mugs order thread only "SOLD OUT"

It's a tad more reliable than the first one. P.S - is that you second left ?

You are. That guy fell off the end of his fag once.

Off topic but I was considering recently , my first car was a 1970 Mk1 Ford Escort for £300 ( should have kept it I know!) but it was a wreck in 1979 ,welded sills , holes in the floor , moth eaten rear arches , pattern front wings etc at nine years old ! A 2008 car now would shine up quite well .

Did bikes age as quickly , I remember painting my 1978 Honda XL125 swingingarm when it was only about six months old as the paint had fallen off , didn't even think about it at the time .

I don't think bikes were much better,  I had to replace both cans & the front muddy on my '76 CB250G5 by 1979, they'd rusted out. By '82 I was having trouble with the fuel tank filter clogging up with rust from the tank seams & the forks were pitted. The first owner used it for commuting for 2 years,then I just used it for occaisional ride outs on dry days. Honda's cars were no better - my dad bought a new Civic in '76. I replaced the rusty front wings 3 years later

I think we have to take into account how bad winters were back then proper cold ,weeks of frost and the dreaded salt didn't help are motors, some winters you might see salt down 2 or 3 times a winter, in the 80's the mountain road could be closed for two weeks at a time ,as far as new stuff goes I was delivering post to a garage the other day and was lookin under a focus and commented on the state it was in and graham said it wasn't 4 years old I thought it was 15.as far as bikes go I was 16 in 1981 and got a CB200 '75 road it every day for the next 3 years and never replaced a thing and the frame came up like new and I only used sparkle

i dont think there would be enough interest.