Photos from yesteryear..Pictures of you and your bikes!

My wife cut our sons hair once when he was about 4..imagine a pudding bowl cut.. but the bowl was all chipped,felt really sorry for the wee guy,luckily he wasn't at school yet,otherwise there would have been tears

 

That was funny Jez ..hopefully more folk will put up embarrassing old photos..everybody has at least one!

 

If I get the protocol right, I may choose the weapons...?
Drecksack.

(and besides: I just peed myself...)

 

Haaa Haa!

This just cost me two more hours on the couch of our local chimp, eh shrink...!

 

when your'e in the waiting room don't eat all the peanuts

 

I'll have to restrain myself from doing so.
Unfortunately all the Bananas went east as the wall came down.
(No, not Pink Floyd's )

 

As I said earlier was never into taking photos of the bikes but this is certainly an old photo.
My gran with my brother and I on her knee

 

Trying out my first bike for size in 1949.

 

Aren't you cute
What happened

 

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I evolved into a hairy arsed biker haha.Then i bought a Trumpet.

 

Talkin of embarrassing photo's and dodgy haircuts. This was 1969, I'm at the back, 2nd from left, as you look at it.

 

My old CB900. Bought it in 1980, and it was silver/blue originally. Stripped it down completely to do it like this, with rattle cans. Finished it the day before I got married, (fot t'first time), and we went to the TT on it the day after for our honeymoon, in '84.

 

Is that Bandit Pink?

 

This was the absolute best 'go fast' bike that I've ever owned. The photo below is is lousy, but it's the only one I have. It was taken ~1982. The bike is a 1980 Yamaha XJ650 inline 4 with a shaft drive. Not everything was on it in this picture, but I added: new bars, air forks, air shocks, Pirelli Phantoms, oil cooler, Kerker 4 into 1 exhaust, rearset pegs and controls, Craig Vetter Rabid Transit fairing and lowers, and my wife fixed the seat for my tender butt This bike had a top end of 148 mph, and it went there fairly often. Because of the fairing and suspension changes, at just over 100 mph, it would literally drop (compress) about 1.5 inches and then it felt like you were on a set of train tracks just sliding down the highway. It was an amazing feeling.

I kept the bike chained to a post set in concrete. We were pretty poor during this period and I worked on-call 24/7. We had to wait a year after we were married to take a weekend honeymoon. My wife tried to do me a favor and move the bike so we could load the car. She dropped it, and the tank hit the steel post. She turned the bike around so I didn't see it, but she spilled the beans on the ride to the mountains Luckily, I was smart enough to keep my cool. She felt so bad (because I was nice about it) that I was able to buy even more goodies for it

 

One of my mates had the XJ650 shaft drive would have been about 1980, he loved it!

 

I had the 900 sharfty, brilliant bike!

 

His looked like below, looks a bit different to yours Hackdriver.

 

This was the only Yamaha I've owned. This followed my CB900FZ. It was silver, red and blue originally. Had it sprayed up to look like a bike I'd seen racing at the '88 Bol D'or, which I went to on this bike. This was taken at the '89 Donington MotoGP, and I traded it in shortly after for a GSX-R1100K.

 

Mine was the '80 Maxim model which I think came in a dark red or black. The one in your photo is the Seca model. I think it came out in '81 or '82. It was styled very different from the Maxim (tank, seat, side covers, and trim). It might have also had a slightly longer wheelbase (not sure), but I think both of them shared an identical drivetrain. All of the Yamaha bikes in that time period were built like tanks - if it took one bolt to hold a part together, Yamaha would use two.