Riding in the wet

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[size=1em]It's funny when thinking back to my early days on a bike, passed test in 66. On a 175 BSA Bantam I bought brand new that year £129-19/11d. Bought it on finance, at the time I was an apprentice brickie earning just under 7 quid a week, bike tax and insurance, 2 stroke oil and petrol, bike repayment, and £1-10/- to my mum for keep, It left nothing for waterproofs or a crash helmet so I rode my first few years without either. [/size]

[size=1em]Wasn't law then to wear a bucket. [/size]
[size=1em]My first bike was in 1964 again a BSA Bantam 175cc a 1959 model[/size]

My brother passed his bike test on his 17th birthday in 1980 and had already bought a Honda CBX1000 which was sitting at home waiting for him, then had a Kawasaki Z1300 when he was 18.
Both beasts of bikes, especially for a kid!