what was your 1st road legal bike i started in 1982 with a vespa 90ss £124 to insure ,the bike cost £12.50. had field bikes before but this was my first road bike drove it everywhere with girlfriend on the back (now my wife) . had it for 2 years then moved on to a Suzuki ts 185
At scout camp at 12, learnt on Honda XR80R and progressed to GN125, so a Bonneville knockoff GN250 was first bike. Was a good bike, although hadn’t been looked after so needed tlc.
My first road bike at 16 was an MB 50 which seized on me after about 3 weeks, so I put an 85cc big bore kit in it.
Honda cj250t . I had mx bikes from 14 onwards so no way was i having a 50 so stuck with my pushbike till 17
Yamaha FS1-E, quickly followed by Suzuki TS100, great fun....( wish I still had them - fetching silly money now)
forgot to say at the time and up to only a few years ago here in Ireland there were no learner laws. If you could to insure it you could drive it on a learner permit.The only ting was you could get cover on 1 policy to cover any bike under 750cc after that you had have the reg on your policy.I done my test on a Gpz 550 as i preferred it to my seca 750
Kawasaki Z250 (this was 1980). Brand new. Had it delivered on a Saturday morning to a Star Rider training course at a local college. Six of us there (plus instructor). Course lasted 2 hours..I was still there after 4! Obviously a very slow learner. Eventually departed only to encounter the Saturday afternoon traffic in Manchester. Crashed the bike at a T-junction a few 100 yards from home . Lesson learned - never, ever begin your biking career on a brand new bike.
Yammy FS1-M at 16 then a KH250 on 17th birthday. Every now and then, usually when overtaking, the middle carb would fall off which was interesting!
One of these... And a video of one as a treat! I had to rebuild the engine - new rings, oil seals and clutch. The brakes were a bit shit... PS: The video and photo are of someone else’s bike and not mine. The bike I owned was probably recycled into razor blades and other useful utensils a very long time ago - Brutus’ knife was allegedly hewn from a spoke of the front wheel...
SleepyOwl That was my Tracy's first bike aswel she took her test on a cb100n that she built herself. She had the blue ss and loved it. It was a proper little flyer at the time. But the pedals had to go straight away or she would not ride it. Regards Joe.
GPT100. I had a 125 bantam my Dad gave me. I could not get it to run and smashed it with a hammer. My Dad never forgave me for that. He had put a dodgy condenser on it to see if I could fix it. I failed. And you know I have had about three of them over the year and fell of them all. Regards Joe.
Sound like a similar age to me @Dozers Dad ... had to endure a year on a Yamaha RD50 (with a god awful micron exhaust) until I could move up to a CB125t (shown in an earlier post somewhere) the only way I could get that slug to wheelie was to stand on the sissy bar and dump the clutch... The RD was exactly like this but in black This was exactly like the CB... even the sissy bar/toe rest
John Stewarts for parts and general ogling ... there was a Kawasaki dealership in Ulverston too, but can’t remember it’s name ... Both bikes were second hand, still never owned a new one
If it works, one of these. If not, it's a Ducati 200 elite. Bought it when I was 15 in 1969. Learned to ride it on the road so I could legally take my test at 16. Lucky I survived. Bugger me, it worked. Mine was an old nail though. On starting it would sometimes throw a great flame out of that bell mouth carb. That would set the seat edge smouldering as it was directly in line. Happy days.
