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MikeGTi
1,242 posts
70 months
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matchmaker said: Jesus! I got married in 1985  I feel old................ That's because you are old. By me, born 1984. 
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matchmaker
3,254 posts
69 months
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MikeGTi said: matchmaker said: Jesus! I got married in 1985 I feel old................ That's because you are old. By me, born 1984. I've owned older cars.
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DBSV8
4,206 posts
107 months
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my cars currently older than me ..................by 8 months  still built in "65" though 
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marcosgt
6,187 posts
45 months
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chris watton said: marcosgt said: I had to see what the first one was, but didn't even open the second as I knew EXACTLY what it would be! Worst record ever? Quite possibly.
What was good about the 80s? F40s, Renault 5GT Turbos, Group C, Group B, some of the music.
What was bad about the 80s? Thatcher, Yuppies, most New Romantic dress sense, shoulder pads, Queen, recession.
Pretty balanced, like every other decade - I recall the 70s being particularly dire, but as I get older they don't seem quite so awful.
M I'd say that the '80's was good because of Thatcher - and I hated her at the time. now, I can see what she wanted to do - especially when contasting it to the '70's - a dark, bleak (and candle-lit) decade compared to the '80's. From what I remember anyway. How would it have been under Labour, I wonder...... Well, one thing everyone agrees on is that Thatcher divides opinions. You're right that the 70s were bad in some ways (although as a kid I found power cuts and candle-lit bathtime great fun and I remember the summer of '76!  ), but two wrongs don't make a right. I always my grandmother saying "They should make a woman Prime Minister, we'd never have any wars then" - Sorry Gran... M
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gtdc
4,227 posts
152 months
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I just watched Hard To Kill. I had wiped from my mind just how wrong Steven Seagal was. He runs like a girl, with flappy hands, looks like Michael Barrymore with a pigtail and is just wrong on every level. Ruined my memory of him.
Pah.
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Turbodiesel1690
1,299 posts
39 months
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Anyone remember these from the 80's? Honda 3 wheelers I used to have a 70cc when I was a nipper, bought these 2 in the last few years as they're becoming collectable now:  ETA the big one is an '84 model, the small one is an '85
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kVA
2,126 posts
74 months
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What, like this do you mean?  'Elf & Safety' bods, fill yer boots...
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RedLeicester
5,389 posts
114 months
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f  k yeah! Looking at buying a quad for myself and the kids, and just doesn't feel right having four wheels.... far too sensible! I did several PGL Camps on their "motorsport" weeks.... hacking around on the trikes was the highlight of the whole thing!
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Turbodiesel1690
1,299 posts
39 months
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Trikes are definitely more fun than quads, shame the yanks banned them
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Turbodiesel1690
1,299 posts
39 months
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kVA said: What, like this do you mean? 'Elf & Safety' bods, fill yer boots... No such thing as elf & safety back then
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Steamer
8,848 posts
82 months
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Turbodiesel1690 said: Anyone remember these from the 80's? Honda 3 wheelers I used to have a 70cc when I was a nipper, bought these 2 in the last few years as they're becoming collectable now: ETA the big one is an '84 model, the small one is an '85  They were double-b d-lethal. I didnt actually getting round to tipping one, but I did manage to catch my heel on the rear wheel and almost ran over my own leg.
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kVA
2,126 posts
74 months
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Turbodiesel1690 said: kVA said: What, like this do you mean? 'Elf & Safety' bods, fill yer boots... No such thing as elf & safety back then Especially not in Oz... Are they still legal in the UK? I know they're not in the US or Oz... killjoys
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kVA
2,126 posts
74 months
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RedLeicester said: f k yeah! Looking at buying a quad for myself and the kids, and just doesn't feel right having four wheels.... far too sensible! I did several PGL Camps on their "motorsport" weeks.... hacking around on the trikes was the highlight of the whole thing! The 4WD ones are quite interesting on corners and heavy braking! In their own way, occasionally even more dangerous than the trikes - especially if you are doing doughnuts and suddenly find some grip, like I did once!
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Ray Luxury-Yacht
6,374 posts
85 months
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Turbodiesel1690 said: Anyone remember these from the 80's? Honda 3 wheelers I used to have a 70cc when I was a nipper, bought these 2 in the last few years as they're becoming collectable now: ETA the big one is an '84 model, the small one is an '85 I had one of these for a while. Trouble is, I was used to motocross bikes, and could never stop putting one of my legs down round corners. I repeatedly ran over my feet and lower leg. Ow. For sale: Trike
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With these feet
3,707 posts
84 months
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We had a trike as a pit bike about 10 years ago.
One chap that worked for us was incredibly clumsy. In fact Id say being around him was dangerous.
We were having lunch in the garages in Valencia when we heard the trike start up then rev to the redline followed by a loud bang and the sound of falling framework.
This chap had started the trike and somehow pushed the thumb throttle wide open while kicking it into 1st. On the rear of the transporter was an aluminium set of steps to an access door. He managed to send the trike up the steps and do a wall of death on the tailift. There were tyre marks 6 feet up the truck!! He was OK as he fell off pretty much immediately.
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Ray Luxury-Yacht
6,374 posts
85 months
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With these feet said: We had a trike as a pit bike about 10 years ago.
One chap that worked for us was incredibly clumsy. In fact Id say being around him was dangerous.
We were having lunch in the garages in Valencia when we heard the trike start up then rev to the redline followed by a loud bang and the sound of falling framework.
This chap had started the trike and somehow pushed the thumb throttle wide open while kicking it into 1st. On the rear of the transporter was an aluminium set of steps to an access door. He managed to send the trike up the steps and do a wall of death on the tailift. There were tyre marks 6 feet up the truck!! He was OK as he fell off pretty much immediately.  Reminds me of the time I was riding a mate's Gas Gas trials bike (he had two of them). These are slow, controlled bikes with lots of torque, for climbing steep things etc. you know, like this:  We were playing in an old railway cutting. I managed to ride up the steep side of the cutting, kinda lose control at the top, fall off the back whilst simultainiously pulling the throttle wide open. The bike took off without me, got airbourne vertically as it 'flicked' itself skywards at the top, and ended up with the front wheel kind of sliding up a nearby tree trunk, and as it stopped going up and began to come back down to earth, the rim of the front wheel managed to hook itself over a small bit of branch that was sticking out about 4 inches, where the branch had snapped off the tree sometime back. So we had his bike hanging from a tree at the top of a cutting, with the rear wheel about 3 feet from the ground. It looked hilarious, and actually saved me and the bike from damage, as it would have crashed all the way back down the side (probably landing on my crumpled body at the bottom!) It was far from hilarious trying to unhook it though. Even with two of us, every time we tried lifting it from the bottom, the bloody handlebars kinda 'turned' inwards so the flipping front wheel would stay resolutely hooked to the bloody stump! Did it in the end though. Went home for tea 
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With these feet
3,707 posts
84 months
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Sounds like you and me had a similar introduction to bikes Ray..... Kid from school had a Kawasaki AE50 - pretty new as his parents owned a popular restaurant in the town. Their read garden was long but fairly narrow with 4 foot wire fences separating the gardens.
They had made a mini-motocross circuit with a small slow speed hump along one side (you can see where this is going cant you!).
Watching my mate ride around, he said have a go. So my previous experience having ridden a stripped down C50 through a field should have put me in good stead. Alas no, and first time over the hump, throttled it - supermanesque - and thankfully hooked the bike over the fence.
Didint get another go on it for some reason.....
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englisharcher
1,499 posts
33 months
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I remember learning to ride on one of these when I was around 8 years old, so that would be about 1984, I have many happy memories of that bike 
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Biker's Nemesis
22,696 posts
77 months
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englisharcher said: I remember learning to ride on one of these when I was around 8 years old, so that would be about 1984, I have many happy memories of that bike TY80.
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englisharcher
1,499 posts
33 months
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Biker's Nemesis said: TY80. Sure is, and it looks like a proper trials bike, not like those modern ones with no seat
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