Never past my test on the scooter. Went straight from there to a Ford Prefect 100E - cost me £20 bought from a relative. Rolled it 2 weeks after passing my driving test and came out of that with a gashed knee and £200 from the insurance of the guys who drove into me! Lot of dosh in those days, and thus the Austen Healey Sprite came about ;)
Imagine how I felt, when during the Mods 'n Rockers era I had a Ralleigh Roma 78cc scooter to go to college on (and a Sherlock Holmes Deer Stalker crash helmet and a shiny blue PVC coat) when all the lads were on their bubble bottomed Vespas with the aerials with tails streaming behind and wearing Parkas and the like LMAO
... the mysterious "bleeding " ritual, with a copy of your Haynes manual propped up against the wheel... regarding Brian, did you know he got mugged by two tortoises? yes, he did and when the policeman asked him if he could identify them in a line-up, he said "No". "Why not?" asked the policeman...."Because it all happened too quickly" replied Brian...and so to bed...
If you're living life on the edge, you've got too much room.
the big debate about who was going to approach the bar to see if they could get served...? You would have to look so serious about it whilst elbowing your way to the front and get a couple of bags of pork scratchings as welllwill you?
If you're living life on the edge, you've got too much room.
... we used to go out to the pub in my mate's Riley Elf, which seemd to have been designed using all the spare bits from every other model Britsh Leyland produced (when Red Robbo allowed it to) it had a huge hole in the floor and I remember hearing the Sultans of Swing played by Peelie for the first time...Brew XI, No6 tipped coupons and getting the fluff of your needle...
If you're living life on the edge, you've got too much room.
Boyfriends with Minis (the cars I mean), TR7s and Triumph Alpines, my bug-eyed Austin Healey Sprite and a girlfriend with a Hillman Imp which we used to career around the Ashdown Forest in.
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Never past my test on the scooter. Went straight from there to a Ford Prefect 100E - cost me £20 bought from a relative. Rolled it 2 weeks after passing my driving test and came out of that with a gashed knee and £200 from the insurance of the guys who drove into me! Lot of dosh in those days, and thus the Austen Healey Sprite came about ;)
... was your PVC coat "wet-look"....I had one of them! I nver had a scooter though, went straight onto a Morris Minor Estate reg FYE 846C, £160.
Never "christened" it though....
If you're living life on the edge, you've got too much room.
Imagine how I felt, when during the Mods 'n Rockers era I had a Ralleigh Roma 78cc scooter to go to college on (and a Sherlock Holmes Deer Stalker crash helmet and a shiny blue PVC coat) when all the lads were on their bubble bottomed Vespas with the aerials with tails streaming behind and wearing Parkas and the like LMAO
I looked reaaaaaaaaaaally silly :D
was the place to on Sunday mornings...buying red oxide or that stuff "that chemically converts rust to..." black rust!! (think it was Trustan 23)
If you're living life on the edge, you've got too much room.
... the mysterious "bleeding " ritual, with a copy of your Haynes manual propped up against the wheel... regarding Brian, did you know he got mugged by two tortoises? yes, he did and when the policeman asked him if he could identify them in a line-up, he said "No". "Why not?" asked the policeman...."Because it all happened too quickly" replied Brian...and so to bed...
If you're living life on the edge, you've got too much room.
It was red and black with tinted windows...She called it Brian, after the snail in magic roundabout.
I can jusr remember sitting on my dads knee, steering it round a deserted car park while he did the throttle/brakes !!!
Happy days !!!
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the big debate about who was going to approach the bar to see if they could get served...? You would have to look so serious about it whilst elbowing your way to the front and get a couple of bags of pork scratchings as welllwill you?
If you're living life on the edge, you've got too much room.
ah yes, I remember it well .... If you didn't get the fluff off the needle, it slid straight across to the hole in the middle of the record LMAO
... we used to go out to the pub in my mate's Riley Elf, which seemd to have been designed using all the spare bits from every other model Britsh Leyland produced (when Red Robbo allowed it to) it had a huge hole in the floor and I remember hearing the Sultans of Swing played by Peelie for the first time...Brew XI, No6 tipped coupons and getting the fluff of your needle...
If you're living life on the edge, you've got too much room.
Now THAT took me back a bit !
Boyfriends with Minis (the cars I mean), TR7s and Triumph Alpines, my bug-eyed Austin Healey Sprite and a girlfriend with a Hillman Imp which we used to career around the Ashdown Forest in.
Ahhhhhh those were the days ... sigh