According to this modern – and absurd – fashion of naming generations according to the year in which they were born, those who were born in the sixties should be called boomers. Beyond the questionability of the term, it is undeniable that each generation has very defined those things that marked it as such, from music to cinema to fashion, television… and of course motorcycles.
And although precisely in motorcycling matters it is not always true that any time in the past was better, it is also okay to get carried away from time to time by nostalgia and remember, for example, those “80s” models that made baby boomers dream.
At that time, 75 cc motorcycles could be ridden at the age of 16 and driving one – any of the following – was an absolute guarantee of “success”. They were simple and versatile motorcycles, still halfway between the Japanese reality that was already knocking at the door and the European style that was trying to survive, but they all had in common that they transmitted a wonderful idea of ??freedom. Even – although it now seems like an aberration – you could drive without a helmet in the city.