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A Golden Age
« on: April 04, 2019, 10:39:01 AM »
I love this video of a better time, this is how i had to ride during my motorcycle test in 1964, no indicators on bikes back then (unless you rode a Ariel Leader or Honda Benly) and no traffic, no traffic camera's, no yellow lines, truly a golden time, wish i had a time machine!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViSyN0T2-G4
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Re: A Golden Age
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2019, 10:46:25 AM »
Also examiners that got run over when they jumped out in front of the wrong bike for an emergency stop!!!

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« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2019, 10:59:05 AM »
And these videos are almost comical but relevant for the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adoKYJf16fk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGpGxhHSd7U
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Re: A Golden Age
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2019, 12:01:14 PM »
Also examiners that got run over when they jumped out in front of the wrong bike for an emergency stop!!!

That happened at the test centre were I passed my test!
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Re: A Golden Age
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2019, 12:05:37 PM »
And that Tiger Cub was same as my first bike (although never made it to the road) - great viseos
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Re: A Golden Age
« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2019, 12:35:10 PM »
I stoped about 20 yards in front of the examiner I could see him hiding behind a car.
How many of you then went around the corner and pulled a wheelie  ;D ;D
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Re: A Golden Age
« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2019, 02:08:51 PM »
In the early sixties on my test, a small dog shot out of a gate and attacked my jean bottoms, I pulled to a halt with the growling dog attached to my jeans with its teeth, to hear a voice shouting "kick the b*st*rd", it was the excited examiner shouting, but he did pass me at the end of the test.
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Re: A Golden Age
« Reply #7 on: April 04, 2019, 03:26:22 PM »
What a great video, the bikes, the bike gear, the cars and trucks, took me back quite a bit. I passed my test on a Yamaha 80 after selling my 250 AJS, my mate told me to bounce up and down on the forks when I did the emergency stop to make it look good, I did and I passed, probably nothing to do with the theatrics.

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Re: A Golden Age
« Reply #8 on: April 04, 2019, 03:42:06 PM »
There is something decidedly wrong with the bike taking the video from a mechanics point of view!

Due to the age of the video it has to be a british bike probably fitted with St Joseph Lucas, Prince of Darkness, electrics BUT  the ammeter is always showind zero or very slightly +ve which means it was actually CHARGING.

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« Reply #9 on: April 04, 2019, 04:16:16 PM »
Great video ! ...cheers for posting. I had a little trike like the ones at the beginning  :-[

Was that a 'non-PC' wolf whistle as his 'new friend' on the scooter turned the corner.
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Re: A Golden Age
« Reply #10 on: April 04, 2019, 04:17:48 PM »
Great video, the swinging 60's.
I took my test on a similar bike, a 250CSR in 1979. The examiners first words when he saw it in the car park dripping oil was 'Is that thing legal'. The bad start got worse when he asked me to read a number plate and I got it wrong! He gave me a second chance and I got it wrong again! He gave me one last chance reading a different plate, when he told me I got that wrong as well I argued the 'W' was a 'V'. He said 'I should know what the number plate is, its my bloody car'.....opp's! I still passed despite him trying to confuse me by showing me a picture of countdown markers for an unmanned railway crossing in the highway code question section of the test. We have a lot of unmanned level crossings in London!
I wonder if Mr A J Seddon is still an examiner, a name I will never forget (and he probably still remembers my name!!!).
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« Reply #11 on: April 04, 2019, 04:48:07 PM »
What a lovely old film. It's a bit before my biking escapades started. Took test in 1978 on a CD175 with wooden brakes front and rear but just managed to stop in time to avoid the examiner for a pass 😁😁😁
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« Reply #12 on: April 04, 2019, 04:49:42 PM »
“Alright friends, you have seen the heavy groups, now you will see morning maniac music. Believe me, yeah. It’s a new dawn.” Grace Slick, Woodstock '69 .. In the year of the Sandcast.

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Re: A Golden Age
« Reply #13 on: April 04, 2019, 06:50:18 PM »
Dick Emery is sorely missed, it seemed at the time in the 60's and 70's that he was never off the telly, a very funny man.
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Re: A Golden Age
« Reply #14 on: April 04, 2019, 07:20:07 PM »
Now that surprised me I used to watch his programmes's and thought that with the passage of time my sense of humour would have changed but I enjoyed it and still ended up laughing

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