Just so cool

[DaveM]

Oh boy I wish I was still just so cool

 

[Ksquared]

................and in such good company???????

 

[CarlS]

Lovely company indeed!!

 

[DaveM]

Yes that as well This is one of the very few photos I have from that time :y8:

 

[Dilligaf]

Chicks dig bikes, Yami RT1?

 

[DaveM]

Yip the most fun bike I have ever owned. When I purchased it back in 1977 it still had the original tires on it and had hardy been used. I ended up paying 150.00 ZAR = 19.0661 USD for it

 

[dazco]

I didn't know they had cameras back then ! Actually i guess they did, cuz i have a few old shots but like you VERY few. Just think about todays kids....with digital cameras when they grow up, they will have literally thousands of pics of thier youth.
I had a yammie 360 myself, but it was a MX so no street riding on it. Those things were like a bottle rocket....if you whacked the throttle no telling what was gonna happen. Too much power in too light a bike ! But boy what fun !

 

[DaveM]

Man it sure could take off like a rocket, I miss that bike as I went places on it that you would not even of been able to walk to. It did not go very far on a tank and I would end up using around three tanks a weekend

 

[dazco]

Yeah, but at about 22 cents a gallon you could afford it ! Actually, gas WAS 22 cents at one point when i was about 17. I remember filling up my 10 gallon VW bug for around $2.50, or for those who aren't familiar with US dollars, that would be about 1/2 the cost of a pack of cigarettes TODAY ! Of course being the young kid you are Dave, for you it was probably 30 cents when you were 17.

 

[DaveM]

Yes they used to give the stuff away back then so getting 0/MPG was not an issue

 

[DaveM]

I have just been looking around and found these two, so this is the sum total of my memories I have from way back then :y8:

All the people in this photo except one I still have contact with today. This was our school group boy we sure did have fun back then



The jacket I am wearing in this one I still have today and wear it to bike events

 

[hemibee]

Cool, thanks for sharing.

 

[shanered6]

you can tell by the shading on the pic , that the cameras where made of wood back then

 

[dazco]

Kinda fuzzy and hard to see, but is that a T rex in the distance in that top pic?

 

[CarlS]

:y24: :y24:

 

[DaveM]

Kinda fuzzy and hard to see, but is that a T rex in the distance in that top pic?

Just about

 

[shanered6]

The jacket I am wearing in this one I still have today and wear it to bike events

that coz they dont make them out of wooly mammoth's any more !

 

[DaveM]

lol