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Old 31st Jan 2004, 18:08
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Thud_and_Blunder
 
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1975 - Yamaha DT175 paid for by my 21st birthday 50 quid spending money. Perfect way to get around post-invasion Cyprus (unit Pt 1 orders included "no motorcycling in shorts or flip-flops (thongs to you Ozzies...)

1976-78 Honda CB200 with the L-plates off when nipping up from Odiham to Valley to see the old course-mates sweating through training while I was already on a Sqn.

These days - nada, zilch, zip, rien, nothing. Well, you try marrying a nursing sister who used to run a trauma-orthopaedic ward and then say you're thinking about motorcycling! The only people she thinks rank lower in the pond-life scale than motorcyclists are parachutists (I haven't done that since 1975...
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