Old Bike Australasia

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The CB92 catalyst

I received from the editor of VJMC UK a photo of a young chap and his girl friend on a Honda CB92 in the 1960s; me being a fan of these motorcycles. All motorcyclists with the same model of bike tend to have contact with other owners, but I did not know the owner of this bike until 2018. My friend and also owner of a CB92, Dave Coleman, an ex-racer who lives in Australia he was one of the £10 poms in the 1960s. For people who do not know what this is, in the ‘60s you could immigrate to Australia on assisted passage for the small sum of £10 (if that was only true today). Dave comes to the Isle of Man as often as he can and came over in 2018 for the Jurby Festival and to see

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