1981. Blast From The Past.

[Tinkicker]

Heard a song on the radio and was transported back in time..

Cannot believe 40 odd years have gone by.

 

Vividly remember stood in the doorway at my mates house, looking at my new to me bike, while listening to his new album.  Just had to put my earbuds in and listen again while looking at the pic.  Mine had an aftermarket Dunstall silencer and a two four racing seat with the hump at the back.  Wore a hole in the original silencer grounding it out on Haigh roundabout not far from woolley edge services on the M1.

Nostalgia.. Is it as good as it used to be?

 

 

 

 

Edited April 10, 2023 by Tinkicker

[Bianco2564]

1981... the year I met my Mrs and passed my bike test.

[Gerontious]

I was 19 and as my mother would have said, acting the maggot on a KH250.

[Stu]

A fair few old buggers on here! I was born in 1981

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

1981 I was poor skint student in Leeds. We used to go to a upstairs room in a dodgy pub to listen to a wicked jazz band. I inhaled some strange substances (passively) in that joint. 

 

[Old-codger]

That brings back memories I saw Rush  around 1980 at Stone in Staffs what a gig.

[manxie49]

1981 just started my Army training as a junior leader ….. only feels like yesterday 

 

[Ian Frog]

I confess to being one of the old buggers but at least I saw Rush on the farewell to kings tour at the Hammersmith odeon.

Great band and in my opinion an act that would be very hard to beat.

400/4 not bad either lol.

Cheers

Ian

[MikeHorton]

2 hours ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

1981 I was poor skint student in Leeds. We used to go to a upstairs room in a dodgy pub to listen to a wicked jazz band. I inhaled some strange substances (passively) in that joint. 

 

A joint you say

[MikeHorton]

In 1981 I was 5. At infants school and that year I wet myself in assembly and it was on a wooden floor on the Hall I think I ruined the varnish. I had to see Mrs Totney for some spare pants and trousers out of the magic drawer

Edited April 10, 2023 by MikeHorton

[S-Westerly]

1981 I was doing my 2nd Mates in Liverpool. We used to frequent a sleazy club called the Cabin. Most of its clientele were MN cadets, police cadets, student nurses or trainee Phys Ed teachers from I M Marsh. Strange substances were pretty rare there as any whiff of anything more esoteric than booze and tobacco would see any of us out on arses career wise. In the basement of this dive the condensed sweat used to drip off the ceilings so we used to put beer mats over the glasses.

[Breezin]

20 hours ago, Tinkicker said:

Heard a song on the radio and was transported back in time..

Cannot believe 40 odd years have gone by.

 

Vividly remember stood in the doorway at my mates house, looking at my new to me bike, while listening to his new album.  Just had to put my earbuds in and listen again while looking at the pic.  Mine had an aftermarket Dunstall silencer and a two four racing seat with the hump at the back.  Wore a hole in the original silencer grounding it out on Haigh roundabout not far from woolley edge services on the M1.

Nostalgia.. Is it as good as it used to be?

 

 

 

 

Beautiful bike. My older brother came home one day with the glossy sales brochure for it, and I was sold but hadn't the money.

He was going to pull the trigger on it, but our dad, who used to have a bike himself,  persuaded him not to by giving him his old Cortina Mk 1 for next to nothing.

Funny,  when I went to buy my first bike, he wasn't so bothered about diverting me! 

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

I remember Motorhead played the student union. My room was directly over the stage. It was not a quiet night. The bar has a vast range of beverages available,  Newcastle Brown or Newcastle Brown. By the end of the  evening the pit in front of the stage had about 2 inches of the stuff sloshing around. 

[S-Westerly]

First time I got pissed on beer it was Newcastle Brown. Haven't been a fan since.