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Ok, so I've got a story to tell. Sold my Z1000 2 weeks ago, did the change over on a Sunday with a bloke that came up from Vic to collect. (I'm on the Gold Coast) He arrived on Sunday afternoon dressed in micro fibre slacks, sand shoes, a golfing spray jacket and a pair of what looked like fishing gloves. I asked him wear his riding gear was and he said "this is it", I then asked him if he was road fit, to which he replied "havent been on a bike in six years" I then asked him to please call me when he had completed the 2000klm ride back to Vic. I got that call a day and a half later he told me that the Z had purred like an akropovic kitten all the way but that for some reason he was unable to move most of his body parts.

I reckon in some sort of weird way the blokes a legend.

If you Victorians happen to come across an 03 red/black thou with an Akra system see if the bloke goes by the name of Paul, bike will probably still have Qld plates. Buy the man a beer and ask him about his ride.

Far riders get into that

pics or it didn't happen

Absolute Trubie

Us older fella's might suprise ya
We didn't have all the softcock gear available these day
SMH or the local paper was the go for riding in cold weather
only cost 2 pence in them day's
But also you had service stations then YES you could buy a a spark plug and a inner tube
however Lattes and burgers were not available

imagine the wind chill factor!

his nuts musta packed up and stayed in QLD to fly back home??

micro-fibre slacks !!! woulda matched his micro-fibre packet after a ride back to Mexico !! what a wally...but as you say TM, in some kind of strange, wind-chilled shrunken kinda way, he is a legend.....of a sort ....

great story...

and Sulli is dead right, people these days have *no* idea about how bad the gear was back in the 70's and 80's. Back then, a waxed-cotton Belstaff meant you were a *hardcore* biker !! a wanker, but still *hardcore*....

Gosling1 wrote:micro-fibre slacks !!! woulda matched his micro-fibre packet after a ride back to Mexico !! what a wally...but as you say TM, in some kind of strange, wind-chilled shrunken kinda way, he is a legend.....of a sort ....

great story...

and Sulli is dead right, people these days have *no* idea about how bad the gear was back in the 70's and 80's. Back then, a waxed-cotton Belstaff meant you were a *hardcore* biker !! a wanker, but still *hardcore*....

mate when i started riding in.... umm.. 97ish..as a 17yo wearing dads hand-me down... it was a brando jacket, dessert boots, a lid and gloves (which i actually had to buy)...and a news paper down the front of the jacket if it was cold...

damn..that was cold back then... glad i never came off...

Neka wrote:.. it was a brando jacket, dessert boots, a lid and gloves (which i actually had to buy)...and a news paper down the front of the jacket if it was cold...

damn..that was cold back then... glad i never came off...

Classic, I could picture you in a Brando jacket

Burky wrote:

Neka wrote:.. it was a brando jacket, dessert boots, a lid and gloves (which i actually had to buy)...and a news paper down the front of the jacket if it was cold...

damn..that was cold back then... glad i never came off...

Classic, I could picture you in a Brando jacket

picture u say...ive got one.... just aint got a scanner...

this is what i was riding..ill find a pic and scan it..

notice the can?? i blew aprt the original..so went to a car zorst place, and they modded up a hot dog to fit..boy was it loud!!

Why, in my day, we didn't even have motorcycles. We used to run around racetracks at 125mph yelling "fucken VROOM" at anyone who would listen, in three feet of snow, wearing an onion on our belts, as was the style of the time.