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General => General => Topic started by: chaz on 30 January 2013, 06:15:08 pm

Title: the way we were?
Post by: chaz on 30 January 2013, 06:15:08 pm

here's an advert that was in a 1961 magazine.

Title: Re: the way we were?
Post by: chaz on 30 January 2013, 06:25:16 pm

and here are the costs at todays prices using average earnings.

the duel-seat NSU £3,807

the brilon sweater £55.56

the cord trews £59.82

the mans shirt £96.42

the skid lid £135 each.

Title: Re: the way we were?
Post by: slimwilly on 30 January 2013, 08:04:25 pm

An early FOKKER :lol




the year i was born,,is that my Dad?

Title: Re: the way we were?
Post by: goldfazer on 31 January 2013, 04:44:58 pm

Looks like a Hornet ;)

Title: Re: the way we were?
Post by: DryRob on 31 January 2013, 05:28:06 pm

bet it handles better and has more power though  :lol

Title: Re: the way we were?
Post by: chris.biker on 31 January 2013, 06:41:42 pm

Well it has an awsome biker baby on the pillion just like my hornet does.

Title: Re: the way we were?
Post by: rayburn600 on 02 February 2013, 07:54:01 pm

Fuel tanks bigger than a hornest. :lol

Title: Re: the way we were?
Post by: purplebear7 on 02 February 2013, 08:52:23 pm

 :\   1961 ...  Yes I remember it well .. I'd already been a biker for five years by then .. regulation gas mask bag for the spanners, chain links, tape and bits of wire .. Barber waxed cotton trials suit, flat cap on backwards with Spitfire Pilots goggles to keep it on  :b   
 
Regular twice a week ride-out from Royal Navy Base's in Plymouth, Portsmouth or Portland up to Brum and back, no motorways, no street lighting, no cat's eyes on the B roads. 
 
A good telling off and a swift kick up the arse if you get pulled over .. by a fellow biker cop ;o)
 
Probably the best days of my life .. if only I had know it at the time  :'(
 
Stay Safe Guys  ;)    Trev   The Polar Bear.    (Oh .. and yes I might well be your Dad  8) )
 

Title: Re: the way we were?
Post by: Andy FZS on 02 February 2013, 10:48:12 pm

I have an nsu petrol tank hanging up in my garage that I use when I'm balancing my carbs.......but before I got it my father used it to power a little two stroke engine connected to a dynamo to provide some lighting during the miners strikes and power cuts of the 70's. Oh happy days.

Andy

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Title: Re: the way we were?
Post by: ChrisJH on 03 February 2013, 08:24:36 am

 times have changed theirs feck all femail I have ever seen on the back of a bike at Matlock, Devils or Squires that looks like her