Just for fun...

[PCeBiker]

And youve only just got home.

I don't have a single actual picture of my 1983 550 Nighthawk.
The closest thing I've got is a picture of my girlfriend and I posing for a picture on Christmas day with the new front tire I got for my motorcycle.

It was a Dunlop tire with a Really Cool tread design !!

Pictures were expensive in those days.
You had to pay for every click of the camera, then wait forever to get the pictures developed, involving two trips to the store.

I could never sit still and smile long enough to have a proper picture taken.

The tread pattern of the tire really bothered me though.

It had sips cut in it that didn't make mathematical sense.
Tire sips are supposed to channel water away from the center of the tread using a V-pattern, but my tire had straight diagonal cuts across the tire like this,..

I tried to not let it bother me, but it was like getting two left shoes for Christmas, and I forgot whether I was supposed to be more careful turning left or right if the roads were wet?

 

[spokewrench]

It was a Dunlop tire with a Really Cool tread design !!



The tread pattern of the tire really bothered me though.

It had sips cut in it that didn't make mathematical sense.
Tire sips are supposed to channel water away from the center of the tread using a V-pattern, but my tire had straight diagonal cuts across the tire like this,..

I believe the grooves in tires sold in the Great White North are to channel mice.

 

[PCeBiker]

I believe the grooves in tires sold in the Great White North are to channel mice.

Yeah, drinking metric beer was a real challenge for us Canucks when we switched to the metric system.

 

[spokewrench]

Yeah, drinking metric beer was a real challenge for us Canucks when we switched to the metric system.

St. Johns had lots of brands, and they all tasted the same. Elsinore reminded me of the St. Johns brewery, up on a hill. The didn't talk like Bob and Doug. They sounded Scottish and Irish.

 

[spokewrench]

I remember buying a special TV antenna wire splitter in the late 70's so that I could get more channels.

The VHF dial ran out at 13, but our TV had a UHF dial to get more channels (like City TV from Toronto)

We had a mast on the roof with 3 antennae aimed at 4 Boston, 3 Burlington, and 9 Plattsburgh, all very snowy. Three 300-ohm leads came down to a switch on the back of the TV.

I never saw the Collins Kids. Their show was live at 10 PM Saturday night in Los Angeles and it wasn't taped, but some survived, recorded for the Armed Forces Network. You could have seen them. After powerful creeps blacklisted them in America, they were regulars on Star Route out of Toronto.
Are they singing about a custom e-bike?

If you could get American Bandstand you might have seen Eddie Cochran sing about his souped-up 1941 tandem e-bike.

 

[Chargeride]

How old are you lot

 

[Chargeride]

Here we go, this is real.

 

[PCeBiker]

How old are you lot

I just turned 60.
I think spokwrench is older because American Bandstand was a bit before my time.

All I remember is Huge affros and bell bottom polyester pants.

I remember wearing polyester pants myself, but I switched to Lee jeans ~grade 4 and have been wearing Levi's since grade 5

Levi's used to be really thick canvas that took years to wear out.
I had to buy Carhartt Duck jeans to ride my ebike to get adequate protection for sliding down a gravel road on my ass.

 

[PCeBiker]

Here we go, this is real.

I like how that video was narrated by a robot.

 

[Roamers]

 

[Chargeride]

I just turned 60.
I think spokwrench is older because American Bandstand was a bit before my time.

All I remember is Huge affros and bell bottom polyester pants.

I remember wearing polyester pants myself, but I switched to Lee jeans ~grade 4 and have been wearing Levi's since grade 5

Levi's used to be really thick canvas that took years to wear out.
I had to buy Carhartt Duck jeans to ride my ebike to get adequate protection for sliding down a gravel road on my ass.

Ive noticed cheap jeans thesedays are really thick and strong..until the first wash and whatever they spray on them fades away and theyre like teacloths.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

 

[PCeBiker]

View attachment 189814

I hope you have a dog, or I'm telling your wife what you just called her.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

I hope you have a dog, or I'm telling your wife what you called just her.

Oh, that's not about my wife. She rarely watches me go potty.

 

[spokewrench]

Ive noticed cheap jeans thesedays are really thick and strong..until the first wash and whatever they spray on them fades away and their like teacloths.

In school, I’d scratch up the money to buy Dickies. They were durable, wrinkle-free, loose enough to be comfortable in winter and summer, and stain-resistant.

They were the kind the legendary Maytag Repairman would wear.

In the 1950s, new jeans had an odor I found heavenly. Whatever the chemical was, jeans no longer had it in 1963, when my mother bought 3 pair of white Wrangler stretch jeans and told me to wear them to school. Jeans violated the dress code, but the city’s unwritten law was that that mothers were always right, so I had to wear them.

I’d freeze in cold weather and they weren’t comfortable in any weather. Anything in a pocket made a lump. Grass stains were conspicuous and wouldn’t come out. All three pair were soon covered with conspicuous little holes because any time I tumbled across the pavement, the point of initial impact would leave a hole. I was glad when I wore my "pantyhose" out.

That’s how I learned that there are two kinds of denim. This thick, soft stuff that burst into fluffy white holes seemed to be what women demanded, for themselves and for men.

 

[Chargeride]

I couldn't find Dickies Duck pants or Logger pants Anywhere.
They were out of stock everywhere in my size.
I needed 29" waist X 34"-36" inseam, and I will Never were floods or stovepipe jeans.
("Are you expecting a flood?" Was how you teased someone who was wearing jeans that were too short, and stovepipe jeans were the antonym of bell bottom jeans (which were also uncool by 1975)).

But I managed to find a pair of Carhartt Duck Pants for Real Cheap because NOBODY Nowadays has a 29" waist unless they are 4' tall.



I always wore my Levi's on my dirt bike, and I used to wear my quick dry nylon swimsuit underneath incase I decided to jump in the water without getting my clothes wet or swimming publicly in my gitch or naked.

I wiped out and skidded on my left hip.
My jeans were fine with just a scuff mark, but when I got home I noticed that my swim suit had a hole melted in it on the left hip bone area.
(Very similar to Stephan's incident without the )

The heat created from the friction was enough to melt the swimsuit under the jeans, but the jeans were fine.

I had that same swimsuit until just a few years ago.
More than 40 years old.

I kept it in my car in case I wanted to go swimming without getting an indecent exposure ticket.
It folded up inside out into the rear pocket and zippered up for neat and tidy storage.

Our Nationwide trade diy stores sell Dickies, Ive got a pair of boots and a jacket.

 

[spokewrench]

I couldn't find Dickies Duck pants or Logger pants Anywhere.

Sitting or kneeling on a steep, abrasive roof without a pad is hard on pants. About 15 years ago I bought a pair of Open Trails jeans on impulse. That's a discount store brand. I assumed they were of poor quality, but wearing them out would save real pants. I've worn them on countless hours of roof work. Besides a hole in the right back pocket, I see no wear. (Maybe jeans have patch pockets for an extra layer of fabric.) A lot of more expensive jeans would not have fared so well.

 

[spokewrench]

I need a new jean jacket that fits too.

I had to have my motorcycle jacket custom built to fit me. (I think the bourgeois call it "tailored"?)

42" tall.

I was measured for a suit in the 80's and the tailor said my arms were too long for my body.

I don't just have a tripod stance, I have a 5-point stance with all that knuckle scraping goin on.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61N1KTczkNL._SL1001_.jpg