I remember the rally to Oban and Fort William. I rode a TV175 to FW. Took me 2 days with all sorts of breakdowns and shenannigans. I got the AA home.
One of my mates was on a small frame vespa. A 50 Special!...took us effin ages..it was like the never ending road to nowhere.
farthest i rode on my lambretta from hampshire was , morecambe , redcar, scarborough, gt yarmouth, and north wales, we must have been nutters, all for a weekend of getting wankered and having a laugh, ,,,after i got into bikes, used to go the the bulldog bash at stratford upon avon in the 90s, same sort of thing as scooter rallys really just replaced by bikes, still loads of scruffy herberts getting pissed and clubs fighting with each other
Bear in mind we couldnt use motorways either coz some of us were on L Plates... I tried the biker thing too, but I didnt like it as much. I only left scootering to avoid bumping into members of the London Vikings and C18 oddly enough. My ex was with a member and the racists were after me lol. I even had special branch call round my gaff to warn me as my name and addy was posted in one of their fanzines. Wankers. The old slapper is still a skinhead and going to scooter do's. Its tempting to build another GP. Especially as now I actually have some money...
I love these type of threads, even though I could never get my head around scooters? Why would you want a slower worse handling more unreliable version of a bike? I can get the counter culture lifestyle thing going on. Guess most of us that have been in or around bikes for 30+ years can. Said it before but I was more a long haired hippy biker grebbo for most of my youth. Although liking at most of the haircuts here had a fair few of them. Used to do the bike rally thing Kent custom show, bulldog bash loads of small rallies etc. Got to agree with the post about kids of today, where are the counter cultures those that want to be seen to be steeping outside of the norm? The skins, scooter boys, punks, bikers even Rastas where are they? Kin ell what's the point of being a kid if you ain't going to rebel? We have created a youth of young consumers. Or I'm just old wearing rose tinted specs. But I'm glad I was a teenager/ early 20's in the 80's.
F -nose what its got to do with Supersports, but I had an LDB150......crashed it on the first day on the road...(my 16th birthday)...rode it home.......dropped the forks out, straightened them with a lump hammer and then went for a 100 mile ride.....
