Kawasaki Triples Club

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

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

That is class leslie "

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)

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


Well more than a bit to be honest

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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 :

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

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,,,

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

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