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  • The Bikies 1968

    From Mark Olson@olsonm@tiny.invalid to uk.rec.motorcycles on Tue Dec 9 17:18:59 2025
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    Not sure if this is a 'ginge'...

    https://youtu.be/rHs6ylaXtto

    Wonderful old documentary on the bike scene in Oz in 1968.

    At least I thought so.

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  • From wessie@willnotwork@tesco.net to uk.rec.motorcycles on Tue Dec 9 19:00:47 2025
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    Mark Olson <olsonm@tiny.invalid> wrote in news:10h9lm3$vggn$1@dont-
    email.me:

    https://youtu.be/rHs6ylaXtto

    I dipped in along several points

    Points to note:

    plenty of Austin 1100 about, the first car I drove in 1974 aged 11 on
    Pendine Sands

    they were drinking brown beer not that awful yellow piss they market over
    here as Fosters and Castelmaine XXXX. When did they lose their way with
    ale?

    I hate the word bikie

    the race circuit looked like a proper goat track

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  • From PipL@pip@nowhere.nul to uk.rec.motorcycles on Tue Dec 9 20:48:20 2025
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    On 09/12/2025 19:00, wessie wrote:
    Mark Olson <olsonm@tiny.invalid> wrote in news:10h9lm3$vggn$1@dont-
    email.me:

    https://youtu.be/rHs6ylaXtto

    I dipped in along several points

    Points to note:

    plenty of Austin 1100 about, the first car I drove in 1974 aged 11 on
    Pendine Sands

    I owned the basic 2-door, little more than an overgrown Mini, though
    rather less frantic at motorway(ish) speeds. My third car.

    the race circuit looked like a proper goat track

    And years before Rossi.
    --

    CHUMP #1 (CHarge Up Muppet)

    Pip
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  • From Ace@Ace@ch.com to uk.rec.motorcycles on Wed Dec 10 10:29:36 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.motorcycles

    On Tue, 9 Dec 2025 19:00:47 -0000 (UTC), wessie
    <willnotwork@tesco.net> wrote:

    they were drinking brown beer not that awful yellow piss they market over >here as Fosters and Castelmaine XXXX. When did they lose their way with
    ale?


    A long hile before that, I thought. I first experience Aussie beer on
    ships from 1976 onwards and it was all pretty awful. There was Carlton
    lager and Victoria Bitter (being one of the most common, indeed it's
    still apparently Aus's best-sellng beer). It was impossible to tell
    the two apart. Even the colour was the same, which confused me at the
    time.

    But VB is not an ale. It's a lager. It was a lager in 1976 when I
    first encountered it. It was a lager when it was first produced in
    1854. So someone, at least, had already lost their way before that
    point.
    --
    Ace
    http://www.chaletbeauroc.com/
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  • From GeoffC@me@home.nl to uk.rec.motorcycles on Sun Dec 14 14:44:42 2025
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    Mark Olson wrote:

    Not sure if this is a 'ginge'...

    https://youtu.be/rHs6ylaXtto

    Wonderful old documentary on the bike scene in Oz in 1968.

    At least I thought so.

    I did too.
    Not exactly a huge advert for Australian dentistry though :-)
    --
    Geoff
    NTV 650
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