I'm 77 and I'm riding since I was 14. I changed many bikes in my life but the last one is a T100 Triumph Bonneville.I am happy to drive it again and I will ride as long as I can. Ciao
we had our own ton up boy. he used to ride the A4 Chippenham to the ace cafe London. he rode a Norton race tuned 500cc. True. I was that Boy. now 85. still going.
I joined the 59 club in the sixties with my cousin. We sat in a corner and felt a bit lost then a door swung open and this big bloke with chains and studs on fixed his eyes on me. He came walking across and towered over me and I thought here we go. Then he said "do want a cup of tea mate". A great bunch of lads I wrote my bike off on a car pulling out of a side turning and I gave the police the club phone number. I broke my wrist so I had to go to hospital and the lads brought the wreck home in the club van.
Played this and a few other vids for my father who is now 85 years old. He was a Brit, got his first bike new (a BSA B31) shortly after WWII so he could go to school, 1948-49 I think. His dad helped him pay for it. The little BSA was his freedom, he could go anywhere with it. Later, in the 1950s he bought a Vincent Rapide, the Rolls Royce of café motorcycles. He says it was all good clean fun, not like the media made it out to be. He as a couple of pics of himself and his friends, just like the ones here. I think he longs to see some of those friends now, as many of them have gone forever and the rest are fading away. It's good to see the new youth taking an interest in motorcycles again. You'll never have a better time, with better friends than the ones you ride with, and that's just the way it should be.
I went to the Ace in October 2011 as part of my 60th birthday celebrations, for the first time in 42 years, this is a fabulous video - I admit that as a grandmother of three I should know better but I am still determined to grow old as disgracefully as possible.....
I just love this film and the soundtrack, I have watched it many times and could watch it over and over again and it fills me with excitement. It’s a bit before my time I’m a 1958 model but I do recall the values, vibes and standard of that time or just after it. When things broke you could fix them, the simplicity of the day to day stuff we used meant there was a greater perception of depth to the people around us, the less the more!
Great images. Best years of our lives. Mods and Rockers was a way of life, a defining moment in our youth. It can never be re-created and nor should it. Ours was the last of the good-times generations. I pity kids growing up nowadays.
Great to see that 3 bikes from the original 60s photos are still in existence , a Royal Enfield Interceptor and 2 Nortons.Great times, we didn't appreciate how lucky we were to live through those times,!.
Fantastic video I was a Rocker and still am and still riding bikes great days I remember them well those days you had to have a Bike and a set of drums in ya front room oh I wish I could go back
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IMAGES OF THE TON UP BOYS, SOME ORIGINAL PICTURES AND SOME MORE CURRENT sound track BREAKFAST AT THE ACE - THE RAPIERS
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