Tomos moped (15 years old so fair enough) Vespa 50 special (seized/blew up lots) Vespa T5 (see above) Yamaha XS 400 twin (slower than snails/sloths) Honda CJ 250 twin (noisy and slow but with ace bars!) Suzuki GSX 400/4 (many, many reg/rectifiers + 3 wiring looms!!) And yes a superdream 250 too, although it never got on the road in the end...
Cool ones though include GPZ900R at 18 years old and a brand new YZF 750 when they first came out in early '93. I was captain cool compared to me mates!
Have also owned a Yamaha XJ600. Every fuel stop also required 500mils of oil. If I was travelling out of town I always carried a spare 500mils of oil with me.
this is a cool thread !! Ok here goes: 1982 - Simpson 50, dad was an MZ dealer & it was free Ok - my mates had my life...especially when I carried out the factory de-restriction which to their mirth was simply to chop 30mm off the exhaust downpipe and slide the silencer forward...my mother bought me a leather jacket with tassles !!! and my gran bought me a barber jacket aaaargh.. I had a really hard year in 82' 1983 - same bike but fitted with ETZ (MZ not yam)125 barrel, piston, head and carb - my mates still ripped the mick something rotten, but it was quick (honest) for what it was. 1984 - MZ ETZ250 - dad was still an MZ dealer - toerag made me get this for a few months, and I had to pay for it !! total embarassment 1984 - Superdream 250 - chopped the MZ at the local Honda dealer coz I just couldn't take the ribbing anymore, this really pi**ed my dad off, toured France on this bike - ultra reliable... after that I've had a variety of jap and italian stuff, I'm currently running an RSV1000 Factory and an 851...
Some horror's and some class (in chronological order);
Yamaha RXS100 (first bike - wrote it off better than a 50cc thought when on your provisional) Kwak KR1 (very cool when you're 18 and now if it hasn't disintegrated itself but a complete shed) VFR400 NC30 (superb!) Yamaha FZR600 (foxeye) Yamaha R6 () Ducati 749
Originally posted by 851neil this is a cool thread !! Ok here goes: 1982 - Simpson 50, dad was an MZ dealer & it was free Ok - my mates had my life...especially when I carried out the factory de-restriction which to their mirth was simply to chop 30mm off the exhaust downpipe and slide the silencer forward...my mother bought me a leather jacket with tassles !!! and my gran bought me a barber jacket aaaargh.. I had a really hard year in 82' 1983 - same bike but fitted with ETZ (MZ not yam)125 barrel, piston, head and carb - my mates still ripped the mick something rotten, but it was quick (honest) for what it was. 1984 - MZ ETZ250 - dad was still an MZ dealer - toerag made me get this for a few months, and I had to pay for it !! total embarassment 1984 - Superdream 250 - chopped the MZ at the local Honda dealer coz I just couldn't take the ribbing anymore, this really pi**ed my dad off, toured France on this bike - ultra reliable... after that I've had a variety of jap and italian stuff, I'm currently running an RSV1000 Factory and an 851...
Respect It takes great inner strength to admit that kind of thing
Back in the late seventies our club ran an RAC/ACU training scheme. We were given two brand new Raleigh mopeds which needed running in. Guess who got the job! I ran one of them everywhere for a fortnight - something like 500 miles on this bright orange thing with white legsheilds. But it cost me next to nothing in petrol so I didn't really care.
How about a Kwak Z1000 Custom ? US-spec with fat rear and skinny front crossply tyres, bought as a box of bits and when I found the cost of replacing one warped disc it then ran as a single disc!!