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Offline dual

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Your Dad on his bike
« on: September 11, 2011, 07:53:37 pm »
Don't know if there is a thread like this, but here goes

My Dad in 1956 on his 10/12 Harley Davidson



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Re: Your Dad on his bike
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2011, 08:03:02 pm »
Well , I do not have pics of my dad and his bike when he was younger, but here is one of him and my mom on their Westcoast trip in April of this year.

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Re: Your Dad on his bike
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2011, 08:18:30 pm »
My Dad 1966, matrix Vespa, he later moved on to a zundap (spelling???)and then a Suzuki 350 when I was born.
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Re: Your Dad on his bike
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2011, 08:25:41 pm »
Will be posting soon...
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Re: Your Dad on his bike
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2011, 08:34:13 pm »
Quote from: chicco on September 11, 2011, 08:18:30 pm
My Dad 1966, matrix Vespa, he later moved on to a zundap (spelling???)and then a Suzuki 350 when I was born.

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Re: Your Dad on his bike
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2011, 07:12:11 am »
Quote from: dual on September 11, 2011, 08:34:13 pm
Quote from: chicco on September 11, 2011, 08:18:30 pm
My Dad 1966, matrix Vespa, he later moved on to a zundap (spelling???)and then a Suzuki 350 when I was born.

OKE - Welkom ??

Yes, He was in Welkom Gymnasium. I was in THS Welkom.
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Re: Your Dad on his bike
« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2011, 09:46:15 pm »
 :)Katvis se "ou toppie", Kobus Kat met sy KLR in die Richtersveld!
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Re: Your Dad on his bike
« Reply #7 on: September 12, 2011, 09:57:55 pm »
Gaan die piccie soek, scan en dan post!
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Re: Your Dad on his bike
« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2011, 10:19:42 pm »
My Pa when we went up to Cape Town  :thumleft:
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Re: Your Dad on his bike
« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2011, 12:04:56 pm »
 :ricky:

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Re: Your Dad on his bike
« Reply #10 on: January 10, 2012, 04:53:01 pm »
My dad (and little me) on his 1971 Norton Commando 750 Fastback

(No phedophile jokes please  ::) )

Good biking up-bringing though... full ATGATT back in 1974!!!
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Re: Your Dad on his bike
« Reply #11 on: January 10, 2012, 05:30:05 pm »
Die visors op daai helmets het soos Bell helikopters se cockpit glas gelyk
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Re: Your Dad on his bike
« Reply #12 on: January 20, 2012, 05:35:53 am »
ride quiet a bit with my ol man he is 76 this year and still rides.....
this is a pic of us on the way to the west coast rally a few years back.....will try find some pics of him on his earlier bikes
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Re: Your Dad on his bike
« Reply #13 on: January 20, 2012, 06:29:52 am »
That is sweet you are lucky to ride with your toppie 8)
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Re: Your Dad on his bike
« Reply #14 on: January 23, 2012, 04:30:47 pm »
Earlier days
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Re: Your Dad on his bike
« Reply #15 on: January 23, 2012, 04:35:30 pm »
Olman at the Buff in PE in the Seventies
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Re: Your Dad on his bike
« Reply #16 on: January 23, 2012, 04:37:21 pm »
With his mate Peter also in the seventies...they both still ride today
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Re: Your Dad on his bike
« Reply #17 on: January 23, 2012, 04:40:35 pm »
My ol man used to ride many bikes in his day.....trying to find all his old pics is a mission...had Nortons..BSA...Triumph etc etc
Found this one of his Goldwing
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Re: Your Dad on his bike
« Reply #18 on: January 23, 2012, 04:43:26 pm »
This is my olmans current ride....two plstic knees and two heart attacks and a triple bypass later
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Re: Your Dad on his bike
« Reply #19 on: January 24, 2012, 08:39:51 am »
Seems like a small handful of us have dads who ride bikes or used to back in the day...interesting
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