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The friend I was with was also looking for a helmet but didn’t get one. We were talking to a salesperson at GP Bikes. They had a pretty good selection but a much better one at their store in Whitby, she recommended going in person there where they are still offering show prices. If you don’t...

I was at the the show yesterday and it was so so. This clip was from the first time I had ever gone to the bike show, I was 9 or 10 years old. Super Joe did that jump twice that weekend at The International Centre, Howard Cosell and Evel Knievel were there the first night only, I didn’t see...

It’s main function is to “screw” customers on service work.

Had a very close lifelong friend pass away in September. He raced Superbike at Shannonville and Mosport throughout the eighties. We’ve met every year since at corner 2 at Mosport for the bike races. We’re thinking of spreading his ashes there this summer. Hope the new owners don’t mind.

My buddy won tickets from CFNY to see Cracker play at a private party in an alley downtown somewhere, I think it was on King St.. We had an absolute blast. It was so loud I can’t believe the cops didn’t show up. That was in 1995 I think.

Great radio station, always on the cutting edge. Listened to them exclusively in the late seventies and early eighties. Bought all my records from Starr Records in Scarborough at that time, they sold mostly imported vinyl from the UK and promoted a lot of local bands. They were way ahead of the...

I grew up near the one on Kingston Rd. and as I said one of the family, Dave Duckworth I believe, went to my high school, RH King. I didn’t know him personally but we had mutual friends.However in high school I did know a few girls that were waitresses there in the late seventies and they made...

Lang Hindle lived about a block away directly behind Duckworth’s , it’s where he started his aftermarket exhaust business out of his garage in the early eighties on Heale Street.Robbie Robertson of The Band also lived a block or two away on Atlee as a child and almost certainly would have eaten...

Some of the Duckworth family that still own and operate their restaurant at Kingston and Danforth went to my high school and I believe still live in the area. I had no idea of the connection to motorcycling and there is no motorcycle memorabilia or photos of him. It’s actually very plain and...

Best fish and chips in the city.

I had a 30 year old Honda 8hp track drive snowblower that would absolutely bury my new 9 1/2hp Honda. My new one is still pretty good but not as good as the old one. Unfortunately it was completely rusted out. Now I power wash the new one at the end of the season and spray it down with a can of...

Two cannibals are sitting on a park bench eating a clown. One turns to the other and asks “Does this taste funny to you?”.

… also a great place to buy tires.

Neither have I. This photo is the last time I was there in 1982, that’s a GPZ1100 I’m sitting on. Note the Scarborough leisure suit I’m wearing. Just kidding, I go to the bike show all the time, I was just looking for an excuse to post this photo.If you look close you’ll see that this bike was...

I identify as innocent.

There’s lots of nice 5th generation VFR’s (‘98-‘01) with the gear driven cams out there for sale cheap. The ‘98 was “Motorcycle Of The Year”. I preferred the gear driven cams to the Vtec, they had a really unique sound to them and were dead reliable. Honda switched to the Vtec in ‘02. I think...

That’s an awesome bike. I had two older non vtec versions of that bike, a ‘99 and an ‘01. Best motorcycles I’ve ever owned.

I remember reading that Canada was a dumping ground for non-current motorcycles, that’s why we got such cheap bikes back then. At the end of the production year, Japanese manufacturers would ship all their leftover bikes to Canada to be sold the following year at a discount without affecting...

I’ve ridden many. The ‘72 750 H2 was the one everybody wanted. In ‘73 they started to mess with the carburation and exhaust for emissions and noise. They progressively got neutered and noticeably slower as the years went by. The ‘72 also had a shorter swing arm and wheelbase, anyone with a right...

This is my brothers ‘72 H2. It was an absolute rocket ship. It had a Rickman fairing, JR chambers and a beautiful custom candy apple red paint job. When I was 15 my brother was writing an exam and I knew he wasn’t going to be home for 2-3 hours and decided to take it for a spin. I was barely 110...