Monthly Archives: November 2015
My Bikes – DS80
This was where the paths diverged. Two cute kids on identical bikes having a ball…. and then it morphed into Hazel and John. Which was a big pity. [Show slideshow]
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My Bikes – RD125
I ran away from home and ended up in Auckland. Someone had an RD125 that I got to borrow. I can still remember racing down the Southern Motorway at night on it. It seemed so rapid and awesome for such a little bike. It also has such classic styling – it still looks like a […]
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…Then Came Bronson
from little acorns… A few of these must have been on TV in NZ back in the day… I saw just enough to have the image of a modern day drifter on his trusty iron horse burned into my brain. The memory of the program is not of episodes, but of concept. I’m absolutely sure […]
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Learning to Ride
The thing that I remember most about the magazines of the late 70’s and the early 80’s, especially the American magazines, is the awesome multi-page advertisements. They absolutely fascinated me. Not the products they advertised, but the advertisements themselves. Great copy, great photos, highly emotive,… and aimed at a mass rather than a niche market. […]
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