Being a child of the seventies , like many on here I suspect, I remember going in to woolies every Saturday to thumb thru the the huge range of posters that were available . Think my first ones were the wombles and Mud possibly even Alvin stardust, lol. After they came down , fairly quickly into my teens , I used to like going to motorcycle shops and getting the brochures of the day. The ones I particularly remember were the original cb250 / 400n superdream , oh how I lusted , and the beautiful suzuki twin shock ts 185 brochures that took pride of place. Also had a 1970 bsa pull out brochure with all of their bikes from my dad . Apart from the obvious tennis /arse bird poster and lambo countach , what did you have ? Puddy Ps . The less 'cool' the better
Sounds like you were "in" lol. Mustard mitt , never into cars as a nipper , only cool early seventies pop icons and bikes. Puddy
My brothers were stuck on the wall. We had 3 brothers in almost a box room so with a bed, shelves, bunk bed, wardrobe and a door, there was very little wall to put anything on. Plus mum would have killed us for putting anything on the walls we didn't have.
You had a door ?? ..........Luxury We slept in a cardboard box at the bottom of someone else's garden.
IIRC that picture came from a 4 bike test in Bike magazine from the very early 1980`s The bikes were the Laverda shown, a Moto Guzi V50, A Morini V5 and a Ducati Pantah. This was the article that persuaded to start saving for a Pantah with my goal reached in March 1983.
The first test of a Pantah in Bike magazine was my bike (which I still own). It was timed at 120.8 mph at MIRA, which 40 years ago was quite good going for a road 500.
Very nice story. I kept mine, a 600, until about 2014 when a couple of old knee injuries flared up and meant it was too uncomfortable to ride.
