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

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  1. Tigcraft

    Tigcraft Unheard of Member

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    As title, any takers? Eric
     
  2. stevethegoolie

    stevethegoolie Elite Member

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

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

    Scary thing is that I have already lived longer than I am going to!!! :eek::(
     
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  3. Tigcraft

    Tigcraft Unheard of Member

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    Wait for it HT!
     
  4. Tigcraft

    Tigcraft Unheard of Member

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    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
     
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  5. crispey

    crispey crispey creme de la creme

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    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
     
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  6. Recycled Rocker

    Recycled Rocker Senior Member

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    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....:eek: :D
     
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  7. MattGaydon

    MattGaydon Noble Member

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

    Tigcraft Unheard of Member

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    You are!
     
  9. Tigcraft

    Tigcraft Unheard of Member

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

    MattGaydon Noble Member

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

    matt botterman Active Member

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    old thread but 28 with a 900 trophy that I'm cutting up
     
  12. H.O.

    H.O. Noble Member

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    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!
     
  13. Yaya rider

    Yaya rider Well-Known Member

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

    crispey crispey creme de la creme

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

    steve lovatt Something else

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    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.
     
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  16. Thruccyboy

    Thruccyboy Senior Member

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    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 :cool::cool:
     
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  17. H.O.

    H.O. Noble Member

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    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!
     
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  18. crispey

    crispey crispey creme de la creme

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    ""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!!
     
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  19. SamC

    SamC Well-Known Member

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

    Thruccyboy Senior Member

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    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.o_O
     
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