In the blood ?

[fastbob]

Round at my Mother's at Christmas and the old photographs came out . Picture one is my Grandfather on my Mother's side . I haven't figured out what the bike is but it could have already been quite old . The second picture is my late Father on a rather sensible early Bantam . Does anyone else have some photos to prove motorcycles are in their blood ? 

[Tiggie]

Could it be this?

 

 

 

http://www.verralls.com/vintage-motorcycles/1925-633cc-norton-big-4.html

[fastbob]

58 minutes ago, Tiggie said:

Could it be this?

 

 

 

http://www.verralls.com/vintage-motorcycles/1925-633cc-norton-big-4.html

Yes , I think you've got it ! A Norton . 

[Yorky]

Looks like the drive chain is on the opposite side on those photo's. So possibly a Norton but not that model??

[Six30]

My dear old mum posing on one of my dads bikes 

 

[fastbob]

31 minutes ago, Six30 said:

My dear old mum posing on one of my dads bikes 

 

You'll be intrigued to know that it still exists .

[Bender]

57 minutes ago, fastbob said:

You'll be intrigued to know that it still exists .

I almost checked  

[Six30]

11 hours ago, fastbob said:

You'll be intrigued to know that it still exists .

it does ... i 'll look later

[Old-codger]

This is my farther in the fifties First on his Arial which is sorned somewhere and then his BSA golden flash that he brought from new. His brother had originally put a deposit down on it but things changed so my dad brought it instead. Sadly this is not around as far as I know. I would love to find the Arial though.

Sorry about the quality of the second picture I know somewhere there is the original picture I will have to find it.

Edited December 29, 2021 by Old-codger
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[fastbob]

3 hours ago, Six30 said:

it does ... i 'll look later

Yeah , it last changed hands in 2020 and it's red in colour . I did look through countless photos online  but I couldn't find it . 

[Yorky]

15 hours ago, Six30 said:

My dear old mum posing on one of my dads bikes 

 

 

Tiger cub???

[Six30]

2 hours ago, Yorky said:

 

Tiger cub???

Yes I think it was 

[Six30]

5 hours ago, fastbob said:

Yeah , it last changed hands in 2020 and it's red in colour . I did look through countless photos online  but I couldn't find it . 

i just looked as well , couldn't find any thing ,  possibility could be on an owners forum somewhere.

[Breezin]

My grandfather on what I think is an AJS v-twin in Co. Cork some time in the 1920s.

My dad had a Jawa 350 in the 50s, but I can't find a pic of that just now.

[fullscreenaging]

My Uncle in the mid 70’s. 
He passed his bike test at 16 before his car test at 17 and hasn’t been without a bike or two ever since. He’s 70 now. 
I think he was about 25 in this pic. 
 

 

Me about 6

 

 

My Dad had bikes before I was

born but I  have no photos 

Edited December 31, 2021 by fullscreenaging

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

I have no photos but when my dad left school he went to work in Delamere Forest and lived in a cottage just down the road from where we currently live.

 

One of his mates had a motorbike and sidecar so three of them used to go into town to local cinema on it every week.

 

The guy who owned it rode the bike, the other two swapped between sitting in the sidecar and perching on the rear mudguard.

 

The only bike my dad ever owned was a little Puch Maxi moped he used to get to work on. In the winter he worn so many layers he looked like the Michelin man disappearing in a cloud of two stroke smoke.