| My brother bought me my first bike a Suzuki 1972 A50 'K' reg. It was great, I was 12 in 1977.
I pushed that bike along many a road to find a decent dirt track to ride it on. Fell off nearly every day. But got used to how a bike handles off road very soon. When I was 16, I put the bike on the road.
My mates all took the p*!s, that a bike that old still went and boy it went. It was the era of restricted bikes. 36mph flat out on your ped if you had a tailing wind. But I saw 70mph on my A50, showing off, fell off, P*!sed off. But tought me how to ride on wet autumnal roads, still bare the scars.
Still cautious round that corner now 25 years on.......
Fell off several bikes scince but that is the most memorable. Flipped many times ......... no longer do wheelees. |