It passed the time.

He committed suicide Friday evening, I have no idea why. There was obviously more to him than I realised. Poor bugger.

[KiwiCol]

I feel for ya Tony. It's hard to know what to say at times such as this.  Sounds like he was a good work mate & you most probably made a difference in his life for the good.  Sometime people have just had enough of everything & opt out.  Makes it hard (bloody hard) on those left, wondering why & what if . . .  He'll be at peace now & whatever was tormenting him is over.

My thoughts are, be kind to people & try to go through this life doing some good, you never know when your number's up or theirs, so, be nice while you can.

[Sweaty]

Shit Tony, that's sad news mate. Unfortunately, you never know what is really going on in some peoples mind, and us blokes are great at hiding it too.
Never something you want to hear anyone doing, let alone someone you know.

[Mister Fishfinger]

I am so sorry to hear that. I had the same happen to me a few years back. I had a good friend at work (probably the guy I got on best with at that place), I moved to another job but we kept in touch, went for a drink from time to time, then a few years later I heard he had killed himself. I was especially sad because I found out after his funeral and didn't get a chance to pay my respects.

As you say, you never really know what's in someone's mind. And you never lose that feeling of "what if", even though there was probably nothing you could do about it.

[grog]

Feel for ya Tony. Best mate did same, bloody drugs.

[Notty]

3 guys i worked with took their own lives and some 15 years later its still "If only"  - sad times Tony 

[VladTepes]

So sorry to hear that Tony, very sad.  And yes, in most cases nobody ever really knows the answer to that question "Why?"

[shanered6]

That is very sad and its realy tough when you dont know why and a lot of times they seem to be able to hide it so well , one of my best freinds did the same thing went for his usual evening walk and never came back ! .... its hard to take not knowing why 

[grog]

wasnt going to post this but am. when around 20 yrs old, 3 of us made ourselves blood brothers, actually did the prick on hands, shared blood. we were best mates, so many things shared. would kill for each other. we were just bullet proof. one made aussie basketball team, one was golden gloves in navy. i was just me, nothing special, just fast on a motorbike. my basketball mate ruined himself with heroin, he sat in his car, cigarette in mouth, exhaust in car. i was really annoyed he didnt ring me for help, i refused to go to his funeral. my other mate then dis owned me because i didnt go to funeral. he was best man at my wedding. now 26 years later, he still wont talk to me. im sort of over it, not really sometimes. one ended life wrecked 2 others. sad story but nothing i can change. hope im not wrong in posting this.

[Kiwifruit]

Sorry to hear that Tony.
Suicide is just so sad. I have known men, women and children who have taken their own lives.
To see the damage done to those that loved them is heartbreaking. At such a cost we can only hope they have found an end to their torment.

Our suicide rate in NZ is nearly double that of our road toll.

[Notty]

Ordered these for £89 - HEL s/s transparent standard front set and a rear - seems good value