Street Riding Years - free download

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Morning.
How long's it been now, ten days?
So help yourselves to a free download of my 1980s London
Street Riding Years despatching memoir.
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I can't be the only one who must be thinking that, apart from the risk of contagion, traffic-wise this must be a brilliant time to be despatcing in London – and probably most cities of the world right now. Traffic like it was in the Fifties.

More about the book here:
https://adventure-motorcycling.com/the- ... ding-years
including loads of images, year by year, from the era.
If the following snapshots (1977: Street Riding Year Zero) and the decade which followed mean anything to you, you're in for a treat.

Help yourselves ;--)
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Nice one Chris, I shall look forward to reading that. Lots of memories from those pictures you have posted. I recognise the Sussex Armouries ad, that was one of the reasons I trained as an armourer in the REME. Shooting had really taken off in this country until Micheal Ryan did his bit in Hungerford. After leaving the forces I spent three years as a courier, great times, although I would not want to do it now. Too much traffic, too many cameras and not enough money.
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Thanks Chris, what a great post and generous gift 👍
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Just seen that Mocheck advert. Remember them? They had shops all over London, must have been about 6 or 7 of them. Handy when zipping around all day. ;)
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Great pics, I'm slowly drowning in nostalgia! At this rate I'll be digging out my back copies of Bike mag, which date back to 1975 🙂 And my LP's
Should've waited till now to read SRY's.....paid for it a few years ago😅
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