| To be honest, I've had some really ****e bikes in the past and I'm glad I got rid of them all!
I have fond memories of learning to ride (or should that be "not kill myself"?) on a FS1E-DX but it was a heap. The threaded exhaust collar in the barrel had gone at some point and so the exhaust had to be held in place by putting the exhaust on and then wedging a screwdriver in the gap before cutting it flush so it couldn't be seen. My dad must have wondered where his screwdrivers kept disappearing to.
Then there was the AR125 that was a shed. We painted it metallic green and got it back on the road but it had a coolant leak somewhere and used to squirt "green mayonnaise" out of the back of the engine and onto whoever was behind. Nobody ever used to follow me for long in those days.
The RGV250 I had was nice. I crashed it a few times though and it went BANG quite often as well. No wonder Stan Stephens is a rich man. It actually came up for sale again not so long ago on the rgv250.co.uk forum, but I wouldn't have touched it as I could still see some of my bodges in the pics a good ten years later.
The one I would have kept was the RVF400RR, the NC35. That was a lovely bike. It looked great but just didn't have much go. Jumping off that and onto the 748 was an eye opener! |