Youngest Bonneville/ thruxton owner? Please state age (big lad need not apply)

As title, any takers? Eric

 

I had a '69 Bonneville when I was 20. Does that count??

Hell's bells, can't believe that it was 45 years ago.

Scary thing is that I have already lived longer than I am going to!!!

 

Wait for it HT!

 

69 bonneville at 20? That's not bad.
The 'lived longer ' thing is worrying as the classic cars Im working on now we're new when I first worked on them and I just think how did that get to here and survive so long

 

My wife says I act like a 12 year old,

Hey H T if you don't know how you managed it.........I'd recommend a dna test

 

1965 Bonnie in 1966, if I could find it (still alive according to DVLC) I'd really want it back. On the youngest rider put me in the beyond duffer, bof, but still behind the 90 year old I met at seaways Café which some of yer know, and still impressed by the one arm (right) Bonnie owner that goes there, and it's a kick start too....

 

I ride a scrambler and am 29...gotta be in with a shout!

 

You are!

 

You should be ashamed of yourself not wearing gloves and helmet!! Your birds a dog too!! Snigger snigger

 

I wish mine looked that cool! The bike that is not the bird/dog...

 

old thread but 28 with a 900 trophy that I'm cutting up

 

At 16 I had a '54 Thunderbird 650 with a Watsonian Monza chair, same age as me then, in them days you could ride with L plates and carry passengers, all with no helmet!
Fast wind forward, to today, 790 03 Bonnie, second Hinckley, had an 07 a few years back.
62 year old teenager next month, determined to grow old disgracefully!

 

30 years old, been riding for 3 years, cbr 600 in the garage, now next to my '12 T100

 

I was conceived in a '56 Thunderbird with a watsonian double sidecar. does that count!!

 

I wasn't conceived in it but earliest memories are of my dad's AJS Model 30 600cc and sidecar. Me stood on the back seat with head out of the fold back canvas roof and baby brother on mums lap in the front. No helmet on dad, just world war II flying goggles! Health and safety be buggered! Sadly no photos can be found.

 

Biking is definitely in the blood.
My dad had a velocette & a Austin Cambridge car....Sunday was maintenance day...sunshine meant tinkering with the Austin.. rain meant messing about with the velo.
I had a Francis Barnett 197 falcon in 1973 when I was 13.... Boy did my neighbours get p*ssed off with me starting it & running it down the garden & now I'm an adult I can see his reasons.
Always had bikes.. Always will.
If it's the only thing I can get my leg over in later life I'd be happy

 

It definitely DOES run in the blood, my 2 passions in life..............Bikes and retired Greyhounds, Greyhounds sometimes faster than some of the bikes I've had, NSU Quickly for 1!

 

""If it's the only thing I can get my leg over in later life I'd be happy"" I think that's where I am now!!

 

I'm not the youngest by the look of it but I'm 31 just to throw my penny in

 

31!!!!!!!
I've got kidney stones older than that. Lol Seriously tho,
I can't even remember when I was 31....either in age or waist size.