Is This What We Looked Like At 17?

quivals189 · Post by **quivals189** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 8:08 pm

Is this what we all looked like at 17? The sorry thing is this is my kids at 17 and 19.

Mitsui Spy · Post by **Mitsui Spy** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 8:49 pm

Yup. 'fraid so. Those 2 would look bang at home in the 70's.

blackhat400 · Post by **blackhat400** » Sat Jan 04, 2014 9:04 pm

That is class leslie "

Olde Coney · Post by **Olde Coney** » Sun Jan 05, 2014 8:21 am

You should be proud Leslie...and anyway they obviously have their mothers good looks

husson73 · Post by **husson73** » Sun Jan 05, 2014 8:43 am

Yes we looked like this excepted for myself haven't a leather jacket but a belstaff jacket green bought at Lewis Leather on july 1973 (was in UK for a month with my girl and my ... CB 350)

fnuseless · Post by **fnuseless** » Sun Jan 05, 2014 9:01 am

Just a bit thin to look like me at 17/19

Well more than a bit to be honest

h2al · Post by **h2al** » Sun Jan 05, 2014 12:26 pm

I think they look GREAT !
In the 60's/70's everyone who rode a bike wore a BLACK LEATHER JACKET. I still do....

Me at 16....

Me at 57...

quivals189 · Post by **quivals189** » Sun Jan 05, 2014 5:34 pm

This is me age 20 with the same jacket my son has on in the first picture. And I still wear it to pose in sometimes

The fringes look so cool

Steve Rowden · Post by **Steve Rowden** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 7:20 pm

Yup.
They look the real deal. Mind you the bikes are too clean.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 8:47 pm

How come the jacket's still black but the hair isn't now Leslie.

quivals189 · Post by **quivals189** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 10:14 pm

I thought I looked too young Malcolm so I dyed it grey so I would blend in with the rest of you at the rallies

fieldsheer · Post by **fieldsheer** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 10:18 pm

quivals189 wrote:I thought I looked too young Malcolm so I dyed it grey so I would blend in with the rest of you at the rallies

irhobotolo · Post by **irhobotolo** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 7:45 pm

This is me thirty years ago. Pretty damn cool eh ???

Note the back tyre covered in chain lube

The bike was a KH400 with Dyson kit. The engine was race tuned by Terry Beckett ( anyone remember him ? ) and it was as fast as hell as long as you revved it like mad. I used to wheelie it all the while and looking back I absolutely thrashed the life out of it. I can remember riding to Wales and back along the A5 just for the hell of it

This is my daughter who is mad about bikes :

El Presidente · Post by **El Presidente** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 8:43 pm

GREAT pics! I still have the same leather jacket that I had in my late teens, I use to be able to do the chip shop run and fit 3 LARGE Kebabs down the front and worry that they would fall out . . . . . . Nowadays I would struggle to get a saveloy down there

Mark B · Post by **Mark B** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 8:48 pm

Ah yes Terry Beckett i had a 350 lc tuned by him,i remember driving up to Nottingham and trying to find his place (no sat nav then) i was expecting a big workshop but found him in a shed at the bottom of his garden. lovely chap and excellent workmanship

blackhat400 · Post by **blackhat400** » Wed Jan 15, 2014 8:22 pm

quivals189 wrote:I thought I looked too young Malcolm so I dyed it grey so I would blend in with the rest of you at the rallies

You " and Neil The Don both",,,

must be the water up north,,,

Olde Coney · Post by **Olde Coney** » Thu Jan 16, 2014 7:36 am

El Presidente wrote:GREAT pics! I still have the same leather jacket that I had in my late teens, I use to be able to do the chip shop run and fit 3 LARGE Kebabs down the front and worry that they would fall out . . . . . . Nowadays I would struggle to get a saveloy down there

Aardvark · Post by **Aardvark** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 6:03 pm

I have also got my original jacket from 1976, black with red, green and yellow strips along with all the old badges. Just had a replica made as the old jacket has shrunk

The new one looks great, so when bike is back together it will get a run out.

Aardvark

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