Old Pictures

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Circa 1979 on my first street bike - I’m 17 on my 1976 CB 360T. My friend in the picture Just found and sent this pic to me. Classic to me

If that's you, ya gots a big ol' smile on yer face... aah, weren't such moments GRAND? I'm not a big fan of that particular model, but then again, apart from BMX bikes & homegrown minibikes & whatnot, I learned to ride on a flashy new NVT (Norton-Villiers-Triumph) 50cc Easy Rider Moped with a 4-speed gearbox, and I had mondo fun on that bad boy, lol. Mine was the version with the fake fuel tank in line with the seat, the actual fuel tank was inside the frame tubing, AYE? Meh, for awhile I had the fastest moped in Coronado, the 4-speed gearbox had a lot to do with that, even the fastest Puch (or Puke) mopeds couldn't touch my bad boy NVT, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Punks would squawk about their Puch 'peds going 50+ m.p.h., but my NVT 'ped did double-nickel no problem, no punk-@$$ Puch p.o.s. could keep up with it, LOL. Dunno where that bike went, it disappeared during my troubled youth... probably sent back to England and the brother (now dead) who first broke it out. WTF, it was one hell of a bike while it lasted... and the NVT name was good for some SE-WIOUS TEENAGE INFATUATION, LOL.

Here's two oldies. First one is me (1970) on the K0 which I still have. The second is my son and dad on my S90 in 1980, which is also still in my possession.

red69 said:

Here's two oldies. First one is me (1970) on the K0 which I still have. The second is my son and dad on my S90 in 1980, which is also still in my possession.

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Looks like a Silvertag exhaust. Early 69? or have a black VIN tag?

Early in the production. Silver tag with CT104984 frame number.

nice CB 360, I was still riding a '72 Norton 750 in '79 but I can't find any pic's of it, not sure any were ever taken

Just remembered that I had two photos of my Norton-Villiers-Triumph Easy-Rider Moped in a scrapbook, so I fished 'em out and snapped pics with my Canon cam... not the best quality photos, but ain't she a beauty? For a moped, I mean? Lol... You can see the fake plastic tank, the real fuel tank was inside the tubular frame, N-V-T designed the bike to resemble an actual motorcycle. The 'ped had a 4-speed gearbox with toe shift lever and everything, but it was @$$-backwards with everything reversed to the opposite side, it being a British bike, lol. I THINK it was reversed, now I can't remember exactly which side the lever was on, maybe the pics will show us once I post 'em, aye? Here we go, I was 17 years old when I first rode this bike in 1979, and it was a blast...

I used to ride it to a skatepark in London called the "Mad Dog Bowl" on the Old Kent Road, funny how that road name just popped into my head once I recalled the name of the skatepark. Met three black skaters there, but they spoke with English accents, no shucking & jiving like over here, lol. Winston, Clifton & some other hand whose name I cannot recall. Winston was the funny one, Clifton was more quiet but he was a heckuva rider, and we actually had a good time skating together, following one another down the snake run... Clifton would grind the hell out of the vertical extension on the last turn of that run, it was pure vertical too, pretty tall in size. The way those guys spoke the Queen's English, it was like an episode of "The Twilight Zone"---funny whatcha remember after so many years have elapsed, that was 40 years ago, almost 41 years.

ANYWAY, HERE ARE THE PICS, BET Y'ALL NEVER SAW A MOPED LIKE THIS ONE BEFORE, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! FEAST YOUR EYES ON ALL THAT CHROME!!! AND LOOK AT THAT PIPE!!! WHAT A BEAUTY... WISH I STILL HAD HER.



CHEERS!!!

Holy Cr@p!!! I just Googled "Mad Dog Bowl" and it actually spit out "Mad Dog Bowl Old Kent Road"---some of the photos showed different features, maybe the owners redid the place after I left. I guess it was Europe's largest indoor skatepark at one time, I seem to recall it was built in an old theater or something... maybe just an old warehouse, hard to say without digging deeper into it, which I'm not likely to do. I saw the pool, which was 13' deep and had "mushy" shotcrete, not much fun to ride... there was also a severely-kinked halfpipe which was rideable in spots, dangerous in others, lol. The snake run was my favorite feature, since they actually did a good job on it and the surface was smooth & fast, with that big bowl at the bottom of the run... more like half a bowl, but with the vertical extension on it which made it worth riding. I remember Winston telling me how Tony Alva visited the park, walked over and looked down into the kinked halfpipe, then walked right past it to the pool and stayed there for the entire session... didn't bother riding the halfpipe, lol. That Clifton dude could get air off the top, he was hardcore... and somehow I recall Winston asking me (in perfect Queen's English), "FANCY YOU CAN GET A GRINDER IN THE POOL?" Weird what one remembers over time, lol...