My hero was a guy called Paul Sample who illustrated the back page of bike with a strip-cartoon called Ogri, a hard core Brit biker with an attitude and a cool girlfriend. At art school I spent all my spare time unashamedly ripping off his style and techniques and produced dozens of pictures of all my mates and their bikes at the time.
Here's a few with a couple of me on my S3 triple. my girlfriend at the time used to put her cold hands up my jacket to keep them warm!
This is a guy called Pranny who was not a good pillion on a fast two stroke!
Barry on one of the ubiquitous GS1000s around at the time.
Lots of Z650s down the pub in the evenings
Still the odd brit bike around - we took the piss out of them as they were so slow.
Bikes like the Katana were evolving to take us into the modern era of knee down.
But the RD250/400 reigned supreme still in the wheelie competitions!
my brother and his mates doing "maintenance" Ha ha.
