First bike I owned was a 1981 Fantic 240 Trial, which I got for my 13th birthday in 1982. I have got photos of me with the Fantic, but my Dad (and me) only ever took 35mm slides through most of the 80s. I've never got round to getting one of those slide-scanner thingamy-jigs for the PC.

The oldest actual photo, which I have got of me and a bike is from 1989 when I was puppy-faced 20 year old. My girlfriend at the time was a photography student and only shot in black and white, which suits the bike, a 1963 350cc Triumph 3TA fitted with a 500cc T100 motor by my good self. It was the first of a long line of British bikes I've had.

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