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Post by 46ob on Jan 24, 2018 23:37:21 GMT 1
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Post by donkeychomp on Jan 24, 2018 23:39:18 GMT 1
I remember that! Bike magazine if I recall...
Alex
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Post by 46ob on Jan 24, 2018 23:44:52 GMT 1
Bike magazine,October 1985..with an advert for 350LC Micron Exhausts for £107.25 a pair..i wish id bought a few spare sets!
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Post by JonW on Jan 25, 2018 0:16:59 GMT 1
I remember that too  Its funny i lapped every bit of this up back then, hung on its every word etc. but reading it now I find its terribly written and very bitty by modern journalism standards, maybe that added to the anarchy of the cult? For example it deals with the LC 'johnnies' which I think are the main point of the article, but after it gets going it hardly mentions them and then moves on to talk about the writers own experience of using an LC for bike racing and then getting nicked (both types). Are we to believe the writer was part of their cult (when it seems clear he's not) but he felt he had access to be so by association... just like the rest of us reading it and owning or wanting an LC perhaps? If so for me it sort of misses the mark in todays world, but as i said back then I was young and like the rest of us felt I knew these guys and rode like they did, two fingers to the rozzers every day of the week... |
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Post by mattybeckett on Jan 25, 2018 0:18:18 GMT 1
Brings back the great memories riding them like that , front wheel in the air at every opportunity. Had to keep an eye out for the rozzers in those days.
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Post by veg on Jan 25, 2018 7:49:39 GMT 1
Loved it as a kid . One of the articles that kind of inspired my modern day build of the ultimate 80’s LC or my interpretation. It actually makes me realise as lovely as my Tz LC will be, back in the day it was really about ace bars spannies and Simpson bandits because we had feck all in the bank no mortgage and we weren’t going to get old. Blissful ignorance of youth
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Post by bezzer on Jan 25, 2018 8:09:21 GMT 1
I also have a copy of this magazine, and like the previous posts it ‘encouraged’ my love affair with LC’s 😊. I’ve had other bikes but nothing is as addictive as an LC.
Wonder what happened to the lads in the article?, the traffic summons is hilarious to read 😂.
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Post by earthman on Jan 25, 2018 8:41:44 GMT 1
Loved it as a kid . One of the articles that kind of inspired my modern day build of the ultimate 80’s LC or my interpretation. It actually makes me realise as lovely as my Tz LC will be, back in the day it was really about ace bars spannies and Simpson bandits because we had feck all in the bank no mortgage and we weren’t going to get old. Blissful ignorance of youth Yes, all those things you mention take me back too,.....I find it shocking how things have changed in what I initially thought of as a short period of time (30 years or so) but I guess that that figure isn't far away from the half a century mark, which is a long time in one's life. |
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Post by boldor84 on Jan 25, 2018 13:58:47 GMT 1
anyone remember bike magazine ( i think) had the front cover with a long haired lad with a wry smile putting L plates on the front of a 250 lc ?
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Post by bezzer on Jan 25, 2018 14:30:31 GMT 1
I’m sure it mentions somewhere in the article about one owner sleeping beside his LC under a bike cover, as he had so much invested in it, and thefts were rife!.
Great yarn even if there’s no truth in it! 😁
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Post by jackjabba on Jan 25, 2018 15:26:37 GMT 1
1985 what a bunch of johnny come lately's.
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Post by veg on Jan 25, 2018 17:41:22 GMT 1
1985 what a bunch of johnny come lately's. Some of us were only 16 old man |
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Post by copper99 on Jan 25, 2018 17:55:08 GMT 1
Still got my copy stored away, one of the most memorable magazine articles ever, thou I did like the "race around the M25" feature bike mag did in the late 80s as well, a few of us met up to give that a go but got off it after 30 mins for fear of running out of fuel!
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Post by dusty350 on Jan 25, 2018 22:15:58 GMT 1
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Post by 3tj6 on Jan 25, 2018 22:24:26 GMT 1
Great article, great pics , fantastic bikes,still have the original magazine, these bikes have a fanatical following, so easy to see where the "cult" idea came from👍F2 tune 34pj carbs swarbrick pipes😉 Sound great, must get mine on its wheels🤔
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Post by JonW on Jan 26, 2018 0:45:11 GMT 1
That L plate will be squashed on every bump and will be snapped in weeks... yep, we all did stuff like that, if the plate falls off its not your fault when youre 17  |
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Post by bezzer on Jan 26, 2018 7:12:28 GMT 1
That L plate will be squashed on every bump and will be snapped in weeks... yep, we all did stuff like that, if the plate falls off its not your fault when youre 17 You were better with the ‘barely legible’ adhesive L plate, wrapped round the lower fork leg 😁 |
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Post by JonW on Jan 26, 2018 8:32:28 GMT 1
That L plate will be squashed on every bump and will be snapped in weeks... yep, we all did stuff like that, if the plate falls off its not your fault when youre 17 You were better with the ‘barely legible’ adhesive L plate, wrapped round the lower fork leg 😁 Oh yes! Id forgotten about those... I had the bolt on solid plastic one. bolted it on nice n tight to the fork leg, Two mins into first ride the air blew it sideways, stayed like that, no one ever stopped me. lol |
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Post by boldor84 on Jan 26, 2018 8:38:56 GMT 1
nice one dusty just how i remembered it, amazing what stays stored in the ole grey matter. |
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Post by dusty350 on Jan 26, 2018 10:50:27 GMT 1
Haha, there's hope for all of us !! Coming on the forum and interacting with threads is my version of a daily Soduku - except this is far more fun  As soon as you mentioned it I remembered it was in my collection of mags that are waiting to be scanned ! Dusty |
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Post by 46ob on Jan 26, 2018 11:27:30 GMT 1
More articles hiding away would be great,its great to hear these stories.For me it was washing pots in a café age 15 & watching the LC's park up outside
& go flat out down the prom,a few years later that was me on a 350LC-even the soon to arrive ban didn't put me off.I turned up at court with a shirt and tie(borrowed) all smug thinking I'll wing it & the judge was my ex-headmaster from School..it Didn't go too well but perhaps I said "Yeah,not guilty or "I couldn't care less"...soon as that ban was done I was back on another 350LC,like many on here I'm surprised I'm still intact!
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Post by elsiefan on Jan 29, 2021 16:32:05 GMT 1
I'm pretty sure it was 'Bike' magazine (my favourite read in the 70's and 80's and I had all the patches / badges, my favourite was 'cars suck') that ran an article when the LC first came onto the market titled "Is an LC an RD'd TZ? Or is an LC a TZ'd RD? and who the hell is Elsie?" 😂
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Post by rigga on Jan 30, 2021 0:30:04 GMT 1
1985 what a bunch of johnny come lately's. Some of us were only 16 old man 1985 I was 20, I know everyone will have a different view on what was the best decade to "grow up in "..... but gotta say, the 80's was f**kin awesome. |
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Post by rigga on Jan 30, 2021 0:31:23 GMT 1
back in the day it was really about ace bars spannies and Simpson bandits because we had feck all in the bank no mortgage and we weren’t going to get old. Blissful ignorance of youth So very true. |
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Post by kernow on Jan 30, 2021 12:30:02 GMT 1
I'm pretty sure it was 'Bike' magazine (my favourite read in the 70's and 80's and I had all the patches / badges, my favourite was 'cars suck') that ran an article when the LC first came onto the market titled "Is an LC an RD'd TZ? Or is an LC a TZ'd RD? and who the hell is Elsie?" 😂 A great mag indeed. It sort of shook up the staid motorcycle press from the start with honest test reports that did piss off some manufactures. That grabbed a lot of us wannabe rebels with talk of daring do and foreign adventures and all sorts of iffy intakes. The LC,s did fit right in to that mantra even though we had the air cooled models right through the 70,s it was the LC,s that had the cult following i believe. Looking back at air cooled and LC,s i,d owned along with the 1979 Ducati 900 and Guzzi 850 it kind of makes you weep looking at the prices then and now, great times though. |
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Post by bodger on Jan 30, 2021 14:25:40 GMT 1
Aww, the good old days, coming out the pub followed by the coppers (chased ) mate on his 250lc me on my 350lc, him misjudging a bend clipping the kerb, coming off, me riding to close braking to miss him also coming off that Glorious sound of bikes sliding along on tarmac, my bike slamming into him breaking his pelvis , next car round the corner , coppers.. Him carted off to hospital me down to the station, breathalysed.. Aww ... the good old days.
We’re still best of friends me with my 350 LC and him with his 1979 Ducati 900 ss
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Post by elsiefan on Jan 31, 2021 2:31:58 GMT 1
I'm pretty sure it was 'Bike' magazine (my favourite read in the 70's and 80's and I had all the patches / badges, my favourite was 'cars suck') that ran an article when the LC first came onto the market titled "Is an LC an RD'd TZ? Or is an LC a TZ'd RD? and who the hell is Elsie?" 😂 A great mag indeed. It sort of shook up the staid motorcycle press from the start with honest test reports that did piss off some manufactures. That grabbed a lot of us wannabe rebels with talk of daring do and foreign adventures and all sorts of iffy intakes. The LC,s did fit right in to that mantra even though we had the air cooled models right through the 70,s it was the LC,s that had the cult following i believe. Looking back at air cooled and LC,s i,d owned along with the 1979 Ducati 900 and Guzzi 850 it kind of makes you weep looking at the prices then and now, great times though. It really did stick two fingers up at the established bike press didn't it? I can still remember the piss take they did on choppers! Though it did shape my biking habits for well over a decade and put me on the road to stroker ownership, when they did a 250 test of the RD vs X7 and mentioned the bike I was going to buy (a sensible Z200!) would be blown into the weeds by either of these two. Needless to say I immediately dumped all thoughts of a Z200 and got an X7 "the first 'Ton Up' 250". I also liked not only the tests, which felt more honest and raw than the likes of What Bike, MCM, MCN, MCW etc but also the editorial pages by Mr Williams and one LJK Setright, plus some American chap if I remember correctly. It was a 'read' rather than a 'rag'. I think 'Superbike' came a close second. I also had a couple of Dukes, a 900SS, and a 750F1 which I went drag racing on and won a few trophies as well! I agree about the prices then and now, but hey, hindsight is a perfect science, and if I knew then what I know now, classic bikes / cars wouldn't be top of my investment opportunities lol. But definitely great times and great memories, my friend, |
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Post by oo on Jan 31, 2021 14:21:30 GMT 1
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Post by elsiefan on Jan 31, 2021 14:42:09 GMT 1
I remember the bridge and heston well in the mid 80's, every Friday night I was up there, on my PV and then the 500, and remember the manic rides from one to the other, hordes of bikes 'racing' through the earls court one way system, then flat out on the motorway to heston. |
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