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When Australia was Australian....

70s and 80s Where as good as it gets in this country It sucks now

I miss my country, my Australian way of life, my fellow Australians & the way we lived. Mass migration has not been positive for Australian life, perhaps the migrants lives & money but not Australians 😢

Raleigh are going bust and yet decided to not export the chopper outside of the U.K. 🤔

As a complement, read Cassidy by Morris West, a correct and pleasant novel although nothing exceptional. In that novel 80s Sydney is reflected, a happy, colorful and elegant time, back then life seemed to imitate art or people made an effort at it, television, cinema, culture, etc... When I was reading that novel I was looking for a passage that could remind me of a visual document i saw on television in my country about Sydney in the 80s, a young couple of millionaires from Sydney had their boat docked in their backyard, like all the rich mansions, and they went to the opera house by boat dressed in evening clothes, the husband driving it. A similar scene with a millionaire escaping in a boat docked at his house appears in Morris West's novel. I think a similar scene also appears in an episode of the McCloud 70s series filmed in Australia. Australia also had its dark side, not everything was wonder, there was deep political corruption linked to organized crime.

I found a yellow one left in a shed think it's the mk2

Syd is alright, 2nd only after Melbourne.

Hi Greg great video there i would love to get my hands on s SE ❤ maybe one day.............. Cheers 🍻

Annoyingly missed out the Mk2 pink 5 speed model.

I bet everybody watching this would fondly look back on Australia in the '70s & '80s and say what a bloody great place it was. Australians had pride in the joint, but these days, Australia is a dog's breakfast. The place has gone downhill quickly, with a future only to get worse. Yes, Australia used to be the lucky country, but sadly, today, it's shit.

In 1985 I was a 1 year old, there was no traffic on that harbour bridge at least by todays standards and a man could support a family on 1 wage

Hi Greg great video and wonderful weather, I was in Sydney in 92 on way up to queensland, the bike looks stunning and got a great reception great stuff cheers 🍻

Watch out for the washed up turds.

Sydney was awesome back in the 80's. Spent alot of time in Manly and Balgowlah, going the stein Hotel and seeing great Aussie Bands. Then of course there was Kings Cross,everything is now ruined in my opinion. I remember going to the Bourban and Beef in the Cross. Those were the good old days, Bob Hawke was our Prime Minister.

You can look at many beaches now in Sydney and the majority of what you see are Chinese, Indian and Brazilian. In such a short period of time.

Anyone else turned 17 in 1985? Interesting how many people in my cohort clicked on this video! 😅 Must be the point of nostalgia to return to the days when life was simple and free. 😎🦋

Thank you very much indeed, Greg. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this. As a lover of history, I found these images thrilling to experience 😊

Gosh , it's far too white for modern government. Cultural enhancement has certainly been a change for Australia

Hasn’t changed that much

The good old days when land was cheap food was healthy and cheap petrol was cheap no bylaws no local laws you could take your dog to the beach and it was allowed to shit you could go camping and people cared about others even if they lived overseas in places like Ethiopia. How’s times have changed for the worse. Every thing the ANZAC fought and died for has been in vain because we now have a racist Satanical Government that is helping Israel commit genocide. Do they know it’s Christmas time feed the world let them know it’s Christmas time. The poor innocent Palestinians being slaughtered by Israel with the help of the western politicians. We need to fear God stop the Genocide and feed the Palestinians to let them know it’s Christmas time again.

Sydney is so beautiful but prohibitively expensive.

And there is no welcome to country BS,,,, these were better days and one flag 🇦🇺 on the Sydney Harbour bridge,,,, before Albenese and his woke government ruined the country 😢😢

I moved to Sydney in 1985. It was a great city then and it's still great. Thanks for the upload. Shame about all the whiners and racists commenting though.

Lebanese ruined Sydney

Liberals will always destroy

Gad to see it's true to the original tech, and not a sort modern 'homage'. Looks great!

Thank you for all the nostalgic memories of my young teen years on this bike. Did you call all the parts by their cool names. Banana seat, Sissy bar, Ape hanger handle bars and the T Shifter. Where are all the millions that were made in the 70's now ?

I had a Malvern Star Chopper as my first bike and was/is beautiful. the straight rear tubes made it so good.

This was a time when I thought Sydney was one of the best places in the world. It's not the same anymore.

I really enjoyed this video, very well presented. As a kid in Victoria in the mid-1970's I remember traveling with my family to my uncles dairy farm, and lying abandoned out in the weather under a giant cypress tree at the side of the property was a gold Chopper bike, my cousins being six or seven years older than me had seemingly grown out of using it. Being a timid kid with no monetary income it didn't even enter my mind that maybe there might be a possibility that they might have been happy to sell it to me if I had of asked.

Being young in the 80's was brilliant. Much more freedom than we have today, more to actually do also. Sydney has become so boring in comparison.

The year i was born. My reincarnation must of been swift as i feel like i lived through this time period

Out of interest do the new choppers slip a gear when cycling up hill so you crunch your nuts on the gear stick?

Great video. Glad you got it over there👍🏻 I’ve seen your posts on the forum, hope you’ve sorted the teething issues.

Then they let all the foreigners in/ and look at the place now

Good doco,a shame Sydney's live pub scene with legendary bands,Oils,INXS,Chisel,Dragon and many many more wasn't covered...

Aust was a beautiful country when we came here legal migrants before you allow the illegal refugees. In aust and the scums we came in the 60s. We engoyed it with the Australian the tweet lovely people. What a shame every thing has changed

Love the world two veterans proper Aussie characters remind me of my late grandfather there be long gone now Rip to them 🎉🎉🎉

Bondi beach is the classic case of marketing. I've been to Bondi with a certain expectation but i was very disappointed. It is no where near any of the other beaches in Australia or around the world. On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the best, Bondi beach is a 4.

Sydney is boring compared to some overseas destinations not to , mention grotty wit poor sunlight in the cbd

Awesome video mate, this has bought back a lot of memories visiting this wonderful place when I was younger, a stones throw away from Christchurch. 😍

lacked indians back then. its better now.

The demographic change in just one lifetime.

great era from 70s right up until around 2000... then the internet really took over, then social media, then smart phones... people have all the entertainment they need in their one hand.

I was 11 and went to Conulla Public. The best days.

I'm 23, based in Lane Cove and it's so trippy seeing how easy everyone is living. I wish more people worked a 4 day week and took it easier but it gives off the vibe that these people are making todays equivalent of $3000 a week. Inflation really has changed things!

Old enough to know what this country has lost.

Mass immigration courtesy of the scumbag traitorous politicians destroyed an entire nation. Look at the dump we live in now 😢

I was 10 years old back in 85 living in Stanmore. Used to go to Coogee Beach most weekends during summer. Missed those days.

I was 3 years old I remember the 80's and the 90's was ok but John Howard fucked things up and it's been a slow decline