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A butt naked bike like that. 180kmh, or thereabouts. Open face helmet and RAF type goggles. That was the norm we didn't know any better. I often think about that, but maybe nostalgia, in hindsight wouldn't be so great as it used to be. 😬

Can't imagine kick starting a 2stroke trials bike to be any problem. especially a modern one with decent ignition and carburetion, even EFI? Unless you have a real physical disability, in which case.........well, yeah.:(

Another sport that aint what it used to be. Nowadays they ride in stadiums with artificially built hazards. And mostly the bikes are not road legal and registered, so they can't cover the short stretches of road between the areas of natural terrain where the sections were. And as an observer...

Never bought a car on installments. Or anything else except bricks and mortar. Always ran old klunkers, rusty and klunky. Would never waste money on a car that could be better spent on motorbikes. But coinciding with my retirement, a small investment matured that enabled me to buy a new car for...

Notice the pedal configuration on those expensive bikes? Not parallel, not vee, but diametrically opposed on one shaft. Ol' Max Friz understood, you see. :cool:

Don't I recall reading, way back, that an easy mod for the 660R is to fit the Yamaha quad headers for a high level exhaust?

Spent most of the morning doing the licence renewal thing on the e-natis site. After several 'start over again's, got to the final Make Payment click and got Payment unsuccessful, refer to bank. Went to bank and got card registered for online payment. Went home and started again. This time, bank...

'Zactly. Saturday afternoon BBC Grandstand Scrambling in black and white was compulsory viewing for me. Jeff Smith, Dave Bickers, Don and Derek Rickman, Bryan Goss, Andy Lee and a host of others were our heroes until a bunch of invading Scandinavian vikings like Rolf Tibblin and Torsten Hallman...

I remember commuting. 😁 Don't do it any more, but my DT175 was bought in 1972 as a commuter to protect my beautiful Triumph from the filthy salted British winter roads, and from getting scraped and bent when I slid off on the ice. o_O I also used it to join friends who were into 'green laning'...

Dan, memory may be a little fuzzy, but I think that Honda pre-dated Yamaha's DT models with a street scrambler variant of their 250/305 CB72/77's for America's smooth well graded dirt roads.

I remember reading a legend about how it all started. A race meet was proposed, over a bit of rough British heathland back in the 1920's or 30's. Someone asked "What shall we call it?" and someone else replied, "Don't know, but it will be a right old scramble!" And it was advertised on...

Scramblers. When I was a kid, before I could take to the roads we used to follow a motorcycle sport called scrambling. Seriass short circuit racing over mixed dirt, mud, grass with ruts, dips jumps and berms. Scrambling it was called and the bikes were called scramblers. Then some lah di dah...

There's a lot of stop/go shit on the N2 around here so the R102 to J-Bay which we ride every Friday gets a bit hectic. Just so happens that I was leading this morning and just got lucky I guess with all the overtaking opportunities. That's my story anyway, but I didn't 'rev' anyone out of the...

Thanks DEON 1190 for pointing out that a full 23 litre tank will now cost an extra R17.25. With my car taking 25L and my currently running bike 22L, and both being at least 50% full, should I now rush out to fill up? Ag, I dunno...:unsure:

My general philosophy about bikes - less is better - (power excepted) so I don't like permanent luggage, although I do have a top box, a couple actually, for use only on those rare occasions when actually required. Most of my mates though are of the opinion that a bike without a top box is a...

All living animals emit toxic gases. How're they going to deal with that? :unsure:

I've said it. Others have said it. Nobody listens. Back to basics, K.I.S.S. call it what you will. Remove all the unnecessary shit and bikes could be far less costly.

Fascinating and amusing to read this shit, then good to move on to a thread talking about practical humble little bikes. :cool:

Crosswind Correction Sensors (CCS) are to become compulsory on all new motorcycles manufactured after 01/01/2025. Rumour or fact, or did I just dream it? :unsure:

Online licence renewal is magic! No more queueing for ages at the post office. This morning I walked in, presented the papers, paid the fee and walked out with the licence. No queue. Online works for me. ;)(y)