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The classic motorcycle meeting at Stafford is on this weekend, loads of '70's Jap two strokes to drool over and plenty of celebs, Eddie Lawson for one, and even some sun

Never been a fan of 2-strokes.

Yeah I know they make gobs of power and rev like crazy etc. but the sound they make grates on me.

Nah. Give me a nice big 4-stroke every time.

Just got back from Stafford, Amazing show, and massive. Every tyoe of bike imaginable, from the most obscure to the most popular, and everything nbetween. And the sun shone no bloody hot fresh donuts tho', wot a barst

Any photos??

dave-r wrote:Any photos??

I grew up on two strokes. Love the smell of castrol-R in the morning. Smells like....

Actually I really cocked up the picture opportunities cos my camera phone battery went flat was able to squeeze this little Suzuki 125 Stinger in tho'.
I had one when I was about 15 and my bruther still owns it now, except ours is a pile of shit, in complete contrast to this beautifully restored example

Just as i thought. Horrible.

Ha ha ha!!! ring-da-derding-ding-ding not for you then Dave

There used to be a bugger like you running up and down our street on something like that with no silencer. I used to go out and chase him with a jack handle.

Oddly enough I remember an angry neighbour chasin' me and my pals with a broom on loads of occaisions
Admittedly, we made they're lives unbearable, screaming up and down the little lanes where we lived
Even the pigsty's could'nt catch us, we thought we were so hard, like little tiny extra's from Mad Max or Stone, but really we wre annoying little twats on 5 foot bumble bee's, puking two stroke fumes into the atmosphere as fast as we could steal it from our parent's lawn mowers

It was at that age i had my AJS 350 single. I used to ride that up and down the street when I first got it (no licence) but you couldn't get a sound more far removed from the things you were riding. That long stroke single sounded like a tractor.

We stole a Bantam 175 from the village postie we did'nt return it cos we "lost" it in the local lagoon and my mate chopped his thumb off in the rear sprocket when he tumbled all the way down a hill we were trying to climb one day........

You see. Kids just don't play fun games like that any more.

Yeah, exactly, I am fully aware that we were very naughty kids, we still are if we're lucky, but we had one hell of a laugh motorcycles are a brilliant introduction to motoring when you're a teenager, I've never left 'em alone since