Your boy looks like he couldn’t wait to get a bike of his own, did he become a biker?
and here it is…
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Huge noise made by people digging out photo albums all over the country. 
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He’s my nephew and has only just turned 13
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Ian! You are a star! Thank you!! 
Here’sa couple of my baby a 1998 Yamaha R1, I’ve owned it since 2006 and almost all of the mods I’ve done to it are period correct. The only way it’s ever going to leave my possession is if the worst happens and it gets written off or some thieving so and so targets it.
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Definitely a future classic i reckon.
That is lovely, and the right colour too!
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Full marks for remembering where each one of those bolts went! 
It was a bit of a military operation. 
My 1994 FZR 1000 EXUP
I’ve owned it since 2012 and its probably been in the garage for at least 5 years 
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Always fancied an EXUP but never got around to it. Nice bike.
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One day I’ll get round to freeing up the Exup valve in the exhaust and ride it again.
The bike before this one was a ZXR 750 H2 but no scanned pics yet unfortunately - that was a lot of fun and looked cool with the pipes coming from the tank.
Had one of the earlier FZR1000 Yamahas - These pics must have been when I had just picked it up in 1988. Not great quality photos as they were from some old slides.
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My last bike - sold in 2023 to fund the MX5 - was a Thruxton 1200 S. Purchased new in 2017 and subject of some mild mods; - Speed Twin wheels, Brembo floating front discs, Bitubo rear suspension units, Triumph LED indicators and various home made bits.
Actually stopped riding in 2010 when I retired as I felt I was too old. Sold my K75S that I had owned for twenty years. Five years later I missed motorcycling so much I decided to by an age appropriate bike for my seventieth birthday. Settled on a VTR1000 which was a hoot but I really wanted a lot more low down torque, a lot less revs and an affordable rate of fuel consumption so hence the Thruxton.
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That Thruxton is gorgeous!!!
Thanks. Old bloke living on nostalgia… it was the cafe racer that I could not afford in the sixties! Really miss it but realistically the MX5 is a better toy at my stage of life and the wife can share it too.
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