This is where I would love to be today...!!!!

My first motor bike was a Triumph Tiger Cub, Macleaf! Wonderful litle machine, but alas I have no photos.

This is the only photo that I have of my Dad's combi. Can't remember what it was - possibly Royal Enfield. That's me on the pillion with my sister driving. We loved the bike and called her "Black Bess". The sidecar we named "Burgundy Bert" Dear dead days - gone beyond recall!



No crash helmets or leathers then. Dad rode as dressed with just a flat cap and goggles. In winter, he wore an ex-army despatch riders greatcoat.

 

HB the Tiger Cub was my favorite,it would keep up with the 250, and 350s,and the bark was just music but the bike i was in awe of was the Vincent HRG 500 and the 1000

 

See them all here:

http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/Bike%20Directories/Triumph%20Bikes/Triumph%20Index.htm

and here:

http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/Bike%20Directories/BSA%20Bikes/BSA%20index.htm

 

Thanks again HB what a smashing site