First big bike (for those days) was a new GT380J in April 1973.
 
	Love to pick up a classic one......mine was identical to this!
 
	
 
	 
	First big bike (by today's standards) was a GT750 in March 1976.
 
	Here's me on the right in Babbacombe, Torquay in the long, hot Summer of 76.
 
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	Could have been a nice week touring the south of England if I hadn't had my miserable first wife with me!