MT Riders Club

Good shot of a war weary bike.

He looks happy, probably cant start it

Good pic though

Nah! Its cuz he didnt get issued some nice nobbly MX tyres!

Very odd, he seems to have an AK47??

Mel

StackerMel wrote:Very odd, he seems to have an AK47??

Mel

War booty! It probably ended up inside the tyre of a spare truck wheel for the trip home!

Well he prob thought if the bike doesnt work at least have a gun that does.

I always got told
"the artillery have guns, infantry have weapons son "
Very good point though Blitz,
Not his war
Issued with an MT 500 and an
SA 80

chippy1 wrote:I always got told
"the artillery have guns, infantry have weapons son "
Very good point though Blitz,
Not his war
Issued with an MT 500 and an
SA 80

It would have been an SLR, thats what we took, but I was a REMF, maybe the chaps up front had the L85A1.

Points to note a modern army does not have small arms for the 80's, that will be once round the square at Brecon that you owe Andy

Mel

StackerMel wrote:

chippy1 wrote:I always got told
"the artillery have guns, infantry have weapons son "
Very good point though Blitz,
Not his war
Issued with an MT 500 and an
SA 80

Points to note a modern army does not have small arms

Just deep pockets.

Yes we had SA80's with SUSAT sights but binned them off and got an AK as soon as possible. Better to have an inaccurate but reliable rifle with good stopping power(AK47) in a fire fight, than a very accurate one that doesn't work.........STOPPAGE!(SA80)
And yes many of them did find there way back to the UK.




A 19 year old me with a nice Russian license Beretta with a gold coin in either side of the pistol grip that i liberated.