Your first Wheels - come clean
 

OK so I was a Mod the first time round:lol:



Still got the same pillion though:rolleye:

Aprilia AF1-50 - bored out to 80cc :D

Sounded ****e but at 16 it was the only way to hit 75-80mph

Thought it was well rapid until I had a go on girly's derestricted RS125 :lol:

KR1S

Green rocket which needed an engine rebuild every week!!!

In 1974 - FS1E of course. I loved it. Engine screaming, flares flapping in the wind, hair flapping in the wind. Flares and hair a distant memory now.....

Nice little AP 50 (58 flat out downhill - beat most of the lads on their fizzies!:D ) - put paid to my punk days very swiftly, as couldnt get mohican arranged when putting on crash helmet!:lol::lol::lol:

C

In 1967, a 350 AJS long stroke...........one bang every lamp post (the bike that was!!!)
:bouncy::bouncy:

Lambretta GP150. Never had a front brake and it use to get quite interesting trying to stop the thing with the rear brake only.

Yammaha ss50
 

WOW down memory lane:D

well i got me a yammaha ss50 Reg no LXC 61L

it was the early FS1E and the ss stood for (sixteener special)
It was candy apple orange and i put clip ons on it and hacksawed the exhaust in half!!:lol::lol:
My party trick was to set the ignition timming to (TDC) and bump start it in reverse !!!! Then ride it backwards :lol::lol:
what a party piece that was :cool:

it ****ed me of when the FS1E came out as they did it in a purple colour aswell:(.........mav)

http://www.fs1e.co.uk/russ.html

1977...Ap50. TRP176R ....... that was fun. Remember getting caught by a Police van as i went wrong way round a roundabout!

1982 MZ TS125 Lux - 62.5 mph top speed. Uglier than an ugly thing that's been beaten with the ugly stick and thrown out of the top of the ugly tree.
:pig:ugly!

Ah, but the freedom! :D

Bit of a late starter - mine was a '97 M600.

Top first bike, good enough for to be a laugh round Cadwell and the back roads around Torpoint in Cornwall.

BSA C15...bought it for a fiver in 1971, two weeks before my 16th birthday.

Took it home and my Dad said, "your not having that, take it straight back" so I did. Rode it for all of 5 miles...illegaly of course.

Suzuki GS125 in 1985.

1979,
Mine was yet another fizzie - but the DX version - RHJ286R - not that the front disc worked any better than the drum :puzzled:
But I thought It looked as if it might.

Rode it to school, in fact I was never of it - and in the summer use to disappear on Friday nights to South End or somewhere as naff with some mates and not go home till Sunday :roll:

What freedom we had.

Honda CB250 G5, what a bag of ****e.

First day i rode it, took it to work, lost it on gravel car park and stuffed it into the front wing of the bosses 3.5 litre Rover:(

I was very unpopular with the boss but a hero with everyone else:lol::lol::lol:

White and blue RD250LC-Awesome,then they changed the learner laws,so i had to ride a Honda CB100N!!Stilll went and played on the LC though.Best thing about the Honda?The reg,it would be worth a mint now(more than the bike):SEX 666X.Wish i'd kept it!!

FS1E!!! Fantastic, bright red (dodgy respray) - no ignition switch - dreaful Micron can - fabulous!!!

Yep,I had a C15 too.1977 was the year.Most of my mates had GT250/185's,CB250/200's and the odd 'Onda SS50.and they could all leave me for dead.I was the first to pass my test tho,and got my own back when I bought my Triumph Bonny.
Ah,UNC116S,where are you now?

Mine was a Royal Enfield 250 Crusader Sports which I bought for £20 in 1974. My dad encouraged me a bit by showing me where the controls were and what they did, and then just left me to get on with it!!!

First bike I owned in 1973 was a NSU Quickly moped (it wasn't quick!) - used as a field bike since I was only 15. The engine would last about 30 mins riding before nipping up and needing a complete strip down. I learnt a lot about that machines engine and gearbox internals......

A proper bike in the shape of a Norton Jubilee 250cc came in 1974 -cost £5 but needed new front tyre and tube. Pushed it 2 miles from mates house to mine on the grass verge (to protect the rim) only to have Dad say I couldn't keep it since it would cost £18 for a new tyre and tube and so it wasn't worth it. Pushed it back the 2 miles and had my fiver returned :(

Then first real road bike in 1975 - a James 250cc Commodore with an Italian engine in it! Top speed about 65 mph and had to be careful about taking on FS1E's away from the lights - they would often beat me.... how embarassing....
Still have the bike, built in 1957 with 14,000 (genuine) miles on the clock. The bikes worth about £200, the number plate about £2000 :lol:

Same here! Didnt have any time for bikes until I saw a piccie of a Monster in a magazine. Booked my direct access, trundles round on a CB500 for a couple of days, and bought a shiny red M600 minutes after passing my test :D Havent looked back...

Oh dear, it's time to admit to my age :(.
1954 BSA 125 Bantam bought for £9 10s in 1964 ridden(illegally) for about 2 months until my 16 birthday. Feel the power-it would do about 55 flat out with me lying on the tank-3 speed gearbox, plunger rear suspension............
Got knocked off it after about 6 weeks and broke my arm, had a head on with a drunk in an Austin A35-he was driving up the wrong side of the road on a hill-I came over the top-wallop. He moved the bike and his car before the police came-enough said.
After that a succession of bikes, BSA Bantams, BSA C10L, C11G, Aerial Colt's, Francis Barnet's, 83cc MV Augusta Sport........passed test on Fanny B, then the big iron started, BSA B31, Triumph T100, T110, BSA SuperRocket, DB34 GoldStar (how I wish I still had that) BSA RocketGoldStar, Vincent Rapide-the list goes on. At one point I never got an insurance certificate, I rode on a succesion of 14 day cover notes, always changed the bike before the cover note expired :lol:.

John

1980 - Yammy Fizzy! Proper Yam racing colours and my brothers Kenny Roberts rep jacket to go with it - soo over the top.

First day I had it, myself and a friend set off to Scarbrough to watch the racing and his AP50 blew-up on the moors road - Oh what carefree lives we had then.

Happy times - Frank

My first was an FS1E-DX ... the one with the disk brake at the front! It was yellow with the Yamaha racing ladders on it, Micron exhaust, "race" disk valve and topped out at 46mph. RVV 421R where are you now?

But I'll admit that this is where it all started...

Heh, I had one of those too....

Other than the obligatory field bikes, C50/70 and 90's and a CB250G5 my first road bike was a MT5. Bought it as a non runner (cheap), rewired it and got it going.
Then the tuning started and ended up at 65mph everywhere. Limited only by the gearing. Couldn't get any smaller on the rear sprocket and the front almost rubbed the cranckcases :roll:
Covered 18000 miles on that little thing and it never blew!!! :o

Did my direct access on the schools bike and had a RGV250M sat in the garage for when I passed my test, was a bit of a shock the first time I opend it up after the NSR125 and GP100's I had been riding :o
Wish I had some photo's of it as it looked real nice in it's lucky strike colours :D

Darren

Yamaha FS1E - it had pedals!

1982 DT50MX - 65cc mallossi bore kit after 3 rebores

19** Villiers 2 stroke...........yuk

1999 cagiva mito evo2.
had about 115mph out of it.
was super sweet.

i remember the day when Guido posted up pics of my mito,boy did it look shexxxx-eeeyyyy.

Just the two of us Mods so far then Jon:lol:

Interesting thread though.

Started much later than most of you lot so I had a CBR400RR GullArm. Bit of a shock after the test on the CG125 in the morning. Razzing back down the M3 from Woking (Pocket Rockets if memory serves) and I was wondering just how much fun this rev bomb was going to be. Didn't take long to work it all out, what a laugh.

Rgds,

Rob

my first bike in '96 was a fzr400. when i went to look at it to buy it a bird in short shorts pulled up on it & i was in love.

it sounded awsome (like a real bike to me at the time)

then after crashing it on the road a couple of times i booked a track day at snetterton and i knew that this is what bikes were all about. bought the duke & havnt looked back:sing:

SS50 5 Speed in yellow(with a C70 barrel!)



[Edited on 4-10-2004 by sparkin]

I had a Hondo C50, it would do an honest 145 mph uphill into a force 8 gale.

Then went onto a DBD34 GS. then a few more nice machines.

Honda CB100N which had no side panels (couldn't afford to replace!) and no stand - I had to lean it into a hedge next to my digs. Neighbours thought it had been abandoned!
Next was a sorry looking Vespa PX125e which I bought "as seen" from Bikerama in Hornsey and had to push nearly five miles home..Has anyone ever tried to use the rear brake on one of those things? - Your'e better off dragging your feet! The bloody thing would bite back hard every other attempt at kickstarting..The scars up me shin!!:(

Yikes *rack brain*
MT50 then moving up to a MB50, then the usual AR80's and DT125LC then passed test in 1987 and got my first 350LC.
So so many bikes since then.

Come on more photos:D

OK mate, you asked for it ...




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