Kim Challands of Victoria, Australia on his 1997 Tour Classic. "Astro Boy is a stock standard 1997 model. Its such a great bike I dont need anything else to add." Man of few words, so ... Another installment of * Deep Thoughts *... By Jack Handy. We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.