These pics are general bikesquad pics of various intakes.
Enjoy

Man what a way to lighten up my morning......the last three are some of my pics, all of pl 12.....and I know the names of each and every oke in them ......first one was Johnnie Welsh, and as can be imagined, quite a story behind the turban on his head

I just got back from a short trip to Oz, stayed with my Durban mate John Alexander in Brisbane who was in my platoon at Oudtshoorn in 1980 and then went to bike squad with. He was pl 10's pl sergeant until he got badly fecked up in a crash....broke both arms, and bashed his face in.....I have a photo of him before he was casevaced......hilarious

Besides Piston Pete on here, between John and me we still have contact with a few okes from that platoon.....they were July 80 intake.
2SD, jissis china you looked ..........dange-roos

I missed you by a month, I got to BS on 5 Jan 1981, on the very day that Piet Swanepoel was killed .......Patrick always talked about you and your brother....wasn't he a loot? And do you remember Nicky Basson? He was a two-pipper, from your intake I believe.....I have contact with him, he lived in NZ (Oz?) for a long time but is back in SA now, Nelspruit if I'm not mistaken.
Btw.....that box under the rear carrier was intended to carry an A53 radio. Just like the bung-bars and bashplates off a Tiger Tank that were mounte to the old XL350's and then the bigwheel XR's, severe misunderstandings of the terrain and mission by some well-meaning engineer or tiffie somewhere

We carried 50- round magazines on our R4's, and 35-round ones in the webbing, bigger one didn't fit......problem with the big one was, if you loaded it to 50 the R4 would jam because the spring wasn't strong enough......we soon figured out that 45 rounds were the max you could rely on. With three or so tracers, loaded five or so from the bottom

I am now really going to intensify my efforts to track down Larry in Oz and get those obscene pics from him

Thanks for the giggle